the Transvaal and Nyasaland. 313 



Family Lycosidse. 



Lycosa transvaalica, Simon. 

 Lycosa transvaalica, Simon, Aun. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlii. p. 26 (1898). 



Loc. Pretoria (TF. L. Distant). 



A single mutilated female, without abdomen, agrees with 

 the description of transvaalica, which is recorded from 

 Becliuanaland, Griqualand, and the Transvaal. 



Lycosa Spenceri, sp. n. (Figs. 1, 1 a, p. 315.) 



Colour. — Carapace fusco-castaneous, ornamented with three 

 bands of fulvous-yellow hairs — one median and one on each 

 side, the space between them darker and traversed by radiating 

 stripes ; abdomen fusco-fulvous above, marked with small 

 black spots, and a double row of larger black spots running 

 from the shoulders to the posterior end, the shoulders also 

 marked on each side with a longitudinal yellow band, which 

 stretches backwards over about one third of the upper surface 

 of the abdomen ; sides of abdomen paler golden yellow ; 

 lower surface entirely black, like the coxae, sternum, maxillte, 

 and apex of mandibles; upper part of mandibles with brightish 

 yellow hairs ; legs and palpi entirely pale yellowish red, 

 without bands. 



Carapace excelling patella and tibia of first or of fourth 

 legs, less than protarsus and tarsus of fourth, gi-eater than 

 those of first. Anterior median eyes nearly twice the diameter 

 of the anterior laterals, the eyes slightly procurved ; the 

 medians separated from the horny edge of the clypeus by a 

 space equalling half their diameter ; posterior lateral eyes 

 much smaller than posterior medians, the space between 

 them about equal to the diameter of the larger. 



Vulva consisting of a chitinous plate marked with a deep 

 semielliptical space open behind, the floor (roof) of the space 

 marked with a median crest, which gradually expands poste- 

 riorly and quite at its posterior end gives off a right and left 

 process resembling the head of a hammer (fig. 1). 



(^ . — Much smaller than female, the abdomen more strongly 

 marked above with three black bands — one on each side 

 passing from the shoulder-spot and a broad one in the middle. 



Carapace about equal to patella and tibia of first or fourth 

 leg, about as long as the fourth protarsus. 



Palpus as in fig. 1 a. 



Length of ? (type) 17 millim., of carapace 9, of first 

 leg (from base of femur) 20, of fourth 24. 



