new African Arachnida, 287 
Genus HArpactira, Auss, 
Harpactira pulchripes, sp. n. 
? .— Colour. Carapace deep mahogany, clothed with silky 
golden-yellow hairs; mandibles blackish, with stripe of yellow 
hairs above; sternum and coxe chocolate-brown; legs and 
palp1 with femora yellow and clothed above and below with 
silky yellow hairs; upperside of patella, tibia, protarsus, and 
tarsus mahogany-brown, with olive-grey hairs ; underside of 
patella and tibia pale and clothed with long fiery yellow 
hairs, which are longer and redder on the palpi of the first and 
second legs than on those of the third and fourth; abdomen 
olive-black, clothed above and laterally with silky golden- 
yellow hairs and below with olive-black hairs, the opercula 
pale, the upperside indistinctly striped. 
Carapace a little shorter than patella, tibia, and tarsus of 
palp and than protarsus and tarsus of fourth leg, a little 
longer than patella and tibia of fourth or of first leg, and as 
long as tibia, protarsus, and half the tarsus of the third leg. 
Stridulating-bristles on outer side of mandible consisting of 
a single oblique row ; no inferior series differentiated. 
Measurements tn millimetres.—Total length 26; carapace 13; 
first leg 33, second 30°5, third 28, fourth 36; patella and 
tibia of fourth 11°5; protarsus and tarsus 14. 
Loc. Near Grahamstown and Beak Kloof (Jfrs. White) ; 
Jansenville. 
Genus DRESSERUS, Simon. 
Dresserus armatus, sp. 0. 
d .— Colour brown, integument covered with mouse-brown 
hairs, with some white hairs intermixed on the upperside of 
the abdomen. 
Carapace about as long as patella and tibia and half the 
protarsus of first and of fourth leg; its anterior edge armed 
with three forwardly directed spikes, one rising from the median 
ocular tubercle, the others at the sides above and supporting 
the lateral eye; a fine crest or keel running backwards from 
this tubercle to the posterior lateral eye. 
Palpi and legs unarmed. Patella of palp considerably 
longer than tibia, the latter thicker at its distal end, without 
apophysis, and about half the length of the tarsus; bulb of 
palpal organ subglobular, flattened below ; from the outer and 
inner edge of the flattened disk rises a process curved like a 
cat’s claw and hollowed on its concave side. 
Total length 11 millim. ; carapace 6. 
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