Neu* and Little, Known South African Soiifugce. 



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the 5 and young specimens. Sides of the mandibles and the under 

 surface of the body brownish yellow ; limbs ferruginous-brown, 

 mostly darker in the 5 than in the $ , in both almost black distally. 

 Legs with dark brown and whitish hairs intermixed. Hairs on head- 

 plate and mandibles dark brown. Dorsal plates of abdomen ferru- 

 ginous brown in the middle and blackened laterally, the posterior 

 plates wholly ferruginous-black, especially in the $ , the hairs on 

 the plates dark brown, those on the posterior plates almost black. 

 Sides of the abdomen ferruginous-black in the male, thickly covered 

 with silvery white, somewhat iridescent hairs ; the sides yellowish 



Solpuga rincta, Koch. Fig. 23, apex of left mandible of <? from inner side. 



S. villosa, n. sp. Fig. 24, left mandible of <? from inner side. 



S. spectralis, n. sp. Fig. 25, right mandible of 3 from lateral side. 



brown in the adult ? and covered, although somewhat less thickly, 

 with yellowish white hairs, those on the upper part bordering the 

 tergal plates bright yellow and brownish yellow, iridescent. Abdo- 

 minal sterna brown or yellowish brown, infuscated at the lateral 

 borders. Legs without trace of a mane. Malleoli with infuscated 

 edges. 



Measurements Total length $ 23, 2 31 ; length of head-plate 

 $ 3f , ? 41, width $ 4, ? 4f ; length of mandibles $ 6, ? 8, width 

 $ 2J, 2 2f ; length of flagellum 2 ; length of palp $ 16|, ? 17, 



