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colour pale yellowish or reddish yellow, the surface for the most 

 part clothed with black hairs ; the darker lateral bands very lightly 

 infuscated ; the dark marginal and light submarginal stripes well 

 developed ; cephalic portion of median band broad, parallel-sided and 

 containing 2 longitudinal, infuscate, parallel stripes, the posterior end 

 strongly and suddenly constricted, the thoracic portion of the band 

 narrow, almost parallel-sided, constricted posteriorly just behind the 

 median stria. Eyes of the second row about f of a diameter apart 

 or less ; the anterior row of eyes as wide as the second row, with the 

 lower margins in a straight line, the median eyes much larger than 

 the laterals. 



Abdomen pale yellowish; the dorsal surface lightly or deeply in- 

 fuscated, with a paler, yellowish median band, which is broad 

 anteriorly (enclosing here a spindle-shaped black-bordered area 

 outlining the heart) but narrow and often divided by transverse 

 lines into sections, each bearing 2 black dots, posteriorly ; anterioi 

 surface not more deeply blackened ; sides of abdomen with some 

 infuscate marks ; under surface without bands. Vulva (pi. viii., 

 fig. 15) with the median bar stout, widening anteriorly ; the trans- 

 verse bar with slightly convex posterior edge, about as long as the 

 median bar. 



Legs long, reddish yellow, some with faint infuscate marks, the 

 distal segments long and slender and more reddish ; anterior tibias 

 scopulate distally below ; metatarsus I with the basal spines not 

 reaching to the mesial spines. 



Cheliccra with the 3 inferior teeth subequal or the distal one 

 smaller. Stcrnu-m and coxa pale yellowish. 



Total length 9^-12 mm. 



$ . Carapace shorter than the metatarsus of fourth leg and as 

 long as the metatarsus and ^ the tarsus of first leg. 



This species has much longer legs than the other 3 species of the 

 group (promontorii and spencer i Poc., rimicola Pure.). 



(b) 1 ? (No. 12651) from the Hot Baths near Montagu (W. F. P.). 



(c) 1 ? (No. 7830) from Brandvlei, Worcester Division (I. Neirincj). 

 Carapace very faintly infuscated, almost unicolorous, the lateral 

 yellow stripes represented by a few small spots and the median 

 stripe very narrow and without cephalic branches ; carapace as 

 long as the tibia and metatarsus of first leg and a little less than 

 the metatarsus and half the tarsus of fourth leg. 



(d) 1 ? (No. 9747) from Port St. Johns, Pondoland (Guy Short- 

 ridge). Legs shorter even than in the preceding specimen. 



