122 Annah of the Month African Museum. 



spines in a row behind each other ; other scattered spines also. 

 Metatarsi and tibiae of 3rd and 4th legs with long, fairly numerous 

 spines. Tarsus I reddish in colour, infuscated terminally ; scanty 

 scopula anteriorly and 1 or so weak spines. Tarsus II lighter and 

 with 2 or 3 spines and more scopular hairs. Tarsi III and IV still 

 lighter, more numerously spined, and with more plentiful scopulation 

 distally ; in all cases the scopular hairs are long and setose. Claws 

 of 4th leg with uniseriate row of 5 teeth ; anterior teeth longest ; 

 claws of 1st leg with row of 6 or 7 long fine teeth. 



Pedipalps. Tarsus short and oblong; tibia swollen medially and 

 posteriorly ; neither are spiued, but tibia carries long setose hairs, 

 particularly on under surface. Basal part of bulb pear-shaped 

 tapering gradually to a long, fine, inwardly curved style, the apex 

 of which curves slightly downwards and reaches to base of tibia 

 (Text-fig. 9 A and B). 



Measurements. Chelicerae to end of abdomen, 9 mm. ; spinners 

 7'5 mm. ; length of carapace 4 mm., width 3'G mm. ; length of 

 1st leg 10-75 mm. ; 2nd leg 1225 mm. ; 3rd leg 135 mm.; 4th leg 

 15 mm. 



It may be mentioned that in the $ the 1st and 2nd legs are always 

 practically equal in length, the 1st being longer only by a mere fraction 

 of a millimetre. 



The Grahamstown specimens are much smaller, and the male is 

 newly moulted, and maimed in one palp, but the characters are 

 identical. In the females slight variations from the type occur in 

 the eyes ; the Natal specimen having the median anteriors lighter 

 and apparently slightly larger than the type, whilst in the Grahams- 

 town specimen the posterior medians appear slightly longer, oval, and 

 nearer to the anterior medians. 



'l'//i'l<r//,,ri.< and Ischnothele being now separated, Thelechoris 

 int*tr<i/i. Pure. Inc. rif., retains its name. 



Tlii'li'dini-ix kurxrlti, Bos. & Lens., Hamburg Anstalt. vol. 12, p. 27, 

 pi. II, fig. 31 and 31 a and b, appears to be Ischnothele Jcarschi ; the 

 description is of a $ , based mainly on colour and markings, and is 

 lacking in detail. 



Thelechoris rutenbergi, Karsch, Abhl. d. Naturw. v. Bremen, vol. xi, 

 1881, p. 19G, retains its name, and is not Ischnothele 'rutenbergi as 

 noted by Simon in Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 1902, No. 7, p. 514. 



Ischnothele niashonica, Poc., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), vol. 7, 

 p. 337, though most vaguely described, appears a true Ischnothele ; 

 likewise Ixrhtiothdv cuf/in/ltK, Sim., in Ann. del Mus. Civ. Genov. 

 vol. xliii, p. 9. 



