520 ME. B. i. pococK OK THE ahachnids collected [June 21, 



Order SOLIFUG^ (SoLruGAS). 



Family Solpugid^. 



Subfamily Ehagodin^. 



Genus Ehagodes Pocock. 



Khagodes oenatus (Poc). 



Rhax oniatus, Poc. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvi. p. 93, pi. iv. 

 fig. 2. 



Loc. Maziwa Mitatu and Samburu. 

 Described from Mombasa. 



Subfamily Solpugin^. 

 Grenus Solpuga Licht. 



SOLPUGA SEMIFUSCA, sp. n. 



Colour. Palpi and limbs a uniform reddish or ochre-yellow ; 

 upper surface of mandibles and cephalic plate a very deep olive- 

 brown or black ; sides of the mandibles yellow, contrasting sharply 

 with the dark tint of the upper surface ; the whole of the upper- 

 side of the abdomen dark ; the whole ol the lo\A'er surface pale. 



Head-j)late : width a little less than length of tibia of palpus or 

 of 4th leg, exceeding the 4th protarsus by about one-third of the 

 tarsus, less than protarsus and tarsus of palp by half the tarsus. 



Dentition of mandible as in S. hnmnipes, the small tooth on the 

 upper jaw following the second indistinctly double. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length (including mandibles) 

 53, without mandibles 40 ; width of head 10-6 ; length of palpus 

 35, of 1st leg 29, 2nd leg 26, 3rd leg 33-5, 4th leg 54 ; tibia of 

 palp 11, its tarsus and protarsus 12 ; tibia of 4th leg 11, pro- 

 tarsus 10. 



Loc. Voi {type) and Samburu. 



Without knowing the male characters it is not possible to 

 satisfactorily determine the position of this species. In general 

 aspect it is much like hrunnipes of Dufour ; but differs from the 

 specimens of that species known to me — namely, one example from 

 Algeria and one from Somaliland (Donaldson Smith) — in having 

 the head and upper surface of the jaws of a uniform blackish tint, 

 hrunnipes being uniformly oclu'e-brown in these parts. 



S. merope of Simon (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1879, p. 112), from 

 Zanzibar, may be allied to this form ; but I know nothing of the 

 proportion of the limb-segments to the head. Possibly the type of 

 merope is young, but, if not, the species is much smaller than 

 semifusca, measuring only 26 mm. in total length ; and, lastly, 

 the 4th legs are described as being infuscate at least in part. 



SOLPUGA ZEBBINA, Sp. n. 



So clost'ly allied to S. scricea Pocock, from Gadzima on the 

 Umfuli Eiver in Mashonaland, 4200 ft. alt. (Ann. Mag. Nat. 



