6 Annals of the South African Museum. 



? and JUT. Head-plate with the numerous short setse more 

 cylindrical, the stouter ones being dark brown but not spiniform. 

 Pedipalps with 3 stout spines below on both tibia and metatarsus. 

 Dentition of chelicera normal, the dorsal finger with only 1 inter- 

 mediate tooth. 



Measurements. $ $ 11|, large ? 16 mm. in length. 



GEN. MELANOBLOSSIA, n. g. 



Head-plate almost semicircularly produced in front. Ocular 

 tubercle with a semicircle of fine setae on the medial side of each 

 eye. Chelicerae rapidly narrowed in the middle part, stout at base. 

 Pedipalps short, the tibia and metatarsus without spines below. 

 Legs short, posterior femora not thickened but several times as 

 long as wide ; metatarsi of second and third legs with dorsal 

 spines ; tarsi of second and third legs 1-jointed, those of fourth 

 leg 2-jointed and slender, the distal joint shortest. 



Adult $ with fleshy hairs on the second abdominal sternite. 

 Flagellum not rotatable, consisting of a flexible, densely hairy rod 

 directed forwards and lying against the inner surface of the upper 

 jaw, and so completely hidden between the chelicerae. 



Type : M. braunsi, n. sp. 



The two species described below differ rather considerably in the 

 convexity of the head-plate and in the denseness of the covering of 

 short setae. The small flagellum of the typical species so closely 

 resembles the adjacent hairy setae that it would be difficult to recog- 

 nise it but for the presence of the conspicuous flagellum in an exactly 

 similar position in M. globiceps, n. sp. 



MELANOBLOSSIA BEAUNSI, n. sp. 



Specimens. 1 ad. $ (type, No. 10,092) and 6 immature specimens 

 (Nos. 8781, 9762), collected at Willowmore, Cape Colony, by Dr. H. 

 Brauns, who first discovered the species. Also, 1 juv. from Hanover, 

 collected by Mr. S. C. Cronwright Schreiner. 



Diurnal; adult $ found on December 1, 1901. 



$ . Colour for the most part black ; thoracic tergites brownish 

 yellow ; tergites of first 5 abdominal segments brownish in the 

 middle but more yellowish laterally ; sternites of abdomen yellow 

 in anterior but reddish in the posterior segments, the soft skin at 

 the sides deep black ; coxae and trochanters yellowish but more or 

 less strongly infuscated ; malleoli black-edged ; legs black, with 

 peculiar blueish-white sheen on the dorsal surface of the metatarsi, 



