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Colour brownish ochraceous to pale ochraceous ; carapace with 

 short, radiating, infuscate stripes and infuscate lateral borders ; 

 chelicerae brownish ; femora of legs more or less infuscated, striped 

 longitudinally with pale ochraceous, the inner and under surfaces of 

 the 2 anterior pairs pale yellowish, distal segments of first 2 pairs 

 also more or less browned; coxae, sternum, &c., pale ochraceous; 

 abdomen dark purplish, the under side along the middle, the lung- 

 opercula and the anterior spinners pale yellowish ; posterior spinners 

 darkened, the apical segment paler, white distally, the 2 basal seg- 

 ments black-ringed at the apex, the mesial segment and the distal 

 half of the basal segment thickly spotted with white on ventral 

 surface. 



Carapace oval, considerably longer than wide. Posterior row of 

 eyes with the hind margin in a slightly procurved line (viewed from 

 above), the lateral eyes large, much larger than the medians and 

 more than their own length distant from the anterior margin of 

 carapace ; posterior row straight, the median eyes somewhat oval, 

 slightly larger than the anterior medians and very close to the 

 posterior lateral eyes ; the latter as large as the anterior laterals and 

 almost touching them. 



Legs I and II with the femora, patellae, and tibiae very stout, com- 

 pressed. Tarsi with 1-2 spines below but not scopulate. Metatarsus 

 I with 2 rows of 3 stout spines each below and another row of 3 

 spines along inner surface. Tibia I with 3 apical inferior spines, 

 one outer inferior spine near middle, and 2 inner dorsal spines. 

 Patella I not spined. 



Sternum longish oval. Labium considerably wider than long, 

 muticous like the coxae of pedipalps. 



Posterior spinners stout and short, half as long as the abdomen 

 and about equal to the sternum and half the labium ; the basal 

 segment longest, the distal segment subequal to the mesial segment 

 and slenderer. 



Total length 8 mm. ; length of carapace 3^-, width 2^- ; length of 

 metatarsus of first leg 1 ; length of posterior spinners 2. 



FAMILY LYCOSID^. 



Up to the present some 32 species of Lycosidce have been described 

 or recorded from South Africa, but some of these are certainly 

 synonyms and others possibly wrongly identified. The number of 

 good species are represented approximately as follows : Anomalomma 



