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Of a ^ . — Total length 65 ; length of cephalothorax 6f , width 7-J- ; 

 distance of eyes from anterior margin 2i, from posterior margin 3^ ; 

 length of femur of pedipalp 6, of tibia 6, of hand-back 3, of movable 

 finger 6^ ; width of femur 1|, of tibia 2, of hand 14 ; length of 

 tail 39|^ ; length and width of first caudal segment 4f , 5, of second 

 51, 5i/of third 5i 51-, of fourth 6f , 5, of fifth 7^, 4f , of sixth 7^, 3;} ; 

 height of fourth segment 4^, of fifth 4 ; length and width of upper 

 surface of first segment 31-. 



Locality.— This description has been taken from 13 ad. ^ , 12 ad. 

 ? , and a large number of young of various sizes from Slanghoek, 

 Worcester Div. 



Besides these, however, there are a number of specimens of all 

 sizes from many different localities, making a total of nearly 300 in 

 the Collection. These have been compared with the above descrip- 

 tion and found to agree with it so closely that I have been able to 

 detect scarcely any differences worth mentioning. In some males 

 the number of the pectinal teeth runs up to 38. The largest ? 

 (from Worcester) measured 97 mm,, and the largest ^ (from 

 Brakkloof) 66 mm. 



The species in its typical form appears to be confined to the 

 southern districts of Cape Colony.* It is generally very plentiful, 

 and occurs nearly everywhere within its area of distribution, w^hich, 

 so far as known, extends along the south coast from the Divisions 

 of Tulbagh, Worcester, and Caledon in the west, as far as Port 

 Elizabeth and Albany in the east. This area includes the moister 

 coast-strip as well as the southernmost parts of the more arid 

 karroo. 



The following is a list of localities from which specimens of the 

 typical form have been obtained : — 



A. With the movable finger normally with 12-13, or with 13 

 anterior flanking teeth, in the latter case varying in some specimens 

 to 12 or 14. [Western Districts.) 



(a) Tulbagh Div. — Piquetberg Eoad Station (2 examples, B. Jf. 

 Lightfoot); Waterfall Mountains, near Tulbagh Eoad Station (2 ex., 

 B. M. Lightfoot, F. Treleaven). 



(b) Worcester Div.— Slanghoek (49 ex.,B. Francke, W. F. Purcell) ; 

 village of Worcester (18 ex., B. M. Lightfoot, I. Meiring, W. F. 



* Penther records it from Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Eobinson Pass (north 

 of Mossel Bay Div.), Grahamstown, and the Div. of Albany. The locality 

 "West Africa," given by some authors, is doubtless founded on mistaken 

 identification. 



