Species of African Solit'ugjB anc/ Aratiete. 23 



c. Tibiaj of first aud secouel legs with G 



pairs of spiues Kraussii, Poc. 



d. Tibite of tirst and second legs with 7 



pairs of spines Spenceri, Poc. ; basutus, 



Poc; Mavshalli, sp. n.; 

 WhUeas, sp. n. 



Palystes LeppancB^ sp. n. (PL III, fig. 9.) 



Dorsal integument palely castaneous, covered with hairs of 

 a grejisli-olive hue, with silky lustre, darker on the abdomen 

 and mixed with white spots and blaekish lines; clypeus with 

 a yellow band j mandible with two similarly coloured bands 

 above j sternum and coxa? clothed with bright golden-yellow 

 hairs, the former with a pair of mesially interrupted transverse 

 dark stripes ; femora covered with olive-yellow hairs^ speckled 

 with clear yellow spots; patella yellowish white below j 

 tibia with two yellowish-white and two black bands; abdo- 

 men with epigastric area covered with clear yellow hairs, a 

 transverse black crescentic band behind the fold, and the rest 

 of its area covered with a rich umber-red, mottled with 

 numerous small yellow spots. 



Vulva of the same type as that of P. perontatus (see 

 PI. III. fig. 10), but with the median sclerite heart-shaped, 

 as wide as long, rounded laterally, bluntly pointed behind 

 and stalked in front. 



Total length 21 millim. ; carapace 12 ; first leg 11, 

 fourth 41. 



Loc. Tea Fountain, near Grahamstown [Miss L'ppan). 



Belonging to the same category as P. perornatus^ Poc. 

 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vi. p. 331, IDUO), but differing 

 in the structure of the vulva and slightly in colouring, the 

 white spots on the underside of the femora aud abdomen 

 being smaller and more numerous. 



These two species and lunatus, Poc. (Ann, & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (6) xvii. p. 60, pi. viii. fig. 5, 1896), which are evidently 

 nearly related, to judge by the form of the vulva, may be 

 distinguished as follows : — 



a. Sternum -with two bauds ; femora unspotted ; median 



lobe of vulva very long lunatus, Poc. 



h. Sternum with a single anterior band ; femora richly- 

 spotted with white ; median lobe of vulva short. 

 «\ Median lobe of vulva longer than wide, its sides 



straight ; spots on abdominal femora fewer .... peroniatus, Poc. 

 W. Median lobe of vulva as wide as long, heart- 

 shaped, with rounded sides Leppatue, sp. u. 



