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its tail to the b rest' position, it then placed the moth's head to 

 its jaws and ate it off, holding the moth in its chelae and tugging 

 off pieces with its mandibles ; aftera few bites the scorpion ran 

 off holding the moth in one chelae ; on the way another small 

 moth came just by it, the scorpion promptly seized it in the 

 disengaged chela?, and again quick as a thought its tail was 

 thrown forward and again withdrawn ; it then ran on with a 

 moth in either hand, when it met a third moth the scorpion trans- 

 ferred the first moth to its mandibles and with the chelae thus 

 disengaged it attempted to seize the live moth but it fluttered 

 on ; the scorpion, pursuing with one moth in its jaws, one moth 

 in one hand and the other hand grabbing at the third moth, was 

 decidedly comical ; it failed to catch the third moth, and after 

 running a little way settled down to eat its captives ; the first 

 moth was eaten wings and all, only one lower wing and four 

 legs being left, which may have been dropped accidentally, ic 

 then began eating the second moth but after a time (whether 

 anything frightened it or not I do not know) the scorpion 

 dropped the moth and ran off ; after some minutes another live 

 moth came in its way which it seized and commenced eating ; 

 while doing so it caught another, and again ran off carrying one 

 moth in its jaws and one in its hand." 

 Effect of Sting. 



Two cases of scorpion sting have come under my notice ; 

 each time the scorpion was caught and identified as Archisometnifi 

 mucronatus. 



1st. 27th Nov. 1897. Basdeoh, a native of India, acci- 

 dentally put his hand on a scorpion which stung him in the finger; 

 he said he had very great pain all up the hand and arm as far 

 as the shoulder ; he applied a small native poultice which some- 

 what relieved the pain. This happened at 6 a.m. At 7.30 a.m. 

 the finger was very swollen, but not appreciably discoloured, he 

 said there was then no pain above the elbow but it was very bad 

 in the forearm and hand; we got him to put the injured finger 

 in a strong solution of permanganate of potash and keep it there 

 for half an hour, first opening the wound by squeezing it ; by 

 8.30 a. in. he was all right again. 



2nd. 2Gth December 1897. Maa Deng, Siamese woman, 

 stung in her foot in the evening ; the effect was at once a rather 



