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Show 56 MR. C. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23, The subspecies nigrimanus was based upon a single example from Mombasa (see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 130, pi. xiv. fig. 2). U. flavimanus is based upon a specimen in the British Museum obtained by Mr. J. Wilson at Mombasa in British East Africa. It is interesting to note that the two subspecies most distinct from each other, namely, U. f. flavimanus and U. f. nigrimanus, occur in the same locality, whereas the subspecies intermediate between them is found elsewhere. Genus PARABUTHUS Pocock. PARABUTHUS GRANIMANDS Pocock. Parabuthus granimus, Pocock, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 311 (lb95). Loc. Zeyla in North-west Somaliland (E. W. Oates), Goolis Mountains (Lort Phillips). In the British Museum. PARABUTHUS HETERURUS Pocock. Parabuthus heterurus, Pocock, in Donaldson Smith's ' Through Unknown African Countries,' p. 402 (1897). Loc. Hargaisa, Silul, Shebeli Biver (A. Donaldson Smith); Goolis Mountains (E. Lort Phillips). In British Museum. The two species of this genus may be recognized as follows:- a. Hand and brachium closely granular ; 5th segment of tail strongly infuscate at least below P. granimanus. b. Hand and brachium smooth, punctured, hairy; 5th caudal segment clear yellow throughout, 4th segment and vesicle black P. heterurus. Genus B U T H U S Leach. BUTHUS OCCITANUS (Amoreux), subsp. nov. BERBERENSIS. Colour yellow, with black lines along the keels of the upperside of the trunk, humerus, brachium, and hand, also the distal half of the femora infuscate and the base and keels on the patellae. Body and tail crested and granular as in the typical form, the granules of the inferior keels of tbe 2nd and 3rd caudal segments about as much enlarged as in the Spanish form ; external surface of hand with a few granules, a pair of strong granular finger-keels running along its upperside and inner edge. Total length 38 mm. Somaliland (Miss Gillett). In British Museum. Subsp. nov. ZEYLENSIS. Colour a uniform reddish yellow, the appendages and tail clearer than the trunk. Frontal intercarpal area of carapace covered with granules ; a median row of granules running along |
