1897.] MR. U. I. POCOCK ON BTHIOPIAW SPIDERS. 735 



b'. Eyes larger ; anterior laterals about once their 

 diameter from the edge of the clypeus and twice 

 their diameter from the medians, which are 

 separated by a space equalling their diameter ; 4 

 fspines on outer surface of tibia and protarsus of 

 2nd leg ; legs uniform in colouring di/eri, Camb. 



The following species is unknown to me : — 



Moggridgea meyeri, Karsch, Zeits. Naturwias. (3) iv. p. 384 

 (1879), from Hantam (S.W. of Cape Colony nearly midway 

 between Cape Town and the Orange Eiver). 



Family Diplurid^. 

 =Diplurince, Simon, Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 174 (1892). 



The two African genera of this group known to me may be 

 readily recognized as follows : — 



a. Tarsi furnished with distinct ungual tufts; claws with 



a single series of teeth, &c Heterothde, Karsch. 



b. Tarsi without ungual tufts ; claws armed with a 



double row of strong teeth, &c Brachjthele, Auss. 



Genus Brachtthele, Ausserer, 

 Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1871, p. 173; Simon, Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. 



p. 180(1892). 



BeAOHYTHELB BICOIOR, sp. n. 



Colour. Carapace deep brown, clothed with golden yellow hairs ; 

 mandible the same colour, with longitudinal bands of golden hair ; 

 legs ^^nth femora and lower surface of all the segments blackish, 

 upperside of patella, tibia, and protarsus, especially patella, reddish 

 and contrasting with the dark tint of the rest of the appendage, 

 clothed with yellowish hairs intermixed with blackish setae; 

 (abdomen crushed) ; coxae and sternum infuscate. 



Carapace a little longer than patella and tibia of 1st and 4th 

 leg, almost as long as protarsus and tarsus of 4t.h ; fovea a little 

 recurved ; tubercle high, anterior line of eyes slightly procurved ; 

 the eyes nearly equidistant, the space between the medians less 

 than their diameter, laterals smaller than medians ; posterior 

 laterals a little smaller than anterior laterals, their short diameter 

 shorter ; the posterior medians perhaps about half tie size of the 

 anterior medians. 



Mandible armed below with a single inner row of 8-9 teeth ; 

 labium with a single spicule, very short, with convex bristly 

 border ; the sigilla defining it very distinct, meeting in the middle 

 line. _ Sternum oval, the sigilla very distinct, tuberculiform, the 

 anterior two pairs submarginal, the posterior removed from the 

 margin to a space which nearly equals their long diameter. Maxilla 

 without stridulating organ; its internal basal portion thickly 

 armed with a large number of clawed spicules. 



Legs 4, 1, 2, 3 ; tarsi and protarsi of 1st and 2nd scopulate to 

 the base, scopulae more or less scanty but undivided : tarsal scopulse 



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