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Carapace parallel-sided, evenly rounded in front, its length 1$ 

 times its width in the middle, its surface dark olivaceous-brown, 

 yellowish at the anterior and lateral margins. The 4 principal eyes 

 subequal, forming a slightly recurved row, the medians nearly twice 

 as far from each other as from the lateral eyes and placed just 

 behind the anterior fourth of the carapace, the lateral eyes placed in 

 the centre of a broad low elevation. 



Anterior pair of legs olivaceous, the sides of the femur and the 

 sides and under surface of the tibia more or less yellowish, the sides 

 of the tarsus and metatarsus reddish -yellow, the hair covering some- 

 what rubbed off, the short hairs white but the under side of the tibia 

 and the upper and under sides of the metatarsus with a thick mane 

 of longer white-tipped brown hairs ; the three posterior pairs of legs 

 pale yellowish, but the inner surface of second pair on the femur, of 

 third pair on patella and distal part of femur and both inner and 

 outer surfaces of patella and distal part of femur of fourth pair dark 

 olivaceous or blackened. 



Abdomen cylindrical, constricted near the anterior end, the caudal 

 portion short, as in brevicauda ; colour whitish or yellowish- white, 

 the dorsal surface with a strong, blackish olivaceous, median band 

 which widens posteriorly and spreads over the caudal portion, and is 

 marked on each side with 3 small, deep black dots ; anterior half of 

 abdomen also with a dark dorsal mark on each side and a larger deep 

 black mark in the lower part of the lateral surface ; under surface 

 with 2 narrow, dark, parallel, longitudinal lines; caudal portion, 

 especially below, densely covered with fulvous hairs. 



Sternum dark along the middle, yellowish laterally in the expanded 

 portion. 



'Measurements. — Length of trunk (carapace + abdomen) 9 mm., of 

 carapace 2J, of abdomen 6f ; width of carapace in middle 1J. 



Family DICTYNIML 

 Gen. AUXIMTJS, E. Sim. 



1. AUXIMUS SCHREINEEI, 11. sp. 



Specimens. — (a) 4 2 2 , 3 $ $ , and a number of young (Nos. 

 9460 and 11876) from Hanover, Cape Colony, collected by Mr. S. C. 

 Cronwright Schreiner in 1901. 



Closely resembling A. capensis, Poc, but with different vulva and 

 with the pattern of yellow spots on the abdomen practically obsolete. 



Carapace as long as the metatarsus and f-f of the tarsus of first 



