312 Dr. W. F. Purcell on 



Genus ScOTOPHiEUS, E. Sim. 



Scotoplicrus relegatus, sp. n. 

 (PL XIII. figs. 18 & 18 a.) 



Specimens. — (a) 1 ^ from Cape Town {E. A. Morris). 

 Colour. • — Legs and carapace pale ochraceous ; the head and 

 chelicera testaceous yellow ; abdomen yellowish, darker 

 posteriorly, with large scutum in front. 



Carapace narrowed in front, the widtli of the head across 

 posterior line of eyes being more than \ but considerably less 

 than § of the greatest width of the carapace ; liead much 

 depressed. Anterior row of eyes procurved, the medians 

 largest, their lower margins, seen from in front, in a lino with 

 the centres of the laterals, the length of the clypeus equal to 

 that of a lateral eye, the median eyes only narrowly separated 

 from the laterals. Posterior row of eyes lightly procurved, 

 the median eyes slightly oval, almost rotund, small, being 

 only slio-htly larger than the lateral eyes, their distance apart 

 a little less than an eye's diameter and their distance from 

 the laterals equal to nearly 1^ diameters. 



Chelicera much attenuated at apex, the upper margin with 

 one large and a couple of small teeth and the lower margin 

 with one small tooth. 



MaxillcB rather long, dilated externally at apex, the outer 

 margin being emarginate. 



Sternum rather narrow, strongly attenuated in front and 

 produced. 



Legs stoutish and rather short, the tarsi and anterior meta- 

 tarsi scopulate to the base, the posterior metatarsi scopulate 

 at apex only ; anterior metatarsus with a pair of basal spines ; 

 first tibia with 3 inner and 2 outer spines below and some 

 distal scopular hairs on inner side. 



Pedijmlps. — Patella slightly longer than the tibia (exclu- 

 sive of the process), the two segments together almost equal 

 in lenoth to the small tarsus; lateral process of tibia small, 

 terminating in a sharp incurved claw ; palpal organ with 

 black spiral-shaped distal spine and a rod hook-like process 

 on outer side next to the spine (PI. XIII. figs. 18 & 18 a). 



Length of trunk S^ mm. 



(b) 1 ^ from liobben Island in Table Bay (A. Tucker), 

 measuring only 5 mm. in length. 



There are also a number of females in the Collection appa- 

 rently belonging to several species. 



