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from hind margin ; interocular area smooth and polished, granular 

 only near anterior margin in both sexes ; finger-keel granular ; 

 mesial part of last abdominal sternite in 5 slightly roughened with 

 very weak granulation. Colour reddish. Large specimens (length 

 of largest $ and $? 112 mm.). 



(b) 1 ad. 5 (dry) labelled " Kimberley " (A. Tucker) : No. of pect. 

 teeth 13 ; length of carapace 15 mm. ; median eyes, finger-keel, 

 sterna and interocular area as in (a) above. Large specimen. 



(c) 1 ad. $ (dry) from Kanga, near Mafeking, Bechuanaland 

 (Miss M. Good): No. of pect. teeth 17; length of carapace 

 114; mm. ; finger-keel and median eyes as in (a) above ; interocular 

 area minutely granular in anterior half. Smaller (total length 

 75 mm.). 



(d) 2 ad. $ from Mazoe, Mashunaland (./. Ffolliot Darliny) : No. 

 of pect. teeth 15-17 ; length of carapace 10-10-f mm. ; finger-keel 

 nearly smooth in distal part for ^-4- of its length ; interocular area 

 very finely granular, smooth only on the convexities behind ; eyes 

 as in (a). A dwarf form (total length of largest specimen only 

 67 mm.). 



(c) 2 ad. $ and 2 $ (1 ad.) from the Transvaal (kindly lent by the 

 Pretoria Museum) : No. of pect. teeth in $ 11-12, in $ 13-15 ; 

 length of carapace in ad. 5 12-124; mm., in ad. J 10 mm. ; distance 

 of eyes from anterior margin 2! -2-^ times their distance from 

 posterior margin ; finger-keel in the J smooth in the distal half but 

 granular in the proximal half, in the female either nearly smooth 

 throughout or almost entirely granular ; secondary keels of hand in 

 $ partially distinct, granular ; interocular area almost entirely 

 smooth and polished in both sexes. In the female a large portion of 

 the upper surface of the hand (the inner basal portion) is almost 

 smooth, being covered only with low, anastomosing elevations instead 

 of isolated granules ; segments 1-4 of sterna in the $ minutely 

 granulated and finely wrinkled in the mesial parts ; the inferior 

 median crests of the four anterior caudal segments quite obliterated 

 in the 3- by the dense granulation of the under surface ; posterior 

 tarsi with one or no external spine on the under side. Bather small 

 specimens (length of $ and $ 74 mm., S. A. Mus. Reg. No. 3745). 



(/) 4 ad. 5 and 3 ad. $ from the Transvaal (kindly lent by the 

 Pretoria Museum) : No. of pect. teeth in $ 14-15, in $ 15-19 ; 

 length of carapace in ? 13|-15A- mm., in $ 13-13^ mm.; eyes 

 farther back than in any of the preceding specimens, their distance 

 from front margin of carapace 2r to nearly three times their distance 

 from hind margin ; finger-keel nearly smooth, rarely, in the $ , the 



