206 Annals of the South African Museum. 



6|-, length of anterior surface (measured along the middle from 

 proximal side of large basal tooth to distal end of segment) ll-J, 

 width of anterior surface (including bordering crests) 5i ; length of 

 hand 32^, width 10 ; length of hand-back 19, of movable finger 17. 

 This species appears to be near H. tcenmrus (Thor.), which was 

 described from a 5 specimen obtained by C. J. Andersson, who 

 collected in Damaraland, 



Oedee PEDIPALPI. 



Pheynichus scullyi, n. sp. 



Colour of the cephalothorax and pedipalps blackish brown to 

 nearly black, the hands reddish ; abdomen dark brown above, the 

 lateral borders of the tergites, the sides and the ventral surface 

 ochraceous ; legs light brown to yellowish brown, the proximal part 

 of the femora blackish brown. (The two small specimens altogether 

 lighter, with brown cephalothorax and pedipalps, and brownish 

 yellow abdomen and legs.) 



Whole animal thickly granular. 



Cephalothorax If times as wide as long (in the two small ex. 

 about If times), the subspina in front of the oc. tubercle prominently 

 projecting. 



Pedipalps very stout ; the anterior face of the femur and tibia broad 

 and flat, granular, each bordered along both the upper and the lower 

 edges by a row of sharply conical teeth and 5-7 longer spines, the 

 3 distal spines of the upper edge of the tibia subequal and very 

 long ; hand with a strong, curved, conical spine (in the young ex, a 

 large conical tubercle) at the base above, as in Damon; length of 

 the femur somewhat exceeding the width of the cephalothorax in the 

 largest specimen (less than this width in the other examples). 



Localities.— {a) Nieuwoudtville, Calvinia Div., Cape Colony. 

 Typical ex. (reg. no. 6,307, E. B. Watermeyer) ; length of trunk 

 15i-, width of cephalothorax 9^, length of femur of pedipalp 8^. 



(b) Pakhuisberg, Clanwilliam Div. (young ex., B. Schlechter). 



(c) Namaqualand, Cape Colony (young ex., W. C. Scully). 



{d) A large dried ex. without a history ; length of trunk 19 ; length 

 of femur of pedipalp 13^, width in middle 2^, height in middle 2^ ; 

 width of cephalothorax 12^. 



This genus has not previously been recorded from South Africa, 

 where the first specimen was found by Mr. Scully. 



