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Show 834 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [Nov. 14, Order SCOBPIONES. Family BUTHIDCE. Genus BUTHUS Leach. BUTHUS (PRIONURUS) CITHINUS (Hempr. & Ehrenb.). Androctonus (Prionurus) citrinus, Hempr. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys., Scorp. no. 6, pl. ii. fig. 2. Prionurus citrinus, Pocock, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 306 (189b). Buthus citrinus, Kraep., Das Tierr., Scorpiones, p. 16 (1899). Loc. Senegal (Keys. Coll., and several specimens procured from Heine). Apparently extending right across fhe Saharan region from Senegal to Dongola and Upper Egypt, where it was first procured. BUTHUS OCCITANUS (Amor.). Scorpio occitanus, Amoreux, Journ. Phys. xxv. p. 9, pl. i. figs. 1-3 (1753). (= occitanus and europceus (Linn.) of recent authors.) Loc. Senegal (Heine); Gambia (Sir A. Moloney). Senegambia is the southern limit on the west of Africa of this common Mediterranean species. BUTHUS HOTTENTOTTA (Fabr.). Scorpio hottentotta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 435 (1793). Loc. Gambia (Mr. Dalton); Sierra Leone (Surg.-Capt. Clements and E. E. Austen) ; Shongo (W. A. Forbes); Niger (Sir R. Murchi-son) ; Asaba, 180 miles up Niger (Dr. Crosse). Genus LVCHAS C. Koch1. LYCHAS ASFER (POC). Lsorr.etrus asper, Pocock, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiii. p. 445 (1890) Kraep. Das Tierr., Scorpiones, p. 49 (1899) (Archisometrus). Loc. Congo (J. Pinnock and A. Curror, Esq., R.N.) ; Angola (Dr. Welivitsch). Genus UEOPLECTES Pet. UROPLECTES OCCIDENTALIS Simon. Uroplectes occidentalis, Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. p. 219 (1876). Lepreus occidentalis, Poc. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 132, pl. xiv. fig. 4; id. Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xvii. p. 388 (1896) (Uroplectes). Tityus chinchoxensis, Karsch, Z. Naturw. Iii. p. 370 (1879). 1 Based by C. Koch upon two species, L. maculatus and L. scutihis, which at the present time are not regarded as congeneric. The first is the type of Hemprich and Ehrenberg's genus Isometrus. Consequently L. scutilus stands, by elimination, as the type of Lychas. Kraepelin applies tbis system of elimination to the selection of the type of the genus Heterometrus, but not to Lychas. |
