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Show 48 MR. C. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23, H E M I P T E R A. Two species of Bynchota Hemiptera were obtained by Mr. Peel. ODONTOPUS SEXPDNCTATUS (Lap.). One specimen from Bularli in West Somaliland, May 25, 1895 ; and others from the 1897 Expedition in Central and East Somali-laud (no further locality). Two specimens of another species in bad condition were also obtained in 1897, (W. L. D.) 9. CHILOPODA AND ABACHNIDA. By E. I. POCOCK. The Arachnida collected by Mr. Peel proved on examination to be exceptionally interesting. Of the six species of Acari, two of the parasitic species of the genus Ilhipicephalus seem to be well-marked new forms. One of rhem is represented by both males aud undistended females ; the other unfortunately by a single male, but this specimen differs so strikingly in colour from all the species of the genus recently recorded in Neumann's useful monograph of the group, that I have not hesitated to describe it as new. Mr. Pe<4 was even more fortunate with his Scorpions. He collected only five specimens; but they represent four species, three of which have never been previously described. Two of these, Buthus calviceps and Pandinus pugilator, are exceptional]v well-marked forms; while the third species, which 1 have dedicated to Mr. Peel, belongs to a section of the genus peculiar to Somaliland and hitherto represented by a single species. The working out of this material has entailed a revision of the Scorpions of Somaliland, based upon those contained in the collection of the British Museum. The results have been incorporated in a supplement to the report upon Mr. Peel's collection, in the hope that sportsmen and naturalists who visit this country may see at a glance what is known of these animals and may be induced to follow, so far as collecting is concerned, the examples of Messrs. Lort Phillips, Donaldson Smith, and Peel, Class CHILOPODA. Family SCOLOPENDRID.E. Two representatives of this family were obtained, April 25-28, 1895, at Hargaisa, North-west Somaliland, namely Eihmostigmus trigouopoda, a species which is distributed throughout tropical Alrica, and a damaged example of a species of Rhgsida probably referable to R. paucideus, Pocock', originally procured at Loga iu the Arnec Galla country, but the absence of the anal legs makes the determination doubtful. The specimens of these species are in the Hope Museum at Oxford. 1 In Donaldson Smith's 'Through Unknown African Countries,' p. 401 (1897). |