Htth-known Thclyphonitlje and Solifugaj, 303 



Loc. Mashonalainl : Salisbury {G. A. K. Marshall). 



Only one species of the genus Jilossia is up to the present 

 lime known, namely I>. spi'nosa of tSimon (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 \^^0, ]). 400), from Lower Egypt and Algeria. 'J'hc genus, 

 however, has been recorded from 8. Africa by Kraepelin, 

 who mentions but refrains from naming, except as doubtfully 

 sptnosnj some females procured at Moritzburg (? Pieter- 

 maritzburg). More probably these females belong to the 

 species here described, which at least differs from Ji. spinosa 

 in the dentition of the jaws of the mandible. In li. spinosa 

 the fourth tooth of the upper jaw is a little larger than the 

 tir.st and second, and in the lower jaw there is only one 

 intermediate minor tooth. 



Genus Gluviopsis, Kraep. 

 Gluviopsis atratuSy sp. n. 



? . — Colour mostly a tolerably uniform deep blackish 

 brown, relieved by the pale-coloured bristles and hairs; lower 

 surface and base of appendages Havous; legs of first and 

 second pairs mostly pale, tarsus and apex of tibia of third and 

 fourth legs pale. 



Width of head about equal to length of patella and to tibia 

 and tarsus of palp, shorter than patella and longer than tibia 

 of fourth leg ; mandibles beset above with slender erect 

 cylindrical bristles; upper jaw strong, convex above, slender 

 and depressed apically, the first and second teeth large. 



Palpus about three times as long as width of head ; patella 

 armed below with 4-5 pairs of short slender spines; tibia 

 with 6 pairs of stouter shorter spines ; tarsus also furnished 

 below with bristles and spines on inner side. Tarsi of 

 second and third legs hairy beneath, armed apically with 4 

 pairs of spines and with I anterior basal spine ; tarsus of 

 fourth armed with 6 pairs of spines. 



(J. — Much more coarsely and thickly spined than female. 

 Terminal fang of jaws long and slender, the upper nearly 

 straight, bent slightly downwards. Paljn long; patella and 

 also tibia and tarsus about once and a half times the width of 

 the head ; patella of fourth leg nearly twice as long atid tibia 

 about one fifth longer than width of head. Modified bristles 

 of second abdominal sternum long, slender, incrassate, then 

 apically acuminate, three in number on each side. 



Measurtments in millimetres. — 



Tibia and 

 Width uf LeuRtli of Length of l\Uella tarsus 

 head. palpus. first leg. of pali). of palp 



[if) 11-5 17r/ y-(3 y(; 



a 13 20 4-8 48 



