ARANEIDEA SCORPIONIBEA. 
Arachn. 21 
Palaranea horassifolim, Fr. A fossil Spicier from the Carboniferous 
formation at Swina, Bohemia ; O. Novak, JB. geol. Reichsanst. xxx. 
[1880] p. 74. 
PHRYNIDEA. 
A. G. Butler answers Karsch’s remarks [Zool. Rec. xvii. Arachn. 
p. 20] ; Ann. N. H. (5) viii. p. 69. 
SCORPIONIDEA. 
SCORPIONES. 
Karsch, F. Ubersicht der europaischen Skorpione. B. E. Z. xxv. 
pp. 89-91. 
Records 13 species, of which 1 species and 1 genus are new. The 
anthor gives tlie following division of this group : — i. Buihidrc ; ii. Uetcro- 
mctrldcc. In the first of these are Prionurus, Ehrenb,, including P. pihhoms, 
Brulle, hottentotta, Fabr., qiiinque-striatus, Ehrenb., occitamis, Amoreux, 
leptochelys, Ehrenb., J n<7ruc^onws, Ehrenb., including A. australis, Linn., 
and Orthodactylus, g. n., p. 90, near Phassus and RhoqAiirus, Thor. ; 
for 0. olivaceus, sp. n., p. 91, Sicily. Of the llelcrometridcc are lurus, 
Thor., including 0. dufourius, Brulle, Belisarius, Sim., including B. xam- 
heui, Sim., Euscorpius, Thor., including E. italicus, Herbst, terminalis, 
BvvlRt, Jlavicaudis, Be Geer, and carpalhicus, Linn6. 
Iladrurus paaschi, sp. n., Karsch, 1. c. p. 290, Ecuador. 
Buthus martensi, Karsch, = B. confucius, Sim., id. 1. c. pp. 219 & 220, 
Peking and Tientsin. 
Megacormus, g. n., allied to Urodacus, Pet., though differing in various 
particulars; type, M.granosus (Gerv.); F. Karsch, Arch. f. Nat. xlvii. i. 
p. 17, Cordova, Mexico. 
Bothriurus vittatus, Guer., and Cercophonius hrachycentrus, Thor., pi. iv. 
fig. 13, Rio Colorado, Ilolmberg, Informo, &c., p. 164. 
A ndroclonus australis, Linn. The lateral eyes on left hand side de- 
ficient; P. Pavesi, Rend. 1st. Lomb. (2) xiv. 
Cycloplithahnus senior, Cord. A fossil Scorpion, from the Carboniferous 
formation of Bohemia ; O. Novak, JB. geol. Reichsanst. xxx. [1880] p. 74. 
JousSET DE Bellesme, — . Essai sur le venin du Scorpion. Bib- 
liotheque de 1’ Ecole des hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences Naturelles, 
ix. No, 6, pp. 1-36, pi. XX. [Omitted from former vols. of Zool, Rec.] 
The author reviews, in Part i., pp. 1-4, various opinions and observa- 
tions in respect to the Scorpion, its habits and economy, and treats as a 
fable the statement, first made by Aristotle, that the Scorpion, when in 
danger from a .surrounding line of burning charcoal, commits suicide. 
He describes, pp. 4-7, the habits of Scorpions, and mode of capturing 
them ; pp. 7-10, the consequences of their sting; pp. 10-14, the structure 
of the sting; pp. 14 & 15, the poison; pp. 15-17, mode of obtaining it. 
In Part ii., pp. 17-35, various experiments are detailed, proving the 
