330 Mr. R. I. Pocock on some 



green, minutely spotted at base of hairs; abdomen suffused 

 with rosy pink above, yellower in front, greenish yellow 

 below, paler in middle line. 



Carapace as long as patella and tibia of third leg and three 

 fourths of the protarsus of the first ; clypeus almost vertical. 

 Abdomen oval, not twice as long as broad. 



Legs moderately long, first about five times, fourth nearly 

 four times as long as carapace. 



Vulva consisting of a pit crescentic in front and filled 

 posteriorly by a pair of black oval sclerites, separated by a 

 median crest and each marked behind by a deep pit. 



Total length 13 millim. ; carapace 5"3 ; first leg 26, fourth 

 kg 20. 



Loc. King Williamstown (Sterming). 



Differs in colouring, form of vulva, &c. from the rest of the 

 S. African species. 



Family Heteropodidae. 



Genus Sparassus. 



Sparassus Schbnlandi, sp. n. 



Colour of integument yellowish, clothed with whitish hairs ; 

 mandibles a little darker. 



Carapace longer than wide, width of head as in S. Batesi, 

 Poc. ; eyes of posterior line slightly procurved ; carapace as 

 long as tibia of second leg. 



Legs 2, 1, 4, 3 ; second exceeding first by its tarsus and one 

 fifth of the protarsus ; third leg scarcely reaching tip of tibia of 

 second; patellar unarmed, tibise with two pairs of inferior spines. 



Vulva consisting of a large transversely oblong plate, the 

 posterior border of which is semiciicularly excised, the 

 posterior angles of the excision produced inwards into a dark 

 horny prominence. 



Total length 12 millim. ; length of carapace 6"5, of first 

 leg 22, second 25, third 16, fourth 18-5. 



Loc. Grahamstown (Dr. Schbnland). 



Genus Palystes, L. Koch. 



Palystes lycosinus, sp. n. 



=Palystes megacephalus, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvii. 

 p. 63, 1896 (?P. megacephalus, C. Koch). 



$ . — Apparently resembling P. megacephalus, C. Koch, in 

 colour and most structural features. 



