756 MK. E. 1. POCOCK OH EiHioMAN spiDEiis. [June 1 5, 



Syn. Stromatopelma aZicapi7fa<M)w,Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1881, 

 p. 218. 



The Aranea calceata of Fabricius was based upon a fragmentary 

 specimen from Gruinea ; Sc. ausseren of Becker upon specimens 

 "from Liberia ; and St. alicapillatum, Karsch, upon specimens from 

 Accra in Fantee. Judging from the descriptions given by Becker 

 and Karsch, the two species they described are identical. The 

 Aranea calceata of Fabricius is also certainly identical with one of 

 the species of this genus ; and I see no valid reason for dissenting 

 from Mons. Simon's opinion that it is synonymous with the one 

 that Becker and Karsch have established. 



The British Museum has in all 9 female specimens of this species ; 

 namely 6, varying in length from 19 to 48 mm., from Accra 

 (6r. A. Higlett), one from the Cameroons {Cai?t. Burton), one from 

 Ashanti, and one from the Afran plains, inland of Ashanti. 



ScoDKA GETSEiPEs, sp. u. (Plate XLIII. figs. 7-7 a.) 



5 . A detailed description of this new species is unnecessary, 

 seeing that it apparently only differs from the foregoing in the 

 colouring of the underside of the femora. In calceata. or, to be 

 strictly accurate, in the forms described as aussereri and alicapil- 

 latum, the lower side of the femora of the legs and palpi as well 

 as the inner surface of the femora of the 1st and 2nd pairs and 

 of the palpus are distinctly black, being, like thecoxse and sternum, 

 clothed as Becker describes it, " d'une tres epaisse couche cle poiles 

 noirs courts veloutes," and against the black the bright foxy-red 

 hairs on the outerside of the segments show up conspicuously. 

 But in griseipes, though the sternum and coxae are dark brown, 

 the lower and inner sides of the femora of all the appendages 

 are clothed with whitish-grey hairs, and the long setjB on the 

 limbs are rather yellowish brown than foxy red. 



In the adult the length of the carapace is a little less than or about 

 equal to that of the patella and tibia of the 4th leg, a Httle greater 

 than those of the 2nd leg, and by about the same amount less 

 than those of the 1st, while it falls short of the length of the 

 tibia and protarsus of the 1st leg by more than one-third of the 

 protarsus, and is just about equal to those two segments on 

 the 3rd leg. The proportions seem to be practically the same 

 in Sc, calceata. 



6 . In this sex the legs are relatively longer and more hairy, 

 with longer fringes ; the carapace broader, flatter and more woolly ; 

 the upperside of the abdomen with a thick woolly clothing of 

 hairs copiously intermixed with bristles ; the hairs on the sterna 

 and coxse are paler in colour than in the female, the maxilla 

 showing up darker on account of its scantier clothing. 



Length of carapace equal to that of 4th protarsus, slightly 

 shorter than patella and tibia of 3rd leg, equal to protarsus 

 of 1st 4- the area to the base of the spot on the tarsus, about 

 equal to the patella and tibia of the palpi ; less than the tibia 4- 

 the area to the spot on the 1st leg. The protarsus of the Ist 1 



