124 Annals of the South African Museum. 



7. LYCOSA NIVOSA n. sp. 



Specimens. (a) Types : 1 $ and 3 $ 3 (Nos. 5854, 5837) from 

 Eetreat Flats, Cape Peninsula (F. Treleaven}. 



$ ? . Carapace as long as the metatarsus and -f- of the tarsus of 

 fourth leg and as the tibia, metatarsus, and J-4 of the tarsus of first 

 leg in both sexes ; margins finely blackened ; surface without well- 

 marked longitudinal bands but covered with yellowish and snow- 

 white hairs, the latter forming conspicuous patches or spots (visible 

 when dry) ; head broad and obtuse in front as in promontorii Poc., 

 &c., its width across the posterior row of eyes exceeding twice the 

 width of the second row. Eyes of the second row rather small, less 

 than their own diameter apart ; the anterior row of eyes as wide as 

 the second row, the lower margin in a nearly straight or slightly 

 procurved line, the median eyes a little larger than the laterals. 



Abdomen (in spirits) pale yellowish below or at least paler, the 

 sides and dorsal surface black, the latter with a median yellowish 

 mark on anterior half flanked by yellow spots on each side, some- 

 times almost the whole dorsal surface broadly yellowish ; sides and 

 dorsal surface covered with golden-olivaceous and white hairs, the 

 latter forming a number of snow-white spots and patches. 



Legs pale ochraceous, strongly banded with black on nearly all the 

 segments and provided with rings of snow-white hairs ; tibia I with 

 only 2 inner inferior spines (the basal spine being absent) and 1-2 

 outer inferior spines ; spines on metatarsus I small. 



Sternum reddish yellow, with black margins. 



ChelicercB with the 2 distal inferior teeth subequal and larger than 

 the minute proximal one, the middle tooth also placed closer to the 

 proximal than to the distal tooth. 



Vulva (pi. viii., fig. 16) of $ forming a rounded plate containing 2 

 large, shallow, oval depressions, separated by a median bar, the 

 depressions converging anteriorly and containing each a deep 

 fovea posteriorly; the foveae with well-marked curved anterior 

 rim and flanked on the outer side by a small round dark dot. 



Total length ??,<?<? 5f-6i mm. 



(b) 3 ? ? and 3 $ 3 (Nos. 3953, 3960) from the river-bed at 

 Laingsburg, Prince Albert Division (September, 1896, W. F. P.). 

 Abdomen in ? J pale olivaceous yellow to nearly black, in the 3 3 

 dark olive with broad, yellow dorsal area. 



(c) 3 ? ? and 5 young (No. 3930) from Botterkraal, between 

 Prince Albert and the railway station (found near water in Sep- 

 tember, 1896, by myself). 



