The Pseudoscorpions of SoiitJt Africa. 97 



NOTE 2. The Eev. K. Godfrey in a letter remarks on this species 

 as follows : 



" This is a true forest species, which occurs on yellow-wood 

 everywhere in Pirie Forest. It is not necessary to give dates for this 

 species. June and November are the only months in which I have 

 not found it, and the reason undoubtedly is because I have not 

 purposely looked for it then. This species moults in a nest of silk 

 with dust-covered rim, appressed between two flakes of bark and 

 measuring l - 5 mm. across. On December 12, 1907, I found the 

 discarded moult in one nest, along with the creature itself ; and on 

 March 13, 1908, I took a newly moulted individual out of a nest. 

 The 2 makes no nest for reproductive purposes, but lives a free life 

 at the time she is carrying the larval mass attached to the under side 

 of the abdomen. Dates December 12, 1907, and February 12, 1908." 



14. CHELIFER MUCRONATUS Tullgren. 



Cape Province. Uitenhage Div. : Witteklip, Van Staden's Eiver 

 (I. L. Drege), 2^,1 ? , under bark of the sneezewood-tree. 



A great number of specimens of this species have been collected 

 in King William's Town Div. : Pirie, Cwencwe, and Burnshill 

 (nearly all of them by Miss Fanny Ross, and a single one by the 

 Eev. E. Godfrey) ; they have been taken, according to Mr. Godfrey, 

 on blue gum, red gum, apple-tree, and EJius rillosa. I have 

 examined 8 3 , 8 ? . The species has also been taken in Victoria 

 East Div. : Lovedale (Godfrey), 2 $ , on blue gum ; Stutterheim 

 Div.: Weltondale (Miss Boss), 3 $ , 1 ?. , on mimosa. 



(I have also seen !<?,!? from Port Elizabeth (I. L. Drege), 

 belonging to the Albany Museum, Grahamstown.) 



Mr. Godfrey writes of this species: "A tree species. As the 

 above data show, nearly every specimen I have has been collected 

 for me by Miss Fanny Eoss, Pirie. She obtained a female with its 

 larval mass attached, living tree on a blue gum, November 18, 

 1908." 



NOTE. Tullgren says, in his description of this species, that the 

 cephalothorax and palps are not glossy; all specimens I have 

 examined are somewhat glossy, yet I have no doubt that my speci- 

 mens belong to this species. An excellent character for the males 

 of this form is the spine of the antero-exterior corner of coxa IV. 

 Not always as many as 8 tergites (as Tullgren states) are produced 

 into a spine-like tubercle and keeled ; sometimes fewer may be so 

 produced. 



