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medians close together, barely a radius apart, anterior medians 

 about a diameter apart ; eyes of anterior line recurved, the 

 laterals higher than the medians, space between medians and 

 laterals about three times as great as that between medians. 

 Carapace much longer than first tibia, almost as long as 

 patella and tibia of fourth leg, a little longer than protarsus 

 and tarsus of first and fourth legs ; width greater than length 

 of first tibia. 



Mandibles prominent at the base ; the fang-groove armed 

 with four teeth in front, three behind the tooth at the poste- 

 rior or upper extremity of the groove the largest. 



Legs strong and short ; femur of first incrassate distally 

 on the inner side and spined, tibise and protarsi of first and 

 second biserially spined below. 



Abdomen heart-shaped, with low shoulder-points, widely 

 rounded anteriorly, ovally elongate from the shoulders 

 backwards. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 15; length of 

 carapace 7, width 5 5 ; length of abdomen 10, width 8*5 ; 

 length of first leg 19, of second 19, of third 11, of fourth IS'5. 



<$ . — Smaller than female, with long deep thoracic groove; 

 ocular region produced over base of mandibles, eyes on a 

 median and lateral prominence. 



Legs strongly spined ; femora with a series of strong spines, 

 each rising from a tubercle below ; coxa of first with elongate 

 process ; tibia of second mesially thickened in front, armed 

 with about 12 or 13 strong black spines arranged in two longi- 

 tudinal rows. 



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

 Durban (H. A. Spencer), $ . 



Allied to A. suedicola, Sim., similis and striata, Bosen- 

 berg and Lenz, mossambicensis, Pavesi, &c. 



Araneus Marshalli, sp. n. (PI. VIII. fig. 3.) 



Colour. Carapace black posteriorly, its cephalic region 

 reddish brown, blackish at the sides; mandibles reddish 

 brown, black distally ; maxilla} yellowish brown, darker 

 basally; labium brownish; sternum mostly yellow, brownish 

 at the sides ; palpi yellow, infuscate apically, the spiniform 

 hairs black ; femora and patella? of first and second pairs of 

 legs red, blackish at distal end ; tibia? and protarsi yellow, 

 blackish at the distal ends, with a faint median dark sp )t on 

 the middle of the protarsi; third and fourth legs col Hired 

 like the others, but the femora yellower, with a median and a 

 distal darker band. Abdomen variegated, anterior portion 



