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V. New South African Spiders of the families Migidce, Ctenizidce, 

 BaryclielidcB, Diplnridfe, and Lycosidcs. By W. F. PURCELL,, 

 Ph.D., First Assistant. (Plate VIII and 4 text figures.) 



THE present paper contains descriptions of 64 new South African 

 spiders, viz., 31 four-lunged spiders (3 Migidce, 21 Ctcnizidce, 5 

 Ban/cliclid(V,a,n(\. 2 Diplurida?), and 33 two-lunged spiders (Lycosidce). 

 Most of those included in the first three families are true trap-door- 

 building species, a group very numerously represented in South 

 Africa, but as yet only imperfectly known. 



FAMILY MIGIDCE. 

 GEN. MOGGRIDGEA 0. P. Cambr. 



1. MOGGBIDGEA MORDAX 11. sp. 



Types. ad. ? 5 with cocoons and 5 nests (Nos. 12403-12408} 

 from the low veld at the Hot Springs near Montagu, Cape Colony, 

 found by my wife and myself in November, 1902. 



? ? . Colour of carapace, limbs, and chelicerae reddish yellow to 

 olivaceous yellow, in parts even olivaceous ; abdomen olivaceous 

 black, or the under side pale yellowish. 



Carapace wide, its length (measured laterally to the ocular area) 

 exceeding that of the first tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus, and subequal 

 to or a little shorter than the fourth tibia and metatarsus. Fovea 

 strongly but not angularly recurved ; a fine median groove sometimes 

 present behind it. Ocular area about 2^-2^ times as wide as long, 

 very like that of M. seticoxa Pure. (Ann. S. A. Mus., v. 3, p. 18, 

 1903), but its width considerably exceeding the length of first 

 metatarsus ; anterior median eyes less than a diameter apart and 

 nearly twice a diameter or more from the anterior laterals, which are 

 very large and nearly twice as long as the median eyes ; posterior 

 row recurved, the median eyes oval, larger than the laterals and 



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