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it a second time before I could definitively record it, as there is a 

 possibility of the separation having been caused as I wrenched off 

 the bark." * 



3. CHELIPER INSUBIDUS Tullgren. 



The Rev. Godfrey gives in a letter the following list of localities 

 for this species : 



Cape Province. King William's Town Div. : Pirie Forest, Pirie, 

 Frankfort Hill, and Ntaba Kandoda, under bark of yellow- wood and 

 on wild fig. I have examined 2 J , 2 ? , 2 jun. 



"A forest species, living on trees " (Godfrey in litt.). 



4. CHELIFEE CONCINNUS Tullgren. 



Cape Province. Cape Town (W. F. Purcell), 1 3 , 1 ? ; Stellen- 

 bosch Div. : Faure (W. F. Purcell), 1 ? . 



Tullgren's type specimens were certainly rather young, to judge 

 from his statement of their colour and of the longitudinal stripe of 

 the abdomen being indistinct owing to the pale colour of the tergites. 

 Yet, the colour of the specimens from Cape Colony, too, is rather 

 a light one. Another reason for supposing that Tullgren's specimens 

 were not adult, is that he refers the species to the subruber group, 

 although with a sign of interrogation; the species belongs certainly 

 to the cimicoides group, and this the whole appearance also seems to 

 indicate. Tullgren's specimens also certainly had the abdomen very 

 much contracted, as he states that the palps are much longer than 

 the body ; in the specimens mentioned above, with abdomen 

 extended, the palps are at least no longer than the body. The 

 specimens from Cape Province have the femur and the tibia of the 

 palps more robust, which, too, seems to indicate that the specimens 

 are more developed. 



5. CHELIFER SUBFOLIOSUS Ellingsen. 



Cape Province. King William's Town Div. : Ntaba Kandoda 

 (E. Godfrey), 1 J , 1 ? . 



I think the above two specimens belong to this species, though I 

 have no original specimens to compare them with. The species 

 seems to belong to the cimicoides group, not to the subruber group 

 which I thought from the type specimens to be the case, perhaps on 

 account of their young state. 



* I have seen such a thing once myself, in Norway, with a Chelifer Cyrneus 

 L. Koch, the larval mass separated from the mother (Ellingsen, Norske Pseudo- 

 scorpioner. II. Chra, Vid. Kelsk Forh., 11)03, No. 5, p. 10). 



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