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Sp f '<-;,i,'i>s. 1 (No. 14479), Poortjesfontein, Hanover (Master 

 Neser, 1905). 1 J' (No. 9463), Hanover (S. C. Schreiner, 10/01). 



c?. Colour. Carapace orange-red ; legs and palp yellowish- brown, 

 anterior legs very slightly darker distally. Abdomen iufuscated dull 

 testaceous, darker 011 under surface. Sternum dark brown, coxae and 

 under sides of legs pale brown. Legs and abdomen clothed with 

 yellowish hairs, with whitish ones intermingled. 



Carapace. Cephalic portion very slightly raised, but not more so 

 than thoracic portion (in specimen from Poortjesfontein the cephalic 

 portion appears lower, and is separated from the thoracic by a faint 

 line across the fovea) ; both clothed with scanty whitish hairs, those 

 immediately anterior to fovea being yellowish in colour. Proportion 

 of carapace to legs as in E.fumosus. 



Eyes. Posterior medians 2 diameters from each other and from 

 anterior laterals ; centres of anterior medians slightly below the line 

 joining anterior borders of posterior median eyes; otherwise as in 

 fumosus. 



Sternum, legs, etc., without spinules. 



Legs. Metatarsus I without spines at apex on under surface ; 

 metatarsus II with 1-2, and metatarsi III and IV with about 2 spines 

 apically on under surface. 



Pedipalps. As in E. fumosus (Plate XXIX, fig. 3), save that in the 

 Poortjesfontein specimen, seen from below, the internal outer side of 

 the palpal organ appears swollen and crowded into the inner side ; in 

 the Hanover specimen the portion "a," which in the former is crowded 

 into the top right-hand corner, is scarcely visible at all, but, as in the 

 former also, the portion "b" appears enlarged over the lower surface. 



Measurements. Total length 5'5 mm. ; carapace 2'8 mm. long and 

 1'7 mm. wide. No. 14479 was slightly larger, being 6 - 5 mm. long 

 and 2'9 and 1'8 mm. in carapace. 



EKESUS ECHINATUS, Pure. 



1908. Eresus echinatus, Purcell in Schultzes Reise, Zool. Bd. 1, 

 Denksch. med.-natur. G-esell. vol. 13, $ , p. 223, Jena. 



Specimens. 1 $ (No. 14426), from Namaqualand (G-. Alston, 1905). 



This example, though much larger than that described by Dr. 

 Purcell, agrees with the type-specimen and description, with the 

 following slight differences : Width of cephalothorax equal to tibia 

 and metatarsus, and to patella, tibia and metatarsus of 1st leg; also 

 reaches from fovea to a point half an eye's diameter from the posterior 

 median eyes. The latter are nearly 2 diaineters apart, and at least 

 or over 3 diameters from the anterior laterals. 



