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brown, the shorter hair-covering olivaceous, but the leg segments 
without an apical fringe of conspicuously white hairs. There 
appears to be no sufficient reason for separating this form from 
the typical marks. 
3. HARPACTIRA GIGAS, Poc. 
. 1898. Hf. g., Pocock, Ann: Mag. N. Eins! 7500.1) pcos ie uiner: 
Barberton, Transvaal. 
The Museum possesses a single large dried ? from Barberton, 
agreeing exactly with the type in its proportions, as given by 
Pocock. The posterior spinners are somewhat shrivelled up, but 
the apical segment exceeds the penultimate segment in length, and 
is at least not shorter than the ocular tubercle. 
4. HARPACTIRA NAMAQUENSIS, N. sp. 
(a) Three 3, 2 @, and several juv. (types, No. 3975), all from 
Ookiep, excepting one which came from Kraaifontein (Dr. Ff. H. 
Howard); 2 g and 1 ¢ from Concordia (J. H. C. Krapohl); 1 2 
from Steinkopf ; all these localities in the Div. of Namaqualand, Cape 
Colony. 
3. Colour of limbs and carapace dark brown to black; under 
coat of short hairs on the legs mouse-grey to mouse-brown, the 
tips of the shorter bristles and the distal part of the long hairs 
pale brownish to whitish; the dense hair at the lateral borders 
and the radiating bands on the carapace pale ochraceous to pale 
cream-coloured, the dark hairs almost or.quite absent, even 
alongside of the ocular tubercle; abdomen almost uniformly 
golden- brown, the middle coat of bristles dark brown to nearly 
black. ‘ 
Carapace somewhat longer or shorter than the metatarsus of fourth 
leg, and equal to the tibia together with over } but less than 4 the 
metatarsus of first leg. 
Tibia of first leg 44-5 times as long as high in the middle, its 
length distinctly and generally considerably less than that of the 
metatarsus, but subequal to or more or less considerably exceeding 
the distance from the fovea to the anterior margin of carapace. 
Metatarsus strongly curved in the middle and always much longer 
than the distance from the fovea to the anterior margin of carapace. 
Bulb of pedipalp with the process rather long, almost terete, 
thick throughout the greater part of its length, excepting the distal 
1 or 4, which becomes rather suddenly very slender, filiform, and 
4)? 
flexible. 
