New Species of Araneidea. 147 



considerable variety in the details of some portions of structure in 

 different individuals. 



A single example under stones. " Lion's Hill," near Cape Town. 



C^EDMON DUBIA, ? Sp. 11. (PI. IX., fig. 4.) 



Adult female, length 6 lines. 



Length of cephalothorax 2^ lines ; breadth 2} lines. 



Allowing for some obvious sexual difference, this example might 

 be the female of either of the three foregoing spiders. The eye-area 

 is most similar to that of C. congener, and the cephalothorax in its 

 general form (longer than broad) agrees with both that and G. affinix. 

 There is scarcely any elevation in front of the thoracic indentation. 

 Its surface is devoid of granulations, and the hairs on the abdomen 

 are all finer and more tapering. The broad but strongly tapering 

 form of the tibial, metatarsal, and tarsal joints of the first two pairs 

 of legs, with their armature, is certainly only a sexual character. 

 The maxillae and labium are pretty thickly covered with short 

 dentiform spines, which is also probably a sexual character. The 

 sternum has two roundish bare spots in a transverse line across the 

 middle. 



The general colour is a uniform yellow-brown, that of the abdomen 

 being dull purplish brown, closely mottled (in spirit of wine), with a 

 pale hue. 



A single example. Muizenberg (Cape Peninsula). 



Another example of the female sex, from " Lion's Hill," under 

 stones, length 4^ lines, is either a small, or immature, female of 

 C. dubia. 



A nest of some spider of this group from under a stone, Muizen- 

 berg, accompanied the above spiders. Its length is 9^ lines, of an 

 almost cylindrical bag-form, rounded at the bottom. Greatest width 

 4^ lines. Closed at the top with a nearly round, thin, wafer-form, 

 hinged lid a little over 3 lines in diameter, covered with granula- 

 tions of dark sand-grains, &c. 



FAMILY ZODARIID^. 



GENUS DIOEES, Sim. 

 DIOKES SIMONII, sp. n. (PL IX., fig. 5.) 



Adult male, length If lines (3^ mm.). 

 Adult female, 2 lines. 



