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pale submarginal stripe narrow, developed only in the posterior part 

 of the thorax, obsolete on the head. Anterior row of eyes about as 

 wide as the second row, the anterior margin in a slightly procurved 

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



Abdomen (in spirits) black above (in one specimen merely pale 

 fulvous yellow and darkened only anteriorly), the posterior half 

 without any band, the anterior half with a narrow, pale yellowish 

 median band and with or without a short branch or separate parallel 

 stripe on each side of the median one ; sides wholly darkened, or 

 pale yellowish with black spots or wholly pale yellowish ; under side 

 pale yellowish, sometimes with faint, median dark stripe. Vulva 

 (pi. viii., fig. 18) much as in brunneipes but with the posterior emargi- 

 nations more conspicuous and the dark lateral spots slightly further 

 from the posterior margin and less black ; the median lobe large, 

 much wider than the lateral lobes. 



Legs more or less banded, with infuscate markings, or these mark- 

 ings obsolete ; otherwise as in brunneipes. 



Sternum lightly or darkly infuscated, with pale yellowish median 

 line, at least anteriorly. 



Clielicera with the distal inferior tooth smaller than or subequal to 

 the other two. 



Total length 10 mm. 



(b) 1 ? collected by Dr. H. Brauns at Willowmore, Cape Colony, 

 in 1901. 



(c) 1 $ (No. 7860) from East London (/. Wood). 



(d) 1 ? and 1 $ (No. 8387) from Dunbrody, Uitenhage Division 

 (1898, Eci\ J. A. O'Neil). Legs of $ longer than in the ? , the 

 carapace as long as the tibia and \ of the metatarsus or the meta- 

 tarsus and i ; of the tarsus of first leg (fourth legs absent) ; pedipalps 

 with the tibia curved and a little longer than the tarsus. 



11. LYCOSA TENUISSIMA n. sp. 



Type. 1 ? (No. 5688) from Doornnek, in the Zuurbergen, Alex- 

 andria Division (I. L. Drcge, October, 1899). 



Allied to brunneipes Pure. 



? . Carapace considerably shorter than the metatarsus and only' 

 a little longer than the tibia of fourth leg and about as long as the 

 metatarsus and ^ the tarsus of first leg ; colour and markings much 

 as in dregei n. sp., the ()-shaped markings on the head united with 

 the dark lateral bands anteriorly, the thoracic portion of the median 

 band narrower than in dregei. Lower margin of anterior row of eyes 



