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The female resembles the male in colours and general appearance, 

 but the abdomen wants the coriaceous covering on the upper side. 

 The genital aperture is large and of very characteristic form. The 

 palpi have some spines on the inner side of the radial and digital 

 joints, and the latter ends with a longish, simple, slightly curved 

 claw. 



Hab. Cape Peninsula. 



DlOEES COQNATA, Sp. n. (PI. IX., fig. 6.) 



In size, colours, and general characters this species resembles the 

 foregoing, but the relative position of the eyes of the hinder row is 

 different, as also is the form and structure of the palpi. 



The eyes of the hind- central pair are not much further apart than 

 each is from the hind-lateral next to it ; the fore side of the central 

 quadrangle is a little shorter than the hinder side, and the difference 

 in the form of the radial apophysis, as well as of the structure of the 

 palpal organs, though quite distinct, can only be satisfactorily con- 

 veyed by drawings from a similar point of view. 



Hab. Cape Peninsula. 



This species is very nearly allied to D. simonii, and was contained 

 among the examples received of that species as though identical. 



FAMILY THERIDIID^. 

 GENUS ENOPLOGNATHA, Sim. 



ENOPLOGNATHA MOLESTA, sp. n. (PI. X., fig. 1.) 



From a careful examination and comparison of nine males and 

 twenty females sent to me by Mr. Purcell from five different 

 localities at the Cape of Good Hope, I have concluded that they are 

 all of one species, the individuals of which vary exceedingly in size, 

 and in some points also of structure. Taking as the type of the 

 following description a male example in which the characters are 

 shown in the most highly developed form, I shall subsequently 

 remark upon the variations in other examples. 



Adult male (typical example), length 3 lines ; adult female, length 

 4 lines. (With regard to mere size, I may note here that the 

 variation in this respect is from a maximum in the male of 3 lines 

 to a minimum of 1-J-, and in the female of from 4 lines to 2.) 



The colour of the cephalothorax and legs is a pale brownish 

 yellow, with a slight tinge of darker brown at the joints. The legs 



