874 MB. R. I. POCOCK ON SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [Nov. 14, 



cit. p. 492) from Zanzibar, of which the male is known, C. (L.) 

 ac/ilior certainly differs iu having the tibia of the palp longer 

 than the patella and both together longer than the tarsus, and in 

 the form of the tibial apophysis, which is described as acute and 

 erect. 



Family Heteropodid^. 



Genus Selenops Latr. 

 Selenops annulaxus Simon. 



Selenops annulatus, Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. i. 1879, p. 15. 

 Loc. Benito Biver ((?. L. Bates). Recorded from Chinchoxo. 



The following species from the Congo Eegion may be identical 

 with the preceding : — 



S. sector, Karsch, Zeits. ges. ]S"aturw. 1879, p. 342. 



S. buchneri, id. Berl. ent. Zeits. xxv. p. 94 (1881). 



S. broivnii, Marx, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 589 (1893). 



Genus Toeania Simon. 



TORANIA OCCIDENTALIS (Simon). 



Isopeda occidentalism Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1887, 

 p. 264. 



Loc. Benito Eiver {G. L. Bates), Accra {O. A. Hlgleit) ; Afram 

 Plain, inland of Ashanti. 



Eecorded by Simon from Assinie. 



ToRANiA VARiATA, sp. n. (Plate LVIII. figs. 30-30 ci.) 



5 . Colour. Carapace castaneous, clothed with ashy-grey hairs, 

 with a thickened white stripe along the posterior slope, the white 

 emphasized by a conspicuous bicrescentic black stripe in front and 

 a pair of narrower black stripes behind ; ocular area black ; clypeus 

 clothed with white hairs ; mandibles nearly black, clothed with 

 greyish hairs above: maxillse and labium black; palpi clothed 

 with grey hairs, mottled with black, tarsi fuscous ; legs grey, 

 mottled with black above ; femora with three largish black spots 

 above, ashy black below, those of the posterior pairs paler than 

 the others ; patellae black beneath ; tibise white at base and apex 

 below, black in the middle ; scopulae blackish grey ; sternum testa- 

 ceous ; coxae also testaceous, those of first three legs and of the 4th 

 slightly black in front ; abdomen mottled ashy grey above, with a 

 strong transverse sinuous black stripe in the posterior fourth of 

 its length and irregular blackish patches at the sides and smaller 

 spots in the middle ; lower side of abdomen yellowish grey, with 

 four narrow blackish longitudinal lines. 



Carapace as broad as long, not quite so flat as in T. occideutalis, as 

 long as tibia of 1st leg and as protarsus and half the tarsus of the 

 4th leg, a little longer than patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp. Ei/es 

 of posterior line recurved; distance between medians less than 



