some neio African Spiders. 319 



Mr. Staunton is particularly to be congratulated on tin's 

 capture which adds a new genus to the fauna of Africa. 

 Hitherto Euagrus has only been known from species 

 collected in Central America. In general form and habits 

 Euagrus resembles Ischnothele, of which one species has been 

 recorded from South Africa, namely, /. mashonica, from 

 Mashonaland, where it was found by Mr. J. fF. Darling (Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii. p. 337, 1001). Ischnothele, however, 

 has the labium and maxillaj cuspulate, two rows of teeth on 

 the mandibles, and the tibia of the first leg modified in the 

 male. 



Fam. CtenizidaB. 



Genus Stasimopus, Sim. 



Stasiinopus nigellus, sp. n. 



(J. — Co/oMr jet-black, with the tarsi and distal end of the 



protarsi yellowish red ; paler brownish beneath, the genital 



plate and opercula testaceous. 



Carajmce coarsely rugose, as in S. insculptus, Poc, from 

 King William's Town, a little longer than tibia of first leg or 

 of palpus, equal to protarsus of fourth. 



Eyes of anterior line large, subequal, and subequally 

 spaced, less than a diameter apart, scarcely at all procurved, 

 their anterior edges in approximately the same straight line ; 

 eyes of posterior line small, subequal, widely separated, but 

 the median nearer the lateral than to the anterior median, its 

 inner edge almost in a line with the middle point between 

 the anterior and lateral eyes of the front row. 



Palpi long and slender, midway in length between those 

 of P . paJpiger and P. insculptus ; the tarsus extending to the 

 middle of the protarsus of the first leg, the patella overlapping 

 that of this appendage and a little longer than it, but only 

 about half as long as its femur, and equal to two thirds the 

 length of the tibia; the trochanter a little longer than that of 

 the first leg. 



Legs of first and fourth pairs subequal, third subequal to 

 palpus. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 9 ; carapace 4 ; 

 palpus 11 ; first leg 14-5, second 13, third iO-5, fourth 15. 



Loc. Vredefort Road, in the Orange River Colony {Gapt. 

 Barrett-Hamilton) . 



Genus Moggeidgea, 0. P. Cambr. 

 Moggridgea Staimtoni, sp. n. 



of the known 



