250 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIRTY. 
I name this fine species after Mr. Herbert M. Phipson, the ener- 
getic secretary of the Society. 
7. I. maculatus, De Geer, figs. 8, 4. 
I have this species from Tavoy, Moulmecim, Rangoon, Table 
Island (Andamans) and Bombay. It is of very wide distribution. 
This scorpion and the next are peculiar in not having a spine at the 
end of the tibial joint of the fourth pair of legs. 
The male differs from the female in having a smaller body and 
much longer tail and cheliceres. The colour is the same in both and 
so is the structure, 
& Length of body, +75 in.; of tail, 1:75; of cheliceres, 1:4 
g ” ” Bea oe ” 1:05; ye) 8 
8, I. assamensis, N. Sp., figs. 5, 6. 
From Dhubriin Assam, whence I received six specimens from my 
friend, Mr. O. G. Smart, of the Public Works Department. It is of 
much the same colour as I. maculatus, but is very much smaller. It 
may be distinguished at once by having the whole space in front of 
the central eyes black, the keels on the last abdominal seoment 
obsolete ; and the tail not spotted but clouded with fuscous. 
Like I. maculatus it wants the spine on the tibial joint of the 
fourth pair of legs, 
The sexes are alike in colour and differ in structure by the male 
having a smaller body and a longer tail; the cheliceres in both 
sexes are of much the same size, 
6 Length of body, *5 in.; of tail, 1:0; of cheliceres, +55 
2 ” 29 roy} 9 "80; 9 5 
The slight difference in size in the sexes of this Species separate 
it widely from I. maculatus, in which the difference is very striking, 
NOTE ON SOME BRANCHING PALMS. 
Communicarup ny Mrs. W. E. Harr. 
(Read at the Society's Meeting on 11th December, 1888.) 
To the popular mind, perhaps the most characteristic feature 
r of the Palm family is the tall, straight, undivided stem, surmounted 
by its single head of leaves, 
Some species, no doubt, as the edible date (Phanix dactylifera), 
throw out a number of young plants from the parent stem at a 
So 
