28.- Bothriurus asper Pocock, L893 (Fig. 2<J) 

 li. a. Pocock, 1893, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hitt., Ser. 6, vã. XII. p. %. i>s. V, f. 10. 



Descrição original: 

 Young male Colour fuscous, wilh a distincl mediam fulvous dorsal 

 band on lhe tergites; the legs palpi and lower surface of lhe tail irregu- 

 larly variegated with flavous spois and bands. 



Carapaçe finely and closely, granular throughout, except ou the summil 

 of the ocular tubercle, which is smooth and polished; this tubercle obs- 



curely sulcate ahove; lhe eyes large, the distance between them being 

 about equal lo a diameter. The whole of the exposed portion of the 

 tergites thickly granular like lhe carapuço, lhe last wilh iwo sets of lar- 

 ger granules on each side. The slema finely and closely granular, lhe 

 last without trace of keels. 



Tail moderately robust, ralher more than four times the length of lhe 

 carapace, parallel-sided, lhe third segment about as long as wide; mi- 

 nutely and closely granular throughout; a few larger granules in lhe 



Fig. 2') b. - Pentes 



region of superior and supero-lateral keels on lhe anterior three segments, 

 these keels being marked pósteriprly by small tubercles; the supero- 

 lateral keel absenl ou the fourth segment; lhe sidos and lower of lho 

 segments without keels; lho fifth segménl mesially sulcate, widelj ex- 

 cavated behind; the lower surface with an obsolete median keel, lho 

 posterior semiovate area no1 ver) clearl> defined, lho two inwardly cur- 

 ved oblique series of granules no1 coalescing in lho middle line as in 

 li. bonariensis, lhe middle of this area tubercular. Vesicle fiai above, 

 scarcelj granular, subserially granular below. 



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