NEW SOUTH AFRICAN ARACHNIUA. 703 



from the distal end of the main row. All the tarsi are scopu- 

 late, the scopula of II being divided by a thin median strip of 

 setae, and III and IV by a broader strip. Metatarsus I with 

 2 spines at the apex inferiorly, and 3 on the lower surface,. 

 II with 2 at the apex and 4 on the lower surface. The anterior 

 spinners are a trifle more than two diameters apart. The 

 terminal segment of the superior spinners is subequal to 

 the basal segment and barely one and a quarter times the 

 length of the middle segment. Labium without apical 

 teeth. Surfaces of body and appendages clothed with pale 

 brown hairs, the abdomen showing no pattern or markings 

 superiorly. 



The carapace is broader anteriorly than in the male. 



Measurements. — Total length 17'75 mm., length of 

 carapace 5*4 mm., breadth of carapace 3*8 mm., length 

 of posterior spinners 4 mm., length of tibia of first leg 

 2*5 mm. 



This genus probably approaches Brachythele Auss. and, 

 ]Iapalothele Lenz. It does not seem to agree with any of 

 the Dip! urine genei'a recorded from Australia by H. R. 

 Hogg or by W. J. Rainbow, nor with the South American 

 genera dealt with by the late F. O. Pickard-Cambridge. 

 Most of the genera belonging to this section, the Brachy- 

 thele 8e of Mr. H. R. Hogg, are very imperfectly known, and 

 no author has had sufficient material at his disposal for corre- 

 lating the genera of different zoological regions. 



The genus Her mac ha is also represented at East London. 

 The females are larger than those of the species above 

 described. Young specimens of Hermacha can be dis- 

 tinguished from females of L. rattrayi by the presence of 

 one or two cusps on the labium, the weaker spinulation of the 

 first and second metatarsi, and the greater elongation of 

 the terminal segment of the posterior spinners relative to the 

 middle segment. Another related species, Hermachola 

 grahami miM, which occurs at Grahamstown, has the 

 terminal segment of the posterior spinners considerabl^r 



