new South- African Spiders. 57 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 11 ; length ot' 

 carapace 5*6, width 6*5 ; length of first leg (from base of 

 femur) 25, of second 26*5, of third 27*3, of fourth 28*5. 



Loc. Durban (H. A. Spencer). A single female example. 



Apparently resembling S. atomarius, Simon (Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. Fr. xii. p. 465, 1887), from Port Elizabeth, in having 

 the median eyes forming a strongly recurved line, but differing 

 in having 7 pairs of spines upon the lower surface of the 

 anterior tibias instead of 5, and also apparently in the form 

 of the vulva. 



It is an interesting fact connected with Selenops that the 

 females of this genus do not, like Heteropoda, make a lenti- 

 cular cocoon and carry it about with them, but attach their 

 eggs to some foreign object, and cover them with a sheeting 

 of thin, smooth, parchment-like silk. 



Palystes Johnstoni, sp. n. (PI. VIII. figs. 1-1 c.) 



$ . Colour. — Upperside of legs and carapace castaneous, but 

 clothed uniformly with a thick layer of greyish-white hairs, a 

 transverse stripe of yellowish-white hairs on the clypeus ; 

 upperside of abdomen pale brown, deeper in the hinder half 

 above the anus, where the brown area is bordered by a deep 

 chocolate-brown sinuous edge, which separates it from the 

 white posterior lateral portions of the abdomen ; in front the 

 uppeiside of the abdomen is ornamented with 2 fine rather 

 indistinct dark-coloured longitudinal lines, which meet poste- 

 riorly in a point; lower surface of abdomen whitish, mottled 

 with yellow spots; the epigastric region blackish, but covered 

 with golden-yellow hairs, and behind this region there is a 

 narrow deep brown transverse crescentic stripe. Palpi 

 yellower than the legs, uniformly coloured above and below, 

 but the tarsal segment apically infuscate. Mandibles blackish 

 brown, clothed with golden-yellow hairs, but not noticeably 

 stiiped. Maxillae with their distal third pale; labium with 

 pale border. Sternum clothed with yellow hairs ; 2 thickish 

 black stripes crossing its middle transversely, the anterior of 

 these in a line with the dark stripe on the second coxae, the 

 posterior, which is angular, each half being directed obliquely 

 forwards to touch the stripe in front, being similarly continuous 

 with the dark anterior half of the third coxae. Legs having 

 their coxae black in front, yellow behind ; femora of first and 

 second legs with the basal half reddish brown ; all the tibiae 

 with 2 spots of the same colour, 1 at their proximal end, 

 the other just past the middle ; the scopulje of the protarsi 

 fiery red, of the tarsi greyish brown, the rest of the lower 

 suiface of the legs yellowish white. 



