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other, with its convexity backwards ; inferior and lateral surfaces 

 darker than the superior, the inferior with a pair of yellowish 

 posteriorly dilated bands running from the stigmata posteriorly 

 towards the spinning-mammillse. 



Eyes of anterior and posterior line recurved when viewed from 

 above, those of anterior line also strongly recurved when viewed 

 from the front, the laterals standing much higher than the medians ; 

 median quadrangle a little wider than long, nearly twice as wide 

 in front as behind, the posterior separated by a very narrow space 

 which barely equals half their radius, the anterior separated by a 

 space which is equal to their diameter. 



Legs armed with numerous spines arranged in more or less 

 definite rows ; there being, for example, 6 — 6 on the lower side 

 of the tibiae and protarsi of the 1st and 2nd legs ; spines black at 

 base, pale distally. 



Abdomen longer than wide, widely rounded in front, oval behind ; 

 with distinct black-tipped shoulder-processes, covered with short 

 white hairs, intermixed with particoloured bristles. 



Basal part of vulva very stout when protruded, and consisting 

 of a right and left outer sheath, the halves of which do not meet 

 in the middle line. Viewed from below, the two halves of the 

 outer sheath show as a right and left rim surrounding a central 

 pale portion, upon which rests the short but broad scape, the 

 anterior pai't of which divides the rim of the right side from that 

 of the left. The posterior end of the scape does not project so 

 far posteriorly as the posterior border of the subjacent portion of 

 the vulva. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 12 ; length of cara- 

 pace 5, of abdomen 9, width of latter 7"5. 



Loc. Benito Eiver {G. L. Bates). 



In the form of its vulva and other features this species is 

 evidently related to A. suedicola Simon, from Arabia and (according 

 to Pavesi) from Somaliland, to A. mossambicensis, Pavesi, from 

 Mozambique, to A. similis and striata, Bosenberg and Lenz, from 

 Quilimane, and to A. cyrtoscapus Poc, from the Transvaal. 



Abanefs ehinuetjs, sp. n. (Plate LVI. figs. 9, 9 a). 



Colour. Carapace olive-brown, clothed with yellow hairs ; 

 mandibles, palpi, and legs almost the same colour as the carapace ; 

 distal end of femora, tibiae, protarsi, and the tarsi infuscate, 

 especially on the 3rd and 4th legs ; upperside of abdomen chalky 

 yellow, with dark sigilla spots and fine black line between them, 

 also with a fine reticulated ornamentation of lines between the 



low pigment-spots : the tail and the lower side of abdomen 

 black, with symmetrical bright yellow spots on each side of the 

 spinners. 



Carapace shorter than tibia 1, about as long as patella and 

 tibia 4 ; cephalic region moderately elevated, flattish above longi- 

 tudinally ; ocular quadrangle almost square, scarcely narrowed in 

 front. The eyes large and subequal, posterior medians about a 



