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is slender and also slightly curved ; the arrangement of spines also 

 differs somewhat (spination is hardly a sure character, since it often 

 varies on the corresponding legs of the same specimen ; further the 

 spines are too apt to get rubbed off, and the scar left may be easily 

 overlooked). 



The fovea is deep and slightly recurved at ends. 



Posterior sternal sigilla are large, oval, and nearly touching margin. 



Anterior sigilla practically touching margin. 



Bulb of pedipalp as in Text-fig. 5 B. 





E. 



FIG. 5. Hermacha bicolor, Poc Eight hand palp from outer side. 



In the Port Shepstone specimens the <$ has longer and more nume- 

 rously spiued front legs, but is not apparently distinct from bicolor. 

 Metatarsi I and II are not so much curved as in the Stella Bush 

 specimens, nor are the tarsi so nearly white underneath. The bulb of 

 pedipalp (see Text-fig. 5 A) appears distinct from the Stella Bush 

 specimen (fig. B) ; the difference, however, is due to torsion ; viewed 

 differently, they are the same. 



Of the females 2 have much lighter legs, but do not differ in struc- 

 tural characters from the darker ones, and are presumably the same 

 species ; in all, however, the bicolor markings are not very pronounced ; 

 the measurements also are not fully in accord with those given by 

 Pocock. There seem, however, no adequate grounds for separating 

 the Port Shepstone specimens from the species. 



A small $ and a young ? (No. 150,504 and 150,627) from 



