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the tibia is rather slender and only very slightly thicker than the 
metatarsus (in Hermacha the tarsus is cylindrical and not attenuated 
distally). The rastellum is composed of a number of slender and 
moderately stout sete. The inferior claw of the anterior legs is 
very minute and only with difficulty distinguishable; the superior 
claws are long, with numerous teeth in 2 series, the superior claws of 
the posterior legs slender. The posterior spinners are very stout. 
The tarsi of the fourth legs are spined. 
Type : P. straminea n. sp. 
PIONOTHELE STRAMINEA N. Sp. 
Type: 1 g (No. 8586) found by Mr. C. L. Leipoldt, near Rondegat, 
about 5 miles south of Clanwilliam. 
3. Colowr very pale ochraceous; the abdomen still paler, with 
about a dozen black spots above; the carapace with numerous, fine, 
black bristles near the margins, especially posteriorly, and some very 
fine, long, yellowish, silky hairs, the surface otherwise almost glabrous. 
Carapace about as long as the metatarsus of the fourth leg and 
equal to the metatarsus and about 3 of the tarsus of first leg. 
Ocular area.—Anterior row of eyes (seen from above) scarcely 
procurved, the eyes subequal in size, the laterals about 4 their 
diameter from the anterior margin; posterior row somewhat re- 
curved, the eyes subequal (or the medians smaller), very much 
smaller than the anterior eyes, the lateral eyes distant about 4 their 
diameter from the anterior lateral eyes and narrowly separated from 
the posterior median eyes. 
Labiwm muticous. Coxe of pedipalps with a small toothed area 
of about 15 teeth at the base. 
Posterior spinners very thick, the apical segment short, scarcely 
longer than wide and almost as long as the second segment, the 
2 distal segments together slightly shorter than the basal segment. 
Anterior spinners very short, nearly twice their diameter apart. 
Chelicere short, with about 6 teeth below in the inner row. 
Pedipalps.—Femur with some spiniform sets (and spines ?) above. 
Patella with a spine above. Tibia with 2-3 distal spines on the 
inner, 0-1 on the dorsal and 1 on the outer surfaces. Bulb globoso- 
turbinate, the process slightly longer, very fine and straight, reaching 
backwards beyond the middle of the tibia. 
Legs.—Tarsi I-III unspined, IV with a single long spine 
near the middle of the upper outer edge. Metatarsus I straight, 
scarcely slenderer than the tibia, with 2 outer and 2 inner spines 
