342 Annals of tlic SoutJi African 



and sub-cylindrical in the distal part ; high, mostly at least as high 

 as broad at the base. 



Length and width of large $ (alive and extended) : 32 x 2-1 mm. 



,, ? ,, ,, 43 x 3 mm. 



,, ,, of another large ? , preserved in alcohol, sol. of 



HgCl. 2 and contracted : 28 x 3 -75 mm. 



Colour. Dorsal and lateral surfaces dark olive-green to almost 

 black, with five darker longitudinal stripes, viz., a narrow, well- 

 defined, medio-dorsal stripe, divided longitudinally by a fine white 

 line, and two broader, generally less distinctly defined, lateral stripes 

 on each side. The lower of the lateral stripes connects the upper 

 portions of the bases of the legs, while the upper one lies between 

 these and the dorsal stripe, but nearer to the former than to the 

 latter. In the medio-dorsal and lower lateral stripes there are 

 generally no orange papillae, although occasionally a couple may be 

 present ; in the upper lateral stripe a few orange papillae generally 

 occur in places, or they are entirely absent from it. The surface 

 between the two lateral stripes forms on each side a lateral band 

 lying just above the bases of the legs and generally of a lighter 

 shade of colour than the broader dorsal bands, which lie between 

 the upper lateral and the medio-dorsal dark stripes, one on each side 

 of the latter. 



The ordinary papillae are black or almost so, many of them with 

 a minute pallid or orange dot in the middle of the apex. Evenly 

 distributed amongst these, except in the five dark stripes, are a much 

 fewer number of large orange-coloured papillae (about 40-50 to each 

 of the 18 leg-bearing body segments). The orange colour occupies 

 the sides of the papillae, and generally also (but not in all specimens) 

 spreads a little round the base, while the apex is generally dark 

 green or black with a minute orange dot in the centre. In pre- 

 served specimens all the orange is extracted and the papillae appear 

 white. 



The outer surface of the legs is dark green, without any green- 

 tipped orange papillae. 



Ventral surface of bodi/ and legs in preserved specimens pallid or 

 slightly tinged with green between the papillae ; the numerous papillae 

 more or less dark green, sometimes only faintly tinged. No trans- 

 verse or longitudinal green stripes. 



Spinmis pads of legs in the living animal greenish yellow in pre- 

 served specimens green, the proximal part of the middle pad 

 yellowish. Foot a bluish or blackish grey. Claws pale at the base, 

 dark brown at the apex. 



