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b. Inferior lateral keels of 5th caudal segment and inferior 

 median of segments 2 and 3 uniformly granular 

 throughout. 

 o s . Hand carinate and densely granular ; dorsal ab- 

 dominal keels posteriorly strongly spiniform acutecannatus. 



P. Hand smooth, not carinate ; dorsal abdominal keels 



not strongly spiniform posteriorly. 



a 4 . Less coarsely granular ; tail thinner and lower, 



height of 4th segment barely half its own length 



and distinctly less than length of 1st; upper 



surface of caudal segments much less strongly 



excavated, &c polystictut. 



b A . More coarsely granular; tail thicker, its superior 

 keels more strongly elevated ; height of 4th 

 segment more than half its length and equal to 

 length of 1st emim. 



Family ScorpionidjE. 

 Genus Pandinus Thorell. 



Pandinus meidensis Karsch. 



Pandinus meidensis, Karsch, Mitth. Munch, ent. Ver. iii. p. 127 

 (1879); Kraepelin, Das Tierr., Scorpiones, &c. p. 119 (1899). 

 Loc. Meid iu Somaliland. In Berlin Museum. 



Pandinus smithi (Pocock). 



Scorpio smithii, Pocock in Donaldson Smith's 'Through Unknown 

 African Countries,' p. 198 (1897). 



Loc. Hargaisa, Silul, Abdeh, and Turf a in Somaliland (A. 

 Donaldson Smith). In British Museum. 



Pandinus pallidus (Kraepelin). 



Scorpio pallidus, Kraepelin, Mitt. Mus. Hamburg, xi. p. 60 (1894). 



Pandinus pallidus, id. Das Tierr., Scorpiones, &c. p. 120 (1899). 



Loc. Barawa in Somaliland. In Hamburg Museum and British 

 Museum. 



The typical form of this species was based upon immature 

 individuals measuring only up to 75 mm. long. Until the adult 

 is known it seems to me impossible to classify the species with 

 certainty. It is undoubtedly nearly allied both to the following 

 species, P. phillipsi from North-west Somaliland, and to the 

 more southern Masailand form P. gregorii, but it will probably prove 

 to be at all events subspecifically different from both. 



Pandinus phillipsi (Pocock). 



Scorpio phillip>sii, Pocock, Ann. Mag. 2sat. Hist. (6) xviii. p. 101 

 (1896). 



Pandinus phillipsii, Kraepelin, Das Tierr., Scorpiones, &c. p. 120 

 (1899). 



Loc. Dooloob and the Goolis Mountains, inland of Berbera 

 (E. Lort Phillips). In British Museum. 



