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Pseudo-Scorpiones Cambr. & Thorell. Chernetes Sim. 

 CHERNETIDEA (Cambr.) 



By Rev. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. M.A., P.R.S., &c. 



INTRODUCTION. 



TT/ a HEN' speaking to you two years ago on the British 

 species of Phalangidea or Harvest Men I could 

 feel pretty sure that some of my hearers would at 

 once call to mind the group of the Articulata in- 

 tended, and probably would be conversant with 

 some of the commoner species. This, however, 

 is not the case in respect to the group upon 

 which I am now going to say a few introductory words. It 

 is probable that few, if any, of you may know what a false- 

 scorpion is, though you may have a very good notion of a true 

 scorpion. With the latter you rightly associate a tail, or more 

 properly a post-caudal-elongation, ending with a formidable and 

 venomous point or sting. Well, in this respect the false-scorpion 

 totally differs, as it has no tail at all, and having no sting is 

 quite harmless. It resembles in some other external points the true 



