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wards at the apex, flattened at the base above and provided on the 

 inner side with a minute tooth or weak tubercle. Lower jaw with 

 2 large teeth and a small tooth between them, just in front of the 

 hinder one. 



Colour. Head -plate yellowish, the anterior portion reddish, 

 infuscated just behind the pale anterior border ; mandibles yellowish 

 at the sides, reddish above ; three posterior pairs of legs reddish, the 

 basal joint or joints yellow below and behind, especially in the last 

 pair ; tarsi pale yellow ; tibiae and some of the femora with branched 

 crimson veins on the outer surface. Tergal plates of abdomen deep 

 black, the soft skin on each side of them crimson, the rest of the 

 lateral surface and the under side pale. Hairs on the legs pale 

 yellow or somewhat reddened, those on the mandibles and some on 

 the head-plate reddish ; hairs on the dorsal, lateral, and under 

 surfaces of the abdomen uniformly golden yellow. Malleoli infuscate 

 at apex. 



Locality. 1 $ (type, No. 3801), captured about twenty miles 

 east of Pietersburg, Zoutpansberg Distr., Transvaal, by the Eev. 

 J. W. Daneel. 



Measurements. Total length 33; length of head-plate 5i, width 

 6^ ; length of mandible 81, width 3, length of flagellum 5J ; palps 

 wanting ; length of III. leg 26 ; length of IV. leg 42, tibia 9J, 

 metatarsus 8. 



SOLPUGA CUNEICOKNIS, n. Sp. 



(Figs. 20, 20.) 



3 Flagellum short, reaching a little distance behind the basal 

 enlargement, but not as far as the middle of the mandible. The 

 basal enlargement high, triangular in outline, the posterior edge 

 convex, the autero-superior edge quite straight, strongly inclined 

 forwards and forming a sharp angle with the posterior edge above. 

 This angle is caused by the upper edge being produced into a thin, 

 high, vertical, lamellar keel. Shaft extremely broad at the anterior 

 bend (which is a little behind the level of the first tooth of upper 

 jaw), being here almost twice the width of the fang below it, the 

 recurrent portion strongly flattened anteriorly and gradually narrow- 

 ing towards the middle, where a slight twist round the axis occurs. 

 Seen from above the anterior half of the recurrent portion thus 

 appears foliaceous and cuneiform, and the distal half subulate ; but 

 from the side the anterior half appears filiform, while the distal half, 

 although still subulate in appearance, is a little broader anteriorly 



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