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the anterior and 4-6, besides, sometimes, some very minute ones, in 

 the posterior row. 



Labium blackened, with white apex. Sternum about J longer than 

 wide, blackened (or yellowish and spotted with black), the median 

 pale band clothed with white hairs, the lateral parts with reddish 

 hairs. 



Legs for the most part olivaceous or blackened, marked and banded 

 with yellow ; femora with a narrow yellow band at end of basal 

 two-thirds (sometimes absent) ; tibia of third leg (and sometimes of 

 first and second legs) in middle and of fourth leg near the base with 

 yellow band ; metatarsi of the 2 anterior pairs with 2 yellow bands 

 or spots (sometimes absent or confluent), those of the 2 posterior 

 pairs with a broad band in middle ; tarsi pallid, at least at base. 



$ $ . Carapace about J as long as the first metatarsus, the median 

 band on the thoracic portion narrower than in the $ , the anterior 

 median eyes larger, less than 2 diameters apart, and not more than 

 a diameter from the posterior median eyes. 



Abdomen more cylindrical, the anterior half of the dorsal surface 

 differently marked, being provided with a large, triangular, longi- 

 tudinal, yellowish or whitish area, which extends on each side 

 behind to the apex of the dorsal tubercles, and is divided, at least 

 posteriorly, by a dark median stripe without lateral horns ; the 

 yellow area bordered on each side by a broad dark band. Under 

 surface of abdomen with broad median dark band bordered on each 

 side by a narrower white stripe, the 4 lunate marks not differentiated. 



Legs longer, olivaceous, the metatarsi mostly paler, the tarsi pallid, 

 the 2 posterior pairs of metatarsi with a broad white band in middle, 

 the other bands obsolete. 



Pedipalps pallid at base, the distal part of femur and the 3 distal 

 segments infuscated or black, the tibia clavate, the tarsus hemi- 

 spherical, the palpal organ with a curved and flattened, claw-like (but 

 not cruciform) lobe ascending from the centre of the coiled stylus. 



Measurements. — Length of abdomen and carapace, ?' 7, cT 6f mm.; 

 length of carapace, ? 3-^-, $ 3, of first leg (from apex of coxa), $ 20, 

 $ 32, of fourth leg, ? 12, $ 14f . 



Gen. MIAGEAMMOPES, O. P. Cambr. 



MlAGEAMMOPES CONSTRICTUS, n. Sp. 



1 ad. ? (No. 982) from Durban, Natal (J. P. Cregoe, October, 

 1896), resembling M. brevicauda, O. P. Cambr. (P. Z. S., 1882, 

 pi. xxxi., fig. 12a), in general shape. 



