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'^ europceus" which he (Kvaspelin) ])roves to be a Fhassus, 

 and therefore calls ^^ Pliassus americanus (L., 1754)," because 

 Linnjeus's " Scorpio europceus " in Sjst. Nat. is supposed to 

 be the same as that named ^^ S.americanus" ^ in 1754 in 

 ' Mus. Ad. Frid. Reg.' If, now, Scorpio punctatus, De Geer, 

 is the species of Phassus which Krtepelin had in view, it 

 should be called 



Phassus punctatus (De Geer), 



and the synonym " Scorpio europceus, Lin. 1758, 1764, 1767," 

 must be changed to De Geer's " Scorpio maculatus,^^ as 

 already stated. 



This Isometrus europceus (Lin.) [=Isom. maculatus (De 

 Geer)] thus also receives, I regret to say, a name that is 

 hardly suitable from a geographical point of view, but it 

 cannot be helped. It is, however, in this case satisftictory 

 that this nearly cosmopolitan species has been recently found 

 in Europe, namely, at Huelva, in Southern Spain (see 

 Krsepelin, /. c), and it is the only Isometrus that has been 

 discovered on the European continent. 



The third Linnean scorpion in the Upsala Museum has 

 been wrongly labelled " americanus^^ by Thunberg. It is, 

 however, easy to identify it and to give it the name that 

 rightly belongs to it, because there is only one of the 

 diagnoses in Syst. Nat. that can be applied to it. It is 

 evidently " Scorpio australis^'' " pectinibus o2-dentatis, mani- 

 bus l^vibus." According to Krajpelin's classification it is 

 Androctonus fanestus, Hempr. & Ehrenb.f Already, in 

 1876 %, Thorell had shown tlie probability of such an identifica- 

 tion. It may be added, however, that since the specimen 

 has the hands and fingers brown and the tail a little darker 

 than the rest of the body, it resembles the form to which 

 C. L. Koch gave the wsLmo, priamus (see Pocock, Journ. Linn, 

 ttoc, Zool. XXV. pp. 305-o07, 1895). By the existence of 



* Ivi-£epelin's quotation is, liowever, rather confused, as it reads : — 

 " 1754. I'Scorpio americcmus, L., Mus. Ludov. Uh'icce, p. 429." Tlie year 

 1754 is that of ' Mus. Ad. Fiid. Reg.,' where this scorpion bears the name 

 " americdiuis." But iu ' Mus. Ludov. Ulrica3 Reginae,' on the page 

 quoted, we tind the name " europceus " for the scorpion with eighteen comb- 

 teeth, and it was so written by Liunajus in 1758 (Syst. Nat. ed. x.). 



t For other synonyms see Krjepelin, I. c. (1891) p. 33. 



\ Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xvii. 1876, p. 7, footnote. lie thinks 

 it might b« so because he, in the State Museum in Stockholm, had seen "a 

 very old specimen " labelled ^'■Scorpio aus traits, Linn.," and that was 

 Androctonus funestus, Hempr. & Ehrenb. 



