Species of Trojn'cal African Solifugfe. 271 



I take tliis opportunity of publishiiif^ the description of a 

 new species, apparently belonging; to the genus BlossiUf one 

 of the Solpugiiue : — 



Blossia ritfescens, sp. n. (Figg. 3-3 a.) 



(J . Colour of mandibles, head-plate, and abdominal terga a 

 rich purplish brown ; palpi, with the exception of the basal 

 half of the femur, of the same colour ; first and second legs 

 almost entirely pale yellow, slightly infuscate at the ex- 

 tremity of the femora ; femur, tibia, and jiniximal end of 

 protarsus of third and fourth legs also purplish brown ; the 

 entire lower surface of the body, as well as the coxae and tro- 

 chanters of all the aj)pendages and the tarsi of the legs, clear 

 pale yellow. 



The entire upperside of the body and limbs covered with 

 a coating of very short, close-set, usually erect stiff hairs ; 

 the lower side of the abdomen clothed with longer silky 

 white hairs. The ocular tubercle furnished with thick pale- 

 coloured bristles ; similar bristles present on the sides of the 

 head-plate and on its upper surface in small numbers, on 

 the upperside of the mandible, and on the sides of the thoracic 

 and anterior abdominal terga. 



Mandibles elongate, somewhat as in Cleobis, the stridu- 

 lating-ridges long and strong ; the lower fang armed with 

 three teeth, the median of which is small ; the upper armed 

 with eleven sharp teeth, the third from the apex being small, 

 the outer series at the base of the mandible composed of 

 three teeth ; flagellum membranous, its margins curled over, 

 pointed posteriorly (fig. 3). 



Falpi long and stout, much longer than the third leg, its 

 trochanter armed above with a few spines ; femur spinous 

 internally at the apex ; tibia and protarsus armed below with 

 two rows of short spines. Le(/s with their trochanters 

 spinous above ; the femora with a few short scattered spinules; 

 tibise and protarsi, exce])t of the first leg, also spiny ; claws 

 of the first leg long ; all the tarsi one-jointed, curved. 



Second abdominal segment with two clusters of four or 

 five bacilliform hairs, one cluster on each side of the stigmatic 

 apertures. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 19; length of 

 mandible 4, of palp 19, of first leg 11"5, of second 10, of 

 third 13, of fourth 24. 



Log. Shaik Othman near Aden (type), also Aden. Two 

 examples obtained by Colonel Yerbury in the winter of 

 1894-95. 



