— 20 - 



between the pits finely punctured; in the male specimens the 

 same surface is mostly only very minutely and sparsely pitted; 

 vesicle pitted and punctured below, with a large triangular 

 tooth beneath the aculeus; palpi with rounded, not carinate 

 almost smooth joints; the brachium and hand sparsely pun- 

 ctured, weakly granular in front; digits long and curved; legs 

 almost entirely smooth, not carinate; pectinal teeth 17—20 

 ($) or 20 (cf); basal pectinal tooth in female expanded; total 

 length circa 40 — 49 mm. 



Distribution. Vroplectes fischeri originally was recor- 

 ded from Barawa in Somaliland; but this species has a wide 

 range in East Africa; it is obtained in several localities of 

 British Somaliland (Tarfa, Lummo, Berbera, Hargaisa— Pocock 

 1900, p. 55) and of East Shoa (Genir, Segirso, the Siban-moun- 

 tains— Kraepelin 1903, p. 566 and Birula 1914, p. 117); 

 in British East Africa occurs in abundance a melanistic va- 

 riety of the same species, U. fischeri var. nigrimanus, which 

 has been recorded at first from Mombasa; it was found after- 

 wards in the district of Mount Kenia on the northern side 

 of Guaso Nyiro river (Lonnberg 1912, p. 3), in the basin of 

 Tana river (Thibe river — Birula 1914, p. 116), at Taveita near 

 Kilimanjaro (Birula, 1915 p. .52) and also at Kibwesi and 

 Taita (Kraepelin 1913, p. 178); according to Kraepelin (loc. 

 cit, p. 178) the typical form U. fisclierl fisheri was collected in 

 several localities of German East Africa (Massai, Morogoro, 

 Mikindani, Mulenda), but in other localities of the same coun- 

 try a variety, U. fischeri nigrocarinatus Krpl., occurs, which 

 differs from the typical form in having a black median keel 

 on the trunk. A single specimen (9 semiad.) taken by the 

 members of the Expedition at Taveta 1 VIII. 



10. Uroplectes xanthogrammus Poc. 



1897. Uroplectes xafithogrmnnins, Pocock, P., Ann. and 

 Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 6, v. XIX, p. 118 (loc. typ. „east shore 

 of the lake Nyasa"). 



Synonym a: Uroj)lectes xanthogrammus, P c c k, P., 

 Ann. and Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 7, v. II, p. 431, 1898: Uroplectes 

 fischeri xantliogrammus, Kraepelin, K., Mitt, naturh. 

 Mus. Hamburg, v. XXX, p. 179, 1913; Uroplectes intermedius 

 T u 1 1 g r e n. A., Arachnoidea in: Wissensch. p]rgeb. der Schwed. 



