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b'3. Patella III with the distal dorsal spines black and 

 finely pointed at apex or setiform. Kentani 



.V. kt'Htdiiicus n. sp. 



b 10 . Ocular area only 2 times as wide as long. Kentani District 



-V. kolbei n. sp. 



GEN. ACANTHODON Guerin. 

 1. ACANTHODON PECTINIPALPIS n. sp. 



Types. 3 ad. $ $ (No. 9938) from Zululand, collected by Mr. 

 W. Anderson, Director of the Geological Survey of Natal. 



<? cT . Colour pale ochraceous, the legs often faintly tinged with 

 greenish ; abdomen deeply infuscated above, the under surface and 

 the lower part of the sides pale yellowish. 



Carapace with a number of setiferous granules on the thoracic 

 and on each side of the cephalic portion ; its length a little less than 

 that of the metatarsus of fourth leg, and slightly exceeding that of 

 the metatarsus of first leg. 



Ocular area as wide as or even considerably wider than long ; the 

 area formed by the anterior median and anterior lateral (frontal) 

 eyes parallel-sided or wider behind, about 1J- If times as long as 

 the posterior width, the laterals (frontal eyes) larger than the 

 medians and very close together ; posterior row of eyes procurved, 

 the medians small, almost or quite as far from the laterals as from 

 one another, their outer margins the same distance apart as those 

 of the anterior median eyes ; the posterior lateral eyes large and 

 reniform. 



Pedipalps. Tibia twice as long as the patella and twice as long 

 as thick, with a deep excavation in distal part of infero-external 

 surface, the outer and part of the proximal margins of the excavation 

 .armed with a semicircular band of stout spines, which are 2-3 rows 

 deep proximally but in a single row distally, except quite at the 

 apex ; tarsus with 1 stouter and a couple of slenderer apical spines 

 above ; spine of palpal organ much longer than the bulb, very thick 

 in the basal half, then suddenly bent and strongly attenuated from 

 the middle onwards, the distal part being slender and filiform, with 

 small sigmoid flexure at tip. 



Legs. First leg with the tibia shorter than the metatarsus and 

 furnished distally at the inner lower edge with a pair of large 

 tubercles, of which the distal one is produced into a stout, black 

 spur-like process, while the proximal one is short and turgid, with 

 sharply conical black apex; under side of tibia with 4-5 external but 



