On the South African “ Theraphoside.” 330 
which it differs in having the carapace and limbs clothed with 
greenish black instead of orange or yellowish hairs. 
iat tounators woe mm. Nae. Nae s.\% 0.2. p.) 199, pl. 8). i: 7 
(pedipalpal bulb of 9 ), 1898, g and ¢ from Malvern, Natal. Appears 
to resemble tzgrina in its colouration and also in the shape of the 
pedipalpal bulb. 
H. pulchripes, Poc., ibid., v. 7, p. 287, 1901, ¢ from Brakkloof, near 
Grahamstown. 1M 
In the Museum are also a number of female specimens from 
various parts of South Africa, which I have been unable to identify. 
As it is very difficult to recognise a species from a diagnosis of the 9 
only, none of these specimens are here described as new. 
Gen. PTERINOCHILUS, Poe. 
PTERINOCHILUS CRASSISPINA, N. Sp. 
(a) One g (type, No. 6252) from the Metopo District, Matabele- 
land, collected by Mr. R. Pillans. 
3. Colowr.—Carapace dark chestnut-brown, covered with almost 
uniformly brownish olivaceous hairs, without paler radiating stripes, 
the marginal fringe composed of yellow and whitish hairs intermixed 
with some dark ones ; the short hairs on the upper side of the femora 
and patelle of legs olivaceous brown, those on the tibizw grey- 
olivaceous, those on the metatarsi and tarsi whitish intermingled 
with pale olivaceous hairs; the hairs on the cheliceree and pedipalps 
mostly olivaceous; the undercoat on the abdomen composed of 
golden-brownish hairs mingled with blackish-brown hairs, the latter 
forming a pattern of paired oblique lines on the posterior part of the 
dorsal surface, as in Harpactira; the middle coat on the abdomen 
of blackish-brown bristles ; the long hairs on the abdomen and limbs 
mostly dark at base, foxy-red in the middle and white distally ; 
sternum and the under side of the coxze and abdomen covered with 
dark olive-brown hairs; apical fringe of white hairs on the segments 
of the limbs very conspicuous, as in Harpactira marksi, n. sp. 
Carapace broad, evenly elliptical, its width quite + of the length, 
its length equal to that of the fourth metatarsus together with 1 of 
the tarsus, and to the tibia together with + of the metatarsus of 
first leg; ocular tubercle somewhat wider than long, its length 
about twice its distance from the anterior margin of carapace ; the 
anterior median eyes large, their diameter equal to the long diameter 
of the anterior laterals and much greater than that of the posterior 
medians. 
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