South African Araclinida. 165 



Great Bushmanland, Cape Colony. Most of these were collected by- 

 Mr. Max Schlechter, after whom they have been named in recogni- 

 tion of his valuable services in collecting the rich scorpion-fauna of 

 Bushmanland. 



S^ 2 . — Gephalothorax broader than long, rather coarsely granular 

 above, the granulation in the depressions which extend obliquely 

 forwards and outwards from each side of the eye-tubercle much 

 finer and generally sparser or even almost absent, especially in 

 the 5 , the median groove also often sparsely granular or almost 

 smooth in front of the eye-tubercle ; the anterior half of the upper 

 surface with or without a few conspicuous hairs ; eye-tubercle wide, 

 situated only a little before the middle of the cephalothorax, the 

 anterior surface and the groove on the summit sparsely granular in 

 the $ but generally smooth or almost smooth in the ? , the eyes 

 medium- sized, the distance between them from 2^ to nearly 3 (in 

 typical $ 3|-) times their diameter. 



Tergites and stcrnites as in capensis, excepting that the granula- 

 tion on the tergites is coarser. 



Tail stout, sparsely pilose, the hairs long, most numerous on the 

 vesicle ; anterior segments successively increasing in width from the 

 first to the third, the fourth segment stout, as wide as the third, and 

 always decidedly wider than the first ; segment 5 high, segment 1 

 intermediate between segments 4 and 5 in height ; vesicle large, its 

 width |— |- that of the widest part of segment 5. 



Caudal keels very closely agreeing with the description of those 

 of transvaalicus ; the enlarged posterior teeth of the superior crests 

 generally very strong, long and sharp, occasionally, however, all of 

 them, including those of the fourth and fifth segments, obtuse and 

 stunted ; the superior crests in segment 4 generally merely dis- 

 located and more or less indistinctly doubled for a short distance in 

 its middle but not distinctly doubled throughout the whole posterior 

 part ; the superior crests in segment 5 sometimes weaker and slightly 

 irregular, although always distinct, in the middle. Inferior lateral 

 crests in segment 5 with the posterior teeth somewhat enlarged. 



Upper caudal surfaces smooth laterally, finely shagreened mesially 

 in the anterior segments. Segment 1 with the upper surface much 

 as in villosus, being generally flat (or slightly hollowed out from side 

 to side posteriorly) but not grooved mesially, this surface as long as 

 or slightly longer than wide in its middle ; the superior crests 

 parallel or slightly converging posteriorly ; the shagreened area 

 moderately large, almost flat, only very slightly depressed, its 

 length about 2-2^ times its greatest width, the latter occupying 



