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brick-red, with at most a darker ring at the apex ; the outer surface 

 of the legs blue-black, redder proximately, the larger papillae reddish ; 

 under surface of body and of legs pinkish, becoming pallid in spirits, 



(2) Brick-red forms with black lateral stripes; colour as above, 

 but with more black, giving rise to a distinct lateral stripe on each 

 side just above the light lateral band. 



(3) Black (or dark green) forms with red sides ; colour of whole 

 upper surface dark green or black, with numerous large brick-red 

 papillae evenly scattered about, giving the whole surface a brownish 

 tinge ; the light lateral band above the legs on each side bright brick- 

 red, with scarcely any black pigment ; outer surface of legs dark, 

 with perhaps a few reddish papillae ; ventral surface of body pinkish 

 when alive. This resembles the specimen figured by Sedgwick, 

 1888&, pi. 17, fig. 8. 



(4) Black or dark green forms ; colour of dorso-lateral surface a 

 uniform dark brownish olive-green, an olive-greenish black, or an 

 a;lmost uniform black with a faint tinge of greenish in some lights ; 

 ventral surface pinkish ; the lateral band above the legs on each 

 side lighter in colour but not reddish ; scattered reddish papillae 

 occur, but they are entirely, or almost entirely, confined to the 

 , sides, occurring especially in the light lateral bands and on the outer 



surface of the legs ; or they may be quite absent and replaced by 

 large pallid papillae ; these large reddish and pallid papillae are often 

 entirely absent from the dorsal surface proper and almost absent 

 from the outer surface of the legs ; the black medio-dorsal stripe is 

 always distinct in these, as in all other specimens. 



The young are born throughout the month of April, and probably 

 also in March. When disturbed this species merely shortens itself 

 like capensis, but does not coil up spirally like halfouri and leonina. 



(d) Two large ? (alive), with 22 pairs of pregenital legs, from 

 Aslockton, Dronkvlei, near the Umzimkulu Eiver, Ixopo District, 

 Natal, collected by Mr. E. Marriott and kindly forwarded by the 

 Eev. J. E. Ward (Oct., 1899). Colour of upper surface of body 

 greenish black (blacker when contracted, greener when extended), 

 the usual paler lateral bands above the legs on each side more dis- 

 tinctly green or brownish ; large reddish or whitish papillge present 

 on the sides in the one, almost absent in the other specimen ; under 

 side pinkish, with or without a few dark green papillae along the 

 median line ; legs blue-black externally. 



But the most striking feature of this beautiful variety is the 

 creamy-white colour of the whole of the upper, under, and lateral 

 surfaces of the head between the base of the antennse and the first 



