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ately procurved, narrower than the second row, the median eyes 

 slightly larger; the eyes of the second row rather large, scarcely 

 more than an eye's diameter apart ; dorsal eye-area subquadrate, its- 

 width in front only slightly exceeding the length of the sides. 



Abdomen reddish brown or fulvous, mingled with black above and 

 on the sides, with a narrow, median yellow stripe in anterior half 

 and a large white median band with angular lateral edges in posterior 

 half; ventral surface pale yellowish. Vulva (pi. viii., fig. 7) broadly 

 transverse, consisting of a median bar, which is dilated posteriorly 

 and terminates free anteriorly, and of a pair of curved lateral 

 elevations, each containing a black spot ; in the angle between the 

 median bar and the lateral pieces is a smaller convexity. 



Sternum yellow in the middle, black laterally. 



ChelicercB with basal yellow patch ; the proximal inferior tooth 

 strongest. 



Three anterior pairs of leys pale yellowish, strongly banded and 

 marked with black, except on the tarsi ; black bands on fourth leg 

 mainly present on the femur, the more distal segments faintly 

 banded with reddish yellow ; coxae also spotted with black ; tarsi 

 and anterior metatarsi scopulate laterally. 

 $ . Dorsal eye-area nearly quadrate. 



Abdomen brown laterally, with a broad yellow median band 

 above becoming narrower posteriorly and reaching hind end, the 

 anterior part of this band with a narrow median strip of white hairs 

 bordered by dark brown laterally. 



Legs long, pale yellowish, not banded, the anterior femora 

 infuscate at the base ; fourth metatarsus equal to the tibia and 

 patella. 



Pedipalps pale yellowish, the femur blackened below, the patella 

 and tibia subequal and together a little shorter than the tarsus ; the 

 bulb (pi. viii., fig. 8) very large, provided with a strong blunt spini- 

 form process in the middle below. 



Total length 2 8, 3 4i mm. 



5. PTERARTOEIA POLYSTICTA n. sp. 



Type. 1 $ (No. 7898) from Marcus Bay, Bredasdorp Division 

 (H. A. Fry). 



5 . Carapace a little longer than the fourth metatarsus and than 

 the first tibia and metatarsus ; colour dark brown, with radiating 

 black lines, the submarginal stripe broken up into 3-4 yellow spots ; 

 the median yellow band broad, subrotund and provided with 2 



