38 Mr. B.. I. Pocock on 



and confluent ; a narrow margin at the suture is smooth, the 

 epipleural stria is fine and passes round the apex, and termi- 

 nates after passing the angle at the suture ; the propygidium 

 is punctulate like tlie thorax ; the pygidium impunctate in 

 the female and microscopically strigose, in the male it is 

 narrowly smooth at the base, with a coarse vermicular sculp- 

 ture at the apex ; the prosternum bistriate, striae indistinctly 

 joined at the base, where the margin is a little broad ; the 

 mesosternum short and transverse, marginal stria nearly com- 

 plete, being a little broken in the middle only, transverse 

 stria widely sinuous, suture invisible; the metasternum, 

 lateral stria oblique, punctuation sparse ; the anterior femora 

 conspicuously grooved like those figured for Phelister Simoni, 

 Lew. (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1889, vol iv. p. 46); the 

 anterior tibiae 5-6-dentate, posterior without spines. The 

 minute strigosity is more apparent on the sternal plates than 

 on the upper surface. 



The facies of this species is like a very large Abrceus, and 

 it is the only species noticed in this paper with an anterior 

 marginal stria to the mesosternum. 



Bab. Japan. I took several specimens at different places 

 bordering the great plain of Fujisan in May 1880. It fre- 

 quents old beeches. 



V. — Descrijjtions of tivo new Oenera of Scorpions, icith 

 Notes upon some Species q/Talamnaeus. By R. T. PocoCK, 

 of the Natural-History Museum. 



[Plate ill. B.] 



Having been occupied of late in the identification of the 

 oriental species of Scorpio and Palamnteus, I soon made 

 the discovery that there has been considerable confusion 

 respecting the Indian and Burmese species of the latter 

 genus. 



Their history may be briefly told as follows. 



The type of the genus, F. sjyinifer (Hempr. & Ehrb.), was 

 originally described as from India. This species, however, 

 has not been identified since it was established, apparently 

 because it was described and figured as having nineteen or 

 twenty pectinal teeth — this number being considerably larger 

 than any presented by the species described by Dr. Thorell. 



In 1877 Dr. Thorell characterized from Singapore a species 

 named P. Peter sii ] this form apparently only differs from 



