New and Little Known South African Solifugoe. 393 



This species is characterised by the remarkably strong armature 

 on the under side of the palps. 



DAESIA SUBULATA, n. sp. 



(Fig. 12.) 



^ . Colour.- Ground colour pale yellowish. Head-plate with the 

 lateral parts broadly int'uscate, the lateral border, a spot on each 

 side of the deep black ocular tubercle, and the large, 3-lobed, 

 foliaceous, central area pale yellowish, the latter area faintly mar- 

 morate towards the sides and provided with a fine median line. 

 Mandibles very pale yellow, without any int'uscate markings, but 

 with numerous, short, spiniform setas. Abdomen with pale purplish 

 tinge, the anterior segments pale yellow, all the terga infuscated at 

 the lateral borders but not along the median line. Palp with the 

 distal part of femur (excepting on the inner side), the tibia, meta- 

 tarsus and tarsus deeply infuscate, the two latter with a broad pale 

 streak on the under side, the tibia with a similar streak in the basal 

 two-thirds below and with its upper surface marbled on each side of 

 the middle Ihie. I. and II. legs pale yellow, the tibiae with the sides 

 feebly infuscated at the base ; III. leg with the femur and tibia 

 (excepting below) and the sides of the metatarsus at the base infus- 

 cate, the upper surface of the femur and tibia marmorate ; IV. leg 

 with the femur (except at the base below), the tibia (excepting 

 below) and the basal part of the metatarsus (excepting below) 

 infuscated, the femur and tibia marbled above on each side of the 

 middle line. 



Palps with the metatarsus and tarsus shaped as in leipoldti ; 

 metatarsus below with two rows, each composed of 3 short stout 

 spines and 2 proximal setae ; the spines of the outer row arranged as 

 in leipoldti, but in the inner (anterior) row the middle spine is nearer 

 to the distal than to the proximal spine ; the two setae completing 

 the rows on each side are slender, not at all spiniform, and much 

 finer than the seriated setae on the tibia. Under side of tibia with 

 an inner row of 3 spiniform setae (the proximal one shorter and 

 slenderer than the other two but stouter than the corresponding- 

 seta in leipoldti) and an outer row of about 5 setae, of which the 

 distal one is slightly, the proximal one considerably, slenderer than 

 the middle spiniform ones ; under side of femur with an inner row 

 of about 4 spiniform setas. 



Short spines on the metatarsi of II. and III. legs as in leipoldti. 



Mandibles with the upper jaw composed of a sub-quadrate (when 



