106 Annals of the South African Museum. 



FAMILY DIPLURID^E. 



GEN. THELECHOEIS Karsch. 



THELECHORIS AUSTRALIS n. sp. 



Type. 1 ? (No. 8899) from Dunbrody, on the Sundays Eiveiv 

 Uitenhage Division (Rev. J. A. O'Ncil). 



? . Colour yellowish brown ; carapace with appressed, pale 

 yellowish, silky hairs, and narrow radiating dark stripes, the 

 lateral and anterior margins also narrowly infuscated, the ocular 

 tubercle black ; chelicerae, the tibia and tarsus of pedipalp and the 

 tibia and metatarsus of first leg dark reddish brown ; labium and 

 coxae of pedipalps broadly white along anterior margin ; abdomen 

 densely covered with dark olive-brown hairs ; posterior spinners 

 black-ringed at apex of basal and mesial segments ; the anterior 

 spinners pale yellowish. 



Carapace slightly longer than the tibia, metatarsus, and -J the 

 tarsus of first leg, and as long as the metatarsus and f of the tarsus 

 of fourth leg. Ocular area about twice as wide as long. Anterior 

 row of eyes (viewed from above) distinctly procurved, the lateral eyes- 

 large, oval ; posterior row straight, the median eyes subtriangular, 

 longitudinal, about as long as the anterior medians and very close to 

 the posterior laterals ; the latter eyes oblong, much larger than the 

 medians, but considerably smaller than the anterior laterals and very 

 close to these. 



ClielicercB with a single row of teeth below. Labium muticous. 



Legs IV, III, I, II. Metatarsus I considerably longer than the 

 tibia. All the tarsi, metatarsi, and tibiae spined. 



Median length of sternum slightly exceeding its width. 



Posterior spinners about 3 times the median length of sternum , 

 the 2 basal segments subequal in length (measured below), the distal 

 segment long, flexible, subannulated at least near apex, its length 

 slightly less than that of the 2 basal segments together, but almost 

 li times the median length of the sternum. 



Total length 16 mm. ; length of carapace 6, width 5 ; length of 

 metatarsus of first leg 2f ; length of spinners 9J. 



GEN. EVAGEUS Auss. 



EVAGRUS ATROPURPUREUS 11. Sp. 



Type. 1 ex. ( ? or young ; No. 3906) found by me under a stone 

 at the village of Prince Albert in September, 1896. 



