NEW SOUTH AFRICAN ARACHNIDA. 699 



Very near to palpiger but apparently differ- 

 ing as follows : Pressed forwards the palp 

 extends beyond the apex of metatarsus I, 

 the patella at least equal to tibia I in length, 

 the tibia as long as metatarsus IV and 

 very distinctly longer than the carapace. 

 (Hanover.) S. schreineri PurcelL 



Fam. DIPLURID^. 



L e p t li e r c u s r a 1 1 r a y i sp. nov. PI. X LVII, figs. 1 and 2, and 

 text-fig. 3, A-E. 



The type of this species is an adult male example collected 

 at East London by Di\ Geo. Rattray and Master G. Rattray 

 during May, 1916. The females present no conspicuous 

 structural characters which would serve to separate them 

 generically from Hermaclia Siin., except perhaps in the 

 weaker scopula? of the tarsi, but the adult male differs 

 considerably from that of any known species of Hermacha 

 in the modification of the first leg. The male agrees more 

 closely with that of L. dregei Purcell (Trans. S. Af. Phil. 

 Soc, xi, p. 379, 1902) from the Zuurberg, but diifers there- 

 from in the armature of the maxillge, in the dentition of the 

 chelicera?, and in the modification of the first metatarsus ; 

 the female of dregei is unknown. 



Colour. — The general colour is dull brown, the surfaces of 

 the carapace, abdomen, and appendages being thickly covered 

 with long silky appressed pale brown hairs ; on the abdomen 

 and appendages these are accompanied by stiffer black hairs 

 more sparsely disposed. The silky hairs on the carapace, 

 cheliceras, and coxae of the legs and palps are paler than those 

 on the femora of the legs, which are almost olivaceous, but 

 the silky hairs of the patellse and more distal segments of 

 the legs are almost as pale as those on the carapace. The 

 posterior spinners are conspicuously banded, the tips of the 

 terminal segments, and the articular membranes between 

 the various segments, being almost white. 



