332 On some new Arachnida from Cape Colony. 



Selenops parvulus, sp. n. 



5 , Very small, dark-coloured, thickly mottled with black, 



white, and bronze-yellow. 



Eyes of quadrangle not so strongly recurved as in S. ato- 

 marius-, the posteriors larger than anteriors and with their 

 lower rims just below the level of the upper rim of the latter, 

 which are nearly two diameters apart and a little more than 

 half their diameter from the posterior medians. 



Tibtce of anterior legs with four pairs of inferior spines, 

 protarsi with three pairs. 



Vulva consisting of a very large plate, representing the 

 two lobes, impressed by a median sutural line, a small trans- 

 verse pale area just in front of the plate. 



Total length 5 millim. ; carapace 2'5 ; first leg 7, fourth 



leg 8. 



Log. Port Elizabeth (Dr. Broom) . 



Family Thomisidse. 

 Genus Thomisus, Walck. 

 Thomt'sus Stenningi } sp. n. 



$ . — Prevailing colour yellow ; carapace with a sharply 

 defined yellow stripe on each side, starting at the sides^ of the 

 head and running upwards to a point on each side of the 

 fovea; face white, orange-yellow round the anterior median 

 eyes j mandibles white, with darker basal spot ; a brown trans- 

 verse stripe in the middle of the femur and tibia of first and 

 second legs, also some brown near the tip of the protarsus 

 and tarsus, the dark patches set off with white markings. 



Carapace with horns much higher and longer than in 

 T. albus; the summit of the head between these more strongly 

 concave, with deeper notch adjacent to posterior median eyes ; 

 eyes of anterior line more strongly recurved. Protarsal spines 

 5 in front, 4 behind. 



Vulva consisting of a swollen, hairy, indistinctly bilobed 

 area, in front of which there is a shining plate marked with 

 a pair of parallel narrow crests, which meet in front and 

 posteriorly end in a kind of loop, darkened with pigment. 



Total length 5*5 millim. 



Loc. Pirie Bush, King Williamstown (Stenning). 



? Genus CAMARICUS, Thor. 

 Camaricus marmoratus } sp. n. 

 Colour. Carapace deep red, with narrow black inferior 



