South African Arachnida. 143 



Upper surface of 1st caudal segment not flattened but hol- 

 lowed out from side to side, the narrow shagreened area not 

 projecting step-like anteriorly but descending gradually in a 

 median groove ; 4th and 5th segments very densely granular 

 below. Western half of Cape Colony (except along south coast), 

 German South- West Africa . . . . 9. P. granulatus (H. & E.). 



§ A. — Species in loliich the hand of the pedipalp is equally slender 

 in the adults of both sexes, and never exceeds the tibia in width. 



lo. Parabuthus capensis (typicus) (H. & E.). 



1828. Androctonus c, Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symb. phys., 

 Scorp. No. 10. 



1839. A. Iros, G. L. Koch, Arach., v. 5, p. 93, fig. 101. 



1814. A. Kochii, Gervais in: Walckenaer, Ins. Apt., v. 3, p. 45 

 (Koch's species renamed). 



1889. Buthus planicauda, Pocock, Ann. Mag. N. H (6), v. 3, 

 p. 344, pi. 15, fig. 5. (The specimens described by Pocock as 

 the <y of this form belong to a different species, as they have 

 incrassated hands.) 



1899. Parabuthus capensis, Kraepelin, Das Tierreich, Scorp. and 

 Pedip., p. 31. (Here also the g- , described as having incrassated 

 hands, belongs to a different species.) 



1900. P. c, Penther, Ann. Natm^h. Hofmus. Wien, v. 15, p. 154. 



^ $ . Colour. — Trunk (cephalothorax and abdomen) varying from 

 ochre-yellow to dark olive-green ; tail mostly ochraceous, sometimes 

 pale yellow or brownish to greenish-yellow, posterior segments not 

 blackened ; legs and pedipalps pale yellow (sulphur-yellow in fresh 

 specimens, becoming more ochraceous under the action of spirits). 



Cephalothorax broader than long, its upper surface densely and 

 rather finely granular throughout and almost devoid of hairs ; eye- 

 tubercle granular except on the smooth superciliary ridge, moderate 

 in size, the eyes medium-sized, the distance between them twice, 

 rarely as much as 2|- times their diameter. 



Tergites of abdomen densely and finely granular throughout, the 

 granules in the anterior half of each of the first 6 segments very 

 fine ; segment 7 with large, finely shagreened, mesial area, thickly 

 granular over the rest of the surface, and provided with 4 strong 

 lateral keels. 



Sternites smooth and polished, segments 1-4 granular only at the 

 extreme lateral borders, and, in the ,y , in front of the spiracles ; seg- 



