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at once bent its thread-shaped tail over its back (as a scorpion 

 does) and also scratched about my fingers with its legs, but the 

 pincers did not touch me ; I thought nothing of its tail, etc., till 

 I felt a sharp pain and found the animal had somehow stung me. 

 I went straight into my house, and already the first joint of my 

 linger was very swollen and inflamed, there being a rapidly 

 growing white lump, and the rest was red ; at one spot was a 

 fresh puncture as if a needle had been driven in, in a horizontal 

 direction, and gone some little way under the skin. After cut- 

 ting and squeezing the wound, I put my finger into a strong 

 solution of permanganate of potash, which at once relieved the 

 pain and stopped the swelling, but the little wound continued to 

 smart for some hours. Since then I have been careful never to 

 let a Thelyphonus touch me. 



Sexes. " You can tell the male of this species at once by 

 the presence of a shallow circular pit upon the fourth ventral 

 plate of the abdomen, by the different shape and size of the first 

 plate, and by the simple structure of the small segments of the 

 tarsus of the first pair of legs, that is to say of the antenniform 

 legs; the tarsal segments of the adult female beino- peculiarly 

 modified." (R. I. Pocock). 



2. Thelyphonus Jolt nr en sis. Gates. 



" Toong-gee" of the Malays of Johore. 



I have caught this species in Johore Bahru, and up to about 

 500 feet elevation on Gunong Pulai. One specimen, out of three 

 caught Sept. '97, smelt slightly. Two Thelyphoni, probably of 

 this species, caught in the Botanical Gardens in March '98 also 

 smelt slightly but perceptibly. A specimen obtained at about 

 o-tOO feet elevation in the Larut Hills, Perak, in April '98, is 

 referred doubtfully to this species. 



3. Thelyphonus wayi, Pocock (A. {-M. X. H. Ser. 7, Vol. v, 



March 1900, p. 295). 



Found by Mr. Herbert W. L. Way in Battambang, Siam. 



4. Typopettis dalyi, Pocock. (loc. cit. supra, p. 297). 



Found by Mr. Mahon Daly at " Lacan, Via Raheng, »Siam." 



