On the South African ** Theraphoside.”’ 325 
Spinners very long, the apical segment subfusiform, from 14 to 
nearly twice as long as the penultimate segment, and from 14 to 
nearly twice as long as the ocular tubercle. 
2. Colour of limbs and carapace mostly brown, sometimes nearly 
black ; abdomen dark brown, thickly speckled with grey spots and 
patches, the usual dark pattern on the back indistinct. i 
Carapace as long as the metatarsus together with from 2 to the 
whole of the tarsus of fourth leg, and shorter than or slightly 
exceeding the tibia and metatarsus of first leg. 
Tibia of first leg 3-82 times as long as high in the middle, its 
length equalling or slightly exceeding that of the metatarsus, and 
from $ of to equal to the distance from the fovea to the hind margin 
of the ocular tubercle. ie * 
Apical segment of posterior spinners subfusiform, the proportions 
as in the male. | 
Measurements of Ookiep speciomens.—Total length of g 37-48, of ? 
49; length of carapace in § 173-184, in ? 20; length of tibia of first 
leg in largest g 13, in ? 104, of metatarsus in g 14, in ? 10; dis- 
tance from fovea to anterior margin of carapace in g 12, to posterior 
margin of ocular tubercle in ? 11. 
The lower group of notes on the chelicere are 8-15 in number, 
and either irregularly arranged and not at all or scarcely separated 
from the setze of the inferior fringe, or more or less regularly uni- 
seriate and then generally very slightly separated from the fringe, 
this latter being generally the case in the males. 
(5) One g and several ? and juv.; old spirit specimens labelled 
“Vouws iver, Woreester Diy. (Dr W. PP. Le Feuvre and W. 
Mellet). The apex of the process of the pedipalpal bulb is un- 
fortunately broken off in the g, but otherwise these specimens do 
not appear to differ from the Namaqualand form. 
(c) One ¢g, an old spirit specimen labelled ‘“ British Kaffraria.’’ 
This locality is very vague and doubtful, but the specimen is in- 
teresting on account of the proportions, the tibia of the first leg 
being only 44-42 times as long as high, its length only equalling 
the distance from the foyea to the anterior margin of the ocular 
tubercle. Other characters much as in the types. 
O. HARPACTIRA CAFRERIANA (Walck.). 
1837. Mygale cafreriana, Walckenaer, Ins. Apt. v. 1, p. 225, pl. 5, 
f. 1D (3) and 1E (pedipalpal bulb), ¢ and @ from ‘“ Caffraria.’’ 
1837. ?M. villosa, Walckenaer, ibid., p. 226, ? from ‘““Cape of Good 
Hope.” 
