162 Annals of the South African Museum. 



(e) A very young specimen from Namies, Great Bushmanland, 

 Kenhart Div. {M. Schlechter) ; fingers and base of aculeus pale 

 yellow. 



In the Museum are also the following specimens from German 

 South- West Africa : — 



(/) 2 large ? stated to have come from Great Namaqualand {Dr. 

 B. Marloth). Differ from the Bushmanland specimens in having the 

 sides and under surface of the cauda more thickly granular (the 

 •distribution of the granulation closely resembling that of neglectics), 

 the infero-median crest of segment 5 more or less distinct, the second 

 caudal segment grooved mesially above, its shagreened area reaching 

 to near hind margin, the movable finger with 16 anterior flanking 

 teeth, 



(g) 1 ad. <3^ (old dried specimen) labelled " Walfish Bay," Damara- 

 land {Carrington Wilmer). Median crest of fifth caudal segment 

 more or less distinct, shagreened area of second segment as in the 

 Bushmanland specimens, hand very stout, 1^ times as wide as the 

 tibia, movable finger with 16 anterior flanking teeth. 



P. villosus is distributed along the west coast of Africa between 

 the Congo and Benguela in the north {teste Pocock) and Bushman- 

 land in Cape Colony in the south. In all specimens from this wide 

 area the first caudal segment has been found to considerably exceed 

 the fourth in width, this being the case in all our specimens, in 

 Thorell's, and in Pocock's from the Congo and Benguela. This 

 character may, therefore, be regarded as a constant one for the 

 species, and to it may be added the uniformly dark colouration, the 

 dense pubescence, and the very wide vesicle. 



7. Paeabuthus transvaalicus Pure. 

 1899. P.t., Purcell, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., v. 1, p. 434. 

 ? . Colour dark olive-green to nearly black, the tail for the most 

 part dark brown between the keels, the legs and pedipalps dark 

 brown to nearly black, the fingers and the distal portions of the legs 

 yellowish; ventral surface of abdomen much paler, yellowish or 

 yellowish brown, the pectines pale yellow. 



Gephalothorax much broader than long, densely and, in the large 

 $ , rather coarsely granular throughout, the anterior half of upper 

 surface often with a number of hairs as in neglectus, the eye-tubercle of 

 moderate size, granular, the superciliary ridges smooth, the eyes 

 rather small, the distance between them 2-2| times their diameter. 



