310 Dr. W. F. Purcell on 



Anterior legs unspined. 



Posterior median eijes large, angular, subcontiguous, and 

 about their own diameter from the laterals. 



Pedipalps with the tarsus narrower and symmetrically oval 

 in outline when seen from above, its length almost equalling 

 that of the patella and tibia together (inclusive of the tibial 

 process) ; surface of the tarsus with slender scattered spines 

 and spiniform setse, the inner edge with some stronger curved 

 spines, the outer edge convex, not sinuated. Palpal organ 

 also smaller, appearing as in PI. XIII. fig. 14, when seen from 

 below; the medial distal process of the bulb with simple apex 

 and provided near the middle on the upper surface with a 

 single erect tooth (only seen on lifting the tarsus, as in 

 PI. XIII. fig. 14 a). 



Chelicera with strongly oblique inner distal margin, the 

 upper margin with a strong keel-like tooth remote from the 

 apex, the medial sinus short and deep. 



Length of trunk 7|, of carapace 3j mm. 



This may, perhaps, be the ^ of D. calceatus, sp. n.. from 

 the same locality, but in the latter the infuscated markings 

 on the abdomen are obsolete, while they are strongly marked 

 in D. helena. 



9. Drassodes IJregei, sp. n. (PI. XIII. fig. 15.) 



2 ? ? from Port Elizabeth (.7. L. Drhje, July 1899). 



Colour of carapace yellow or rufescent, the head and cheli- 

 cera reddish ; legs yellowish or reddish yellow ; abdomen 

 pallid, with numerous black spots in rows, the under surface 

 with or without spots ; sternum reddish yellow, with darker 

 edges. 



Closely resembling D. lojyhocjnathuSj sp. n., but with 

 different vulva, the transverse cavity and fold in front of the 

 horseshoe-shaped ridge found in all the females of Drassodes 

 described in the preceding pages being absent. Appearance 

 of vulva in spirits as in PI. XIII. fig. 15. 



Chelicera with the two inferior teeth rather small, slightly 

 unequal. 



Length of trunk 6 mm. 



10. Drassodes ereptor, sp, n. 

 (PI. Xm. figs. 16&17.) 



Specimens. — (a) 5 $ ? from the Hot Baths at Montagu 

 (IF. F. P., November 1902). 



$ $ . Colour. — Carapace and sternum mahogany-brown, 



