158 Annals of the South African Museum. 



OPISTHOPHTHALMUS MACEE, Thor. 



0. capcnsis, C. L. Koch, Die Arachniden, iv., p. 89, fig. 308, 1837, 

 ad. 3 . 



0. maccr, Thorell, Atti Soc. ital., xix., p. 236, 1877, ad. $ ; 

 Kraepelin, Eevis. d. Skorp., ii., p. 95, in Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst., 

 xi., 1, 1894, 3 ? ; Pocock, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xvii., pi. x., 

 fig. 5 (1896), $ (hand). 



O.falla.r, Thorell, Atti Soc. ital., xix., p. 238, 1877, ? . 



Area of Distribution. Along the south coast from False Bay 

 eastwards as far as Port Elizabeth and probably further (according 

 to Pocock also in Zululand) ; northwards the species extends along 

 the Langeberg Kange into the Divs. of Worcester and Ceres. 



(a) 4 ? (3 ad.) and 5 3 (3 ad.) from Georgetown at the foot of 

 the Outeniqua Kange (F. P/ircc/l) : No. of pect. teeth in 5 12 -14, 

 in $ 14-19; length of carapace in ad. $ 10f-13 mm., in ad. $ 

 llf-llf mm. ; interocular area in both sexes merely roughened with 

 pits, but not granular, on the convexities behind; the granulation on 

 the sides of the carapace in the ? slightly but distinctly stronger 

 and coarser near the lateral borders of the interocular area than 

 elsewhere ; colour of legs dark reddish brown in the $ , almost 

 black in the $ . Thorell's type specimen appears to be some such 

 form as this. 



(b) 3 ad. 3 from the town of Knysna and the Knysna Heads 

 (F. Purccll) : No. of pect. teeth 15-17 ; length of carapace 10-11 mm. ; 

 carapace and colour of legs as in the $ specimens from Georgetown. 



(c) 1 5 from Port Elizabeth (/. L. Draje) : No. of pect. teeth 

 12-13; length of carapace 11 mm.; granulation of carapace and 

 colour of legs as in the ? specimens from Georgetown, secondary 

 keels of hand much weaker than usual, in parts scarcely raised at all. 



(d) 2 ad. ? and 2 ad. $ from the Hottentots Holland Mts. 

 (Caledon side) (F. Purccll) : No. of pect. teeth in 11-12, in 3 

 16-17; length of carapace in $ 11-1H mm., in 3 10^-111 mm. ; 

 whole surface of carapace in the $ finely and evenly granular 

 throughout, in the 5 the interocular area is merely roughened with 

 pits, but not granular, on the convexities behind ; last segment of 

 the abdominal sterna uneven or finely roughened in the middle ; 

 colour of legs as in the specimens from Georgetown. 



(c) 2 ad. ? and 2 $ (1 ad.) from the village of Sir Lowries Pass, 

 Stellenbosch Div. (F. Pur cell) : No. of pect. teeth in 5 11-12, in 3 

 15-17; length of carapace in 5 10411^ mm., in ad. 3 10^ mm. ; 

 carapace as in the specimens from the Hottentots Holland Mts. ; 

 colour of the legs in 3 reddish brown, in $ dark reddish brown. 



