new South- African S/jid'^rs. 333 



Ma.vilhc Lroatl at base, obtuse at apex, emai-ginatc exter- 

 iKiDy. 



Chelicern with about 3 miuJitc teeth on su[)crior iimer 

 niai<^iii, but none on lower margin. 



Lcf/s stout, espeeiaUy the feniurj. patella, and tibia of Hist 

 ])air; tibia 1 and II unsj)incd below; metatarsus I unspined, 

 II vvitli 1 (rarely 0) outer and 2 inner, stout, short spines. 



Vulva as in PU XV. fig. 03, with a large, transversely 

 striated, anterior area. 



(^ cJ . Legs. — Tibiai I and II with 3-4 outer and 2-4 inner 

 spines below, II with 1-3 upper spines as well ; metatarsi I 

 and II with 2 interior pairs of" spines, li with an inner 

 superior spino as well. 



Pedipalps. — Tibia together with its large process mueh 

 longer than the patella ; palpal organ as in PI. XV. fig. 64, 

 with a long slender black s[)inc, which arises anteriorly and 

 coils round the upper and outer side and ends on the lower 

 surface. 



Length of trunk, $ ? 4|-8, c? S ^ mm. 



(b) 1 9 from Kuruniaa in British Bechuanaland (Cr'. h\ 

 1)6(1 re). 



Very distinct from any of the species described above. 



15. Melanopliora a7-ida, sp. n. (PI. XV. fig. 65.) 



Specimens. — 1 $ and 1 juv. from Laingsburg, Prince 

 Albert Div., collected by my wife and myself. 



Very closely allied to the foregoing, but with the abdomen 

 pallid above, the posterior row of eyes not wider than the 

 anterior row, the posterior lateral eyes being nearer tlu; 

 medians (but further from them than the latter are from one 

 another), the chelicera with a minute inferior tooth and 4—3 

 minute superior teeth on inner margin ; tibia II with or 

 without an inferior spine, and the vulva as in PI. XV. 

 fig. Q5. 



Lengtii of trunk in ? 5^ mm. 



16. Melanopliora acaulhoqnathus, sp. n. 

 (PI. XV. fig. '(i(j.) 



Specimens. — 7 ? $ from Cape Town and the Cape 

 Peninsula. 



Colour testaceous, the legs sometimes somewhat darkened, 

 the sternum bordered with black ; the abdomen blackened, 

 its ventral surface j)allid, or, at least, paler. 



Anterior row o[ e^es strongly procurved, the laterals larger 

 than the medians, the clypeus longer than u lateral eye; 



