Nor and Little Known South African Solifagce. 431 



(&) 1 ad. $ (dried) from Van Wyks Vlei, Carnarvon Div. (E. G-. 

 Alston, 1885). Palps and I. leg with a black longitudinal stripe; 

 the two black stripes on the mandibles unite anteriorly. 



(c) 1 ad. $ (in spirits) resembling the previous specimen, but 

 without a history. 



SOLPUGA BREVIPALPUS, 11. Sp. 



(Fig. 29.) 



2 . Upper jaw of mandibles with the first tooth rather small, 

 followed by 2-3 very small teeth and a large one ; between the 

 latter and the large last tooth of the single series are 3-5 very small 

 teeth. Lower jaw with two large teeth and a small one between 

 them, just in front of the hind tooth ; the apex of the anterior tooth 

 remote from the others, but its basal portion extends backwards to 

 the small tooth in the form of a low keel. 



Colour. Pale yellow, the apex of the jaws and the eyes blackened. 

 All the terga or only the posterior ones broadly ferruginous- 

 brown at the lateral borders, the last segment entirely ferruginous- 

 brown. Metatarsus, tibia, and upper surface of femur of IV. leg and 

 the apex of the palps more or less reddish brown. The hairs mostly 

 white ; the IV. leg provided on the upper side of the tibia and 

 metatarsus with a very delicate silky mane of enormously long- 

 white hairs, and with a shorter mane on the under side of these and 

 of the femoral segments. 



Measurements. Total length 31; length of head-plate 3^-, width 5; 

 length of mandible 7-g-, width 2i ; palps remarkably short, 11^- mm. 

 long and only two-thirds of the length of the III. leg, tibia of 

 palp 3^-, metatarsus + tarsus 4i ; length of III. leg 17 ; length of 

 IV. leg 27|-, tibia 5, metatarsus 5. 



Locality. Pour specimens (No. 2830) from Naroep, Great Bush- 

 manland, Namaqualand Div. (Max Schlechter, Feb., 1898). 



IV. Species of Uncertain Position. 



SOLPUGA NIGKO-BRACCATA, n. sp. 

 (Fig. 30.) 



Jaivs of mandibles extremely long ; the single series of the upper 

 jaw composed of 4 strong teeth, of which the third is only a little 

 smaller than the other three, and the first is far removed from the 



