428 Annals of the South African Museum. 



what rubbed, but the hairs on the posterior segments are dark 

 blackish brown ; sides of the abdomen thickly covered with yellowish 

 white hairs. Malleoli pale, not black-edged. 



Dentition in young. One small tooth between the second and third 

 large ones in the upper jaw and between the two large teeth in the 

 lower jaw. 



Measurements of $ . Total length 40 ; length of head-plate 5, 

 width 7 ; length of mandibles 9, width 3f ; length of flagellum 8J ; 

 palp very stout, its length 23, tibia 7> ; , metatarsus + tarsus 7i, 

 width of tibia 1-;"; ; length of III. leg 21 ; IV. leg incomplete, tibia 6^, 

 metatarsus 6. 



Locality. One 3 , dried (type, No. 1051), from Durban, Natal 

 (J. Lines, 1885) ; 1 juv. from the same locality (Col. J. H. Bowker). 



This species is allied to S. hostilis, White, in which, however, 

 the anterior curve of the flagellum is sharp and short, and the 

 anterior third or half of the recurrent portion is not horizontal but 

 inclined, with the under side concave. In cultrata the anterior 

 curve is much higher, so that the anterior half of the recurrent 

 portion is not concave below but lies in the same horizontal plane 

 with the posterior half. 



III. The LINEATA Group. 



Dentition of the upper jaw similar in the two sexes, the distal or 

 series composed of a small or moderately large distal tooth, 

 /'t] by 1-3 small teeth and one large one, then 3-5 small teeth, 

 a ml finally another large one (figs. 28, 29). 



Palps considerably shorter than the III. leg ; the pointed and 

 truncated hairs of the metatarsus mostly replaced by hairs of various 

 lengths, which are minutely bifid at the apex. In the $ the meta- 

 tarsus of the palps is not scopulate below. Hairs on posterior legs 

 mane-like, at least on the under side. 



Only two species are comprised in this group, viz., lineata, Koch, 

 and brccipal'pus, n. sp. 



SOLPUGA LINEATA, C. L. Koch. 



(Figs. 28-286.) 



C. L. Koch, Arch. f. Naturg., viii., Bd. L, p. 353, 1842; Die 

 Arachn., xv., p. 80, fig. 1473, 3 , 1848. 



$ . Flagellum reaching back a little behind the middle of the 

 mandibles. Basal enlargement small, rotundate, the free upper 



