216 Mr. R. I. Pocock on 



separated by a paler median area running- along the upper- 

 side; sternum mesially infuscate, with a fine median white 

 longitudinal line. 



Carapace longer than wide, widtli equal to distance be- 

 tween posterior border and posterior lateral eye ; facial portion 

 more vertical than in Euprosthenops ; the median band of pale 

 hairs running out into a crest between the eyes; posterior 

 median eyes about a diameter apart, anterior medians much 

 smaller and about half a diameter apart ; the ocular quad- 

 rangle longer than wide, and narrowed in front as in Eupro- 

 sthenops ; inferior angles of head prominent ; carapace shorter 

 than palpus by distal half of its tarsus, about as long as tibia 

 of third leg. 



Legs long and slender, 1 and 2, 4, 3, apparently normally 

 spiny. 



Palpi with patella a little shorter than tibia ; tibia with an 

 external nodular prominence in its basal half and a somewhat 

 quadrate subbifid spine on its anterior half; tarsus broad at 

 the base, narrowed and pointed distally. 



Abdomen long and slender, gradually narrowed posteriorly, 

 nearly four times as long as broad. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 13 ; length of 

 carapace 4*2, of abdomen 9, width of latter 2 5 ; length of 

 first and second legs 23'5, of third 18"5, of fourth 23. 



Loc. Durban (//. A. Spencer). Two adult male examples. 



Family Lycosidae. 



Genus Lycosa, Latr. 



Lycosa Spenceri } Poc. 



Lycosa Spenceri, Poc. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) i. p. 313, figs. 1, 1 a. 



Loc. Durban (II. A. Spencer) j Estcourt, 4000 feet (G. A. K. 

 Marshall) . 



Lycosa Darlingii, Poc. 

 Lycosa Darlinyii, Poc. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) i. p. 314, figs. 3, 3 a . 

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



Family Palpimanidge. 

 Genus Palpimanus, Duf. 

 Palpimanus armatus, sp. n. (PI. VIII. fig. 11.) 

 J. — Colour. Carapace, anterior legs, palpi, sternum and 



