8 Mr. R. I. Pocock on some neiv 



Palpi clothed witli fine short hairs and furnished with 

 long bristles ; the tibia without cylindrical bristles, armed 

 below with four pairs of spines or spiniform bristles ; the three 

 distal of these on the inner side and the one distal on the 

 outer are short spines, and the rest are apically setiform. 



Protarsus of third leg armed with five upper spines and 

 three inferior, two of which are apical, the other anterior ; 

 the proximal tarsal segment with two anterior spines ; third 

 leg similarly armed, except that two of the dorsal protarsal 

 spines take a posterior position ; fourth leg without the dorsal 

 protarsal spines, but otherwise similarly armed with an 

 additional small spine on the base of the proximal tarsal 

 segment in front. 



Second sternal plate of abdomen with numerous short and 

 stout clavate bristles clustered on each side of the middle 

 line. 



Measureme7its in millimetres. — Total length 14 ; width o£ 

 head S'O ; length of palpus 15, of fourth leg 18 (both measured 

 from base of iemur). 



Loc. Pearston, in Cape Colony {Dr. R. Broom). 



A single male example. 



Genus Ceroma, Karsch. 

 Ceroma 2)ictulum, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 2.) 



<^. — Colour J eWow ; mandibles with three black stripes; 

 carapace with black ocular tubercle, two ill-defined black stripes 

 behind it and a broader irregular one on each side ; abdomen 

 with three sharply defined narrow black stripes above; legs 

 and palpi infuscate, pale basally, quite pale laterally and 

 below. 



Flogelhim of male very long, reaching to the middle of the 

 thoracic portion of the carapace, not curved inwards, but 

 ending in a slightly enlarged tip, which appears to be minutely 

 forcipate (?) ; base of flagellum on inner side protected by 

 seven feathery bristles. Upper fang of mandible slender, 

 excavated, lightly curved, armed with only two small teeth in 

 addition to the cheek-teeth, one near the base and the other 

 nearly halfway along the fang on the inner rim of the exca- 

 vation. Lower jaw armed with two relatively small and 

 close-set teeth, the distal of which is smaller; beyond the latter 

 the cutting-edge is convex and sinuous. Tibia of second 

 and third legs with three dorsal spines. Pulvillus deeply 

 cleft. 



Total length 15 millim. 



Loc. Tea Fountain, near Grahamstown [Miss Leppan). 



