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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



" perlitora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et eireiim vitreos eonsidite fontea : 

 Pollice \'irgineo teneros h'lc carpit'! flores: 

 Floribus et pietum, divae, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o NjinphaB Cratcrides, ite sub undas; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunoo 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi eonehaa 

 Ferte, Dese pelagi, et pingui conchylia sueoo." 



N. Parthenii Giannettasii 'Eci. 1. 



No. 97. JANUARY 1876. 



I. — On the Classification of Scorj)ions. 

 By Prof. T. Thorell. 



After Peters, by his important work, " Ueber eine neue 

 Eintheilung der Skorpione " &c,*, had carried out a thorough 

 reform in the classification of Scorpions, it might have been 

 expected that this interesting and neglected group of animals 

 would become the subject of numerous and exhaustive re- 

 searches, and that not only some among the many unknown 

 species that lie preserved in public and private collections 

 would be described, but also that their classification would 

 be more fully developed on the principles laid down by 

 Peters. Very little of this, however, has yet taken place ; and 

 under these circumstances the contribution to the knowledge 

 of these animals which constitutes the substance of the follow- 

 ing attempt at a systematical arrangement of the order of 

 Scorpions, although based on the examination of a rather 

 limited number (about 90) of species, may perhaps be con- 

 sidered not altogether superfluous, since it points out some 



* Monatsbericht d. konigl. Akad. d. Wissensch. zu Berlin, 1861 , pp. .507- 

 510. 



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