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(c) One § from the Pass at Avontuur, near Storms Vlei, Swel- 
lendam Div., found by myself under a stone. Colour of carapace 
and limbs dark brown. 
The Museum also possesses females of the same species from 
Slanghoek (f£. Francke), Rabiesberg near Nuy River Station (W. F’. 
Purcell), and Worcester (I. Mezring), all in the Div. of Worcester. 
Also, a dried ? from Ladismith, Cape Colony (W. EH. Fry). 
In several of these specimens the apical segment of the posterior 
spinners is scarcely as long as the ocular tubercle, although always 
longer than the penultimate segment, while the tibia of the first leg 
may be only 3 times as long as high. The carapace may be as long 
as the tibia, metatarsus and + of the tarsus of first leg. 
This species closely resembles H. lineata, Poc., in the proportions 
of the carapace and legs, but in the latter species the apical segment 
of the posterior spinners is presumably shorter than the penultimate 
segment (see P.Z.S., 1897, p. 745). 
The species described above may be distinguished from the 
following table :— 
MALKS. 
a. Distal part of the process of pedipalpal bulb slender, filiform and very 
flexible, with very slight or no sigmoid flexure. 
a'. Lower group of notes on outer surface of cheliceree very close to the set of 
the inferior fringe. 
a?. Metatarsus of Ist leg only slightly curved, its length equal to the 
distance from the fovea to some point on the ocular tubercle. Apical 
segment of spinners shorter than the ocular tubercle. Carapace 
without pale radiating stripes .. .. eer Lemeeenatnan (Matra) 
b?. Metatarsus of Ist leg generally onal curved in the middle, its 
length exceeding the distance from the fovea to the anterior margin 
of the carapace. Apical segment of spinners not shorter than the 
ocular tubercle. 
a’. Carapace without pale radiating stripes. Tibia of Ist leg 4-44 times 
as long as high in the middle. Process cf bulb becoming gradually 
thinner from the base to slightly beyond the middle, the distal 2 
being very ime and mlitorm 9m sss) 2. “El mankst, nl. sp. 
63. Carapace with distinct pale radiating stripes of hairs. Tibia of 
Ist leg 44-5 times as long as high in the middle. Process of bulb 
becoming rather suddenly thinner at the commencement of the 
distal fourth or fifth of itslength .. 4. H. namaquensis, n. sp. 
bt. Lower group of notes remote from the inferior fringe, the distance between 
the posteriormost notes and the nearest sete being 4-4 of the distance 
between the upper and lower group of notes .. 5. H. cafreriana (Walck.) 
4. Process of pedipalpal bulb stoutish, compressed to the apex, the distal part 
rather broad and flattened but not filiform, with distinct sigmoid flexure. 
Carapace with radiating stripes of paler hairs. 
a+. Metatarsus of 1st leg only slightly curved, its length equal to the distance 
from the fovea to near the middle of the ocular tubercle or less. Apical 
