South African Arachnida. 221 



C&plialothorax strongly produced in front, the apex slightly trun- 

 cated in front of the large eyes and bearing 2 spines ; the upper 

 surface covered with a number of short obtuse spinules, with some 

 longer spines at the sides and along the hind margin. 



Abdomen with some short spines on the dorsal surface and a row 

 along the hind margin of the tergites ; ventral surface with numerous 

 apically notched, cylindrical bristles, the second and third segments 

 each with 2 clusters of obovate, apiculate, fleshy hair-structures, 

 2 in each cluster, near the hind margin, the fourth and fifth 

 segments with a long transverse row of longer and much narrower 

 oblanceolate, pointed bristles. 



Total length 7|-, length of pedipalps 8f , of fourth leg 10. 



Locality. — 1 $■ from Styrkraal, near the Orange Eiver, in the 

 northern part of Kenhart Div., Cape Colony [Max SchlecJiter). No 

 species of this genus has been previously recorded from South 

 Africa. 



Gen. HEXISOPUS Karsch. 

 Hexisopus lanatus (C. L. Koch). 



Additional Locality. — 3 S' fi'om Bladgrond, Great Bushmanland, 

 in N.W. of Kenhart Div., Cape Colony (Max ScJilechter). In these 

 specimens the rim of the cup which forms the base of the flagellum 

 is straight or nearly so, the procurrent portion of the shaft is not 

 distinctly keeled below, and the ocular tubercle is shorter and less 

 conical in front. 



In the (J from Grasmond, described in a previous paper (Ann. 

 S, A. Mus., V. 1, pp. 385-386, fig. 6), the upper rim of the cup is 

 slightly bent downwards, so as to partially cover the opening, as 

 shown in the figure, while the procurrent portion of the shaft is 

 distinctly keeled below. 



The recurrent portion of the flagellum appears to be evenly 

 rounded above in all the specimens (not feebly sulcate above, as 

 previously stated on p. 386). The dorsal finger of the chelicerae of 

 the (? , also, is provided on its inner surface from above the base 

 of the flagellum to the base of the red terminal fang with a number 

 of very short, mostly blunted, pale or reddish spines, the distal ones 

 longer and very dense, forming a tooth-like tuft which is situated on 

 a level with the distal edge of the granulated oval area. 



The length of the segments of the claws is very variable, the basal 

 segment being sometimes much longer (^ from Bladgrond), some- 



