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tinged with reddish brown throughout. No fleshy hairs on second 

 abdominal segment. 



Localities. — (a) 1 <? (type) from Eobertson, Cape Colony {W. F 

 Purcell). 



{h) 1 3- from Touws Eiver Station, Worcester Div. {W. F. Purcell). 



(c) 1 ? from Worcester {B. M. Lightfoot). 



(d) 2 ? or juv. from Brandvlei, Worcester Div. (I. Meiring). 

 Found hiding under stones in the daytime. 



Blossia kareooica, n. sp. 

 (Fig. 5.) 



(? . Colour pale yellowish ; the cephalothorax towards the sides, 

 the distal segments of the pedipalps and a considerable portion of the 

 fourth leg more or less faintly tinged or marked with dark brown ; 

 the chelicerae with 1 lateral and 2 dorsal darkish lines. 



Cephalothorax with some long, notched, cylindrical bristles instead 

 of spines near the sides and in front, and a row of still longer ones 

 at the hind margin. 



Abdominal tergites with some stout notched bristles or slender 

 spines on anterior segments ; second abdominal segment below with 

 2 clusters of 3 fleshy hairs each, almost meeting distally in the 

 median plane, the hairs long, filiform and curved. 



Pedipalps with the cylindrical bristles on the dorsal surface of the 

 iibia as long as those on the metatarsus ; the ventral surface of each 

 of these segments with 3 long, strong, very distinct, equidistant 

 spines in their middle part. 



Chelicerce with numerous shorter and longer, mostly apically 

 notched bristles instead of spines ; the distal dorsal bristle curved, its 

 proximal half stout and minutely granular (except at the base), the 

 distal half slenderer, subulate and smooth. Dorsal finger with the 

 superior edge slightly convex and the lower edge almost straight, the 

 tip of the finger curved sharply downwards and tooth-like ; the 3 

 distal teeth largest, the first laterally compressed, obtuse and very 

 near the apex of the finger, followed closely by the second tooth, the 

 second and third teeth pointed, with long posterior edges, the fourth 

 and sixth teeth small with the larger fifth tooth between them, 

 followed by several other teeth of the double series ; on the outer 

 surface of the finger just at the base of the distal tooth is a sharp 

 external tooth, distinctly visible from above. Ventral finger with 3 

 pointed teeth in its middle part, the intermediate tooth small ; in 

 front of these is a large outer tooth with long, straight, posterior 



