60 Mr. R. I. Pocock on some 



will probably be found to belong to Palystes, seeing that it 

 has the white clypeus, the banded sternum, and the eyes of 

 the front row of the same relative size as in the other South- 

 African representative of this genus. 



Palystes lunatus, sp. n. (PI. VIII. fig. 5.) 



Colour. — Carapace chestnut, clothed with yellowish-brown 

 hair, with a fine white median line and the usual white 

 clypeal band ; mandibles black, clothed with yellowish-brown 

 hair, with the white stripes scarcely apparent ; legs and palpi 

 chestnut, clothed with yellowish-brown hairs above ; coxse 

 with only their anterior surfaces infuscate; femora of a uni- 

 form yellowish brown below; patella? whitish yellow; tibia? 

 banded as usual with fuscous and whitish yellow ; sternum 

 clothed with yellow hairs, but marked in addition with 2 

 transverse fuscous bands which fuse in the middle ; labium 

 and maxilla? black, chestnut only at the tips ; abdomen with- 

 out very definite pattern above, obscurely mottled, deeper 

 coloured posteriorly, and marked with 2 longitudinal 

 blackish stripes in front; pale yellowish brown below, with a 

 short narrow transverse black band in front of the epigyne, 

 and a broad whitish crescentic one behind it, the rest of the 

 area between the epigastric fold and the maxilla? marked with 

 a few whitish spots and 4 fine longitudinal fuscous bands. 



Vulva. (As in figure.) 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 29 ; length of 

 carapace 12*5, width 10 ; length of first leg (from base of 

 femur) 46*5, of second 46'5, of third 38, of fourth 42-5. 



Loc. S. Africa {Dr. Quain). 



Differs from P. Spenceri in having 2 transverse fuscous 

 bars across the sternum, the femora of a uniform tint below, 

 a deep transverse crescentic band behind the epigastric fold, 

 and the form of the vulva ; in the latter characteristic, as 

 well as in the colour of its sternur 

 from P. superciliosus of L. Koch. 



Palystes pulchripes, sp. n. (PL VIII. figs. 4, 4 a.) 



? Palystes superciliosus, L. Koch, Die Aracliniden Australians, ii. p. 706. 



$ . Closely related to P. lunatus, but with the carapace paler 

 chestnut, with no median white band ; the palpi pale yellow, 

 with fuscous tips ; the distal third of the maxilla? yellow; the 

 sternum with a single dark band across it, and the lower sur- 

 face of the femora variegated as in P. Spenceri, the basal half 



