402 MR. R. I. pococK OX SOME [Dec, 2, 



the spines on the base of the inner side of the femur of the palp 

 are mvich smaller, and the tibia is armed internally with longer 

 hair -tipped papillae. 



Measurements in mm. : — ( J ) Total length 7-5 ; palpus 5 ; 

 1st leg 8, 2nd 13, 3rd 9, 4th 12. 



Log. Grahamstown in S. Africa {Dr. Sch'&nland). 



This species at least differs fi'om A. ohtectum and A. lutens 

 Loman, from Knysna, in having the ocular tubercle rounded on 

 the summit instead of angularly acuminate, and also in the 

 armature, at least of the femur of the palp, and apparently of the 

 first leg, since Loman gives the presence of spines beneath the 

 femur of this appendage as a generic feature. With A. asperatum 

 Karsch, which was probably from Port Elizabeth, where Mr. I. L. 

 Dr^ge resides, it is not possible to make any comparison. 



Genus Larifuga Loman. 



Phalangium rugosum Guer. (Icon. Reg. Anim. iii. Arachn. 

 p. 12, pi. iv. fig. 4 (nee 4a-46), 1829-1843'; also Gervais, Ins. Apt. 

 iii. p. 128, 1844), the type of which was in Keyserling's Collection 

 and is now preserved in the British Museum, belongs to the genus 

 Larifuga Loman, but seems to approach I'ather nearer the genus 

 Adceum than does the typical species L. imheri, since the sternum 

 is apparently less sharply angular and therefore not so markedly 

 pentagonal in shape. It further differs in that the ocular tubercle 

 is not apically acuminate, but bears 4-5 tubercles on the summit ; 

 the dorsal scute is gi-anular, with smooth transverse segmental 

 areas separated by bands of granules arranged in 2-3 rows, each 

 of the segments being marked by at least one pair of small sub- 

 median tubercles, those of the last being in line with a transverse 

 row of coarse tubercles, while those of the first are almost lost 

 amid the granules that lie behind the ocular tubercle — the 

 tubercles, in fact, are practically the same in number and position 

 as in Z. i«e&ej'i ; anteriorly the carapace has one median porrect 

 tooth and five large subvertical teeth above the anterior border. 

 The three anterior free terga have a row of coarse tubercles, the 

 first of them having as well a row of granules ; the anal tergite 

 has smaller, more scattered tubercles ; there is a transverse 

 row of granules on the sterna. Ooxse beset with scattered 

 granules. The basal segment of the mandible with a distal row 

 of fine tubercular teeth, the external the smallest. Trochanter 

 of palp with three strong spines below ; femm* with about five, 

 the two basal the largest Ijut unequal. 



1 In Gu&-m's original description, reference is made to pi. iv. fig. 4 h, which pur- 

 ports to represent the ventral surface of the specimen numbered 4. It is evident, 

 however, that this drawing of the ventral sui-face is taken from some species of 

 Phalangiidae and not from the specimen shown in fig. 4. This is clearly proved by 

 the difierence in the size of the palpi of the two. Fig. 4 6 probably represents the 

 underside of the European Phalangium, the ocular tubercle of which is shown by 

 fig. 4 a. 



