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Show 874 MR. R. i. POCOCK ON SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [NOV. 14, cit. p. 492) from Zanzibar, of which the male is known, C. (L.) agilior certainly differs in having the tibia of the palp longer than the patella and both together longer than the tarsus, and in the form of the tibial apophysis, which is described as acute and erect. Family HETEROPODIDCE. Genus SELENOPS Latr. SELENOPS ANNULATUS Simon. Selenops annulatus, Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. i. 1879, p. 15. Loc. Benito Biver (G. L. Bates). Becorded from Chinchoxo. The following species from the Congo Begion may be identical with the preceding:- S. sector, Karsch, Zeits. ges. Naturw. 1879, p. 342. S. biichneri, id. Berl. ent. Zeits. xxv. p. 94 (1881). S. brownii, Marx, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 589 (1893). Genus TORANIA Simon. TORANIA OCCIDENTALIS (Simon). Isopeda occidentalis, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1887, p. 264. Loc. Benito Biver (67. L. Bates), Accra (67. A. Higlett) ; Afram Plain, inland of Ashanti. Becorded by Simon from Assinie. TORANIA VARIATA, sp. n. (Plate LVIII. figs. 30-30d.) 2 . Colour. Carapace castaneous, clothed with ashy-grey hairs, with a thickened white stripe along the posterior slope, the white emphasized by a conspicuous bicrescentic black stripe in front and a pair of narrower black stripes behind ; ocular area black ; clypeus clothed with white hairs ; mandibles nearly black, clothed with greyish hairs above: maxilla? and labium black; palpi clothed with grey hairs, mottled with black, tarsi fuscous ; legs grey, mottled with black above; femora wdth three largish black spots above, ashy black below, those of the posterior pairs paler than the others; patella? black beneath ; tibia? white at base and apex below, black in the middle ; scopula? blackish grey ; sternum testaceous ; coxa? also testaceous, those of first three legs and of the 4th slightly black in front; abdomen mottled ashy grey above, with a strong transverse sinuous black stripe in the posterior fourth of its length and irregular blackish patches at the sides and smaller spots in the middle ; lower side of abdomen yellowish grey, with four narrow blackish longitudinal lines. Carapace as broad as long, not quite so flat as in T. occidentalis, as long as tibia of 1st leg and as protarsus and half the tarsus of the 4th leg, a little longer than patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp. Ei/es of posterior line recurved; distance between medians less than |
