new Arachnida from Cape Colony. 831 



Tibia of palp armed at its distal end above with a single, 

 slightly sinuous, basally stout, apically pointed spur directed 

 forwards and outwards over the base of the tarsus. 

 $ . — Like male in colour. 



Vulva bordered behind by a straight transverse crest, in 

 front of which there is on each side a short thicker crest ; 

 the middle of the fore part of the abdomen bilobate. 



Total length 21 millim. 



Loc. Port Elizabeth (H. A. Spencer). 



Palystes cultrifer, sp. n. 



£ . — Resembling the preceding, but with two tibial spurs 

 on the palp — a distal superior slender and upstanding, and a 

 proximal external, stout, curved, blade-like with a sharp 

 point. 



Total length 17 millim. 



Loc. Grahamstown {Dr. Schdnland). 



P. megacephalus, C. Koch, may be identical with either or 

 neither of these species. 



Palystes perornatus, sp. n. 



Allied to P. lunatus, Poc, but with the sternum and coxaa 

 a rich golden yellow ; the femora of the legs palely olive- 

 yellow below and mottled with silvery white spots. 



Vulva with median horny process much shorter than in 

 P. lunatus. 



Total length 25 millim. 



Loc. Queenstown, Cape Colony (Capt. C. K. Bushe)* 



Genus Selenops, Latr. 



Selenops Broomi, sp. n. 



5 . — Allied to S. Krausii, Poc, in curvature and relative 

 size of eyes of ocular quadrangle, but differing in having five 

 instead of six pairs of inferior spines on tibise of first and 

 second legs *, and in the form of the vulva, the lateral lobes of 

 which are in contact in the middle line and circumscribe a 

 more transversely cordate pale median sclerite. 



Total length 11 millim. ; carapace 5'5; first leg 19. fourth 

 leg 21. 



Loc. Little Namaqualand, Garies (Dr. Broom). 



* In the type of S. Krausii the anterior leg on the light side has been 

 reproduced and shows only five anterior spines beneath. 



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