1897.] ME. R. I. POCOCK Of( ETHIOPIA.IS' SPIDERS. 749 



specimens, including the one from Somaliland, the carapace is only 

 a little longer than the 4th tarsus and protarsus, and a little less 

 than the three terminal segments of the 3rd leg. That the differ- 

 ence is not to be relied upon as of specific importance seems shown 

 by the circumstance that of two of the Museum specimens taken 

 by the same collector, presumably in the same locality, one resembles 

 the type in length of leg-segments, and the other the Pondoland 

 specimens. Unfortunately I have seen no male example of this 

 species. Possibly the discovery of members of this sex will show 

 that some of the forms here identified as tigrina are in reality 

 specifically separable. 



Haepactiea atea (Latr.). 



MijgaU atra, Latreille, Nouv. Ann. Mus. d'hist. nat. i. p. 70 

 (1832). 



Mygale funebra, Walckenaer, Ins. Apt. i. p. 226 (1837). 



Mygah corachui, C. Koch, Die Arachn. ix. p. 37, fig. 714 (1842). 



There can I think be no doubt that the species named coracina 

 by C. Koch is identical with that previously described by Latreille 

 as atra, which Walckenaer intentionally renamed funebra. 



The British Museum possesses an adult male and female from 

 Simon's Town {H. de la Garde), one young female from Iloets 

 Bay, near Cape Town (H. A. Spencer), a second young female 

 from Worcester, Cape Colony {H. A. Spencer), and an adult male 

 from Zululand {J. F. Angus), as well as specimens, male and female, 

 without special locality. 



Some of the distinctive features of this species are set forth in 

 the subjoined table. 



Haepactira lineata, sp. n. 



5 . — Colour. Hairy clothing of carapace greenish black, passing 

 into ochre-yellow at the sides : the plate ornamented as in H. tigrina, 

 but less definitely, with obscurely defined whitish lines radiating 

 from the fovea ; hairs on legs longish, greyish black, those on the 

 sides and lower surface of the femora foxy red ; sternum and coxae 

 obscure blackish brown. 



Carapace exceeding in length the patella and tibia of the 4th 

 leg as well as of the 1st, just about equal to the tarsus and pro- 

 tarsus of the 4th but distinctly less than the tibia, protarsus, and 

 tarsus of the 3rd, and shorter by three quarters of the length of 

 the tarsus than the same segments of the 2nd leg, and just equal 

 to the tibia and protarsus of the 1st. 



Legs 4, 1, 2, 3, the 4th a little longer than the 1st; patella and 

 tibia of 1st longer than those of 4th, tarsus and protarsus of 3rd 

 equal to those of 1st. 



Mandible with the upper series of notes less obHque and less 

 regularly arranged than in the other species, e. g. tigrina, and con- 

 sisting of a nearly horizontal set of about 10 bristles ; the lower 

 series consisting of a cluster of short spines, which, however, are 

 not separated from the adjacent bristles behind the oral fringe. 



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