the Transvaal and Nyasaland. 313 



Fatnilj Lycosidse. 



Lycosa transvaah'ca , Simon. 

 Lycosa transvaalica, Simon, Aun. Soc. Eut. Belg. xlii. p. 26 (1898). 



Loc. Pretoria {W. L. Distant). 



A single mutilated female, without abdomen, agrees with 

 the description of transvaalica, which is recorded from 

 Bechuanaland, Griqualand, and the Transvaal. 



Lycosa Spenceri^ sp. n. (Figs. 1,1a, p. 315.) 



Colour. — Carapace fusco-castaneous, ornamented with three 

 bands of fulvous-yellow hairs — one median and one on each 

 side, the space between them darker and traversed by radiating 

 stripes ; abdomen fusco-fulvous above, marked with small 

 black spots, and a double row of larger black spots running 

 from the shoulders to the posterior end, the shoulders also 

 marked on each side with a longitudinal yellow band, which 

 stretches backwards over about one third of the upper surface 

 of the abdomen ; sides of abdomen paler golden yellow ; 

 lower surface entirely black, like thecoxas, sternum, raaxillaj, 

 and apex of mandibles; upper part of mandibles with brightish 

 yellow hairs ; legs and palpi entirely pale yellowish red, 

 without bands. 



Carapace excelling patella and tibia of first or of fourth 

 legs, less than protarsus and tarsus of fourth, greater than 

 those of first. Anterior median eyes nearly twice the diameter 

 of the anterior laterals, the eyes slightly procurved ; the 

 medians separated from the horny edge of the clypeus by a 

 space equalling half their diameter; posterior lateral eyes 

 much smaller than posterior medians, the space between 

 them about equal to the diameter of the larger. 



Vulva consisting of a chitinous plate marked with a deep 

 semielliptical space open behind, the floor (roof) of the space 

 marked with a median crest, which gradually expands poste- 

 riorly and quite at its posterior end gives off a right and left 

 process resembling the head of a hammer (fig. 1). 



^ . — Much smaller than female, the abdomen more strongly 

 marked above with three black bands — one on each side 

 passing from the shoulder-spot and a broad one in the middle. 



Carapace about equal to patella and tibia of first or fourth 

 leg, about as long as the fourth protarsus. 



Palpus as in fig. 1 a. 



Length of ? (type) 17 millim., of carapace 9, of first 

 leg (from base of femur) 20, of fourth 24. 



