THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 9. SEPTEMBER 1898. 



XXV. — The Arachnida from the Province of Natal, South 

 Africa, contained in the Collection of the British Museum. 

 By R. I. Pocock. 



[Plate VIII.] 



A GEEAT majority of the spiders recorded in this paper were 

 obtained at Durban by Mr. H. A. Spencer while acting as 

 medical officer on board the S.S. ' Mexican,' and by 

 Mr. G. A. K. Marshall during a stay of some months at 

 Estcourt and other parts of Natal. The remaining spiders 

 have been received from various sources, and many of them 

 have been in the Museum collection for a great many years. 



Order SOLIFUG^. 



Solpuga hostilis, White. 



isolpuga hostilis, White, Methuen's Life in the Wilderness, p. 317, 

 pi. ii. fig. 5 (1846). 



Loc. Estcourt, 4000 feet {O. A. K. Marshall). 



Solpuga caffra, Poc. 

 Solpvya caffra, Poc. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xx. p. 262. 

 Loc. Estcourt, 4000 feet (G. A. K. Marshall). 

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