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stigma^ which is situated about midway between the genital 

 opening and the base of the inferior spinners. The cheliceraj 

 have two teeth on each side of the fang-groove. According 

 to Mn. Simon's ' key to the genera, Muizenbergia should be 

 placed near to Cicurina Menge. 



Muizenbergia abrahami sp. ii.oc. Text- fig. 1, a-g. 



The types of this species, a single adult male and a some- 

 what shrivelled female, were collected at Muizenberg, near 

 Cnpe Town, in September, 1913, by the Rev. N. Abraham, 

 who presented them to the Albany Museum. Mr. Abraham 

 found them when searching for Desis, in the interspaces of 

 the calcareous masses built up by marine annelids ; they are, 

 therefore, marine spiders, probably resembling Desis in habit. 



Colour. — Chelicerte and anterior portion of carapace 

 castaneous ; hinder portion of carapace pale brown, like the 

 legs and sternum ; distal segments of legs more deeply 

 coloured than the basal segments ; on the cephalic portion of 

 the carapace there is some slight infuscation, which is only 

 strongly pronounced around the eyes. Abdomen uniformly 

 dull dirty grey. 



Carapace. — Longer than wide, the cephalic region fairly 

 strongly convex, gradually becoming much flatter in the 

 thoracic region ; these two regions are not sharply separated 

 though their junction is marked on the margin by an obtuse 

 angle. Anteriorly the carapace is squarish, the clypeus being 

 very wide and very low ; the distance from an anterior 

 lateral eye to the anterior margin of the carapace is less than 

 the long diameter of the eye. Fovea long and very narrow. 



Ocular Area. — Nearly three times as broad as long. 

 Anterior row straight, posterior row slightly procurved. 

 Antero-medians smallest, but not very small, a little nearer 

 to the antero-laterals than to each other. Eyes of posterior 

 row subequally spaced. The laterals of each side very close 



' Simon, Eugene, ' Histoire Naturelle des Araignes," tome ii, p. 2H6, 

 Paris. 1897. 



