On some new or Uttle-hiown Neotropical Scorpions. 469 



transverse oblique median band of dark tawny reddish brown 

 from the middle of the costa to the dorsum before the tonius 

 this is met by a diffused shade of a seareely paler tint eomiii"- 

 from the base and overHowin^ the dorsal half of the wiipr 

 there is also a costal shade on the outer third reuchiiig to the 

 apex; cilia tawny. Kxp. al. 20 mm. Jlind wimjs greyish, 

 ■with a tawny suffusion on their outer half above the middle ; 

 cilia greyish. Underside of both wings with the costal and 

 terminal portions overspread with tawny reddish oehreous, 

 somewhat reticulated, the remainder being grey. Abdomen 

 brownish grey. Le(js greyish oehreous. 

 Type, S (0 1145) '.M us. VVlsm. 

 Hah. E. China— Omei Shun, Vl.-VII. Unique. 



[To be continued.] 



LXII. — Some new or little-known Neotropical Scorpions in 

 the British Museum. By R. I. POCOCK. 



Family ButhidaB. 



Genus Tityus, C. Koch. 



Tityus Simonsiy sp. n. 



Diflering from T. ecuadorensis typicus, which also occurs at 

 Loja, in having the uppersideof the trunk a uniform blackish 

 brown, without yellow bands, the legs not variegated, but 

 yellow at the base, and becoming lightly infuscate upon the 

 lemora and patella?, and the whole hand blackish or brownish 

 red, the finger-tips only being yellow ; tail with segments 1-3 

 pale above, black along the middle line below and posteriorly 

 ou each side, much as in T. ecuadorensis; fourth and fifth 

 segments and vesicle blackish ; sterna uniformly pale. 



Trunk granular and crested above, as in T. ecuadorensis: 

 sterna of abdomen coriaceous, the first and second without 

 large punctures ; fourth and fifth finely granular, the former 

 with a pair of weak keels, the latter with four granular keels, 

 the external abbreviated posteriorly. 



Tail granular and crested practically as in T. ecuadorensis ; 

 vesicle wider than brachiuu), furnished with a spine which is 

 much smaller and closer to the base of the aculeus than in 

 T. ecuadorensis, much resembling, in fact, the spine of 2\ in- 

 sianis or T. obtusus. 



