308 Dr. W. F. Purccll on 



6 ? ? mentioned above it is dark brown or black, the trans- 

 verse cavity in front of it then often with a brown margin, 

 as in PL XIII. fig. 7. 



Length of trunk in ? reaching 10^ mm. ; length of cara- 

 pace in ? up to 4 mm. 



(b) 1 (^ and 1 ? from Steynsburg Division, Cape Colony 

 {G. G. Fonder). 



3. Drassodes soUtarius, sp. n. (PI. XIII. fig. 9.) 



1 ? from Hanover [S. C. Cronwright Schreiner). 



Very like D. tesseUatus, sp. n., but still larger and with 

 somewhat different vulva. 



Colour. — Carapace rufescent, the head and chelicera deeper 

 red, legs ochraceous ; abdomen pale yellowish, the dorsal 

 spots only faintly marked, the anterior half with a median 

 pale dorsal stripe bordered on each side by a darker stripe. 

 : . Anterior median eyes slighty nearer together than in tessel- 

 latus, their distance apart being scarcely twice their distance 

 from the lateral eyes ; posterior median eyes distinctly more 

 than a diameter from tiie posterior laterals. 



Chelicera with all the teeth rather strong, the middle 

 superior tooth very strong. 



Vulva as in PI. XIII. fig. 9, the horseshoe rim being rela- 

 tively broader and more transverse and with its anterior ends 

 more strongly converging tiian in the preceding forms. 



Length of trunk 10, of carapace 4^ mm. 



4. Drassodes caffrerianus, sp. n. (PI. XIII. fig. 10.) 



1 $ from the Keneha Bridge, about 22 miles west of 

 Maclear, Pondoland (^. S. Weisbecker, August 1903). 



Colour pale yellow, with black reticulation and hairs ; legs 

 pale yellow, many of the segments faintly infuscated ; abdo- 

 men black above, the underside yellowish but infuscated j 

 sternum pale yellowish, with black edges. (The specimen, 

 when caught, had evidently but recently moulted, and 

 maturer specimens would probably be much darker.) 



Closely allied to Z>. lophognathus, sp. n., but differing 

 principally as follows : — 



Chelicera only very feebly sinuated on inner edge, the 

 large tooth of the superior inner margin not keel-like, but 

 erect and conical, and accompanied by a tiny second tooth on 

 its proximal side. 



