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Vulva very similar to that of R. vitiatus, but the median 

 sclerite marked with a deep median longitudinal impression. 

 Total length 14 millim. ; carapace 5*5; first leg 20*5. 

 hoc. Little Namaqualand, Graries [Dr. Broom). 



Genus LYCOSA, Latr. 

 Lycosa hectoria, sp. n. 



? . — Colouring apparently as in L. capensis, Simon, but 

 with tibia of fourth leg strongly banded below with black at 

 base and apex ; tibia of third leg similarly but much less 

 distinctly banded ; tibia of second and first legs yellowish 

 brown below, with pale base ; sternum, coxae, and lower side 

 of abdomen clothed with yellowish-grey hairs, the abdomen 

 with faintly defined median band behind the vulva. 



Structurally also apparently as in L. capensis, except that 

 the teeth of the posterior border of the fang-groove are sub- 

 equal in size. 



Vulva wider than long, the median keel about half the 

 length of the transverse bar, the pits subcircular and defined 

 by a ridge curved like a ram's horn. 



Total length 16-19 millim. ; carapace 10 ; first leg 23, 

 fourth leg 30. 



Loc. Table Mountain (/. Hull). 



Lycosa subvittata, sp. n. 



? . — Smaller than L. hectoria, but very similar in colour 

 on the dorsal side, though perhaps on the whole darker; the 

 two yellow stripes on the abdomen strongly defined ; ventral 

 surface of abdomen with a median longitudinal black stripe, 

 broader in front behind the vulva and narrowing posteriorly 

 and defined on each side by a broad yellow stripe, which is 

 itself defined by a darker stripe composed of blackish spots ; 

 coxa? infuscate like the sternum ; legs infuscate below, 

 scantily clothed with pale hairs, the tibiae not distinctly 

 banded. 



Structurally as in L. hectoria, but with vulva longer than 

 broad, the median keel broad in front, narrowed behind, and 

 as long as the transverse bar, the depressions longitudinally 

 ovate, three times as long as wide. 



J . — Like female in coloration, except that the black on 

 the ventral surface of the abdomen spreads laterally behind 

 the epigastric fold so as to cover the underside, the epigastric 

 area being black in the middle, pale at the sides j coxse much 

 paler than sternum, as in young female. 



