446 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Schreiner ( ? ? Sept. to Jan., Cocoon in Dec.) Also 2 <$ $ from the 

 same locality. 



The ? of this species was named but no description published by 

 Purcell. 



Colour. Carapace red-black, clothed with dark hairs with a some- 

 what rufous sheen ; chelicera reddish-black, legs slightly browner than 

 carapace, and similarly clothed; posterior legs slightly lighter; anterior 

 legs darken and become redder distally. Abdomen dull to infuscated 

 testaceous sometimes, slightly mottled with lighter spots ; dorsal 

 stigmata white-ringed. Upper surface clothed with blackish and white 

 hairs ; the latter, as in E. fumosus, forming a number of white spots 

 on dorsal surface and short lines on lateral surfaces. Sternum, coxae, 

 etc., dark to medium brown. 



Cephalothorax. Comparatively flat (fig. 2 B) and slopes gradually 

 to posterior border, with no abrupt grade between cephalic and thoracic 

 portions as in E. fumosus. Thoracic portion only very slightly wider 

 than cephalic portion, latter not spiued, even at anterior sides, but 

 furnished with stout bristles, often short or broken, and having a 

 spiiiose appearance. Length of carapace subequal to patella, tibia and 

 metatarsus, and equal to or barely exceeding tibia, metatarsus and 

 tarsus of 1st leg. Width slightly less than from fovea to hind margins 

 of posterior median eyes, and equal to tibia and f metatarsus and to 

 patella and tibia of 1st leg. 



Eyes. Posterior medians of medium size, and l|-2 diameters apart 

 (sometimes only 1 diameter apart or more than 2), and much less 

 than 3 diameters from anterior laterals ; anterior medians with their 

 centres about on a line joining the anterior borders of the posterior 

 median eyes. 



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Sternum and coxae without spinules and clothed with moderately 

 long hairs. 



Legs. Femora of 1st and 2nd legs with numerous fairly long 

 spiuules on under surface as well as long hairs ; 3rd and 4th femora 

 with a clothing of long hairs but no spinules below. Patellae of 

 anterior legs without spinules. 



Pedipalps. With long fine spines distally on inner and under 

 surface of tarsus and on inner side of tibia ; femur with some long 

 and short bristles on the under surface, but with no spinules. 



Vulva as in Plate XXIX, fig. 2 A. Dark inner portion of lateral 

 depression larger than in specimen depicted. 



Measurements. Total length 15 mm. ; carapace 5 - 5 mm. long and 

 3'4 mm. wide (ratio of length to width usually about l - 6 : 1 ; \nfumosus 

 it is generally 1'4 : 1). 



