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Show 1899.] AND SPIDERS FROM TROPICAL WEST AFRICA. 835 Loc. Congo (A. Curror, Esq., R.N., and J. Pinnock) ; Cette- Camma, Gaboon (' Gerraal') ; Angola (Dr. Welivitsch). UROPLECTES ANDRECE, sp. u. Nearly allied to U. occidentalis Simon, but recognizable by having the superior edge of the 4th caudal segment armed posteriorly with a tooth-like tubercle like that which is observable on the preceding segments, and the corresponding edges of the 5th caudal segment ending behind in a rounded bifid lobe with a vertical posterior margin; the tail, moreover, is parallel-sided, not posteriorly incrassate. Measurements in millimetres.-Total length 58, length of carapace 6, of tail 33, of movable digit 7. Loc. Kassai, on the Loange Biver, Upper Congo (Mr. Andrece). Genus BABYCURUS Karsch. BABYCURUS BCTTNERI Karsch. Babycurus biittneri, Karsch, Berk ent. Z. xxx. p. 78 (1886); Pocock, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xvii. p. 429 (1896); Kraep. Das Tierr., Scorpiones, p. 62 (1899). Loc. Benito Biver (G. L. Bates), Cette-Camma, Gaboon; mouth of the Loango Biver (H. Duggan). BABYCURUS KIRKI Poc. Rhoptrurus kirki, Poc. Proc Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 137. Loc. W . Africa (Kirk) ; Lome, Togolaud (Miller). BABYCURUS JOHNSTONI POC Babycurus biittneri, Poc Proc. Zool. Soc 1890, p. 13S (not of Karsch). Babycurus johnstonii, Poc. Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xvii. pp. 429-430 (1896). Loc. Bio del Bey (H. H. Johnston). Genus ISOMETRUS Hempr. & Ehrenb. ISOMETRUS EUROPcEUS (Linn.) *. (= J. maculatus De Geer, and almost all modern authors.) Loc. W . Africa (Dr. Kirk) ; Sierra Leone (James Foxcroft, E. E. Austen) ; Fanti; Cette-Camma, Gaboon ; Cameroons (J. Pinnock) ; Angola (Dr. Welivitsch). 1 The evidence adduced by Lonnberg (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) i. pp. S6-S7, 1898) in favour of his view that the Scorpion described by D e Geer as/, maculatus is the & europcBiis of the 10th ed. of the ' Systema' appears to m e to be more cogent than the evidence in favour of the identity of Scorpio maurus and Scorpio australis of the latter work. Yet Kraepelin in his * Tierreich' accepts the two last, but rejects S. europaus. |