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Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 7. 5. 25. 11. Original 

 number 24. Collected bj Mr. C. VV. Turner on 27th Feb- 

 ruary, 1906. 



Ilab. Aberfeldy Dist., O.R.C. 



Other specimens from Ladybrand and Vredefort show that 

 this form extends all over the Orange River Colony, and even 

 to Bechuanaland. 



Pedetes cafer salino', subsp. n. 



Size and general characters as in true P. cafer. 



General colour above as in P. cafer, though slightly paler, 

 much redder than in P. c. orangm; the ground-colour of the 

 hairs " vinaceous cinnamon" rather than ''pinkish buff," 

 and the proportion of black greater. The underside quite 

 as in P. G. orangi'ce. 



Skull-characters as in true P. cafer. 



Dimensions of type : — 



Plead and body 398 mm.; tail 464 ; hind foot 144 ; ear 70. 



Skull : upper length 90 ; basilar length 63 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 57. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 6. 4. 3. 86. Original • 

 number 1345. Collected by Mr. C. H. B. Grant on 30th 

 December, 1905, and presented to the Museum by Mr. C. D. 

 Rudd. 



Hah. Woodbush, Zoutpansberg Dist., N.W. Transvaal. 



Two other specimens taken at the same time and place do 

 not materially differ from the type. 



IV. — Descriptioyis of new Species of African Spiders and 

 Solifugc^. By A. S". HiEST. 



Pterinochilus Hindei, sp. n. 



J . — Cephalotlwrax equal in length to patella, tibia, and 

 tarsus of maxillipalp and considerably shorter than patella 

 and tibia of fourth leg. Ocular tubercle considerably longer 

 than broad, the clypeus narrow. 



Legs. 4, 1, 2, 3. Metatarsus of first leg sinuate, with the 

 distal end slightly thickened, and leaving but little space 

 between metatarsus and spur of tibia when closed on tibia; 

 tibia of first leg more slender than femur. Patella and tibia 



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