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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENEEA AND SPECIES OF 

 SOUTH AFEICAN SPIDEES. 



By W. F. Purcell, Ph.D., 



First Assistant in the South African Museum, Cape Town. 



(Bead June 29, 1904.) 



Plates X., XL 



The present paper contains descriptions of 4 new genera and 62 

 new species of South African Spiders contained in the Collection of 

 the South African Museum. 



With the exception of 3 new species of Prodidomidce, all of them 

 belong to the groups Mygalomorphcs (Migidce, 1 n. sp. ; Ctenizidce, 

 1 n. gen. and 5 n. spp. ; Barychelidcs, 2 n. spp.), Cribellatce 

 (Uloboridce, 1 n. gen. and 3 n. spp. ; Dictynidce, 4 n. spp. ; Eresidce, 

 6 n. spp.), and Ecribellatcz Haplogynce (Sicariidce, 19 n. spp. ; 

 Dysderidce, 1 n. gen. and 11 n. spp. ; Caponiidce, 1 n. gen. and 

 8 n. spp.). 



Family M1G1DM. 



MOGGRIDGEA NIGRA., n. Sp. 



2 ? ? (Nos.* 12761-2) with their nests, found in a wall at Ashton, 

 Eobertson Div., Cape Colony, by Mr. T. O'Connor in May, 1903. 

 Very closely allied to M. coegensis, Pure. (Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. hi., 

 p. 71). 



Colour much darker, dark brown to nearly black, the 2 posterior 

 pairs of legs and the patellae of the 2 anterior pairs a little lighter ; 

 under surface (also of abdomen) pale ochraceous or greenish ochra- 

 ceous, the coxae of the pedipalps and the labium reddish-yellow. 



Carapace longer and less rotundate, its width not more than If 

 times that of the ocular area (the width of the carapace in M. coegensis 



* Numbers in Museum Catalogue. 



