veio SoiitJi-A/rican SinJers. 305 



0. Theuma mutica, sp. n. 



1 ? found at Kogmans Kloof, Robertson Division, in 

 August 1900, by my wife. 



Colour. — Carapace more or less infuscated, darkest at the 

 lateral margins, paler and yellowish along the middle of ante- 

 rior half and along posterior border. Chelicera and sternum 

 ochraceous. Legs yellowish, faintly infuscated in parts. 

 Abdomen pale yellowish below, deeply infuscated above and 

 at the sides. 



Anterior row of eyes slightly procurved, the laterals much 

 larger than the medians. Posterior row of eyes straight, the 

 medians oval, oblique, very close together, separated by less 

 than half a length, but at least an eye's length from the 

 laterals; these latter scarcely larger than the medians and 

 close to the anterior laterals, being less than a diameter from 

 them. 



Chelicera with 2 larger proximal and 3 smaller distal teeth 

 in the superior row, and only 1 minute tooth in the inferior 

 row. 



Legs with numerous fine small spines scattered irregularly 

 on the mider surface, the first leg without any strong spines 

 below; second leg with a strong mesial spino on tibia; third 

 and especially fourth leg strongly spined on underside as well 

 as on upper. 



Vulva-plate broader than long, consisting of a pair of oval 

 reddish disks separated by a narrow triangular fovea. 



Inferior spinners long. 



Length 4^ mm. 



A very distinct species. 



7. T/iBuma jxwva, sp. n. 



1 (J from Eierfontein, 8-9 miles west of Hanover {S. C. 

 Cronwright Schreiner, January 1902). 



Colour very pale yellowish. 



Anterior row of eyes sligiitly procurved, the medians a little 

 smaller than and touching the laterals, but a little separated 

 from each other. Posterior row of eyes straight (scarcely 

 recurved at all), the subrotund median eyes comparatively 

 large, being larger than the laterals and at least as large as 

 the anterior laterals, their distance from one another less 

 than an eye's diameter and slightly greater than their distance 

 from the posterior laterals, the latter eyes about as far from, 

 the anterior laterals as from the posterior medians. 



Chelicera with 4 su[)erior and 3 smaller inferior teeth. 



