752 MB. B. I. POCOCK OS ETHIOPIAN SPIDERS. [June 15, 



Harjjadira elevata, Karsch, ibid., from Tette and Mozambique, 

 is possibly also a Ptmnochilm ; but according to Bosenberg it is 

 synonymous with //. cJioi-data, Gerst. (see Jahrb. Hamb. Anst. 

 xii. p. 27, 1894). 



These species very likely belong to the genus PterinocJiilus. 



Genus Pterinochilus, nov. 



Allied to Earpadira, but differing in the entire absence of the 

 stridulating organ, the area on the mandible below the feathery 

 pad being merely sparsely clothed with simple setae, without 

 ' notes •■ ; while the opposable area lying on the maxilla? between 

 the suture and the oral fringe is also clothed with simple setae. 

 No feathery scopula on the inner surface of the mandible. 

 Lastly the apical segment of the spinners is long and slender, 

 being longer than the 2nd segment and not shorter than the basal 

 segment. 



Type, P. vorax, sp. n. 



PTEErNOCHiLTJS voKAX, sp. n. (Plate XLIII. figs. 3-3 e.) 



Carapace blackish brown, clothed with hairs of an olive-grey 

 tint, shining in parts with a silky golden lustre ; edge of carapace 

 and upper side of coxae and trochanters clothed with long golden 

 yellow hairs ; hairs of the same bright tint on the upper surface of 

 the mandible and the base of the femora on the upper side ; legs 

 covered with yello^^ ish-brown hairs intermixed with black ; 

 tibite speckled with whitish spots ; a rim of whitish hairs at the 

 distal end of the upper side of all the segments, except the tarsus ; 

 inner side of anterior femora greyish black, outer and lower sides 

 Hke the posterior two pairs of femora, clothed with yellowish-red 

 hairs ; abdomen covered with a mixture of blackish and yellowish 

 hairs indistinctly spotted, sides and lower surface with an outer 

 coating of long reddish-yellow hairs ; sternum and cox£B of 

 anterior appendages fuscous, posterior coxae clothed with redder 

 hairs than the anterior. 



Carapace just about equal to the patella and tibia of 4th leg, 

 shorter than those of the 1st and shorter than tarsus and pro- 

 tarsus of 1st, not quite one-fourth longer than wide, the width a 

 little excelling the length of the patella and tibia of the 3rd leg, 

 and a shade greater than the protarsus of the 4th ; length of 

 clvpeus about half that of the ocular tubercle. 



'Median eyes separated by space a little less than their diameter, 

 which is less than the long diameter of the other three ; space 

 between the laterals less than diameter of anterior medians. 



Legs 1, 4, 2, 3, the 1st and 4th subequal ; armed with very few 

 spines ; tibiae with a pair or a few more at the tip beneath ; pro- 

 tarsi of 3rd and 4th with a spine on each side at the base of the 

 scopula and a few spines above and below at the apex of the 

 segment, femur of 3rd thicker than the others ; the protarsus of 

 Ist ( c?) with its inner border strongly hollowed out in the basal 



