52 MR- c. v. a. peel axd othbbs ox [Jan. 23, 



Order Abanii. 



Unfortunately the few Spiders obtained by Mr. Peel were not 

 all preserved in such a manner as to make their specific deter- 

 mination possible, being dried, pinned, and for the most part very 

 much shrivelled. The following forms, however, are recognizable. 



1. Ahaxeus hoplophallus Poc (Bull. Liverpool Museum, ii. 

 p. 40, 1899.) 



An adult male certainly belonging to this species and a female 

 doubtfully referred to it, the former from Berbera in North-west 

 Somaliland, the latter from East Central Somaliland (1897). The 

 type was procured in Sokotra and is preserved in the British 

 Museum ; the specimens procured by Mr. Peel are in the Hope 

 Museum. 



2. Araxeis xalticl's L. Koch. 



A single female, most likely of this species, from Berbera, in 

 the Hope Museum. 



3. Cebre.nxus £thiopiu8 Simon. 



A single immature female, probably referable to the Abyssinian 

 species, was taken in Eastern Central .Somaliland. In the Hope 

 Museum. 



4 & 5. Oxyopes sp. ? 



Two specimens from Western Somaliland, each representing an 

 indeterminable species. In the Hope Museum. 



( >rder 8 o o epione s. 

 Family Scorpioxid.k. 

 Genua Paxjhms Thorell. 

 Paxwxls peculator, sp. n. (Plate IV. figs. 1, 1 a.) 



Colour of chelae, tail, and upperside of body olive-brown, the 

 hands rather paler; legs and vesicle of tail clear pale yellow. 



Cava J Hue smooth, sparsely punctured above, granular at the 

 sides, its length exceeding that of the movable digit and almost 

 equalling that of the 3rd and 4th tail-segments. 



Tergal plaits granular laterally ; the last more or less granular 

 throughout. Sternal plates smooth, the last weakly crested. 



Tail short and Blender, less than three times the length of the 

 carapace, considerably narrowed posteriorly ; the 4th segment 

 about twice as long as wide, the oth considerably more than twice 

 as long as wide ; 1st segment weakly granular above, for the rest 

 smooth, all its keels smooth ; 2nd segment entirely smooth, 3rd 

 with the four inferior keels strong, rugose, the intervening spaces 

 granular; -ith with the inf em-lateral keels strong and denticulated, 



