168 Annals of the South African Miiseum. 



South- West Africa, from which it appears to differ in having the first 

 caudal segment not deeply grooved above along the middle. 



9. Pababuthus granulatus (H. & E.) 



1828. Androctonus g., Hemprich & Ehrenberg, Symb. phys., 

 Scorp., No. 10. 



1887. Buthus fuhipes, Simon, Ann. Soc. ent. France (6), v. 7, 

 p. 378. 



1899. Parabuth'us granulatus, Kraepelin, Das Tierreich, Scorp. 

 and Pedip., p. 30. 



The following description was made from 7 5" (5 ad. with in- 

 crassated hands) and 6 ? (2 or 3 ad.) from Port Nolloth, Steinkopf, 

 and other places in the Div. of Namaqualand (exclusive of Bush- 

 manland), Cape Colony {L. Peringuey, Dr. B. H. Hoivard, W. H. 

 Turk). 



S- $ . Colour. — Trunk and tail pale ochraceous to ochraceous 

 brown, the posterior caudal segments scarcely, if at all, darker than 

 the anterior ones ; legs pale yellow ; pedipalps pale yellow to 

 ochraceous, linger sometimes darkened at base ; chelicerse not 

 reticulated with black. 



Cephalothorax much wider than long, densely and rather coarsely 

 granular throughout, and devoid of conspicuous hairs on the upper 

 surface ; eye-tubercle situated before the middle, moderate in size, 

 granular in the groove, the superciliary ridges smooth or weakly 

 crenular, the eyes rather small, the distance between them about 

 2-2J times their diameter. 



Tergites 1-6 each finely granular anteriorly, coarsely granular 

 posteriorly ; segment 7 finely shagreened mesially, coarsely granular 

 laterally. 



Sternites. — Segment 1, broadly granular laterally under the pectines, 

 especially in the ad. <? , in which the mesial part is smooth, or very 

 minutely granular also ; segments 2-4 granular at extreme lateral 

 borders, and often also behind the spiracles, especially in the ^ , 

 granular also before the spiracles in the ad. <? ; segment 5 more or 

 less coarsely granular laterally in ^ , less granular in ? , the 4 keels 

 smooth or crenular. 



Tail stout, almost hairless ; segments 1-3 of equal width and 

 wider than segment 4, or segments 2 and 3 equally wide and 

 slightly wider than segments 1 and 4, segment 4 as wide as or slightly 

 narrower than segment 1 ; segment 4 high, segment 5 rather low, 

 segment 1 intermediate in height between segments 4 and 5 ; 



