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is as long as the fourth metatarsus together with 2-4 of the tarsus, 
and equal to the first tibia together with 4-3 of the metatarsus. In 
the ? the tibia of the first leg is 3 or very slightly over 3 times 
as long as high, its length being equal to that of the metatarsus 
together with about + of the tarsus, while the carapace is as long as 
or considerably longer than the fourth metatarsus and tarsus 
together, and as long as the tibia, metatarsus, and }—2 of the tarsus 
of first leg. The apical segment of the spinners is longer than 
usual, being longer than the penultimate segment and generally 
equal to or only very slightly (rarely considerably) shorter than 
the ocular tubercle. Total length of largest g and 9 37, 55; length 
of carapace § 163, 9 24, of tibia of first leg g 104, ¢ 114, of 
metatarsus g 84, 9 94; distance from fovea to anterior margin of 
carapace in g 114, to posterior margin of ocular tubercle in $ 9, 
in @ 134. : | 
(d) Four large ? andl ¢ collected by Mr. F. A. Pym, near King- 
williamstown. Large specimens, closely resembling those from Hast 
London. | 
(e) Two g found at Bizana, East Pondoland, by Mr. HE. H. L. 
Schwarz and Mr. A. W. Rogers of the Geological Commission. 
Very darkly coloured specimens closely resembling those from Hast 
London. 
The Museum also possesses females from Port Alfred in the 
Bathurst Division (dry ex., Miss Bowker), Umtata (L. H. Sitwell), 
and the Bedford Div. ( H. S. Stephenson). 
7. HARPACTIRA DICTATOR, 0. sp. 
(a) Three $ and 2 ad. 2 (types, No. 8838), all from Bonnie Vale 
Farm, in the Swellendam Div. (close to Bushmans Drift on the 
Breede River and a few miles from Ashton). They were dug out 
of the ground and collected by Mr. Charles Groom during the con- 
struction of a water-furrow. 
3. Colow’.—Carapace and limbs black or almost black ; the coat 
of short hairs on the limbs mouse-grey, the tips of the shorter 
bristles, the distal part of the long hairs, and the apical fringe of the 
leg segments pale or whitish, tinged with foxy-red ; carapace with a 
marginal fringe and numerous radiating bands composed of pale, 
reddish-yellow, silky hairs, these bands, however, not so well defined 
as in tigrina; the interspaces with blackish-green hairs; abdomen 
with an undercoat of silky reddish-yellow hairs, a middle coat of stiff 
black bristles, and a coat of long, pale, foxy-reddish hairs, but 
without distinct spots or dark pattern above; sternum and under 
