24 Arachn . 
AEACHNIDA. 
Phrynidj;. 
Phrynus savatieri , sp. n., de Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philorn. viii. p. 28, 
Gambia. 
THELYPHONID2E. 
Thelyphonus insulanus, sp. n., Keyserling, Arachu. Austr. ii. p. 42, 
pi. iv. fig. 2, Kandavu, Fiji Is. ; T. bohemicus , sp. n., fossil, strata of 
Radnitz, near Rakonitz, Bohemia, Kusta, SB. bohm. Ges. 1884, pp. 186 
& 401, with 2 pis. 
ANTHRACOMARTI (extinct order). 
Anthracomartus Jcrejcii , Kusta, op. cit. 1883, p. 340, with pi.; A. minor, 
p. 398, fig. 1, affinis , p. 399, fig. 2, spp. nn., icl. op. cit. 1884, from Radnitz. 
Brachypyge carbonis (Woodw.) is an Anthracomartus ; Scudder, C.R. 
ent. Belg. 1885, p. 84; A. trilobitus, Scudd., woodcut : Scudder, t.c. 
SCORPIONIDEA. 
Lloyd-Morgan, C. Suicide of Scorpions. Nature, xxvii. p. 313. 
Experiments were negative. (See also t. c. p. 530.) 
Thorell, T., & Lindstrom, G. On a Silurian Scorpion from Gotland. 
Sv. Ak. Handl. xxi. No. 9, pp. 1-33, with pi. 
A Silurian foss. scorpion is named Palceophonus (g. n.) nuncius (sp. n.), 
forming the new suborder Apoxypod.es , fam. P alccophonoidoz , which is 
characterized by the apical tarsi being acute, destitute of claws. The sub¬ 
order Dionychopocles has the apical tarsi cylindrical, with two movable 
claws. This suborder is divided into the fossil Anthracoscorpii , with the 
families Cyclophthalmoidce , gen. Cyclophthalmus (Corda), and Eoscorpion- 
idce (Scudd.), gg Eoscorpius and Centromachus , and the recent Neo- 
scorpii , with the families Pandinoidce, Bothriuroidce, Buthoiclce. 
Peach, B. N. Ancient Air-breathers. Nature, xxxi. pp. 295, with 
woodcuts. 
Delorme, P. Le Palceophon[e~\us nuncius et la theorie de 1’evolution. 
Le Nat. 1885, pp. 29 & 36. 
Whitfield, —. An American Silurian Scorpion ( Palceophonus osborni). 
Science vi. p. 87, with woodcut. 
-. On a Fossil Scorpion from the Silurian Rocks of America ( Pro - 
scorpius osbornei). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. i. p. 181. 
Cyclophthalmus Icralupensis [= C. senior (Fritsch) from Kralup] ; 
Thorell, t. c. p. 77, note 2. 
Isometroides , g. n. Differing from Isometrus by the want of a spine 
before the aculeus of the tail ; for I. vescus (Karsch) and angusticaudus , 
sp. n., from Peak Downs, Austr. : Keyserling. t. c. p. 19, pi. ii. fig. 4. 
