new Arachnida from Cape Colony. 829 



Lycosa algoenatitj sp. n. 



Colour. Carapace normally coloured, but the lateral stripes 

 not so distinct as in L. Sc/ionlandi ; uppcrsidc of abdomen 

 black in tiie middle, with a yellow stripe formed of two pale 

 patches, recalling the markings on Ocyale atalanta, on each 

 side; ventral surface banded as in L. Schonlandi ; cox.ne and 

 sternum yellowish red ; legs pale, obscurely mottled ; man- 

 dibles covered with greyish hairs at base. 



Posterior median eyes very huge, scarcely a radius apart ,• 

 anterior medians much larger than anterior laterals. 



Vulva very abnormal, consisting of a narrow median keel, 

 which posteriorly runs out into a strong conical process and is 

 flanked on each side by a subsphcrical black prominence, which 

 is bordered externally and below by a sinuous ridge continuous 

 in the middle line with the anterior end of the median keel. 



Measuretuetits in millimetres. — Total length 13 ; carapace 7 ; 

 first leg lo'5, fourth leg 19. 



Loc. Port Elizabeth {H. A. Spencer). 



Lycosa hessiana, sp. n. 



S . Resembling L. algoensis, but with the whole of the 

 ventral surface of the abdomen olive-black, the sternum also 

 infuscate with a central darker line; the legs uniformly 

 yellowish red, not banded or mottled with dark spots ; upper- 

 side of abdomen marked with two very distinct, broa'J, yellowish 

 bands uniting in front, separated by a dark ventral stripe, 

 and bordered externally by a darker ill-defined stripe; inferior 

 portion of lateral surface white ; dark l)aiids on carapace 

 broader than pale bands. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 9; carapace 5; 

 first leg 14, fourth leg 17. 



Loc. Port Elizabeth (//. A. Spencer}. 



Family Oxyopidae. 

 Genus Peucetia, Thor. 



Peucetia maculifera, sp. n. 



5 . — Colour. Carapace greenish, with short radiating dark 

 stripes ; clypeus and mandil)les without bands ; an abbreviated 

 and interrupted dark stripe on each side of the head above 

 the basal mandibular spot ; legs yellow, femora and coxae 

 minutely and rather thickly spotted at the bases of the spines 

 and hairs ; tibia? and protarsi with larger and fewer spots at 

 the base ot the black spines, a faint blackish ring round distal 

 end of patella and basal and distal end of tibia ; sternum 

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