— 85 — 



Vulva consisting of a pair of oval cavities, which converge posteriorly 

 and are bordered on the median and posterior sides by a curved brown 

 ridge; the median line grooved (pl. XI, fig. 39). 



Length of trunk 6,8 mm. 



(b) 1 9 from Clan William (Mrs. W. N. C. Marcliant) and 1 9 from 

 near Rondegat, near Clanwilliam (C. L. Leipoldt). Abdomen sometimes 

 entirely pale yellow. Anterior edge of carapace with numerous fine long hairs. 



(c) 1 9 ^^^^ Dunbrody. Uitenhage Div. (R e v. J. A. O'Neil)». 



Prodidomus purpurascens Purcell 



Prod. purp. Purcell, Trans. South African Philos. Soc. XV (1904), p. 171 

 t. XI, f. 40. 



«1 Q (Nr. 3211) from the Northern slopes of Devil's Peak 

 (F. Treleaven, November 1897). 



Colon r as in capensis, but the abdomen darker purple above 

 and the carapace darkened at the edges: the hairs on under side of 

 abdomen fulvous. 



Carapace with fine short hairs; the anterior margin with fine 

 long setae, the middle portion before the eyes convexly produced ; ocular 

 area only a little wider than long, the space between the 2 posterior 

 eyes sligthly less than the length of the eyes. 



Chelicera of moderate size directed downwards and forewards 

 and only moderately diverging, their outerjmargins only slightly further 

 apart distally than at base, their width together considerably less than 

 that of widest part of carapace. 



Legs hairy; fourth trochanter as long as the coxa; two posterior 

 pairs of tibiae and metatarsi with 1 — 2 fine apical spines, the fourth 

 tibia also with a mesial spine below. 



Coxae of pedipalps with the process stout and rather short. 



Vulva a transverse plate, brown on each side and pallid along 

 the middle, with a pair of dark spots at bind margin ; the surface with 

 a broad shallow depression bordered posteriorly by the raised bind 

 margin which forms a transverse ridge in middle portion; each end of 

 the ridge with a small cavity in front of it (pl. XI, fig. 40). 



Length of trunk 4,8 mm». 



Purcell hat später (in L. Schnitze, Forschungsreise Südafrika I., 

 p. 282 [1908]) die Art auch von Klein -Namaqualand angegeben, 

 ebenfalls nur J. 



