472 Mr. S. Hirst on new Scorpions. 



ridges on the dorsal surface of tlie lobe are often distinctly 

 but very finely granular (but sometimes tliey are smooth), 

 and usually they do not fuse together to the same extent as 

 in the male. 



Pectinal teetJi 4-6 in number. 



Measurements in mm. — ^, Total length 41 ; length of 

 carapace 6, of fifth segment of tail 5*6, of hand-back 5, of 

 movable finger 7 ; width of hand 7. 



?. Total length 42; length of carapace 6*75, of fifth 

 segment of tail 6, of hand-back o, of movable finger Q-o ; 

 ■width of hand 6. 



Colour entirely dark. 



Material. — A large number of specimens of both sexes 

 from the Kulu District, Himalayas. 



S. crassimanus, Poc. (a species which so far is only known 

 from a single example of the female sex, without any locality), 

 is closely allied to S. austerus, sp. n., but the granules of the 

 upper surface of the hand are all separate and distinct, whilst 

 the finger-keel is coarsely granular and is interrupted at the 

 base ot the finger; the other keels of the hand and tibia also 

 are more coarsely granular than in S. austerus, Tiie sliape 

 of the inner edge of the hand is very similar in these two 

 species. 



Scorpiops tibetanus^ sp. n. 



J* . — Last s^er/iiVe with the central keels better developed 

 than those of S. austerus, sp. n. ; the keels of the tail also, 

 especially the ventral ones, are much stronger than they are 

 in that species or in S. crassimanus, Poc. Inner edge of 

 7ia7id compressed and furnished with a keel, the distal part of 

 which is smooth ; but this keel is not nearly so well developed 

 as it is in the male of S. auste7'us. Finger-keel only very 

 indistinctly granular, but not so smooth as in 5'. austerus. 

 Sculpturing of the dorsal surface of the lobe consisting of a 

 number of series of rather fine granules ; these series are 

 arranged in a reticulate fashion, but are not fused with one 

 another; the sculpturing is more like that of some of the 

 female examples of S. austerus than the males. Fingers of 

 hand very different in shape to those of the male of S. auste- 

 rus, the movable one having a much larger lobe. Keel of 

 the anterior edge of the upper side of the tibia and femur of 

 the chela stronger than in S. austerus. Pores of lower 

 surface of hand and tibia exactly as in *S. austerus. 

 Pectines with 7-8 teeth. 



