106 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Palps distinctly shorter than the body, but abdomen is very much 

 extended. The surface glossy and coarsely granulate all round. 

 The hairs are longer than usual in Gary pus, thick (as in cephalo- 

 thorax) and distinctly widened apically, thus clavate, equally strong 

 on both sides of the palps. The fingers have only fine and pointed 

 hairs. Coxa somewhat produced in front, but the extremity is 

 truncate. Trochanter with a distinct stalk, globose, semicircular in 

 front, behind with two protuberances, an upper one and a lower one : 

 the upper protuberance is much rounded and is the larger one, the 

 lower protuberance of smaller sizp and not so much rounded. Femur 

 with well-pronounced stalk, about 2i times as long as wide, robust, 

 after the rounding at the stalk with the inner side nearly straight or 

 slightly convex, behind roundly widened from the stalk, the posterior 

 side distinctly convex. Tibia conspicuously shorter than, and as 

 broad as, femur, with a moderately long stalk, behind distinctly 

 convex, most strongly so towards the extremity, in front gradually 

 widened from the stalk, somewhat swollen in the central part, some 

 what sinuated towards the tip. Hand with a distinct stalk, about 

 1^ times as wide as tibia, with obliquely rounded base, the outer side 

 slightly convex, the inner side somewhat more strongly so. Fingers 

 very robust, curved, much shorter than the hand (3 : 4). 



Mandibles of very small size. Galea small, from the middle 

 divided into three simple but rather strong branches. 



Legs more or less granulate, with clavate hairs ; only tibia at the 

 extremity and the tarsi have in addition some slender hairs. Femur 

 I. and II. have pars basalis distinctly shorter than pars tibia//*, the 

 basal part being thus trochantin-like, with distinct articulation ; 

 first tarsal joint distinctly longer than the second ; tibia a little 

 longer than tarsus. Tibia III. and IV. distinctly longer than the 

 corresponding tarsi. Coxa IV. rather long with the hind margin 

 straight. Arolium longer than the claws ; the latter are simple. 



The species is a large and robust one. Length 5-4 mm. ; width 

 of abdomen 2'3 mm. 



Measurements. Cephalothorax : long. 1-15 ; lat. behind 1-35. 

 Femur : long. (excl. of the stalk) l-lo ; lat. O50. Tibia : long. 

 (excl. of the stalk) O93 ; lat. 0'50. Hand : long. 1-15 ; lat. 0'67. 

 Fingers : long. O83 mm. 



Habitat. Cape Province. Malmesbury Div. : Stompneus Bay in 

 St. Helena Bay (J. E. C. Goold), 1 ? . 



NOTE. Of special interest, in this species, is the construction of 

 femur I. and II., having the basal part shorter than the tibial part ; 

 in spite of this it is necessary to refer the species to Garypus and not 



