ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF SCOBPIONS. 301 



ante-ocular portion, the tubercle and surrounding area smooth or 

 nearly so, the anterior border widely emarginate. 



Tergites with a conspicuous granular median keel, but without 

 traces of lateral keels, coarsely granular throughout ; the last with 

 the median and lateral keels well developed. 



Sternites, except the last, smooth and shining, the last granular 

 throughout, the median keels conspicuous, the lateral keels short, 

 each composed of about 6 serially arranged granules. 



Tail moderately robust, nearly five times as long as the cephalo- 

 thorax, thicker at the base ; moderately excavated above, the inter- 

 carinal spaces granular, the Ist segment furnished with 10 granular 

 keels, the 2nd also with 10 keels, but the median lateral weaker than 

 on the 1st segment, the terminal granules not enlarged, the 3rd and 

 4th segments with 8 keels, the 5th with 5 feeble and weakly granular 

 keels, and its upper surface posteriorly excavated ; vesicle of normal 

 form, marked below with feeble, weakly granular keels, the spine 

 long and strong, the aculeus also moderately long and strong. 



Palpi: humerus furnished with the usual keels, granular above, 

 in front and behind ; brachium also normally keeled and weakly 

 granular; manus rounded narrower than the brachium, the length 

 of the hand-back greater than its width, nearly smooth, weakly 

 carinate above ; dactyli long, slender, curved, in contact throughout, 

 the movable more than twice the length of the hand-back. 

 Legs, granular and granular ly carinate ; spurs short. 

 Pectines furnished with 17-18 similar teeth. 



Measurements in millimetres: — Total length 36; cephalothorax 

 length 45, width 5; length of tail 22, of 1st segment 2*5, of 2nd 3, 

 of 5th 5*3, width of 1st (at base) 2*2, of 5th (at extremity) ]'2; 

 length of vesicle and aculeus 4'4 ; humerus, length 4, brachium, 

 length 4*5, width 1*6; manus, width 1*3, length along back 2*3, 

 length of movable dactylus 5. 



A single female specimen from Madras. 



This species is naturally enough closely related to the two other 

 Indian forms shoplandi of Gates and tricarinafns of Simon. 



The former was obtained in Burma and was figured and described 

 by Mr. Gates in his paper in this Journal ; the latter was recorded 

 om Pondicherry. In Vol. XXIII. of the Journal of the Linnaean 



