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(/") 4 ad. 5 and 1 ad. $ from Rabiesberg (at the foot of the Lange- 

 bergen near Nuy Eiver Station), Worcester Div. (R. Fran-eke, F. 

 Purccll) : No. of pect. teeth in $ 13-17, in $ 19-20 ; length of 

 carapace in 2 11-12 mm., in $ 11 mm. ; whole surface of carapace 

 finely and evenly granular throughout in both sexes ; colour of the 

 legs ochraceous-brown in fresh specimens. 



(g) 2 ad. 5 from the village of Ceres (E. M. Lightfoot and F. 

 Purccll} : No. of pect. teeth 13-16 ; length of carapace in ad. $ 

 12^ mm. ; whole surface of carapace densely and evenly granular 

 throughout ; colour of the legs light ochraceous-brown, from the 

 apex of femur to the distal end of the leg nearly black on the 

 anterior, upper and posterior sides. 



(h) 1 ad. ? from near Triangle Station (alt. 3,193 ft.), Wore. Div. 

 (R. M. Lightfoot) : No. of pect. teeth 15-16 ; length of carapace 

 14 mm. ; granulation of carapace weaker on posterior part of inter- 

 ocular area ; coloration of legs as in the specimens from Ceres (g). 



I have no doubt as to the identity of Koch's 0. capensis and 

 Thorell's 0. macer, notwithstanding the circumstance that Koch 

 gives only 13 pect. teeth for his specimen. In some of our male 

 specimens the number of these teeth is as low as 14. 



The last segment of the abdominal sterna is either smooth or 

 more or less granular at the sides, the latter being especially the 

 case in the males. The under side of the humerus is either 

 granular or smooth. 



OPISTHOPHTHALMUS LATIMANUS, C. L. Koch, 



O. latiniaints, C. L. Koch, Die Arachniden, viii., p. 65, fig. 640, 

 1841, $ ; Kraepelin, Revis. der Skorp., ii., p. 91, 1894. 



0. cah' us, L. Koch, Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, xvii., p. 233, 

 1867 (I have not seen this work) ; Kraepelin, loc. cit., p. 93, ? . 



8 ? (5 ad.) and 7 $ (5 ad.) from Brakkloof, near Grahamstown v 

 Albany Div. (Dr. Schonland) : No. of pect. teeth in 5 11-13, in $ 

 14-18 ; length of carapace in ad. $ 12-141 mm., in ad. $ 10|~ 

 12| mm. 



These specimens very much resemble Koch's figure of the type in 

 their coloration, but the interocular area and tail are darker, being 

 very dark reddish brown or almost black ; the legs are dark reddish 

 brown, their under surface and the vesicle yellowish brown. In the 

 adult female the secondary keels on the inner part of the upper 

 surface of the hand may be quite obsolete (except quite distally at 

 the base of the finger), or they may be distinctly traceable to the 

 base of the hand as a row of larger, low, anastomosing tubercles. 



