neto Arachntdafrom Cape Colony. 317 



tnmiiial fanp sliorlor, rlircctcd more upwards, and Irss curved 

 at the lij), its upperside more strongly hollowed at base ; basal 

 portion of Hagelluni liigli, conical, with roundfMl sunnnit and 

 straight anterior border ; distal portion of (lagelliiin rising 

 above the jiroximal terminal tooth, short, scarcely surjKissing 

 the basal portion when reclining backwards, lightly curved 

 or narrowed distally, with apex truncate and furnished with 

 a minute process ; on the jaw in front of the base of the 

 riagelliim there is a small upstanding tooth. 



Total length 35 millim.; width of head 9"5 ; length of 

 patella of palp and also of tibia and tarsus 14, patella and 

 tibia of fourth leg 12. 



Loc. Grahamstown {Dr. Schonland). 



Genus D^siA, C. Koch. 

 Dcesia Bernardi, sp. n. 



? . — Prevailing colour yellow, clouded with greyish black 

 laterally ; tubercle bhick ; mandibles with faint fuscous lines ; 

 palp infuscate, with the basal three fourths of the femur 

 yellow ; apex of femur and base of patella of third and fourth 

 legs lightly infuscate. 



Abdomen with three narrow dorsal stripes. 



Mandible with upper jaw furnished with two minor teeth, 

 the distal major teeth subcqual ; lower jaw with one minor 

 tooth close to base of posterior major tooth. 



Palp with tibia lightly fusiform, armed as in D. Leipoldti\ 

 Pure. ; tarsus rather more than one third the length of the 

 protarsus ; patella armed below with two stout seta3 inside 

 and three thinner setae outside. 



Carapace as long as patella of palp, a little shorter than its 

 tibia and tarsus and than patella of fourth leg. 



Abdomen: third segment furnished beneath on each side of 

 the median sternal plate close to the posterior border with a 

 transverse series of four slender but strong and sharp, curved, 

 claw-like spines raised on low elevations of the integument. 

 Immediately adjacent to these on the anterior portion of the 

 underside of the fourth abdominal scigment there is a trans- 

 verse row of six or seven smooth, shining, subcylindrical 

 ridges, separated by deej) intervening grooves. 



Total length 13 millim.; width of head 3; length of 

 palp 10. 



Loc. Hex River Valley, Cape Colony [H. M. Bernard). 



!No structure on the abdomen resembling that described 

 above has been mentioned in the diagnoses of any of the 

 previously described tSouth-African species of Dasia. 



