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PSYCHE. 



[April, 1(302 



SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF ATTIDAE FROM 

 SOUTH AFRICA. 



BY GEORGE W. PECKHAM AND ELIZABETH G. PECKHAM, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



FISSIDENTATI. 



TusiTALA, gen. nov. 



The cephalotliorax is high, with the 

 sides sloping outward from the upper 

 surface and widening in a gentle curve 

 from front to back, the widest point being 

 behind the dorsal eyes. The cephalic 

 part is inclined forward, and the thoracic 

 rounds off rather steeply from the third 

 row of eyes. The quadrangle occupies 

 from two-fifths to nearly one-half of the 

 cephalothorax, is one-third wider than 

 long and is wider behind than in front. 

 The first row of eyes is straight or a little 

 curved down, the eyes are large, the 

 middle being less than twice the size of 

 the lateral and subtouching, while the 

 lateral are well separated from them. 

 The second row is equally distant from 

 the first and third or is a little nearer the 

 first, and the third is narrower than the 

 cephalothorax. The fakes are long, 

 strong, and vertical, and are bowed, with 

 a compound tooth on the inferior margin. 

 The males have a stiff ridge of hairs on 

 the front face. The sternum is oblong 

 and truncated. The first coxae are sep- 

 arated by about the width of the labium, 

 whi"',! i l^'S'^jer than wide. 



This genus is founded upon T.barhata 

 and includes a second species, T. hirsuta, 

 both from South Africa. 



TusiTALA BARBATA, Sp. HOV. 



<J. Length 6.5 mm. Legs 1432, about 

 equal in thickness. The first pair is plainly 

 the longest but the others do not differ much 

 in length. 



The cephalothorax is covered with a mix- 

 ture of red, yellow and white hairs, the red 

 predominating on the sides, and the white 

 on the upper surface. The clypeus is less 

 than half as wide as the middle eves of the 

 first row, and is yellow with a few white 

 hairs. The falces are light brown, and have 

 a remarkable ornament in the shape of a long 

 ridge of stiff hairs down the front face. 

 These hairs stand out stiffly, but their tips 

 curve inward to meet those of the opposite 

 side in the middle line. Their color is snowy- 

 white on the upper half and deep black on 

 the lower. The palpus is slender with long 

 joints, the tibia much exceeding the tarsus. 

 The femur and tarsus are dark colored, the 

 patella and tibia, pale. The legs are brown 

 with darker bars. The abdomen is covered 

 with a mixture of gray and brown hairs. 

 There is a white band around the base, and 

 the posterior dorsiun has some indistinct 

 white chevi'ons. 



We have six males from Algoa Bay, 

 South Africa, sent to us by Dr. Braun. 



TusiTALA HIRSUTA, sp. noV. 



$. Length S mm. Legs 1234, first and 

 second a little the stoutest. 



In our single specimen the cephalothorax 

 is much darker than the abdomen, but both 

 are rubbed quite bare of markings excepting 

 some long white hairs at the front end of the 

 abdomen. The clypeus is as wide as the large 



