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48 ' MR. 0. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS OX [Jan. 23, 



Hkmipteea. 



Two species of Kynchota Hemiptera were obtained by Mr. Peel. 



Odontopus sexpuxctatus (Lap.). 



One specimen from Bularli in West Somaliland, May 25, 1895 ; 

 and others from the 1897 Expedition in Central and East Somali- 

 land (no further locality). 



Two specimens of another species in bad condition were also 

 obtained in 1897. (W. L. D.) 



9. CHILOPODA AND AEACHNIDA. 

 By E. I. Pocock:. 



The Arachnida collected by Mr. Peel proved on examination to 

 be exceptionally interesting. Of the six species of Acari, two of 

 the parasitic species of the genus Rhiincephahts seem to be well- 

 marked new forms. One of them is represented by both males 

 and undistended females ; the other unfortunately by a single 

 male, but this specimen differs so strikingly in colour from all 

 the species of the genus recently recorded in Neumann's useful 

 monograph of the group, that 1 have not hesitated to describe 

 it as new. Mr. Pe^l was even more fortunate with his Scorpions. 

 He collected only five specimens ; but they represent four species, 

 three of which have never been previously described. Two of 

 these, Buthus calviceps and Pandinus pugilator, are exceptionally 

 well-marked forms ; while the third species, which 1 have dedicated 

 to Mr. Peel, belongs to a section of the genus peculiar to Somali- 

 land and hitherto represented by a single species. 



The working out of this material has entailed a revision of 

 the Scorpions of Somaliland, based upon those contained in the 

 collection of the British Museum. The results have been incor- 

 porated in a supplement to the report upon Mr. Peel's collection, 

 in the hope that sportsmen and naturalists who visit this country 

 may see at a glance what is known of these animals and may be 

 induced to follow, so far as collecting is concerned, the examples 

 of Messrs. Lort Phillips, Donaldson Smith, and Peel, 



Class CHILOPODA. 

 Family Scolopekdbid.e. 



Two representatives of this family were obtained, April 25-28, 

 1895, at Harguisa, North-west Somaliland, namely Ethmosti<imus 

 tiiijouopoda, a species which is distributed throughout tropical 

 Atrica, and a damaged example of a species of Khysida probably 

 referable to R. paucidens, Pocock ', originally procured at Loga in 

 the Arnec Galla country, but the absence of the anal legs makes 

 the determination doubtful. 



The specimens of these species are in the Hope Museum at 

 Oxford. 



1 In Donaldson Smith's ' Through Unknown African Countries,' p. 401 (1897). 



