ANNALS 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM 



PART III. 



XI. New and Little Knoiun South African Soli fug cc in the Collection 

 of the South African, Museum. By W. F. PURCELL, Ph.D., 

 First Assistant. 



THE present paper contains descriptions of ten new species of 

 Solpuga, and of five little known forms of the genus, which were 

 described by Koch in 1842 ; further, four new species of Dacsia, 

 and three of Ceroma, both genera not previously recorded from 

 South Africa, and one new species of Hcxisopus. The male of the 

 last-named remarkable genus is here described for the first time. 

 The following is a synopsis of the South African genera : 



a. Tarsus of IV. leg without claws Hetisopus, Karsch (p. 381). 



b. Tarsus of IV. leg with two claws. 



a 1 . Tarsi of II.-IV. legs 2-jointed Ceroma, Karsch (p. 394). 



ft 1 . Tarsi of II.-III. legs 2-jointed, of IV. leg 4-jointed. Daesia, Karsch (p. 388). 

 c 1 . Tarsi of II.-III. legs 4-jointed, of IV. leg 7-joiuted. 



Solpufja, Licht. (p. 401). 



GEN. HEXISOPUS, Karsch. 



1842. Aellopus, C. L. Koch, Arch. f. Naturg., viii., Bd. i., p. 354. 

 1879. Hexisopus, Karsch, Ent. Zeit. Stettin, xl., p. 109. 

 Characters. Thorax and abdomen enormously distended above 

 and indistinguishably united to a single oval piece (the thoraco- 

 abdomen), lying above the posterior pairs of legs. Palps short 

 and thick, the tarsus immovably fused with the metatarsus, which 

 is without spines or scopula. I. leg thin and slender, unarmed and 



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