New South African Trap-Door Spiders. 379 
Gen. LEPTHERCUS nov. 
Closely allied to Hermacha Sim., but differing in having the 
inferior claws of the anterior legs larger and very distinct, the ocular 
area wider, twice as wide as long, the coxa of the pedipalps 
muticous, and the tibia of the first pair of legs in the § provided 
with a long, spine-tipped, spur-like, apical tubercle at the inner 
inferior edge. Other characters as in Hermacha. The rastellum is 
composed entirely of slender and moderately stout sete. The 
outer row of teeth on the under side of the chelicere is composed, 
as in Hermacha, of a short posterior series of minute denticles. 
The posterior spinners are long and slender. 
Type: L. dreget n. sp. 
LEPTHERCUS DREGEI N. sp. 
Type: 1 3 (No. 5692) from Doornnek in the Zuurbergen, 
Alexandria Div., Cape Colony, discovered by Mr. J. L. Drége. 
3. Colouwr.—Carapace pale ochraceous, black-edged, with long, ap- 
pressed, yellowish and pale olivaceous, silky hairs, the margins, espe- 
eially behind, also with black bristles; chelicere pale ochraceous, 
with bands of pale yellowish hairs above; legs pale ochraceous, the 
femora very pale below but lightly infuscated above, the tarsi whitish 
on the under surface and on the sides, except at the apex and base; 
cox below and the sternum pale yellowish ; abdomen pale yellowish, 
the under surface with some black spots posteriorly, the upper 
surface with a broad median mark, half a dozen pairs of obliquely 
transverse stripes and several other spots black. 
Carapace as long as the metatarsus and }—1 of the tarsus of fourth 
leg, subequal to the tibia and 4 the metatarsus and to the metatarsus 
and about 3 of the tarsus of the first leg. Fovea wide, the bottom 
transverse. 
Ocular area.—Anterior row of eyes scarcely procurved (seen from 
above), the lateral eyes about 4 longer than the medians and distant 
from the anterior margin nearly twice the length of the median eyes ; 
posterior row of eyes scarcely recurved, the median eyes oval, about 
as long as the anterior medians, the posterior lateral eyes as long as 
the anterior laterals and separated from them by about + or + of 
their length and narrowly separated from the posterior median eyes. 
Labium and core of pedipalps muticous. 
_~ Posterior spumers long and slender, a little longer than the sternum 
and labium together and about 2 as long as the abdomen, the apical 
segment subequal to the basal segment but considerably longer than 
