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mouth-parts, and epigastric area mahogany-brown, remaining 

 legs yellowish red, these parts rather scantily covered with 

 greyish-yellow hairs; abdomen more thickly covered with 

 hairs of the same tint, brownish yellow beneath. 



Carapace granular, high, its height about equal to the 

 width of the cephalic area, its length equal to that of patella 

 and tibia of first leg, a little longer than tibia, protarsus, and 

 tarsus of second, and a little less than the same segments of 

 the third leg, its width about equal to the length of the 

 elevated portion, to femur of first leg, patella and half the 

 tibia of this same appendage, and to patella and tibia of 

 second, a little less than patella and tibia of fourth. Eyes of 

 posterior line nearly straight, a little recurved, distance 

 between medians a little less than between medians and 

 laterals and equal to about five diameters; ocular quadrangle 

 a little narrowed in front, about one fourth longer than wide ; 

 eyes of anterior line strongly procurved, medians less than a 

 radius apart and about their diameter from the anterior 

 laterals, which are much smaller and well in advance of 

 them. 



Mandibles and sternum granular. 



Legs : height of femur of first about half its length; tibia 

 and patella subequal ; tibia and protarsus with complete in- 

 ternal scopular fringe ; tarsus scopulate in the median third of 

 its length ; the rest of the legs with protarsi and tarsi distally 

 scopulate below. 



Epigastric area of abdomen marked with a pair of trans- 

 verse crescentic grooves, its posterior border very lightly 

 emarginate. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 13 ; length of 

 carapace 5'5, width 4 ; length of first leg (from base of 

 femur) about 11, of fourth 12. 



<$ . — Differing from female principally in the structure of 

 the anterior legs, the femur of which is higher; the patella is 

 armed externally with a stout conical process, and the tibia is 

 arched and is furnished with a thinner backwardly directed 

 process close to the base. 

 Total length 11 millim. 



Loc. Durban {H. A. Spencer), ? ; Estcourt, 4000 feet 

 (G. A. K. Marshall), ?; and Port Natal (Gueinzius), <^, 

 type. 



In the arrangement of the eyes this species approaches 

 P. capensis, Sim., and P. glubulifer, Sim., both of which were 

 obtained at Port Elizabeth, and especially the latter, in 

 having the eyes of the posterior line almost straight, but 

 certainly differs from both in the male in the structure of the 



