1899.J AlifD SPIDEHS FKOM TROPICAL WEST AFltlCA. 841 



Selenogyrus aureus Poc. 



Selenoffytnis aureus, Poc. op. cit. p. 768, pi. xli. figs. 2-2 a. 



Loc. Sierra Leone (no further history). 



Hapnlopus africanus Simon, from Assinie (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 1887, p. 275), perhaps belongs to the genus Sehnogi/rus (see 

 Pocoek, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 774, note). 



Genus Miaschistopus Poc. 



MlASCHISTOPUS RAPIDUS PoC. 



Miaschistopus rapldus, Poc. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 770, 

 pi. xli. fig. 5. 



Loc. W. Africa {Keyserling Coll.). 



Subfamily Eumenophortx^, 

 Pocoek, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, pp. 772 & 773. 



Genus EuMEiifOPHORUs Poc. 



EuMENOPHORUS C'LEMENTSI Poc. 



Eumenophorus clementsii, Poc. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 766. 



Loc. Sierra Leone {Surg.-Capt. Clements). 



Genus Phone yusa Karsch. 



Phoneyusa, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 347 (type P. helan- 

 dana Karsch). 



Harpaxotheria, Simon, Actes Soc. Linn. Bord. 1889, p. 413 

 (type, H. antilope Simon). 



The species of Spiders here and in my previous paper on the 

 African fauna referred to Phoneyusa have been identified as 

 belonging to that genus on the strength of M. Simon's statement 

 (Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 154, 1892) that the type species of 

 Phoneyusa and Uarpaxolheria are congeneric. 



Nevertheless it is possible that the two forms will prove gene- 

 rically separable. If Karsch's description of P. helandana is reliable, 

 that species differs from all the species which I refer to Phoneyusa 

 and which doubtless belong to Harpaxothena, in the strict sense of 

 the word, in the following features :— 



a. Carapace about one third longer than broad (.34 : 22|) ; 



sternum also about one third longer than broad 

 (154 '■ lOi) ; tibiffi of legs with many apical spines, 8-9 

 on the 1st and 2nd, 4 on the 3rd and 4th lelandaiia Karsch. 



b. Length of carapace and sternum exceeding the respective 



widthsby less than one quarter of the length ; tibiie of 



legs in ^ at most with a pair of apical spines antilope B\\n. 



occidentalis, Luc, hiittnerl, Karsch (? spinal armature). 



