24 Mr. Ii. I. Pocock on some new 



Pahjstes W/ntece, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 11.) 



S • — Upperside of carapace and abdomen mottled with 

 yellowish and brown hairs, the abdomen with a median, 

 posteriorly obsolete, laterally angular band ; some white 

 hairs above the anterior eyes, no white clypeal band below 

 them ; mandibles black, without white bands, clothed with 

 long greyish-yellow hairs above ; upperside of appendages 

 matching the carapace in tint ; mouth-parts black ; sternum 

 black, M'ith posterior angle pale ; coxa3 of legs yellowish red, 

 spotted with black ; femora olive, spotted with paler yellow 

 and with an apical blood-red patch : patella white; tibia with 

 a median and distal white band, for the rest black ; scopulse 

 dusky olive-grey ; lower side of abdomen pinkish yellow, 

 marbled with black ; a black patch in front of spinners. 



Ei/es of posterior line slightly recurved, of the anterior line 

 straight by their centres, the medians about half the diameter 

 of the laterals. 



Palp with two tibial spurs, as in P. cultrifer (see PI. III. 

 figs. 12 & 12 a), one being external, just behind the middle, 

 and quadrate in shape, the other distal, but short, stoutish, 

 directed forwards with a slight upward inclination and a lightly 

 hooked extremity ; palpal organ furnished with two short 

 processes running straight forwards from the bulb — an outer 

 (the spine), stout, apically pointed, and hooked ; the inner (the 

 conductor) membranous, with an expanded, horny, flattened 

 extremity. 



Total length 15 millim.; carapace 8*5. 



Loc. Brak Kloof, near Grahamstown [Mrs. White). 



This species is nearly allied to P. cultrifer, Poc, and 

 P. lycosinus, Poc. (Ann. & j\lag. Nat. Hist. (7) vi. pp. 330- 

 331, 1900), the three resembling each other in colour, except 

 that in P. Whitece there is no black band behind the epi- 

 gastric fold as in the other two, and there is a blood-red 

 patch on the apex of the femora. Further approaching cultrifer 

 in having two tibial spurs on the palpus of the male, but the 

 posterior is short and quadrate, the distal also short and but 

 little upcurled. Again, in P. cultrifer the style of the 

 palpal organ is short and pointed, while the conductor is horny 

 throughout, black, and hollowed. 



Palystes scutatus, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 13.) 



? . — Resembling Palystes disticius, Poc, in colour. 

 Posterior median eyes about a diameter and a half apart, a 

 little further away from the laterals, the eyes of this line re- 

 curved, the centres of the laterals about ou a level with the 



