112 Annals of the South African Museum. 



a few black spots, their anterior part broadly blackened ; ventral 

 surface blackened, the postgenital region often only partially so ; 

 whole abdomen covered with white hairs, but the dorsal surface with 

 3-4 small patches of black hairs on each side. 



Sternum black. Chelicerce, with 2 inferior teeth. 



Legs. Three posterior pairs pale yellowish, clothed with white 

 hairs, and banded and marked with black except on the tarsi ; first 

 pair of legs with the femur, patella, and tibia very robust, the femur 

 pale yellowish above but blackened below and distally (except on the 

 inner side), the blackened parts clothed w r ith black hairs and the 

 yellowish parts with white hairs ; patella and tibia brownish yellow, 

 thickly covered with black hairs, the hairs on the under side long, 

 forming a thick mane, the patella with a patch of white hairs on 

 inner side, the tibia with 4 long inner and 3 long outer inferior 

 spines, the distal pair being inserted some little distance from the 

 apex ; metatarsus and tarsus of first leg slender, pale yellowish and 

 clothed with white hairs, the metatarsus with a brown spot clothed 

 with black hairs at base above, its under surface with 1 short (apical) 

 and 2 long spines on each side. Claws of legs black. 



Pedipalps brownish yellow ; the tibia longish, longer than the 

 patella ; tarsus moderate, much shorter than the tibia and patella 

 and provided with a distal strip of scopula along the middle above. 



? . Like the 3- , but with the front legs normal and resembling 

 the others ; the tibia spined as in the $ . Vulva (pi. viii., fig. 3) a 

 rounded plate, with truncated, deeply excavated and emarginated 

 hind margin. 



Length $ $ 4^-6, ? 5 mm. 



(b) 1 $ from the Waterfall Mountains, Tulbagh Division (E. J/. 

 LigJitfoot). 



(c) 1 $ from Hermanuspietersfontein, Caledon Division (_B. M. 

 LigJitfoot). 



GEN. PTEEARTOEIA n. g. 



Carapace mostly very like that of Pardosa, the sides of the head 

 being generally vertical in the lower and sloping in the upper part in 

 the ? , but almost entirely vertical in the 3 ', sometimes, however, 

 with much more sloping sides, as in Lycosa. Dorsal eye-area sub- 

 quadrate or narrowed in front ; anterior row of eyes procurved and 

 narrower than or as wide as the second row, the lateral eyes about 

 midway between the eyes of the second row and the anterior margin 

 of carapace. Apical segment of superior spinners small. Labium 

 reaching at least to middle of maxillae. Cheliceras with 3 inferior 



