ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF SCORPIONS. 303 



merely traces of the median lateral keel ; cephalothorax an- 

 teriorly evenly granular and very slightly emarginate 



tricat' hiatus, Simon. 



b Tergites with lateral keels absent or composed of one tubercle, 

 3rd caudal segment with 10 keels ; cephalo thorax smooth in 



front and angularly emarginate shoplamU, Oates. 



B The posterior tibial spurs very short, not longer than the hairs ; 

 movable dactylus more than twice the length of the hand-back ; tail 

 more slender; pectinal teeth 17-18 scaher, s,^. n. 



(3) Bufhiis martensii, Karsch. 



B. marfensii, Karsch, Mitth. Miiuch. ent. ver,, 1879, p. 112 ; Pocock, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1889, iii., p. 335. 



B. (jramnmnis, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genov., 1889, pp. 567-570. 



Scorpio tamulus, Fabr., Suppl. Ent. p. 294. 



I here repeat the synonymy that I published in the Ann. and 

 Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1890, 236. Subsequently Prof. Kraepelin has 

 given )nnrte)isil as a synonym of the African form B. hottentotta ; 

 the two are certainly very closely allied, but the question of their 

 absolute identity is one upon which for the present I wish to suspend 

 judgment. 



This species, the common yellow house Scorpion, is widely distri- 

 buted in India, having been already recorded by me from Sikkira, 

 TJmballa, Bengal, Madras, and Bombay ; and Mr. Thurston has 

 just sent others from Chingleput and Mysore. It has not yet been 

 recorded from Ceylon or Burma. 



Family Scorpionidce. 

 (4) Hormurm Iceviceps, Pocock. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1890, pp. 242-244, pi. xii, fig. 1. 

 Sent originally from Madras and subsequently one specimen from 

 Tranquebar. Mr. Henderson, of Madras, who has collected this 

 Scorpion on the Nilgiri Hills, informs me that he has never seen it in 

 the plains. 



In the original description of this species I stated that the dactyli 



of the palpi have the same form in the two sexes. But this proves to 



be an error ; for this example from Tranquebar is a male, and has the 



movable dactylus lobate and the immovable correspondingly sinuate 



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