Sf'cries of Spiders from Mashonalaml. '^'.^^ 



Mtcrommatn Darlingi^ sp. n. 



^ . — Cofotir. Integument of legs and carapace yellowish 

 brown, speckled with black and mottled with a mixture of 

 yellowish a>id bhickish hairs; ventral surface of cara|)ace 

 paler; upperside of abdomen covered with a coating of 

 bhickish and fiery yellow hairs niixeil, lower side pale yellowish 



Carapace a little shorter than patella and tibia of first leg, 

 much shorter than those of fourth. 



7l^cs of anterior line somewhat strongly recurve 1 by their 

 centres, the medians much smaller than laterals and with Lheir 

 inferior edges a little below the level of those of the latter ; 

 eyes of posterior line slightly procurved. 



Vulva consisting of a large horny plate, impressed with a 

 deep and longitudinally oval pit, closed in front and opening 

 behind, where the vulva terminates in a pair of lobes sepa- 

 rated by a median tongue-shaped process. 



Total leiiglh 1 2 millim. ; carapace 5 ; first leg 14, second 16, 

 third 14, fourth 17. 



Loc. Mazoe (t/. .^. Darling). 



Sparassus claviger, sp. n. 



($ . — Resembling S. Krio/eri, Sim. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 Ixv. p. 488, 1897), in colour and size, but apparently differing 

 at least in the form of the tibial apojihysis of the male, whicii 

 is directed obliquely downwards and forwards, and ends in 

 a sharp point, its uj^per or anterior edge being sinuous 

 and its inferior edge ])roduced in its basal half into a semi- 

 circularly rounded lobe; at the base of the aj)ophysi3 on the 

 outer side the tibia bears a subquadrate lobe, which is 

 hollowed beneath and forms the postero- external wall of a 

 cavity for the rece|)tion of |)art of the palj)al organ ; this organ 

 is furnished behind with a large, internally directed, striate, 

 clavate process. 



Total length 9 millim.; carapace!; second leg 23, fourth 20. 



Loc. Salisbury {G. A. K. Mardall). 



Sparassus Darling i, sp. n. 



cJ . — Closely allied to S. chiviger and S. Kriigeriy but with 

 the distal half of the tibial apophysis bent downwards at a 

 light angle to the proximal half, with its upper and lower 

 edges evenly arched, the pale external ])rominence on the 

 tibia smaller than in S. daviger, but the ridge bounding the 

 inferior excavation stronger and semicircular, the outwardly 



