Scorpions oj the Oenus Broteas. 9& 



B. Herhstii { = maurus, Linn., Herbst). His kind compliance 

 with mj request enabled me to satisfy myself that the species 

 granulatus and paraensis are perfectly valid and easily recog- 

 nizable forms, and that the species he had identified as 

 Herbstii is not identical with the one I regarded as Herbstii, 

 but is the same as my Gervaisii. The conclusions which I 

 think it right to draw from these discoveries form the basis of 

 the present paper, to which has been added the description of 

 a well-marked new species recently received from Dutch 

 Guiana. 



Broteas granulatus^ Simon. 



Broteas granulatus, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1877, p. 241 ; id. op. cit. 

 1880, p. 382 (cited by error as granulosus). 



Loc. Maroni, in French Guiana. 



I at one time thought that the type of this species might 

 prove to be identical with the male of the British Guiana 

 species previously referred by me to B. Herbstii^ Thorell, 

 but here described as B. subgranosus. 



An examination of the type, however, kindly submitted to 

 me by Mons. iSimon, shows that it is a female presenting 

 features which mark it off as a very distinct form from the 

 rest of the species of the genus, as Mons. Simon originally 

 maintained. 



Broteas par aensts, Simon. 

 Broteas paraensis, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1880, pp. 381-382. 



Loc. Pard. 



The type of this species is a female and represents a species 

 easily distinguishable from the remaining species of the 

 genus known to me. 



Broteas Gervaisii, Poc. 



Broteas Herbstii, Thor., Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1877, p. 240 id. 



op. cit. 1880, p. 383, cS (i' Herbstii, Thor.). 

 Broteas Gervaisii, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xii. p. 78, 2 ; 



id. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6j xix. p. 366. 



Loc. Amazon Valley (? La Plata). 



This species was based upon a couple of adult female 

 examples for which no special locality was known. A young 

 female was subsequently obtained by Messrs. Austen and 

 Cambridge at Gurupa on the Lower Amazons, and the British 

 Museum has recently received another of apparently the same 

 species and also a young female from Rio Jurua, Amazons 

 {Dr. Bach). 



