new South- African Spiders, 59 



yellowIsli-Lrown hairs, the legs faintly mottled with darker 

 spots; the carapace without distinct pattern, sometimes, how- 

 ever, with a paler median band and a paler marginal line; 

 the clypeus with a distinct white band, which is thickest in 

 the middle. The abdomen ornamented above as in P. John- 

 sioni^ but the distinction between the brown patch and the 

 sides of the abdomen less well defined ; the sides and lower 

 surface a uniform yellowish brown. Mandibles not striped, 

 black, but clothed with whitish-yellow hairs. Palpi ochre- 

 yellow \ tarsus distally fuscous below. Maxillae and labium 

 as in P. Johnstoni. Sternum yellow, with a single fuscous 

 band crossing it in a line with the dark front half of the 

 second coxee. Coxa3 ot legs whitish yellow, with their ante- 

 rior third blackish brown. Femora of fiist and second pairs 

 with their basal half or almost two thirds deep reddish brown, 

 the rest of the segment bright yellow, mottled with small 

 brown spots ; femora of third and fourth yellowish, mottled ; 

 patella bright yellow below ; tibias also bright yellow, with a 

 large basal brownish-red spot, and a second just past the 

 middle; these spots sometimes rather indistinct upon the 

 third and fourth legs. Protarsal and tarsal pads fuscous. 

 Mandibles armed as in P. Johnstoni. Legs and palpi of the 

 same relative length and spine-armature as in that species ; 

 but the examination of a large series of specimens shows 

 that the number of spines is not quite constant. 



Vulva. (As in figure.) 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 39*5 ; length 

 of carapace 14, width 12 ; length of first leg 55'5, of 

 second 55, of third 41, of fourth 48. 



(^ . With the carapace browner on the summit than in the 

 female ; the posterior brown patch upon the abdomen not 

 defined. The 4 pairs of femora almost of the same colour, 

 being a brownish yellow, mottled with smaller dark spots. 



Palp. (As in figure.) 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 23; length of 

 carapace 11, width 9; length of first leg from base of femur 

 54, of second 53" 5, of third 39, of fourth 46, tibia of 

 fourth 11-8. 



Loc. Durban. A large number of specimens including the 

 types obtained by Mr. H. A. Spencer. 



Judging from the list of localities from which the Museum 

 has received this species, it appears to be widely distributed 

 in the south-eastern parts of Cape Colony. I cannot, how- 

 ever, discover that it has yet received a name, unless, indeed, 

 the Heteropoda natalia of Karsch (Zeits. ges. Naturwiss. 

 1878, p. 772) be the same species. This last-named form 



