302 JOHN HEWITT. 



second basal tooth. Coxa III with a dense tuft of stiffish 

 setae on the postero-ventral border. 



Colour. — For the most part castaneous above, chelicer.© 

 blackish, patellae and more distal segments of first two pairs 

 of legs and of palps pale brown ; carapace pallid in its hinder 

 portion at the sides. Abdomen pale except over the median 

 area above, where it is infuscated. 



Measurements. — Total length 23*5 mm., length of cara- 

 pace 8'5 mm., breadth of same 5*5 mm. 



According to Dr. Dreyer, the nest has two long blind side 

 passages leading into the central tube one on each side in the 

 upper half of its length ; the upper part of the tube projects 

 a little above the siirface of the ground, and the distal end is 

 folded inwards, thus closing the entrance to the nest. 



Bessia minor Heivitf. Text-fig. 4. 

 Bessia minor Hewitt, Records, Albany Museum, vol. ii, p. 469, 1913. 



An adult male of this species was taken at Alicedale by 

 Mr. F. Cruden on March 12th, 1914, and a description of it 

 is here given. 



Carapace. — As long as the metatarsus and tarsus of the 

 first leg ; the lateral margins fringed with strong bristles, and 

 the abdomen also is bristly over its median ai-ea superiorly. 

 Fovea lightly procurved. 



Cheliceree. —Dentition somewhat similar to that of the 

 female, the teeth not arranged in continuous well-defined 

 rows ; the larger teeth are roughly arranged in a double 

 series — the inner of which is weaker — in the middle of the 

 group, and a single series at each end. 



Pedipalp. — Resembling that of a Spiroctenus. The 

 tarsus has numerous short spines distally above; the tibia has 

 long spines below ; at the base of the coxa inferiorly is a 

 patch of cusps. 



Legs. — Tarsi not spined, all of them scopulate on the 

 sides, the fourth tarsus only weakly so ; paired claws with a 

 single spirally curved row of numerous long teeth as in 



