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LATRODECTUS INDISTINCTUS, sp. n. (PI. XI., fig. 1.) 



Adult female length 5 to 5^ lines. 



The whole of the forepart of this spider is of a dark dull yellow- 

 brown, the cephalothorax with some scratchy converging darker 

 lines ; the abdomen has a dull, sooty-brown hue with indistinct dull 

 whitish markings on the upper side, hut with no distinct pattern 

 traceable. The under side of the abdomen is marked by two in- 

 distinct transverse whitish stripes, and between and at the base of 

 the inferior pair of spinners is a distinct colulus, pointed-oval at its 

 extremity. The genital aperture bears a general resemblance to that 

 of others of this genus, but is still of a characteristic form. The 

 hairs on the abdomen are of a short coarse stubby nature. 



The eyes of the hind- central pair are much nearer together than 

 to the hind-laterals. The posterior row has its curve directed 

 forwards, while that of the anterior row is directed very slightly 

 backwards, the interval between the eyes of each lateral pair being 

 distinctly greater than that between the fore- and hind-central pairs ; 

 and the anterior side of the central square is rather shorter than the 

 rest. The lateral eyes are seated on strong, prominent, and divergent 

 tubercles. 



Hal). Mamre Mission Station, Malmesbury Division, Cape 

 Peninsula. 



TEUTAXA LEPIDA, sp. n. (PI. XI., fig. 2.) 



Adult male, length 2 to 3-J- lines. 



Adult female, length 3 to nearly 5 lines. 



Adult Male. Ccplialotliorax elongate-oval, broadest in the middle, 

 rather pointed at each end, slightly produced behind in a rounded 

 cylindrical form. Colour deep rich blackish red-brown, the surface 

 thickly and coarsely granulose, the caput is a little elevated before and 

 the ocular area prominent, the thoracic area also is a little gibbous 

 close behind the normal indentation. Et/es subequal, tolerably 

 closely grouped together, those of the posterior row form a straight 

 transverse line ; the interval between the hind-central pair being 



the spiders thus allocated are identical or not with Koch's species from South 

 America I cannot of course say. One would hesitate to pronounce as identical, 

 spiders from these two widely distant and distinct regions, without being able to 

 compare types or typical examples of each. I cannot say whether the spiders 

 referred to I.e. snprn are or are not identical with those I have described here as 

 a new species, but seeing that Keyserling's examples in my possession, described 

 by him as /,. i/i'iimctrii-iia, C. L. Koch, are South American, and are certainly distinct 

 from the very common Cape Town species, though undoubtedly resembling it closely 

 in pattern and variety of colouring, one may well suspect that the Cape Colony 

 species alluded to may not be I., geometricus, C. L, 



