208 Amials of the South African Museum. 



SOLPUGA LETHALIS C. L. Kocll." 



Additional localities. — {a) Concordia, Namaqualand Div. ( <? , 

 /. H. C. Krajjohl). 



(&) Asliton, Eobertson Div. (^ , E. de Wet) ; also Bonnie Vale 

 Farm near Bushmans Drift on the Breede Eiver (near Asliton), 

 Swellendam Div. ( ? , Gh. Groom). 



SoLPUGA VENATOR PoC. 



Additional locality. — Dunbrody, on the Sundays Eiver, Uitenhage 

 Div. (3 3^ , 5 ? , and 7 juv., Bev. J. A. O'Neil; also 1 2 , E. H. L. 

 Schivarz and A. W. Bogers). Apex of flagellum reaching to between 

 the anterior and posterior margins of the eye-tubercle ; the $ and 

 juv. occasionally with a very minute additional tooth just in front of 

 the third or intermediate tooth of the upper finger of one of the 

 chelicerae. 



According to Kraepelin (Das Tierr., Palp, and Sol., p. 57), the 5 

 of this species is distinguishable from that of lethalis by the posses- 

 sion of a number of short truncated cylinder-bristles on the ventral 

 surface of the tibia of the pedipalp, similar to those on the metatarsus. 

 Although this is the case in the ? of venator from Namaqualand, it 

 is not so in the specimens from Dunbrody,! in which the truncated 

 cylinder-bristles, although plentiful on the metatarsus, are very scarce 

 or almost entirely absent from the under surface of the tibia in the 5 , 

 all or almost all the short bristles on this surface being slender and 

 notched at the apex. I know of no reliable character for distinguisliT 

 ing the ? of these two species. The best character so far appears to 

 be the number of intermediate teeth in the single series of the upper 

 finger of the chelicerse. 



SoLPUGA CEEVINA Purc. 



8 (? of this species were recently obtained at Steinkopf, Nama- 

 qualand Div., by Mr. M. Schlechter. The anterior of the two inter- 

 mediate teeth of the upper jaw may be quite absent (as was also the 

 case in the ? previously recorded by me from this place, loc. cit.,. 

 p. 417), or present and minute, as in the type. 



* The literature of the species of Sol]pucja is given in Kraepelin, Das Tierr.),. 

 Palp, and Sol., 1901. ; 



f As no cf of lethalis has as yet been found anywhere near this locality, these- 

 ? cannot well be considered as belonging to the latter species. 



