102 The Species of Scorpions of the Genus Broteas. 



b^. Carapace and terga much less coarsely and 

 closely granular, granulation not extending 

 on to the anterior portion of the terga, and 

 only rarely (gi-aniincmus) on to the aute- 

 ocular area of the carapace : sterna not 

 coarsely punctured throughout, the fifth 

 not mesially granular. 

 a}. Upperside of hand entirely covered with 

 close-set gi-anules ; auteocnlar portion of 

 carapace distinctly though finely granu- 

 lar, lower surface of first caudal segment 

 mesially almost smooth, with weak 



median keels; pectinal teeth 11-12 .... yranimanus, sp. n., cf . 

 h*. Upperside of hand not granular, smooth, 

 but closely punctulate ; anteocular por- 

 tion of carapace rugose, but scarcely 

 granular. 

 a^. Inferior surface of first caudal segment 

 smooth or nearly so, the median keels 

 weak, not granular, punctured ; pec- 

 tinal teeth 8 ( 2 ), 10 ( J ) Gervaisii, Poc, J $ . 



i'. Inferior surface of first caudal segment 

 distinctly granular, the median keels 

 strong and granular suigranosus,s^.n., (^ $ . 



The following four species, which are unknown to me in 

 nature, may be referable to either or neither of the foregoing : — 



Broteas maurus, De Geer. 

 Loc. America. 



Scorpio maurus, Linn., De Geer, M6m. &c. vii. p. 337, pi. xl. figs. 1-8, 

 1778. 



Broteas maurus, Herbst. 

 Lii 



Loc. Africa. 



Scorpio maurus, Linn., Herbst, Nat. ungefliigelt. Insekten, pt. iv. p. 62, 

 pi. vi. fig. 4. 



Broteas Herbstii, Thorell. 



Brotheas inanrus, Linn., C. Koch, Die Arachniden, iv. p. 109, fig. 319 



(1838) (not Scorpio maui-us, Linn.). 

 Broteas Eerbstii, Thorell, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvii. p. 14 



(1876). 



Loc. Cayenne (French Guiana). 



Dr. Thorell applied the name Herhstii to the species 

 wrongly identified as Scorpio maurus by De Geer and later 

 writers, including Herbst, Gervais, C. Koch, &c., without 

 considering the possibility of more than one species being 

 involved. I have consequently suggested (Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (6) xix. p. 367) that tiie name be apjjlied to the 



