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figure or description of the vulva of the latter it is not possible 

 to make any satisfactory comparison between the two. 



Family Oxyopidse. 

 Genus Peucetia, Thorell. 



Peucetia pulchra (Blackvv.). 



PrtszMm j5M/c7im, Blackwall, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Ilist. (3) xvi. p. 333 

 (1865). 



Loc. Natal [J. Sanderson) . 



Family PisauridsB. 

 Genus Euprostiienops, Poc. 



Eujyrosthenops australis, Simon. 



Euprosthenops australis, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg-. xlii. p. 12 (1898). 



Loc. Durban (H. A. Spencer) ; Estcourt {G. A. K. Mar- 

 shall). 



The South-east African form of the genus Euprosthenops, 

 which M. Simon regards as distinct from E. hayonianus, I 

 had identified as that species, having no West-African 

 examples with which to compare it. 



Genus Spencerella, nov. 



AWmdi \o Euprosthenops and Tetragonophthalma ; differing 

 from the former in that the anterior lateral eyes are subsessile 

 and close together in tlie middle line, the distance between 

 them being about equal to the distance between the posterior 

 medians ; in Euprosthenops these eyes are strongly stalked 

 and far apart, the distance between them being equal to the 

 distance between the posterior laterals. In Tetragonoph- 

 thalma the anterior laterals, although sessile, are widely 

 separated and above the edge of the clypeus. 



Type S. lineataj sp. n. 



Spencerella h'neata, sp. n. (PI. VIII. fig. 17.) 



Colour. Carapace ochre-brown, covered with yellowish 

 hairs at the sides and a broad pale median longitudinal stripe ; 

 hairs on face silvery, two silver stripes on the mandible ,• legs 

 and palpi covered with yellowish-brown hairs, speckled below 

 on the femora ; lower side of third leg darkened with a fuscous 

 longitudinal stripe ; abdomen yellowish brown, spotted at tlie 

 sides with black, with two faint longitudinal infuscate stripes, 



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