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Show 52 MR. C. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23, Order AEANEA Unfortunately the few Spiders obtained by Mr. Peel were not all preserved in such a manner as to make their specific determination possible, being dried, pinned, and for the most part very much shrivelled. The following forms, however, are recognizable. 1. ARANEUS HOPLOPiiALLus Poc. (Bull. Liverpool Museum, ii. p. 40, 1899.) An adult male certainly belonging to this species and a female doubtfully referred to it, the former from Berbera in North-west Somaliland, the latter from East Central Somaliland (1897). The type was procured in Sokotra aud is preserved in the British Museum ; the specimens procured by Mr. Peel are in the Hope Museum. 2. ARANEUS NAUTICUS L. Koch. A single female, most likely of this species, from Berbera, in the Hope Museum. 3. CEBRENNUS .ETHIOPIUS Simon. A single immature female, probably referable to the Abyssinian species, was taken in Eastern Central Somaliland. In the Hope Museum. 4 & 5. OXYOPES sp. ? Two specimens from Western Somaliland, each representing an indeterminable species. In the Hope Museum. Order SCORPIONES. Family SCORPIONID.E. Genus PANDINUS Thorell. PANDINUS PUGILATOR, sp. n. (Plate IV. figs. 1, 1 a.) Colour of chela?, tail, and upperside of body olive-brown, the hands rather paler ; legs and vesicle of tail clear pale yellow. Carapace smooth, sparsely punctured above, granular at the sides, its length exceeding that of the movable digit and almost equalling that of the 3rd and 4th tail-segments. Tergal plates granular laterally ; the last more or less granular throughout. Sternal plates smooth, the last weakly crested. Tail short and slender, less than three times the length of the carapace, considerably narrowed posteriorly : the 4th segment about twice as long as wide, the 5th considerably more than twice as long as wide; 1st segment weakly granular above, for the rest smooth, all its keels smooth ; 2nd segment entirely smooth, 3rd with the four inferior keels strong, rugose, the intervening spaces granular; 4th with the infero-lateral keels strong and denticulated, |
