218 Mr. R. I. Pocock on 



legs of the first pair, which in globulifer and capensts are not 

 armed as in P, armatus (see Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 1893, p. 312, and Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 406, 1893). 



Family Zodariidae. 



Genus Ctdrela, Thorell. 



Cydrela spim'ma7iits, sp. n. (PI. VIII. fig. 10.) 



Colour. Carapace deep blackish brown ; abdomen black, 

 ornamented above with symmetrically arranged yellow spots; 

 femoja of legs blackish brown ; patellse, tibiae, protarsi, and 

 tarsi yellowish red ; patella?, tibiae, and protarsi, especially of 

 anterior pairs, with a dark longitudinal stripe along the sides. 



Carapace long, about one third longer than wide, its length 

 about equal to protarsus and tarsus of first leg, a little longer 

 than protarsus and than patella and tibia of fourth, its width 

 equal to patella and tibia of third ; head high. ^ET/es of poste- 

 rior line recurved, the medians less than a diameter apart ; 

 ocular quadrangle narrowed in front, much longer than wide. 



Legs long and slender, the distal segments from the patella 

 to the tarsus scantily clothed above with yellow hairs; pa- 

 tella, tibije, and protarsi strongly spined, especially of third 

 and fourth legs, tarsi of latter also strongly spined ; tarsi of 

 third and fourth, and in a lesser degree of the second, lightly 

 scopulate below, scopulate hairs also traceable upon the pro- 

 tarsus, at least of the third leg. 



Faljn short and robust ; femur much swollen and produced 

 below ; patella and tibia short, subequal^ the latter with a 

 conspicuous external spur ; tarsus large, armed at the apex 

 and internally with strong spines. 



Measurements in miUimetres. — Total length 7; length of 

 carapace 4, width 2-5 ; length of first leg 10, of second 9, of 

 third 10, of fourth 12. 



Loc. Estcourt, 4000 feet [G. A. K. Marshall). 



Differs from the previously described species, at least in 

 the pattern of the upperside of the abdomen, which consists 

 of circular yellow spots. In C. unguiculata, Cambr., from 

 Natal (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 731), the upperside is orna- 

 mented with a broad pale orange-yellow band. 



In C. stigmatka, Simon (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, 

 p. Ixxxvii), from Zanzibar, the abdomen is furnished in front 

 with a transverse arched stripe, two white spots in the middle, 

 and a broad longitudinal band behind. C. aculeata, Karsch, 

 from S. Africa (Zeits. gesammt. Naturw. 1878, p. 779), has 

 the abdomen ornamented with a horseshoe-shaped anterior 

 stripe, followed by a pale longitudinal band on each side. 



