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(Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 243), the abdomen being pale greyish, 

 with a pair of infuscate lines near median line in front and a row of 

 fainter, more lateral, infuscate marks on each side more posteriorly 

 on dorsal surface, the sides and under surface with some scattered 

 infuscate dots posteriorly ; carapace and legs marked as in reticu- 

 latus. 



Other characters also very similar except : 



Tibia and metatarsus of first leg each with only 3 pairs of spines 

 below and 1 other spine on the inner surface (the metatarsus some- 

 times with 3 and the tibia sometimes with only 1 apical spine). 



Vulva a simple convex area with a large blackish mark on each 

 side ; the hind margin narrowly browned, emarginate in the middle 

 (PI. X., fig. 4). 



Length of carapace and abdomen 6 mm. 



Family EKESID^E. 



Gen. STEGODYPHUS, E. Sim. 

 1. Stegodyphus canus, n. sp. 



Specimens. — (a) 43 2 ? and 9 young (No. 3697) from Naroep, 

 Great Bushmanland, Namaqualand Div. (Max Schlechter, March, 

 1898). 



$ 2 . Colour. — Carapace bright red, pale yellow behind and along 

 the lateral borders, darker red on the lower part of the sides of the 

 cephalic portion, the anterior edge narrowly blackened ; whole cara- 

 pace hoary with a thick coat of white or creamy-white hairs, except 

 the facial portion below the level of the posterior median eyes, 

 which is clothed with a triangular patch of yellowish-brown or 

 golden hairs on each side of the median line, the two patches sepa- 

 rated by a vertical wedge-shaped strip of white hairs ; anterior edge 

 with a thick fringe of white hairs. Chelicera red, thickly clothed 

 with creamy-white hairs. Legs pale yellowish, the two anterior 

 pairs more reddish, especially distally, all thickly covered with short 

 white or creamy-white hairs, the 4 distal segments with black bands 

 (often absent from the tarsi and metatarsi of the 2 anterior pairs), these 

 bands covered with white or (especially in the fourth leg) with black 

 hairs ; fourth femur sometimes with a distal patch of dark hairs on 

 inner and outer sides, and the coxae and trochanters often with a 

 group of fine black setae below. Sternum reddish-yellow, with white 

 hairs and a few fine black setae, and generally marked with an infus- 

 cate submarginal line on each side. Abdomen pale yellowish, clothed 



