1902.] 



NEW HARVEST-SPIBERS, 



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Measurements in mm. : — ( J type). Total length 6 ; length of 

 carapace 2"3 ; basal segment of mandible 4, second segment G ; 

 palp about 8 ; femur of 1st leg 10, of 2nd 16, of 4th 12-5. 



Log. Durban {G. F. Leigh). 



Resembling^, minor Loman, from Lower Illovo, Natal, in the 

 presence of three pairs of spines on the ocular tubercle, but 

 differing entirely in its much longer and strongly spicular 

 mandibles. 



Phalajstgium (Guruia) palmatimanijs, sp. n, (Text-fig. 81.) 



cJ . Colour of trunk blackish brown in the middle, pale at the 

 sides ; mandibles infuscate ; palpi a,nd legs yellowish, partiaUy 

 infuscate ; trunk finely granular and segmentally spicular as in 

 P. {R.) S'penceri. Ocular tubercle higher, armed with three long 

 spines on each side ; only two or three small spicules on the ante- 

 ocular area, no prominent one in the middle, one spicide external 

 to the tubercle, three beyond it and some at the margin. 



PJiahtngium [Guruia) palmatimanus, $. 

 A. Carapace and mandible of male. B. Anterior view of mandible of tlie same. 



Mandibles (text-fig. 81, A & B) with basal segment sub- 

 cylindrical, tuberculaily spinous above, externally and below, the 

 tubercles thicker and smaller below ; second segment very large, 

 subglobose, spicular, except internally ; fingers long, widely 

 separated, each with two large teeth and some smaller near the 

 apex. Palpi with trochanter directed transversely, spicular; 

 femiir arcuate, with convexity external, spicular at apex above ; 

 patella tubercular above, with one extei-nal distal spicule, and an 

 internal distal rounded projection, covered with short hairs; tibia 

 a little longer than patella, tarsus longer than the sum of the two, 

 with a small. claw. Legs with coxae, femora, and patellae spic\dar ; 



