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NEW SOUTH AFRICAN TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS OF THE 
FAMILY CTHENIZIDA IN THE COLLECTION OF THE 
SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. 
BY Ws Eh PurcHmn Pu.D., 
First Assistant im the Museum. 
(Communicated September 4, 1901.) 
The South African Ctenizid@ appear to be very imperfectly known, 
comparatively few species having been hitherto described. The 
present paper contains descriptions of 19 apparently new species 
belonging to 10 genera, of which 4 are new, but this by no 
means exhausts the number of new forms in the Collection as a 
number of new species, unfortunately represented by female speci- 
mens only, and belonging principally to the genera Hermacha and 
Hermachastes, have been left undescribed pending the discovery of 
the males. 
Gen. STASIMOPUS Sim. 
STASIMOPUS LEIPOLDTI N. sp. 
Type: 1 @ (No. 2909) found by Mr. C. L. Leipoldt near the 
village of Clanwilliam, Cape Colony. 
@. Colowr.—Carapace brown, yellowish posteriorly; chelicerse 
blackish brown, with coppery hairs anteriorly; pedipalps and 2 
anterior pairs of legs brown, the coxe of the legs brownish yellow, 
the 2 posterior pairs of legs lighter brown above, more or less pale 
yellowish at the sides and below in most of the segments; abdomen 
pale yellowish, the genital operculum covered with black hairs ; 
sternum brownish yellow, the anterior and lateral borders brown, the 
posterior border pale yellowish. 
Carapace as long as the patella and tibia together with a little over 
half the metatarsus of first leg, and equal to the tibia, metatarsus 
and about 4+—1 of the tarsus of fourth leg. 
Ocular area very wide, its width behind equal to the metatarsus 
together with # of the tarsus of first leg, and almost equal to the 
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fourth metatarsus ; the anterior row, when viewed from above, with 
