New and Little Known SoittJi African Solifugce. 391 



The type was obtained for us through Mr. C. L. Leipoldt, to 

 whom the Museum is indebted for a large number of new and rare 

 Arachnida from the Division of Clanwilliam. 



DAESIA KOLBEI, n. sp. 

 (Pigs. 10, 10a.) 



? . Colour. Head-plate marked as in leipoldti, but slightly 

 darker. Mandibles as in leipoldti, except that the dark lateral 

 stripe is obsolete ; the sides, however, marmorate. Abdomen pale 

 yellowish, the terga broadly but palely infuscate at the sides and in 

 the middle. Palps with the metatarsus and tarsus deeply infuscate, 

 the tibia pale brownish, yellowish at the ends, the remaining seg- 

 ments pale yellow. Legs pale yellow ; I. leg infuscate above in the 

 two distal segments ; II. and III. legs with the femora and tibiae 

 partially pale infuscate ; femur of IV. leg infuscate, the upper side 

 marbled on each side of the middle line, the inner side (except at 

 base) and the under side yellow, the tibia (excepting below and at 

 the apex) infuscate, marbled above, the metatarsus infuscate in the 

 middle on the upper and outer surfaces. Malleoli pale, the leg seg- 

 ments bearing them with a short black line at the base of each 

 malleolus. 



Palps with the metatarsus more distinctly fusiform and relatively 

 stouter than in leipoldti (fig. lOo) ; the tarsus incrassated distally, 

 when seen from the side, and relatively stouter than in leipoldti. 

 Under side of femur with a very distinct anterior row of 4 stout 

 spiniform setae, of which the distal one is strongest ; the setae along 

 the posterior edge feeble. Under side of tibia with 2 very distinct 

 rows of long and very stout spiniform setae, 3 in each row. Under 

 side of metatarsus with an outer row of 3 distal spines and 2 long- 

 proximal setae and an inner row of 1 apical spine and 4 setae ; the 

 spines short and stout, disposed as in leipoldti, the setae long, stout, 

 and spiniform, very distinctly seriate and sharply set off from other 

 setae on the joint, the 3 distal setae of the inner row quite as stout as 

 those on the tibia, the basal one of this row slenderer. Spines on 

 the legs as in leipoldti. 



Dentition. One small tooth between the 2 large ones in the 

 lower jaw ; between the second and third large teeth of the upper 

 jaw there is 1 small tooth in one jaw but 2 in the other, just as in 

 the specimen of leipoldti from Lamberts Bay. 



Measurements. Total length 19|; length of head-plate 3, width 4; 



