1897.] MR. B. 1. POCOCK ON ETHIOPIAN SPIDEES. 759 



Legs : tarsal scopulse entire : protarsal scopulae also undivided, 

 except partially so on the 4th, on the 1st and 2nd legs extending 

 practically to the base of the segment ; covering about two-thirds 

 of the segment in the 3rd leg and half in the 4th ; legs unarmed 

 except for a pair of spines at the tips of the tibiae and protarsi 

 beneath ; length 4, 1, 2, 3 ; patella and tibia of 4th about equal 

 to those of the 1st ; claws unarmed. Spinners considerably more 

 than half the length of the carapace. 



Tibia of <S armed with a single spine-tipped tuberculiform 

 process. 



MoNOCENTROPTTS BAiPOUEi, sp. n. (Plate XLT. figs. 1-1 a.) 



Colour. Carapace covered with olive-yellow pubescence, showing 

 a pinkish tinge towards the margin ; legs covered with olive-brown 

 hairs ; the base of the femora and upperside of the trochanters 

 greyish white ; the lower side of the femora clothed with whitish 

 or yellowish- white hairs and contrasting very forcibly in colour 

 with the chocolate-brown tint of the coxae and of the segments on 

 the distal side of the femora ; abdomen furnished with long 

 greyish-red hairs at the side, black beneath. 



Carapace moderately convex, its cephalic area not strongly 

 elevated ; a little longer than the 4th protarsus, shorter than 

 patella and tibia of 4th leg. 



Eyes not very itnequal in size ; the anterior medians if anything 

 the smallest, distinctly smaller than the anterior laterals, and 

 separated by a space that about equals their diameter, a little 

 nearer to the anterior laterals ; a straight line touching their front 

 borders cutting near the centres of the laterals ; posterior median 

 about as large as the posterior lateral and closer to it than to the 

 median. 



Tibia of cJ armed with a low tuberculiform process beset with 

 two tufts of rigid lanceolate spines ; the lower surface of the 

 anterior two pairs of femora as Mell as the femur of the palp 

 furnished externally ^^■ith long thickly-set hairs, tibia of palp also 

 thickly hairy below ; tarsus of palp apically thickly scopulate ; the 

 bulb globular, the lightly arcuate spine rising abruptly from its 

 posterior portion {see figure). 



Measurements in millimetres. Total length 34 ; length of carapace 

 16, width 13 ; length of 1st leg 50, of 2nd 47, of 3rd 45, of 4th 

 53 ; patella and tibia of 1st 18-8, of 2nd 16-5, of 3rd 15, of 4th 18. 



Loc. Socotra. A single adult male example (/. B. Balfour). 



Genus Akoploscelus, nov. 



Carapace oval, much longer than wide; the fovea deep and 

 transverse ; ocular tubercle moderately elevated, close to edge of 

 carapace ; the anterior line of eyes very nearly straight, only 

 slightly procurved. 



Legs without spines except at the extremities of the tibias and 

 protarsi ; the Ist protarsus scopulate almost to the base, 2ud with 



