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type -specimen was recorded from Java. Both, these localities, 

 however^ need, to my mind, confirmation. But if only one of them 

 can be shown to be correct ; it is probable that both are. Thorell (loc 

 cit., p. 210) has suggested that a/er of Herbst may be megacejj/iains 

 of C. Koch. The figure and description, however, appear to me 

 to agree better with fulvipes, the most marked difference being only 

 ^u the size. Herbst declares that his largest specimen measured 

 5 inches (German) in length. Whereas the largest example that I 

 have seen is less than 4 (German) inches. But since this species is 

 known to o ccur at Tranquebar whence the types of Herbst's afer 

 came, it is probable, I think, that the two are the same species. 



Apart from its conspicuous colouring, Sc.fulvipes may be recog- 

 nized by the smooth ridge, resulting from the fusion of the tubercles, 

 that runs along the external edge of the upper surface of the manus 



(7) Scorpio p/upsoni, sp, n. 



Colour mostly a deep shining green, sometimes olivaceo -ferru- 

 ginous ; tarsi and caudal vesicle ferruginous ; pectines ochraceous. 



Cep ha lot //or ax, about as long as the first two caudal segments and ^ 

 the third, usually a little longer than wide, sometimes as wide as long, 

 sometimes a little wider than long, quite smooth above, weakly 

 granular at the sides and sometimes on the frontal lobes ; ocular 

 tubercle low, the surrounding area being slightly depressed, dis- 

 tinctly cleft, eyes small, about a diameter apart, lateral eyes sub-equal 

 in size, the distance between the posterior and the median greater 

 than between the median and anterior. 



Tcrgites either entirely smooth or weakly granular postero- 

 laterally ; the last granular at the sides with one or more sharp 

 tubercles marking the position of the lateral keels. 



Sternites entirely smooth. 



Tail moderately powerful, but somewhat short, in the S up to 3 1 

 times the length of the cephalothorax, but generallj^ 3| times or less, 

 in ? about 3 times the length or less, more powerful also in (5 

 than in $ ; the intercarinal spaces nearly smooth, the superior and 

 supero-lateral keels well developed and denticulate, the inferior 

 keels entirely smooth (weakly granular on the 4th) nearly obsolete 

 or more or less manifest ; 5th segment with its margins denticulate ; 



