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Abdomen (in spirits) blackened at the sides above, with fine 

 whitish dots, the anterior half with a fusiform, brownish, median 

 mark which is bordered laterally with some black and flanked on 

 each side by a broad pale fulvous band uniting anteriorly, the 

 posterior half of the dorsal surface with a double series of some- 

 what confluent, obliquely transverse, large, pale fulvous marks (some 

 containing a black dot) separated by a median series of black, trans- 

 verse, angular marks or bars ; anterior surface with a pair of large 

 intensely black marks ; the sides whitish below, with some black 

 spots ; under surface black, with 2 white spots posteriorly, the 

 limg-opercula pallid. Vulva (pi. viii., fig. 13) somewhat like that of 

 promontorii Poc., but much longer than wide, with a large deep 

 excavation behind containing a j_-shaped elevation, of which the 

 median bar is broad at the anterior end but narrow behind and the 

 cross bar thick with rounded ends ; the outline of the large excava- 

 tion emarginate in front in the median line and also near the middle 

 of each side. 



Legs ochraceous, the femora with dark bands on the sides, the 

 posterior tibiae darkened at the apex below ; posterior metatarsi and 

 anterior tibiae scopulate. 



Sternum broadly blackened along the middle, ochraceous at the 

 sides. 



Total length 13^ mm. 



(b) 1 ? (No. 12698) from the Kentani District, Transkei, collected 

 by Mr. H. P. Abernethy. All the tibiae black at apex. 



(c) 1 ? and 1 $ (No. 5686) from Doornnek, in the Zuurbergen, 

 Alexandria Division, collected by Mr. I. L. Drege in October, 1899. 

 Under side of abdomen (except on the lung-opercula) almost wholly 

 blackened and without the 2 white spots, the pale submarginal 

 bands of carapace and the bands on the legs indistinct. In the ? 

 the colouration is altogether much darker, the abdomen is almost 

 uniformly mouse-brown above, and the carapace is slightly shorter 

 than the tibia and metatarsus of first leg. In the $ the carapace is 

 as long as the tibia and \ the metatarsus of first leg but considerably 

 shorter than the fourth metatarsus. 



Total length of $ 12, $ 10 mm. 



Apparently closely allied to algoensis Poc. (= bcssiana Poc.). 



5. LYCOSA UMTALICA n. sp. 



Types. 2 J ? (No. 12005) collected by Mr. D. L. Patrick in 

 November, 1901, on the Commonage at Urntali, Mashonaland. 



