182 A NATURALIST IN THE TRANSVAAL. 



following the curvature of the anterior angle, the posterior 

 angle of the lateral portion rounded and obtuse, the anterior 

 angle strongly produced forwards into an apically rounded 

 process, the lower margin of which is slightly convex, and the 



Spirostreptus transvaalicus. 



upper, which is continuous with the anterior margin of the 

 tergite, concave. The rest of the somites with their posterior 

 portion entirely smooth and polished above, finely punctulate at 

 the hinder end of the body, longitudinally striate below, the 

 anterior portion finely striate transversely. Sternal areas nearly 

 smooth ; ventral grooves short. The pores, a little below the 

 middle of the side, minute, and at the hinder end of the body 

 almost invisible. Anal somite small; the tergite mesially 

 angled above, scarcely covering the upper angle of the valves, 

 marked at the base of the angle by a shallow punctulate con- 

 striction ; valves convex, with their margins very lightly com- 

 pressed and punctulate ; sternite triangular. 



Legs with the fourth and fifth segments padded beneath, the 

 first and second hairy above at their distal extremities, the 

 distal segment with a single large spine above the claw, smaller 

 spines on each side of the claw and two irregular series of 



