Species of African Solifugie and AraneEe. 7 



tooth ; behind the latter follow four subequal external cheek- 

 teeth ; lower jaw toothed as in the female. Patella of jmlp 

 with long setie beneatli ; tibia with five inner and three outer 

 strong spines at its distal end. 



Measurements in millimetres. — ? . Total length 15; width 

 of head 4; length of palpus 13'5, of fourth leg 20. 



c?. Total length 13; width of head 2-5; length of 

 palpus 15. 



Loc. Egypt: AVady Sikait [D. Macalister). 



Evidently nearly related to another Egyptian species, 

 TJ. Ehrenhergi, Simon, which has a similar hollow on the 

 upper jaw of the mandible. In the latter, however, the 

 hollow is a complete oval, not divided in front and without a 

 notch on its internal edge. The first long tooth, too, is rela- 

 tively much shorter. The female seems to differ principally 

 in colour from that of Ehrenhergi, tunetana, and velox. 



Genus Broomiella, nov. 



Allied to Dcesia in having the tarsi of second and third legs 

 bisegmented, the distal segment not half the length of the 

 proximal, but differing in that the tarsus of the fourth is also 

 bisegmented, with the distal segment one third the length of 

 the proximal. 



In DcEsia the segment that corresponds to the proximal 

 segment of Broomiella has a couple of complete joints near 

 its distal end, so that there are four distinct tarsal segments 

 on the fourth leg. 



Type Broomiella lineata. 



Broomiella lineata, sp. n. (PI. II. figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b.) 



cJ . — Colour. Carapace infuscate, mesially pale; tergites 

 with three brown spots, forming a median and a right and 

 left lateral stripe on the back ; ventral surface and bases of 

 appendages quite pale ; palpi infuscate, legs also infuscate, 

 with pale extremities ; mandibles with lightly defined dark 

 stripes. 



Width of carapace less than length of patella or tibia of 

 palp, about equal to tibia of fourth leg. 



Mandible with upper jaw strong, stout, distally pointed, 

 hollowed out on its inner side, projecting nearly straight 

 forwards, strongly toothed, the first tooth represented by a 

 small excrescence, the second large, third minute, fourth long; 

 lower jaw witii two long principal teeth, one minute inner 

 tooth behind the proximal of these and one between them. 



Flagellum with lower edge straight, upcurled, upper edge 

 strongly convex proximally. 



