1897.] MR. E. 1. pococE ois" ethiopiajS' spiders, 755 



rest of these and the other limbs clothed with foxy-grey hairs ; 

 abdomen blackish above, black and grey hairs intermingling ; at 

 the sides the greyish hairs predominate, while below the area 

 between the spinners and tlie lungs is again black. 



Carapace distinctly longer than patella and tibia of 4th leg but 

 less than those of 1st and greater than tarsus and protarsus of 1st ; 

 the central tubercle in the middle of the fovea not rising above the 

 level of the surrounding area of the carapace and consequently much 

 wider at the base than it is high, its basal width a little excelling 

 that of the ocular tubercle, which is high, wider than long, not 

 quite twice as long as the clypeus. Eyes as in Hat-pactira ; space 

 between the medians rather less than their diameter, which about 

 equals the space between the laterals and is not greater than their 

 long diameter. 



Legs 1, 4, 3, 2 ; patella and tibia of 1st considerably longer 

 than those of 4th ; tarsus and protarsus of 3rd a little shorter than 

 those of 1st ; tarsus and protarsus of 4th about equal to patella 

 and tibiu of 1st ; legs spiny as in Harpactira ; 3rd but little thick- 

 ened ; protarsus of anterior legs unmodified in male ; tibial spine 

 as in Harpactira, i. e. consisting of a curved conical process tipped 

 with a long curved spine. Palpal organs on the same plan as in 

 Harpactira and Pterinochilus. 



Measurements in millimetres. Total length 35 ; length of cara- 

 pace almost 18, width 15 ; length of 1st leg 54, of 2nd 47, of 3rd 

 41, of 4th 54 ; patella and tibia of 1st 20, of 4lh 17. 



Loc. Salisbury, Mashunaland (J. ffolliott Darling). 



Two adult male examples. 



Apart from some differences of colour this species may be at 

 once recognized from the preceding by the small size of the 

 cephalothoracic tubercle. There is no evidence that this distinction 

 is merely of sexual importance. 



I dedicate this species to Mr. Gruy Marshall, who has been 

 good enough to collect many Arachuida for the British Museum 

 both in Mashunaland and Natal. As long ago as the spring of 

 1895, he sent me an example of this genus from Salisbury ; but 

 the specimen unfortunately had the carapace crushed in the region 

 of the fovea, so that the clue to its generic peculiarity was 

 destroyed and the example was set aside as an uniden tillable 

 species allied to Harpactira. 



Subfamily TheraphosiNjE. 

 Q-enus Scodra. 

 Scodra, Becker, CE,. Soc. ent. Belg. 1879, p. cxlii ; Simon, Hist. 

 Nat. Araignees, i. p. 174 (1892). 



Stromatopelma, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1881, p. 218. 



Scodra calcbata (Fabricius). 



Syn. Aranea calceata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii. p. 427. 

 „ Scodra aussei-eri, Becker, OR. Soc. ent. Belg. 1879, p. cxlii ; 

 ibid. 1881, pL 2. fig. 1. 



