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2. New Araclinida collected by Mr. S. C. Cronwright Schreiner at 

 Hanover, Cape Colony. With Plate I. By W. F. PURCELL, 

 Ph.D., First Assistant. 



THE altitude of the town of Hanover is 4,686 ft. above sea-level, and 

 the district of that name forms part of the high-lying arid karroo- 

 plateau which occupies the interior of Cape Colony. 



During the last four months of 1901 and the beginning of 1902 

 Mr. S. C. Cronwright Schreiner set himself to collect the Arachnid 

 fauna of this district, and with very remarkable success got together 

 several thousands of specimens, which were well preserved in spirits 

 and given to the South African Museum. Although the great bulk 

 of this collection was made by Mr. Schreiner himself in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the town of Hanover, a considerable number of 

 specimens were obtained on farms in the district by the Dutch 

 farmers and their children, whose services were enlisted, the farms 

 mentioned in this paper in this connection being Vlagkop, Palmiet- 

 fontein, and Poortjesfontein, all 5-6 miles north of Hanover ; Eier- 

 fontein, about 8-9 miles west of Hanover ; and Krapfontein, about 

 15 miles west of Hanover. 



Mr. Schreiner was particularly successful in collecting a large 

 number of specimens of trap-door spiders, which, although numerous, 

 require considerable perseverance as well as experience to detect in 

 their well-concealed burrows. Three large trap-door spiders (a Gory//- 

 rella and 2 species of Stasimopus) of the family Ctenizidce were found 

 to be common in the district, but 2 smaller species of the same family 

 and 1 of the family Miyidce were also obtained, all these spiders being 

 new. Mr. Schreiner also found numbers of a trap-door Lycosa ''' and 

 of a most interesting new Eresid, which, although not belonging to 

 a trap-door-building family, constructs the remarkable nest described 

 and figured further on. 



* No doubt L. doinicola, Sim., but I cannot discover the original description of 

 this species, which is mentioned in Simon, Araign., 2- Ed , r. 2, pp. 32U and 341. 



