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Sternum large, broader than long, very broadly truncate at its 

 hinder extremity in an incurved line. 



Abdomen large ; globular and much projected over the thorax ; 

 spinners in a short circular sheath-like prominence. 



MOERO QUADKIMACULATA, Sp. 11. (PL XL, fig. 4.) 



Adult male, length rather less than 1 line. 



Female adult, 1 line. 



Adult male Ccplialotliorax orange-yellow ; height of clypeus a 

 little more than half that of the facial space. 



Central eyes of posterior row divided by a diameter's interval and 

 nearer to each other than to the hind laterals ; fore-centrals on a 

 strong prominence ; those also of each of the lateral pairs are con- 

 tiguous on a prominence. 



Legs yellow-brown except the femora, which are orange-yellow. 



Palpi ($} short, radial and cubital joints very short; equal in 

 length, the former a little obtusely produced in front ; digital joint 

 large, short, oblong-oval, with a strong, somewhat quadrate pro- 

 minence on the outer side. 



Palpal organs highly developed, complex, compact, encircled with 

 a closely fitting black filiform spine. 



Falces rather long ; moderate in length and strength, and a little 

 divergent at their extremities ; some small teeth along the inner 

 margin, one being much longer than the rest ; colour orange-yellow, 

 slightly suffused with yellow-brown. 



MaxillcB orange-yellow. Labinin yellow-brown, sternum orange- 

 yellow, convex and slightly granulose or roughened, and furnished 

 with a few prominent bristly hairs. 



Abdomen, pale, whitish yellow, covered very thickly with coarse 

 erect bristly hairs, and marked towards the hinder part of the upper 

 side with four conspicuous black spots in a large square. 



The female resembles the male in general characters, colours, and 

 markings ; the genital aperture is of a very characteristic and dis- 

 tinctive form. 



Hob. Platteklip Eavine, on the slopes of Table Mountain near 

 Cape Town. 



THERIDION DELICATUM, sp. n. (PI. XI., fig. 5.) 

 Adult female, length If lines. 



Cephalothorax pale yellowish white, with converging yellow-brown 

 stripes, those on the thorax not reaching the margins. 



