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SCOKPIONS. 



Mr. Pocock, of tlie British Museum, having kiudly undertaken to 

 identify (and J if necessary, name and describe) any scorpions sent to 

 him, I have undert-ikeUj on behah" of the Bombay Na,tural History 

 Society, to *' engineer " a scorpion survey of India. The great desi- 

 deratum, of course, is to obtain long series of specimens of each 

 species with accurate " localities." la the matter of *' wild " 

 scorpions, i,e.^ those found under stones, &c., in forest and field, I 

 have had no difficulty in making arrangements. They are easily 

 obtainable in large quantities, and numbers of members of the Society 

 and friends all over India have promised to make and send in collec- 

 tions. But there are a number of species (mostly small and slender 

 with long tails) which, though common «enough, can never be found 

 more than one at a time, and then generally in houses, and I wish to 

 appeal, through the medium of the journal, for specimens of such. 

 They may be sent either alive or in spirits to the rooms of the Natural 

 History Society, 6, Apollo Street, Bombay. It may be useful to add 

 that the most vicious scorpion may be caught without danger with a 

 noose in a piece of twine to be slipped over its tail and drawn fairly 

 tight. 



R, C. WROUGHTON. 



Bombay, July, 1896. 



