the Scorpions of India. 7U 



iScorpiops leptochirun, Pocock. 



This species, described on pp. 325-326 of the October 

 number of the ' Annals,' was based upon a single female 

 example, for which no locality could be assigned. I am glad 

 therefore to be able to supplement my original description by 

 adding that, in Mr. Moore's collection, to which reference has 

 already been made, there are two examples of this species. 

 One of them, a female ticketed " N.E. Bengal," closely 

 resembles the type, except that it is a little smaller (about 

 40 millim.) ; but the other, a male from Assam, has the palpi 

 very elongate, as the following measurements with reference 

 to the carapace will show : — 



Length of carapace 6'5 millim., of humerus 7, of 

 brachium 7, of hand-back 7*3, of movable digit 7. 



Chcerilus margaritatus, sp. n. 



Colour pale (probably faded) ; the trunk, legs, and tail 

 brownisli yellow, at most obscurely mottled with darker tints; 

 palpi redder, with the digits and the keels blackish. 



Clothed, especially on the appendages, with white longish 

 hairs. 



Carapace as long as the first two segments and half the 

 third, posteriorly and laterally rather sparsely studded with 

 round shining tubercles ; tlie keel, which runs posteriorly 

 from the lateral eyes, weak ; the interocular area tubercular 

 anteriorly ; the space between the median eyes a little larger 

 than a diameter; the space between the lateral eyes only 

 about half a diameter. 



T'ergites studded rather irregularly and closely with 

 rounded shining tubercles, without a trace of keels ; the last, 

 however, with the inferior lateral keel conspicuous. 



Tail about four times the length of the carapace, narrowed 

 posteriorly ; the first segment considerably, the second a 

 little wider than long, the third as wide as long, the fifth two 

 and a half times as long as wide, as long as the carapace, a 

 trifle longer than the third and fourth segments ; segments 1-4 

 furnished with 8 keels ; a trace of the median lateral on the 

 first, the inferior keels of the first weakly granular, of the 

 second more strongly so, of the fourth denticulate ; the rest 

 of the keels coarsely granular or tubercular ; the lateral inter- 

 carinal space tubercular, the other intercarinal spaces smooth 

 or only weakly granular ; the fifth segment flat above, with 

 squared, coarsely granular edges j the median lateral keel 

 large, the inferior keels denticulate, the median posteriorly 

 bifid, the intercarinal spaces studded irregularly and sparsely 



