172 Annals of the South African Museum. 



' (k) 1 juv. $ from Great Namaqualand, Gerraan Soutli-West Africa 

 {Dr. B. Marloth). Movable finger with 14 anterior flanking teeth. 



Distribution. — This species is not known to be common anywhere 

 in Cape Colony, where its principal locality appears to be the whole 

 of Namaqualand Division and Great Bushmanland. South of Nama- 

 qualand it is very rare indeed, but it appears to extend not only over 

 the same area as neglectus, but considerably to the east of this as 

 well. 



P. granulatus is a very well defined species, its principal characters 

 being the small vesicle, the rudimentary middle lateral crests on 

 fourth caudal segment, the deep groove on first segment, the granu- 

 lation of the surfaces and superior crests of fourth and fifth segments, 

 the slender brachium, and the absence in the ? of a prominent 

 posterior lobe on the basal lamella of the scape of the pectines. 

 The sex of a specimen can often be determined with certainty only 

 by means of the genital stylets. 



P. fulvipes (Sim.), from German South-West Africa, is undoubtedly 

 identical with this species, and closely agrees in colouration with 

 specimens from Bushmanland, as does also Pocock's recently 

 described subsp. fuscus from the Kalahari, in which, however, the 

 patellae as well as the femora of the legs are uniformly infuscated 

 (Ann. Mag. N. H. (7), v. 7, p. 285, 1900). P. pallichis Poc. from 

 Mombassa is apparently a very closely allied form. 



I have been unable to identify with certainty the following South 

 African forms from the specimens in the Museum : — 



P. dilutus, Thorell (Atti Soc. ital., v. 19, p. 103, 1887). Described 

 as a variety of villosus and differing from it in the yellow colouration 

 and finer granulation. The exact locality of the type, which was 

 preserved in the Museum at Stockholm, is unknown. 



P. segnis, Thorell (loc. cit., p. 110). Described as a doubtful 

 variety of hrevimanus and doubtfully referred by later authors to 

 capensis (H. and E.), but the identity of the two forms is very 

 improbable, as the type of segnis in the Gothenburg Museum was 

 obtained by C. J. Andersson, who collected in Damarala^nd and 

 Ovampoland. 



P. mosamhicensis, Peters (Monatsb. Berlin. Ak., 1861, p. 516). It 

 is highly improbable that this species, which was found by Peters 

 at Tette on the Zambesi, can be identical with capcnsis (H. 

 and E.). 



P. rauchis, Simon (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6), v. 7, p. 377, 1887). Found 

 by Dr. H. Schinz in German South-West Africa, and closety allied to 



