750 MB. B. I. POCOCK ON ETHIOPIAN spiDEKS. [June 15, 



Measurements in millimetres. Total lecgtli (abdomen shrivelled) 

 35 ; length of carapace 21 (contracted in width from drying) ; 

 length of 1st leg 50, of 2nd 47, of 3rd 42, of 4th 51 ; patella and 

 tibia of 1st 19, of 2ad 17, of 3rd 15, of 4th 17-5. 



Loc. S. Africa {Dr. A. Smith). 



Habpactira curtipes, sp. n. 



5 . — Colour. Hairy clothing a tolerably uniform mouse-brown ; 

 fine whitish but indistinct bands at the extremities of the 

 segments of the legs ; coxae and sterna darker; abdomen with lateral 

 blackish stripes. 



Carajiace the same length as the tibia and patella of the 1st leg 

 and 4th leg, distinctly shorter than the protarsus and tarsus of the 

 4th and. shorter by about one-third of the tarsus than the tibia, 

 protarsus, and tarsus of the 3rd. 



Legs 4, 1, 2, 3 ; patella and tibia of 1st and 4th about equal ; 

 protarsus of 4th distinctly bowed, convex internally. 



Measvrements in millimetres. Total length 24 ; length of carapace 

 11 ; of 1st leg 29, of 2nd leg 26-5, 3rd leg 24-5, 4th leg 31 ; 

 patella and tibia of ]st and of 4tb, tarsus and protarsus of 

 4th 12-5 ; tibia, protarsus, and tarsus of 2nd 13-5, of 3rd 13. 



Loc. Natal. A single female specimen. 



Harpactira ciirtsogaster, sp. n. (Plate XLIII. figs. 5 a-o b.) 



cj . — Colour. Carapace covered with greenish-black hairs ; its 

 margin like the upper side of the coxa and trochanter, with longer 

 foxy-red hairs ; mandibles and limbs clothed with greenish- 

 black hairs intermixed with a coating of long setae of a greyish-red 

 tint ; apices of femora, patellae, tibiae, and protarsi with a narrow 

 transverse band of reddish hair ; abdomen covered with hairs of 

 a fiery red, indistinctly banded laterally with dark markings ; 

 sternum and coxae dark, with a scanty clothing of red-tipped 

 bristles. 



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

 legs, its width just about equal to length of 4th protarsus ; length 

 of the clypeus about equal to half the length of the tubercle. 



Legs 4, 1, 2, 3; patella and tibia of 1st and 4th about equal, 

 protarsus of 4th excelling the protarsus and half the tarsus of the 

 1st ; tibiae of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd with a pair of inferior apical spines, 

 and of 4th with an additional posterior spine ; 3rd and 4th legs with 

 a few spines at tip as well as at base of scopula. Tibia of the male 

 with normal spur ; protarsus but little modified, only slightly 

 convex above at the base. Palpal organ of substantially the same 

 shape as in H. atra. 



Mandible with the inner scopula thick ; the upper series of 

 notes consisting of an oblique series as in H. tigrina ; but the 

 lower series composed of a thick cluster of shorter and longer 

 spines removed some distance from the fringe ; the notes on the 

 maxilla numbering about fifty or more. 



Measurements in millimetres. Total length 31 j length of cara- 



