434 Annals of the Son tit African Museum. 



PARABUTHUS SCHLECHTERI, n. sp. 



Colour yellow. Cauda with segments 1-4 10-carinate, the first 

 three successively increasing in width, the fourth as wide as the 

 third and always decidedly wider than the first ; upper surface of 

 segment 1 not quite so flat as in capensis, being distinctly although 

 shallowly hollowed out from side to side in the posterior part, flat in 

 the anterior part, not deeply grooved mesially ; granulation between 

 the keels of tail coarse but very sparse, denser in the middle below in 

 segments 4 and 5 ; superior crests of segment 5 distinctly doubled in 

 the middle. 



Measurements. Length $ 108, $ 95 ; length of carapace $ llf , 



3 IQi ; length of brachium ? 9, $ 9J, width $ 3f , $ 3| ; length 



of hand-back ? 4f, $ 5f ; width of hand ? 3-L, $ 3f ; length of tail 



? 62, $ 60, length and width of I. segment ? 7, 8, $ 7-J-, 7f, 



width of III. segment ? 8, $ 8J. 



A female (type, No. 2177) and a male from Little Bushmanland 

 (between Henkries and Wolftoon, Max Schlechter). Also two others 

 from Great Bushmanland. Very closely allied to P. raudn-n (Sim.) 

 from which it appears to differ principally in not having the I. caudal 

 segment deeply grooved above in the middle. 



P. schlechteri and ncc/lectus, nn. spp., villosus (Pet.), granulatns 

 (Hempr. and Ehrbg.),* Icevifrons (Sim.), and b re vim-anus (Thor.), 

 have all been collected in Great Bushmanland by Mr. M. Schlechter, 

 who often found several of these species living side by side in the 

 same locality. They are all without the slightest doubt specifically 

 distinct from one another. 



PARABUTHUS TRANSVAALICUS, n. sp. 



Closely related to the previous species. Cauda with the first three 

 segments of equal width or slightly increasing in width ; segments 1-4 

 10-carinate ; segment 5 with the superior crests distinctly doubled in 

 the middle, the inner crest composed of 3-4 strong, sharp, spiniform 

 teeth ; intercarinal spaces of cauda thickly granular ; upper surface 

 of segment 1 not flat, distinctly grooved mesially. Colour dark 

 olive-green to nearly black, the tail tinged with dark brown, the legs 

 and palps olive-green to dark brown, the fingers and the distal part 

 of legs yellowish. 



Measurements of ? . Length 92 ; length of carapace 9f ; length 



* =fulvipes (Sim.). 



