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parts, in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. But 

 since the preparation and publication of such a report will necessarily 

 occupy much time, it seems to me advisable to describe without 

 further delay the new species that have lately come into my hands. 

 And I the more readily adopt this course on account of the hope 

 that before the final revision of the species is undertaken, I shall 

 have received fresh material from the Society, so that the work may 

 be more complete than if it were entered upon now. There is of 

 course every reason to suppose that many more species will yet turn 

 up if collecting is carried on in the future with an energy compar- 

 able to that of the past year. There are still many districts in India 

 from which we have no specimens at all ; and the new and interesting- 

 forms obtained, for esample, by Messrs. Kemball and Ryan in Scinde 

 show promise of a rich and practically unknown fauna all down the 

 valley of the Indus from Kashmir southwards, that is to say, along 

 the line where the Indian fauna blends with that of Afghanistan and 

 Baluchistan. So too to the eastward, where India passes into Burma, 

 we know but little of the scorpions beyond the bare fact that no 

 species, so far as has been ascertained with certainty, are common to 

 the two countries. Other points requiring investigation are the dis- 

 tance to which the Persian and Afghan elements extend into Central 

 India, and the number of species that are common to South India and 

 Ceylon, and the nature of those, if any there be, that are peculiar to 

 the last-named island. 



To the appended list of the new species obtained by the members of 

 the Bombay Natural History Society have been added descriptions of 

 a few others that have come into my hands during the past half-dozen 

 years. These increase the total up to eighteen. 



Pakt II. — Description of new Species. 



Family BUTHID/E. 

 Genus Prion ueus, Hempr. and Ehrenb. 

 (1.) — Peionueus finitimus, sp. n. 

 Colour. — A tolerably uniform yellow, the legs and chelse clearer than 

 the trunk ; the tail with its fifth segment and vesicle pale greenish-or 

 brownish-black, the dark pigment spreading on to the sides and lower 

 surface of the fourth segment. 



