new Arachnida from Cope Colony. 321 



Family Scytodidae. 

 Genus SlCARius, Walck. 

 Sicarius spatulatus, sp. n. 



cJ. — Integument of carapace and sternum castaneous ; 

 legs yellower ; abdomen testaceous ; in nature the whole 

 body is covered with particles of sand &c. and presents a 

 uniform greyish-black tint. 



Width of carapace about equal to length of patella and 

 tibia of third leg, a little longer than tibia of first ; median 

 eyes on a distinct tubercle, longitudinally elliptical, space 

 between them less than their transverse diameter ; lateral 

 angles of head prominent, interval between the lateral eyes 

 less than their diameter. 



Legs strong, first more than three times as long as width 

 of carapace, third less ; femur of first narrowed at base, 

 swollen in middle. 



1 ^alpi short ; tibia globular ; tarsus short ; spine of palpal 

 organ stout, curved, distally expanded, and triangularly 

 spatulate, with truncate extremity. 



? . — Like male, but with legs shorter, first less than three 

 times the width of the carapace, which is about equal to the 

 patella and tibia of the second. 



Total length (^) 9 millim., width of carapace 4, length 

 of first leg 14. 



Loc. Port Elizabeth (H. A. Spencer, Dr. Broom). 



Differs entirely from S. Hahnii } Karsch (sec. Simon), in 

 the form of the palpal organ. 



Family Caponiidae. 

 Genus Caponia, Sim. 

 Gaponia secunda, sp. n. 



? . — Resembling C. natalensis (Cambr.) in colour and 

 most structural features. 



Carapace rugulose, the anterior median and anterior lateral 

 eyes forming a line which is distinctly recurved, the posterior 

 edge of the medians being on a level with the centres of the 

 laterals ; the three eyes which form the curved lateral line 

 very unequal in size, the anterior lateral being the largest 

 and the posterior lateral the smallest, the latter being only 

 about half the area of the former. 



According to Cambridge, in C. natalensis the anterior 

 medians and anterior laterals form a straight transverse line. 



