new South- African Spiders. 333 



Maxillce broad at base, obtuse at apex, emarginate exter- 

 nally. 



Cheliccra with about 3 minute teeth on superior iuuer 

 margin, but none on lower margin. 



Legs stout, especially the femur, patella, and tibia of first 

 pair; tibia I and II unspined below; metatarsus I uns[)ined, 

 II with 1 (rarely 0) outer and 2 inner, stout, short spines. 



Vulva as in PI. XV. fig. 63, with a large, transversely 

 striated, anterior area. 



$ $ . Legs. — Tibial I and II with 3-4 outer and 2-4 inner 

 spines below, II with 1-3 upper spines as well ; metatarsi I 

 and II with 2 inferior pairs of spines, II with an inner 

 superior spine as well. 



I^ed/palps. — Tibia together with its large process much 

 longer than the patella ; palpal organ as in PI. XV. fig. 64, 

 with a long slender black spine, which arises anteriorly and 

 coils round the upper and outer side and ends on the lower 

 surface. 



Length of trunk, ? ? 4|-8, c? <? 5^ mm. 



(b) 1 $ from Kurumau in liritish iJechuanaland (6r. E. 

 Ijeare^. 



Very distinct from any of the species described above. 



15. MelanopJiorco arida, sp. n. (PI. XV. fig. 65.) 



Specimens. — 1 $ and 1 juv. from Laingsburg, Prince 

 Albert Div., collected by my wife and myself. 



Very closely allied to the foregoing, but with the abdomen 

 pallid above, the posterior row o£ eyes not wider than the 

 anterior row, the posterior lateral eyes being nearer the 

 medians (but further from them than the latter are from one 

 another), the chelicera with a minute inferior tooth and 4—5 

 minute superior teeth on inner margin ; tibia II with or 

 without an inferior spine, and the vulva as in PI. XV. 

 fig. 65. 



Length of trunk in ? 5^ mm. 



16. Melanophora acanthognathuSf sp. n. 

 (PI. XV. fig. 66.) 



Specimens. — 7 ? ? from Cape Towii and the Capo 

 Peninsula. 



Colour testaceous, the legs sometimes somewhat darkened, 

 the sternum bordered with black ; the abdomen blackened, 

 its ventral surface pallid, or, at least, paler. 



Anterior row of eges strongly procurved, the laterals larger 

 than the medians, the clypeus longer than a lateral eye ; 



