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Naroep, but it applies equally well to the other examples from 

 Bushmanland enumerated below. 



(J ? . Colour, including that of under surface, varying from a rich 

 dark brown to black or greenish black, the fingers and also often the 

 manus of pedipalps and the distal parts of the legs lighter brown ; 

 third sternite of abdomen generally with, a wide, triangular, pallid 

 mark. 



Pubescence generally dense on the limbs, the sides and under 

 surface of tail, the hind margins of the abdominal tergites, and the 

 surface of the last abdominal sternite ; the hairs reddish yellow, 

 particularly long on the tail but short and velvety on the fingers 

 of the pedipalps. 



Cephalothorax more depressed and relatively wider than in the 

 •other species of the genus ; the granulation of the upper surface 

 •dense, especially coarse in the large specimens, the oblique depressed 

 area on each side of the median eye-tubercle well marked, with much 

 finer and, especially in the ? , sparser granulation ; median eye- 

 tubercle broad, granular before and behind and generally also in the 

 ^groove above, the eyes small, their distance apart at least 3 and often 

 nearly 4 times their diameter. 



Tergites 1-6 finely granular in their anterior, more coarsely 

 ..granular in their posterior part ; segment 7 coarsely granular laterally 

 but broadly shagreened mesially. 



Sternites. — Segment 1 finely granular laterally but smooth 

 mesially in ? and juv. $ , finely granular throughout or more 

 or less smooth behind in the middle in the ad. <y ; segments 2-5 

 .granular at lateral and especially at lateral anterior borders in 

 the ? , more extensively granular laterally and sometimes also very 

 minutely granular mesially in the ad. g ; last segment granular 

 laterally and, in the $ , sometimes also mesially. 



Tail stout, the segments successively and regularly decreasing in 

 width from the first to the fifth, the first always considerably wider 

 than the fourth ; fifth segment high, the first intermediate in 

 height between the fourth and the fifth (not including the superior 

 teeth) or equal to the fourth ; vesicle very large, its width from 4 to 

 almost equal that of the fifth segment at the widest part of the latter, 

 the posterior part of this segment being generally equal to, but some- 

 times slightly greater or less than the vesicle in width. 



Segments 1-4 with 10 strong granular keels, those on the under 

 side of segment 1 generally more or less smooth anteriorly, the infero- 

 median keels of segment 4 abbreviated posteriorly and often irregular 

 .and scarcely distinguishable in the coarse granulation of the under 



