118 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Chelicer<% with 3 inferior teeth, the distal tooth smallest. 

 Coxa and sternum pale yellowish, the latter partially infus 

 cated. 



Total length 8-i mm. 



GEN. LYCOSA Latr. 

 1. LYCOSA PATRICKI 11. sp. 



Specimens. 1 2 (type; No. 12521) and 1 3 (No. 12004), 

 apparently belonging to the same species, found on the Commonage 

 at Umtali, Mashonaland, by Mr. D. L. Patrick, in November, 1901. 



Belated to capensis Sim. (= hectoria Poc.), schreineri Pure., 

 darlingi Poc. (= subvittata Poc.), c. 



? . Carapace slightly shorter than the first tibia and metatarsus 

 and as long as the fourth metatarsus and ^ J of the tarsus ; cephalic 

 portion of median baud broad, strongly constricted behind and 

 furnished with a pair of longitudinal infuscate lines, the thoracic 

 portion of the band dilated anteriorly but narrower than the 

 cephalic portion. Anterior row of eyes moderately procurved, 

 the median eyes distinctly larger ; second row wider than the 

 anterior row by about J ^ of an eye's diameter on each side, 

 the eyes very large, considerably less than a diameter apart, their 

 distance from the anterior margin of the carapace also distinctly 

 less than a diameter. 



Abdomen pale fulvous yellow above, with a slightly darker median 

 area and another on each side along the upper lateral borders, the 

 median series of black transverse bars in posterior part almost 

 obliterated; ventral surface pale yellowish. Vulva (pi. viii., fig. 11) 

 much longer than wide, consisting of a /^-shaped border enclosing a 

 long subtriangular fovea, in which lies a long median bar whose 

 posterior end is transversely dilated ; posterior ends of the y\ dark 

 reddish brown. 



ClieliccrcB with some yellow hairs in front, the 3 inferior teeth 

 subequal. Sternum reddish yellow. 



Legs reddish yellow, the femora weakly banded, the posterior tibiae 

 not banded. 



3 Dark areas on abdomen much blacker, the ventral surface 

 posterior to the genital segment i intensely black and sharply con- 

 trasting with the pale yellow of the sides and of the genital segment. 

 Sternum with a long, narrow, U-shaped, black mark. Apex of 

 third and base and apex of fourth tibia darkened. 

 Total length ? 18, 3 15^ mm. 



