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straight acute process extending outwards at right angles from the 

 posterior upper part (b, fig. 2). The upper edges of both the lobe 

 and its process are continuously serrated. Moreover, the anterior 

 part of the large lateral lobe (c, fig. 2), found in both species, is 

 continued in the form of a spiral collar round the outer side of the 

 flagellum to join the under side of the apical lobe. The curved 

 filiform process (d, fig. 2) on the inner side near the apex is finely 

 serrated. 



Tergites of abdomen and thorax deeply infuscated, except the 

 posterior ones, the abdominal tergites thickly clothed with long 

 brown setae, which are blackened at the base. Soft, pale yellowish 

 skin on the sides of mesial and posterior abdominal segments with 

 similar setae, the sides of the anterior segments naked. Tergites and 

 sides of abdomen without a coat of short fine hairs ; abdominal 

 sternites thickly covered with fine yellowish hairs. 



Pcdipalps remarkably long and slender as in cerviua, the tibia 

 equal to the metatarsus and tarsus together and about 1-U- times as 

 long as the width of the head-plate ; under side of the 3 distal 

 segments with a number of longish truncated cylinder-bristles, which 

 are numerous on the tarsus and metatarsus but less numerous on 

 the tibia ; distal end of pedipalps and the basal part (including base 

 of femur) pale yellowish, the remainder dark purplish. 



Legs also dark purplish, but the basal segments, the tarsi, metatarsi 

 and upper surface of tibiae pale yellowish, the metatarsi purplish at 

 the sides in the basal half. 



Measurements. Total length (including cheliceraa) 29-J- mm. ; 

 median length of head-plate 5, width 5-J-; length of pedipalp (exclu- 

 sive of coxa) 32i ; length of tibia 



SUB-FAMILY 



GEN. BLOSSIA. 

 BLOSSIA LITORALIS, n. sp. 



Specimens. 2 3 $ and 1 ad. ? (No. 8795 ; November) from the sea- 

 shore opposite Duiker Klip, near Hout Bay, and 1 juv. ? (No. 3792) 

 from the sea-shore at Oukraal, near Camps Bay, all found under 

 stones just above high- water mark by my wife and myself. Both 

 localities lie on the western shore of the Cape Peninsula between 

 Camps Bay and Hout Bay. I have also seen a specimen, no doubt, 

 belonging to the same species, much higher up on the mountain side, 

 and have taken a very young specimen on Signal Hill. 



