394 Mr. R. I. Pocock on Scorpions 



on segments 1-3 ; vesicle granular to the base 

 of aculeus ; carapace and terga finely granular . granulatus, sp. n. 

 b. Third segment of tail granular below, superior 

 and supero-lateral crests obsolete on segments 

 1-4; segments 1 and 2 more coarsely and 

 irregularly tubercular below, the first with an 

 anterior transverse crest of tubercles ; vesicle 

 punctured ; tergites and carapace smooth and 

 polished brachycentriis, Thor. 



LXI. — The Scorpions of the Genus Vwjovis contained in the 

 Collection of the British Museum. By R. I. PocoCK. 



Genus V-asjovis, C. Koch. 

 Vcnjovis variegatus, sp. n. 



? . — Co/owr reddish ochi-e-yelloworveddish brown; carapace 

 with bhick tubercle and irregular lateral blackish patches ; 

 tergites regularly marked, lateral margin black, with a yellow 

 stripe separating it from a broad black patch ; tlie median 

 keel marked with a very narrow black stripe which sometimes 

 expands in front and behind ; between this and the large 

 lateral patch there is a deep black spot, narrowed and pro- 

 jecting inwards in front, where it sometimes fuses with the 

 expanded portion of the keel-stripe ; tail clouded below and 

 laterally with black, the position of the lower keel emphasized 

 by black stripes; vesicle and upper surface of tail clear 

 reddish brown. 



Palpi reddish brown, scarcely at all infuscate ; legs strongly 

 striped externally, with pale tarsi and protarsi ; lower surface 

 pale, last sternite infuscate at the sides. 



Upper surface of trunk coarsely granular. Tail more than 

 four times length of cara])ace, whicli equals its first and 

 second segments in length ; anterior segments granular above 

 and laterally ; fourth and lifth segments smooth above and 

 laterally ; superior and supero-lateral keels strongly developed, 

 granular, dentate posteriorly, except the supero-lateral on the 

 fourth segment ; segments 1 to 4 entirely smooth and polished 

 below, the median keels entirely obsolete, the lateral merely 

 represented by a low, indistinct, smooth ridge ; fifth segment 

 with its lower surface finely and closely granular throughout ; 

 vesicle entirely smooth and, like the lower side of tiie tail, 

 punctured. 



Chelai : humerus granular above, in front, and finely 

 below, with well-developed superior and anterior crests; 

 brachium with the upper and lower anterior crests well 



