New Species of Araneidea. 151 



short broken black lines. The under side of the abdomen is whitish, 

 divided longitudinally along the middle with a black line. 



Found under stones. 



The female resembles the male in colours and markings. Her 

 falces are much shorter and smaller, though still powerful, nearly 

 perpendicular and not divergent ; their colour is a rich dark red- 

 dish brown, and their anterior side is pretty thickly granulose, 

 or furnished with small denticles. In the female the legs generally 

 show traces of a faint dull brownish annulation, and the colours are 

 generally darker than those of the male, with often a more or less 

 considerable diffusion and obliteration of the pattern on the abdomen. 

 The genital aperture, though characteristic, is not apparently so 

 regular and symmetrical in its form as in numbers of other spiders, 

 and a considerable similarity will probably be found in different 

 species of this genus. 



The chief variations, besides those of size, which I have noted are 

 in the male. These occur in the relative position of the eyes ; in 

 some examples the hind-centrals are nearer together than in others. 

 There is also a difference in the length and strength of the falces 

 and of their armature. The relative length also of the cubital 

 and radial joints of the palpi differ; in some examples the radial is 

 nearly double the length of the cubital, in others it only slightly 

 exceeds it. The short blunt spines also beneath the metatarsi of the 

 first pair of legs vary in number and strength. 



The examples received were from the Cape Peninsula, Nieuwoudt- 

 ville, Bokkeveld Mountains, Calvinia Division, Ceres Village, and 

 Clanwilliam Village, Cape Colony. 



ENOPLOGNATHA INOKNATA, sp. n. (PL X., fig. 2.) 



Adult female length rather over 1 and line. The whole of the fore 

 part (the maxillae, labium, and sternum being of a darker yellow- 

 brown hue) is a pale dull yellow-brown, and the abdomen is pale 

 dull whitish, with a criiciform dull blackish longitudinal central 

 stripe on the fore-half of the upper side, and a curved bordering 

 stripe at the fore extremity, followed on each side towards the hinder 

 end by slightly oblique similarly coloured stripes ; in some examples 

 these oblique stripes are represented by an almost isolated spot 

 at the extremity of the stripe ; in such examples the characteristic 

 leaf-like pattern on the abdomen of the foregoing species, and others 

 known to me, is very visible. The eyes in this species differ from 

 those of E. molesta in those of the hinder row being much more nearly 



