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lateral bands. Eyes of the second row their own diameter or 

 slightly less apart; the anterior row slightly procurved, as wide 

 as the second row, the median eyes scarcely larger than the 

 laterals. 



Abdomen in lighter coloured specimens yellowish, the upper sur- 

 face with a broad, median yellow band shaped like that in brunneipes 

 and broadly bordered with black on each side, the area above the 

 heart covered with snow-white hairs and bordered with black ; lateral 

 parts of dorsal surface and the sides brownish yellow, with black 

 dots ; under surface yellow with obscure median patch or black band. 

 In darker coloured specimens the whole abdomen may be blackish or 

 brown, excepting a broad yellow band on each side of the median 

 stripe on ventral surface and the yellow, white-haired, dorsal stripe 

 above the heart, the large median band being paler brownish or even 

 absent. Vulva (pi. viii., fig. 17) like that of brunneipes ; the median 

 lobe small, not larger than the lateral lobes. 



Legs as in brunneipes in the lighter specimens but strongly infus- 

 cated and marked with yellow in the dark specimens. 



Sternum pale yellowish, or strongly infuscated and with a fine, 

 median yellow line. Coxa pale yellowish, sometimes faintly infus- 

 cated in places. 



Ghelicerce with 3 subequal inferior teeth. 



$ $ . Smaller ; carapace shorter than the fourth metatarsus ; 

 tarsus of pedipalps small, shorter than the long, slender, curved 

 tibia. 



Total length ? 2 6-8, $ $ 6 mm. 



(b) 12 (No. 12650) from the Hot Baths near Montagu 

 {IF. F. P.). 



10. LYCOSA DBEGEI n. sp. 



Specimens. (a) 4 2 2 and 2 young (No. 5374) and 1 2 with 

 cocoon (No. 8450), all collected at Van Stadens Eiver, Uitenhage 

 Division, by Mr. I. L. Drege in January of 1899 and 1900. 



Allied to brunneipes Pure, in colouration and structure. 



2 2 . Carapace a little shorter or longer than the fourth meta- 

 tarsus and as long as the tibia and from over ^ to -J of the metatarsus 

 of first leg ; colour reddish yellow, with broad, darkly infuscated 

 bands and strongly blackened lateral margins ; the ( )-shaped (often 

 W-shaped) marks in the cephalic portion of the median band united 

 with the dark lateral bands anteriorly and sometimes also with one 

 another in the median line to form a W ; thoracic portion of median 

 .band oval anteriorly, strongly constricted near hind end of stria; 



