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to Garypinus, the shape of cephalothorax and of the cucullus being 

 so decidedly Garypus-like, and this must certainly he of more 

 weight than the construction of femur I. and II. mentioned above. 

 In spite of the palpal coxa being somewhat produced (but truncate 

 at the extremity), the species mast, I suppose, belong to the Gary pus 

 minor group and not to the saxicoltL group, but in that case it will 

 be one of the largest, if not the largest, species of its group. 



26. GARYPUS IJIPRESSUS Tullgren. 



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

 Godfrey), 2 $ adult, 2 very young specimens. Griqualand East : 

 Isolo (Miss Jessie K. Mackinnon), 1 young. 



NOTE 1. I have examined the five above specimens which I refer 

 to this species. The adult specimens are of somewhat larger size 

 than Tullgren's about 3 mm. against Tullgren's T75 mm. but the 

 characteristic transversal impression of the hand will, 1 think, decide 

 their belonging to Tullgren's species. Beside the difference in size 

 there are, however, still some characters to be remarked upon in 

 Godfrey's specimens : Cephalothorax is of a dark brown colour, but 

 has (well pronounced even in the young specimens) a paler coloured 

 triangular area extending half-way to the eyes. Tullgren has in his 

 figure given the femur and the tibia of the palps a very irregular 

 appearance (he mentions no such thing in the description) ; Godfrey's 

 specimens certainly have also on the inner side of femur and tibia 

 some bigger granules, but not approximately on the same scale as 

 Tullgren's figure. But this carries no great weight, being just a 

 character in which some species of Ganjpus (for instance, G. minor 

 L. Koch) vary very much. 



NOTE 2. The Bev. B. Godfrey gives in a letter some very interest- 

 ing information on this species: "This is a ground-loving species, 

 living under stones in the forest. It makes nests for the purposes of 

 moulting and reproduction. The nests ai'e hemispherical, attached 

 to a stone ; they are made of earth particles, lined with silk, with a 

 silk layer over the enclosed surface of the stone as well. 



"I have found individuals moulting in nests on April 16 and 

 September 19, as well as half-grown young ones in nests on December 

 9. I have found nests with females carrying their larval mass on 

 September 19 and December 9. 



" On September 19, 1908, I obtained a number of these creatures, 

 and, having no tube with me, I put them alive in a roll of paper. 

 On reaching home, I found an adult eating a colourless moulting 



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