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but with 0-2 long setiform outer spines below ; IV spined only 

 below and on the inner surface above. Claws with 3-5 long teeth 

 in the basal row furthest from the axis of the leg ; the row nearest 

 this axis composed of 5-6 teeth in the anterior legs, but absent or 

 represented by 1-2 minute rudiments on the outer claw and by 1-3 

 minute teeth on the inner claw of the fourth leg. 



Posterior spinners with the apical segment short and subhemi- 

 spherical, only about ^-f as long as the penultimate segment. 



Total length of a large $ 23| mm. ; length of carapace 7|> 

 width 6 ; length of tibia of first leg 4. 



Nests. Mr. Schreiner, who dug up large numbers of the nests, 

 sent me a couple with the surrounding earth, and the following 

 description is taken from his notes * : 



The spider constructs its tubular hole in firm soil, avoiding loose 

 sand and choosing sometimes bare ground and sometimes grass or 

 the middle of a small bush. The hole is about 4-6 inches (10-15 cm.) 

 deep, generally fairly straight and lined inside with web.t At the 

 surface the hole is surmounted by a turret or tube composed of grass, 

 small sticks, seeds, &c., bound together by webbing and projecting 

 for a short distance (generally i-1 inch) above the level of the sur- 

 rounding ground. The top edge of the turret is irregular. Some- 

 times the hole has a forked entrance and sometimes a blind side 

 chamber is present, but this is apparently exceptional. The hole is 

 open at the top, although occasionally Mr. Schreiner observed a fine 

 film of web stretched across the base of the turret. 



I have subsequently observed similar nests at the Hot Baths, 

 Montagu, made by the 2 of H. validus Pure. 



4. HEEMACHASTES FLAVOPUNCTATUS n. sp. 



Types. 2 ex. (No. 12695) from the Hogsback, Amatola Eange,. 

 found in a rotten tree-trunk by Mr. F. A. Pym in 1902. 



$ 5 . Colour olivaceous, with ochraceous streaks ; chelicerae 

 nearly black ; legs fusco-olivaceous, but the patellae and the naked 

 strips on the tibiae and metatarsi ochraceous ; abdomen deep pur- 

 plish black, with numerous, conspicuous, roundish, pale yellow 

 spots above and at the sides, but without trace of the tree-pattern ; 



* An account of these nests has already been published by Mr. Schreiner in a 

 very interesting paper, entitled " Some Arachnids at Hanover, Cape Colony "' 

 (Popular Science Monthly, v. 62, p. 152, Dec., 1902). 



f In the specimens sent me the hole is slightly inclined to the perpendicular. 



