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with short whitish hairs, practically unspotted above, with the excep- 

 tion of the stigmata and 2 clusters o! small brown spots at anterior 

 margin ; the sides almost without spots or with a number of oliva- 

 ceous spots ; under surface variable, the middle area olivaceous, 

 bordered on each side by a curved white band, and traversed longi- 

 tudinally by 2 white stripes — or this area pallid, with the olivaceous 

 hairs reduced to a small spot on each side ; hairs on pulmonary 

 segment pallid, black only immediately round the vulva. 



Carapace as long as the tibia and J or more of the metatarsus of 

 first leg. Median eye-area decidedly narrowed in front, but the 

 anterior eyes rather large, not much smaller than the posterior ones 

 and larger than the anterior lateral eyes, which are placed on a large 

 prominent tubercle. 



Vulva a hard plate containing a large, deep, posterior cavity, 

 which is bordered in front and at the sides by a high, thick, semi- 

 circular ridge ; bottom of cavity containing a pair of lateral ridges 

 converging anteriorly and bordered internally by a curved black 

 groove, the median part occupied by a large brown lobe with a pair 

 of convexities, the lobe separated from the black grooves by a narrow 

 white ridge on each side (PI. X., fig. 5). 



Length of adult 2 2 13J-18 mm. 



(b) 2 2 2 and 1 juv. from Eities, Great Bushmanland, Kenhart 

 Div. (Max Schlechter, March, 1898). 



2. Stegodyphus tentoriicola, n. sp. 



Specimens. — 11 2 2 and 2 $ $ (No. 11836, &c.) from Hanover. 

 A number of other specimens also from Hanover, Ylag Kop (5-6 

 miles north of Hanover), and Eierfontein (8-9 miles west of Hanover) 

 \S. C. Gronwright Schreiner, 1902). Adult $ 2 in February and 

 March, $ $ in February. 



2 2 from Hanover. Colour. — Carapace covered with white hairs 

 (the head in one specimen with yellow hairs) ; the thoracic portion 

 nearly black, broadly reddish-yellow at the sides, the posterior and 

 lateral margins narrowly blackened ; the cephalic portion red or 

 reddish-yellow behind, blackened on the sides anteriorly and on the 

 upper part posteriorly, the upper part reddish again anteriorly ; the 

 region of the posterior lateral eyes reddish or reddish-yellow (con- 

 necting the posterior and anterior reddish patch on both sides) or 

 black (connecting the posterior and anterior lateral black patches on 

 each side) ; median posterior and anterior reddish patch also con- 

 nected by a narrow reddish median line dividing the posterior black 

 patch ; face black, bisected by a median line of white hairs, usually 



