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OPISTHOPHTHALMUS PICTUS, Kraepelin, 



Revis. d. Skorp., ii., p. 102, 1894. 

 1 ad. $ from Port Elizabeth (/. P. Cregoc). 

 The types were recorded from the Orange Free State. 



OPISTHOPHTHALMUS PALLIDIPES, C. L. Koch. 



0. pallipcs, C. L. Koch, Die Arachniden, x., p. 3, tig. 757, 1843, 

 ad. 3. 



0. paUidipes, Thorell, Atti. Soc. ital., xix., p. 227, 1877, ad. ? ; 

 Kraepelin, Revis. d. Skorp., Jahr. Hamb. Wiss. Anstalten, xi., i., 

 p. 87, 1894 ; Pocock, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xvii., tig. of ad. ? on 

 p. 236, 1896. 



Area of Distribution. A strip of country (with winter rains) along 

 the west coast of Cape Colony, extending less than 100 miles inland. 

 Headquarters: Bokkeveld Mts. (Calvinia and Van Rhynsdorp Div.), 

 Cedarbergen (Clanwilliam Div.), Piquetberg Range (Piquetberg 

 Div.) ; besides stragglers are found in the whole territory occupied 

 by 0. granifrons in the Div. of Namaqualand. 



(a) 1 ad. $ and 1 juv. 3 from Steinkopf in Namaqualand, alt. 

 2,700 ft. (Max Schlechtcr) : No. of pect. teeth in ? 20-21, in $ 

 26-27 ; length of carapace in ? 16i mm. ; abdominal sterna and 

 interocular area of ? smooth ; colour of $ black, excepting the 

 legs, vesicle, interocular area and the hands. This is the most 

 northern locality recorded. 



(6) 1 $ juv., from the village of Van Rhynsdorp, alt. 400 ft. 

 (Max Schlechtcr) : No. of pect. teeth 25-26. 



(c) 20 (4 ad.) and 14 $ (2 ad.) collected on the high-lying 

 country known as the Onder Bokkeveld on the Bokkeveld Mts. (near 

 Nieuwoudtville), Calvinia Div. (Max Schlechtcr) : No. of pect. teeth 

 in J 16-21, in $ 24-29; length of carapace in ad. ? 15^-17 mm., in 

 ad. 3 16^ mm. ; interocular area smooth in the adult ; segments 1-4 

 of the abdominal sterna finely granular at the lateral edges in the 

 adult 3 , smooth in the ? ; segment 5 smooth, generally with 

 distinct traces of lateral keels ; colour of humerus, brachium, cauda 

 and of hind-border of the tergal segments lighter (especially in the 

 male), ochraceous brown. 



(d) 8 $ (1 ad.) and 7 juv. 3 from the Pakhuisberg, Clanwilliam 

 Div. (Max Schlechter) : No. of pect. teeth in the ? 16-22, in the 3 

 25-31; length of carapace in ad. ? 16 mm. ; interocular area nearly 

 smooth, very weakly granular in the anterior half ; sterna as above. 



