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being blackish and the distal bright yellow, although mottled. 

 In one of the specimens the posterior end of the abdomen is 

 ornamented above very much as in the figure of P. super- 

 ciliosus published by Koch, but in two others this pattern is 

 not visible. 



Vulva small, pale-coloured, represented by a horny trans- 

 verse bilobed plate, something like that of P. sup)erciliosus of 

 Koch {op. cit. pi. lxi. rig. 1 a) ; but the anterior lobes much 

 shallower. There are, moreover, no posterior lobes and no 

 transverse bar such as Koch has depicted. 



Length 28 millim. ; length of cephalothorax 12, width 9*5; 

 length of first and second legs 42, of third 3 To, of fourth 

 36-5. 



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



Three apparently adult females were obtained at the above 

 locality. They appear to be very nearly allied to P. super- 

 ciliosus of Koch, but seem quite distinct, provided that 

 Koch's figure of the vulva of superciliosus is correct. 



Panaretus (?) distictus, sp. n. (PI. VIII. figs. 7, 7 a.) 



$ . Colour. — Carapace pale castaneous, covered with pale 

 yellow hairs intermixed witli rather stouter black ones ; in the 

 cephalic region there are some longish setas, black at the base 

 and pale distally ; faint lines of black pigment radiating from 

 the fovea ; the lateral margin posteriorly narrowly black, the 

 cephalic region mottled with small yellow spots; many 

 longish yellow hairs between the eyes, but no white clypeal 

 band. Mandibles pale castaneous, clothed with white or 

 black-and-white hairs, and variegated with small black spots. 

 Labium, maxilla, and sternum pale yellow, clothed with white 

 hairs, with a few black-and-white ones intermixed ; coxse of 

 the same colour, but variegated with small black spots ; legs 

 ferruginous or ochre-yellow, not noticeably banded, but 

 mottled above with minute whitish spots; the femora mottled 

 below with black spots ; abdomen reddish brown above, finely 

 mottled with minute black and white spots ; yellowish white 

 laterally and below and spotted with black, and furnished on 

 each side of the spinners with a large elongate but irregularly 

 shaped black patch, which is emphasized above by a fine 

 border of white hairs. 



Carapace very high in its posterior half, lightly convex 

 towards the ocular area, cephalic region narrower ; its length 

 just exceeding that of the fourth tibia. Eyes of posterior row 

 subequal in size and evenly spaced, forming a slightly re- 

 curved line ; those of the anterior row also slightly recurved 



