316 Di-. W. F. Puicell on 



tinned anteriorly for .a very short distance, forming a tiny 

 brown pock<3t, which is truncated or rounded at the anterior 

 end and distinctly visible in spirits through the integument. 



Length of trunk, ? ? S^-llJ, c? cT 6-8^ ram. 



In the maturer specimens of both sexes the carapace is 

 testaceous yellow and thickly clothed with silky yellowish 

 hairs and some scattered fi;ie black bristles ; the chelicera are 

 testaceous and the legs yellowish, with the distal segments 

 testaceous ; the abdomen is densely clothed with silky, light 

 or dark, somewhat bronzy brown hairs. 



The first tibia has 2-3 spines in the inferior row, and the 

 posterior median eyes are often a little more than an eye's 

 length distant from the laterals, especially in the ? ? . 



(b) 2 c? (? and 5 ? ? from Stellenbosch {Dr. R. Broom). 



(c) 2 c? (? fi'oni ^■'ear Tulbagh Road Station {W. F. P.). 



(d) 2 ? ? from Clanwilliam (R. M. Lightfoot and G. L. 

 Leipoldt). 



(e) 1 ? from Boschkloof Waterfall, Cedarbergen, Clan- 

 william Div. {R. Pattison). 



2. Xerophceus delphinurus^ sp. n. 

 (PL XIII. fig. 21.) 



Specimens. — {&) 6 c? c? f^'oni the Cape Peninsula (Cape 

 Flats, Bergvliet, Silver Mine Stream, and Hout Bay : 

 W. F. P.). 



Characters of a S specimen from Bergvliet'. — 



Closely agreeing with the type of X. capensis^ sp. n., and 

 also with similar palpal organ, but ditFering in having the 

 lateral process of the tibia of the pedipalps distinctly curved 

 just before the apical claw, and with a short but rather deep 

 sinus ou the underside here, as in PL XIII. fig. 21, 



The posterior median eyes are also a little closer together 

 and the tibia of the first leg has 2-3 inferior spines in the 

 inner row. 



The other males are similar, but in one of them the first 

 tibia has an extra spine on the inner surface besides the three 

 in the inferior row. 



Length of trunk ^\-l\ mm. 



(b) 1 $ from the Hottentots Holland Mountains, Caledon 

 Div. (near Gordons Bay : R. M. Lightfoot). 



3. Xerophceus interrogator ^ sp. n. 

 (PL XIV. fig. 22.) 



3 c? c? from the ^ape Peninsula (Bergvliet and Signal 

 Hill: W.F.P.). 



