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2. Colowr.—Limbs and carapace mostly dark chestnut or blackish 
brown ; the hairs on the carapace olivaceous to black-olivaceous, the 
lateral fringe often pale; the hairs on the legs mostly dark olive to 
olive-brown ; the shorter hairs of the abdomen black-olivaceous to 
brown, the middle coat composed of black or brown hairs and less 
bristly than in the g, the long reddish hairs often much paler than 
in the g. (In immature specimens the dark dorsal pattern found 
on the abdomen in tigrina, &e., is generally very distinct. In the 
adult this pattern is generally obliterated, but in some of the 
browner individuals, particularly females, it may be indistinctly 
observed, together with numerous small yellowish but not very 
distinct spots on the sides.) 
Carapace a little shorter than, or slightly or considerably longer 
than the metatarsus and tarsus of fourth leg, and as long as the 
tibia and metatarsus together with from 4 to the whole of the 
tarsus of first leg. 
Tibia of first leg short and thick, 22-24 times as long as high in 
the middle, its length varying from nearly 2 to + of the distance from 
the centre of the fovea to the hind margin of the ocular tubercle in 
the adult, and only very slightly exceeding the length of the metatarsus. 
Apical segment of posterior spurners very short, slightly shorter than 
the penultimate segment. 
Measurements.*—Total length 3 26-34, largest 9? 48; length of 
carapace in g¢ 114-144, in 9? 18; length of tibia of first leg in largest 
3 74, 2 74, of metatarsus in J 8, in ? 7; distance from centre of 
fovea to anterior margin of carapace in g¢ 94, to posterior margin of 
ocular tubercle in g 72, in ? 104. 
Lower group of notes on chelicerze formed of 10-18 spines } ir- 
regularly arranged 2-3 deep, more rarely more or less regularly 
biseriate, very slightly, scarcely, or not at all separated from the 
sete of the inferior fringe. 
(6) One g and a number of ? and juv. from Robben Island in 
Table Bay, collected by Mr. R. M. Lightfoot, Mr. A. Tucker, and 
myself. Resemble the specimens from the Peninsula. 
* Total length includes the chelicere but not the spinners; the length of the 
leg segments is taken along the middle dorsal line; the length of the carapace is 
its greatest not its median length. The measurements are in millimetres. 
+ These spines in this as in the other species are short posteriorly and mostly 
curved in a sigmoid fashion, becoming gradually longer anteriorly and merging 
here insensibly into the setz of the oral fringe. Inferiorly the notes are dis- 
tinguishable from the adjacent posterior setz of the fringe by being much shorter 
and mostly diverging from them in direction. The upper series of notes in atra 
varies in number from 5-11 and is generally uniseriate but sometimes irregularly 
arranged 2-3 deep. 
