188 Annals of the South African Musettm. 



side with two yellow stripes anteriorly but fuscous posteriorly; 

 pedipalps dark brown, the femur at apex (and the fingers in ? ) 

 yellow ; femora of legs yellow distally for less than half their length, 

 tibiae dark brown, yellow only quite at the base ; the sides and 

 superior margins of fifth caudal segment thickly granular in 2 , more 

 sparsely and finely granular in g- , the basal pectinal tooth much 

 enlarged in ? . Length of ^ and ? 47, 47, length and width of fourth 

 caudal segment in <^ 6-3, 2-6, in ? 4-5, 2-9. 



TJroplectes lineatus (C. L. Koch). 



1845. Titytis l, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn., v. 11, p. 7, fig. 854. 

 1891. T. I., Kraepelin, Jhb. Hamb. wiss. Anstalten, v. 8, p. 89. 

 1896. Uroplectes l, Pocock, Ann. Mag. N.H. (6), v. 17, p. 382. 



1899. U. I., Kraepelin, Das Tierreich, Scorp. & Pedip., p. 60. 



1900. U. L, Penther, Ann. Naturh. Hofm. Wien, v. 15, p. 157 

 (localities). 



This very common species occurs only in the southern portion of 

 Cape Colony, where it inhabits an area extending from Cape Town 

 along the south coast eastwards at least as far as Mossel Bay and 

 northwards into the Divs. of Tulbagh and Worcester. Outside this 

 area lineat^ts * is not known to occur, being replaced to the north by 

 carinatus and its allies, and to the east by triangulifer snadformosus. 



The species is subject, as usual, to a certain amount of local 

 variation, chiefly as regards the proportions of the caudal segments, 

 the size of the enlarged terminal tooth of the superior caudal crests, 

 and the colouration. The boundary between the lateral and inferior 

 surfaces in the fifth caudal segment is generally marked by a more 

 or less distinct edge or by a row of granules, but sometimes it is 

 almost obliterated. The enlarged terminal tooth of the superior 

 crests in segments 2 and 3 in the J^ is larger than in the ? , and is 

 rather slender, at least in the apical part, in one or both segments. 

 The tubercle below the aculeus is normally strong and toothlike, 

 laterally compressed and generally more or less pointed, occasionally, 

 however, low and blunt. In young individuals this tubercle is rela- 

 tively longer and slenderer than in the adult. The basal pectinal 

 tooth is never elongated in the ^ , and in the ? it is only moderately 

 enlarged and does not project beyond the apices of the adjacent 

 teeth. The vesicle is yellow, often with several narrow, lightly 

 (rarely darkly) infuscate stripes. 



* Penther states that the species occurs at Mossel Bay and at Grahamstown. 



