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with numerous minute, thick, black setae (resembling spinules) on 

 the side and below, but not above. 



Tibia of pedipalps (measured along upper side) distinctly a little 

 shorter than the patella and furnished with an external fringe of 

 white hairs ; the tarsus long, a little longer than the femur, clothed 

 with short white hairs and longer black bristles. 



Length of ? ? 10J-13 mm. ; of $ $ 8-10 mm. 



Habits. — According to Mr. Schreiner this species is never gre- 

 garious, for the females live singly, each in her own nest, being, 

 however, sometimes accompanied by the male. 



These nests, one of which was sent to me by Mr. Schreiner, are 

 in the form of a hollow elongate cone, or " fool's cap," nearly 5 cm. 

 in length, and formed of a closely woven inner lining, loosely 

 covered externally by pieces of leaves and debris of insects. The 

 nests are fixed on bushes. 



Gen. ADONEA, E. Sim. 

 Adonea variegata, n. sp. 



Specimens. — (a) 2 ? ? (Types : No. 3701) from Naroep, Great 

 Bushmanland, Namaqualand Div., Cape Colony {Max Schlechter, 

 March, 1898). 



Colour. — Carapace and abdomen densely mottled with white 

 and olivaceous hairs, the sides of abdomen with olivaceous spots, 

 the dorsal stigmata each in the centre of a rather large white spot ; 

 posterior pairs of legs reddish-yellow, the anterior pairs darker, 

 especially distally, all clothed with white and olivaceous hairs. 



Carapace with the cephalic portion rather high (about the same 

 height above -the fovea as in Ere'sus fiimosm, C. L. Koch), depressed, 

 convex above and strongly sloping behind, its width much less than 

 that of the thorax, and less than the length of the patella and tibia 

 of first leg and than the distance from the fovea to the hind margins 

 of the posterior median eyes. Posterior median eyes about 3 times 

 as long as the anterior medians, and separated from the anterior 

 margin by about their own diameter or less, from one another by 

 about 1^ times this distance, and from the anterior lateral eyes by 

 less than 3 diameters ; width of posterior row of eyes about equal to 

 the length of the oblique row formed by a posterior lateral eye and a 

 posterior median eye of the opposite side. 



Vulva a semicircular plate containing a large, deep, semicircular 

 emargination, the bottom of which is occupied by a shallow sub- 

 quadrate pan (PI. X., fig. 7). 



Under surface of tarsi and metatarsi and the apex of the tibiae of 



