species of Tropical African Solifiigap. 2.39 



Matidihle armed above, throughout its length, with setiform 

 ppines protecting the tingelhim. Basal Kiiniiia of flagelhim 

 moderately high, voundeil, the terminal jiortion curving back- 

 wards on a level with the first tooth of the upper fang, Iviiig 

 close to the basal lamina and extending almost back to tlie 

 ocular tubercle, its apex simple, undivided, its distal third 

 strongly sinuate. Only one small tooth between the second 

 and third largest teeth on the u]iper fang, 



Pa/p with its tibia a little longer than the tarsus and pro- 

 tarsus (15"5 : 15) and excelling the length of the til)ia of the 

 fourth leg (15"0 : 14), which also exceeds the length of the 

 fourth pvotarsus (14 : 13) ; third leg shorter than the palp, 

 its protarsus equal to the width of the head ; fourth leg 

 longer than the jjalp by half its protarsus and the tarsus. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total lencrth 53 : length of 

 mandible 12*8 ; width of head 9; length of palpus 48, of 

 first leg 40, of second 35, of third 43, of fourth 66. 



Loc. Kleinpoort, in the Eastern Karroo; taken in a house 

 {Miss Anna Hoioarih : type). Also damaged specimens of 

 apparently the same species from South Africa [Dr. Quain) 

 and Port Elizabeth {J. M. Leslie). 



This species seems to differ from S. let/ialis, Kocli, in 

 having no tooth near the apex of the flagellum, such as is 

 found in the male of lethalis according to Karsch and accord- 

 ing to a specimen identified as lethalis in the collection of the 

 British Museum. 



Solpuga Dai'lingiijSp. n. (Fig. 5.) 



$. — Colour. Prevailing tint an ochre-yellow, the head- 

 plate infuscate ; femora and tibiae of the posterior legs, espe- 

 cially the fourth pair, as well as the tibia and distal end of 

 the femur of the palpus, also infuscate ; legs of first pair pale ; 

 tergal plates of abdomen not noticeably darker than the lateral 

 portions. 



Cephalic jjlate about equalling in width the length of the 

 protarsus of the palp, distinctly less than that of the tibia, 

 also a little less than the length of the tibia or of the protarsus 

 of the fourth leg ; width of ocular tubercle less than lengtii 

 of tarsus of palp ; the setee on the tubercle spiniform. 



Mandibles armed as in S. ferox, Poc. (Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. i6) xvi. p. 83), from Port Elizabeth ; legs also clothed 

 and armed as in fei-ox ; malleoli small, with the inner angle 

 nearly rectangular. Genital operculum with its posterior 

 border transverse, the inner angles of each half not produced, 

 but rectangular. 



