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ChelcB. — With the brachium finely granular above, but without the 

 upper anterior crest, the hand smooth, hairy not crested, equal to the 

 brachium in width, digit less than twice the length of the hand-back, 

 furnished with twelve rows of teeth. 



Legs. — "Weakly granular externally. 



Pectinal teeth 23-23 in type ; 21-22 in other examples. 



$. More coarsely granular than the female, with tail a little 

 thinner, the width of the fourth segment being equal to its length. 

 Pectines larger, with 24 teeth ; the hand much wider than the 

 brachium, the digits basally lobate. 



Length of $, 9 46 mm. 



Locality. — Mundla, Central Provinces {A. N. Caccia ; Types) ; 

 Kamptee, Central Provinces (J. Marten) ; Nasik, N. Dekhan ( W. S. 

 Millard) ; Wai Tal and Karad Tal, Satara (A. D. Wilhins). 



Belonging to the hottentotta section of Buthus and resembling 

 B. judaicus in its dark colour, but differing in the greater thickness 

 of the tail, etc. 



Genus Butheolus, Simon. 

 (6.) — Butheolus bicolor, sp. n. 



Colour. — Upper side of trunk deep green ; fourth and fifth segments 

 of the tail with the vesicle also deep green ; but the first and second 

 segments (and usually the third) ochre-yellow ; legs lemon-yellow with 

 blackish tint on the femora ; humerus and brachium of chelse also 

 blackish, the rest of the appendage yellower. 



Trunk. — Entirely covered above with close-set granules, the two 

 interocular ridges alone being smooth. 



Tergal plates of segments 3-6 distinctly tricarinate. Abdominal sterna 

 mostly smooth, the first finely granular anteriorly and laterally, the 

 fourth also granular in the depressions, the fifth smooth only in the 

 middle ; its crests evanescent. 



Tail. — Posteriorly expanded, the fourth and fifth segments approxi- 

 mately equal in width and wider than the rest, the upper surface of all 

 the segments mesially granular, the upper crests granular and present 

 only on the first, evanescent on the second, the sides of. segments 1-3 

 punctured, the lower surfaces with 4 keels ; the fourth and fifth segments 

 smooth, without crests, but covered below and laterally with large 

 punctures ; the inferior lateral keel, however, present on the fifth 



