120 Annals of the Sontli Afriani Museum. 



37. CHTHONIUS CLATHRATUS Tullgren. 



Cape Province. Cape Peninsula : Table Mountain, near Platteklip 

 (W. F. Purcell), 1 ? . 



I have referred this specimen, not quite adult, to the above species ; 

 it has the same kind of dentition on the fingers of the palps as 

 Chtlionius sinuatus (see this species below). Tullgren says nothing 

 about the shape of the fingers ; in my specimen these are nearly 

 straight, by which the species is easily distinguished from Chthonius 

 sinuatus. Tullgren's description on the whole agrees very well. 

 The posterior eyes are very little developed, but this happens often 

 in Chthonius. 



'68. CHTHONIUS CONTRACTUS Tullgren. 



Cape Province. Oudtshoorn Div. : Cango Caves (W. F. Purcell), 

 1 specimen immature, destitute of eyes. 



King William's Town Div. : Pirie (E. Godfrey), 1 $ , 1 ? , 1 jun. 



]Sf OTE . The male has its palps somewhat more slender than those 

 of the female. The teeth of the fingers, similarly shaped on both, 

 are small, triangular, pointed, and situated considerably apart from 

 each other. 



The specimen found in the dark caverns at Cango is destitute of 

 eyes, but belongs certainly to this species. 



39. CHTHONIUS GODFREYI nov. sp. 



Four moderately large eyes, two on each side, about 1 diameter 

 apart from one another, the anterior one about 2 diameters from the 

 front margin. 



Colour. Cephalothorax, mandibles and palps pale reddish brown, 

 the tergites reddish olive, the other parts palish brown. 



Cephalothorax about as long as wide in front, strongly narrowing 

 backwards, the lateral margins - - curved, only very little con- 

 tracted in front of the eyes ; the front margin slightly convex, a little 

 sinuated in the middle, and there provided with a more or less 

 rounded projection, which, together with the adjoining part of 

 the front margin on both sides, is slightly dentate ; on each side of 

 the projection a long and robust bristle. The surface minutely 

 shagreened and glossy. Hairs lacking. 



Abdomen. The tergites arid sternites glossy and very minutely 

 shagreened transversally. Hairs lacking. 



Palps a little longer than the body, glossy and somewhat sha- 

 greened, a little more strongly so than the body ; the hairs very few 



