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metatarsus of first leg and the tarsus of second leg with a thin 
scopula of short hairs, tarsi of third and fourth legs thickly covered 
below with fine bristles. All the metatarsi and tibizee with strong 
spines or spiniform sete. Claws of anterior legs biseriately dentate, 
with several teeth in each row; claws of fourth leg with a basal row 
of teeth. Metatarsi of anterior legs much longer than the tarsi. 
Coxee as in Homostola Sim., the coxe of the third and fourth legs 
having the inferior medio-basal naked area quite short but that at 
the anterior lower edge long, reaching beyond the basal third of the 
segment. Posterior spinners with the apical segment short and 
hemispherical. 
Type: S. reticulatus n. sp. 
This genus falls into Simon’s group Cyrtauchemee, and appears to 
be related to Aptostichus Sim. or Homostola Sim. and especially to 
Bessia Poe. 
STICTOGASTER RETICULATUS 0, sp. 
Types: 2 2 from Bonnie Vale Farm at Bushmans Drift on the 
Breede River, Swellendam Div. (near Ashton), found by Mr. Charles 
Groom. 
?. Colour (in spirits).—Carapace pale greenish yellow (the cephalic 
portion and the region round the fovea brownish yellow in one 
specimen), faintly infuscated, the cephalic portion with brown lateral 
borders ‘and with or without an infuscate median line; chelicereze 
yellowish brown ; legs pale greenish yellow, the upper surface of the 
patelle and tibiz and often also the greater portion of the distal 
segments pale ochraceous; abdomen pale yellowish, the upper 
surface thickly covered with an irregular network of purplish 
black, in which an irregular median stripe may be made out, the 
under surface with some scattered black marks on its posterior half 
and a few also on the medial side of the posterior lung-books. 
yes of the anterior row with their hind margins forming a slightly 
procurved line, their distance apart equalling or a little exceeding the 
diameter of the median eyes, the lateral eyes not very large, scarcely 
twice as long as the median eyes, their distance from the margin of 
the carapace less than their shorter diameter; the eyes of the posterior 
row with their anterior margins forming a slightly or considerably 
recurved line, the median eyes subequal to or only slightly smaller 
than the anterior median eyes, the posterior lateral eyes as long as 
or a little shorter than the anterior lateral eyes and separated from 
them by 4 or more than 4 their long diameter but much nearer to the 
posterior median eyes. 
Legs.—Tibia of first leg equal to the metatarsus and } or less of 
