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3 posterior pairs of legs spined, and also the tarsus and apex of 

 metatarsus of first pair. 



Length of carapace and abdomen 14-18 mm. 



(b) 1 $ from Namies, Great Bushmanland, Kenhart Div. (Max 

 Schlechter, March, 1898). 



Carapace nearly black, but the upper part of the head dark reddish, 

 the hair covering dark olivaceous, but the lateral margins of the 

 thorax with a broad band of snow-white hairs ; cephalic portion of 

 carapace very much more suddenly and strongly elevated and more 

 convex above than in the 2 , the hind surface rising almost perpen- 

 dicularly from the fovea (but not overhanging it), the width exceed- 

 ing that of the thoracic portion, about equal to the distance from the 

 hind margin of head to the posterior median eyes, and almost equal 

 to the length of the tibia and half the metatarsus of first leg. Pos- 

 terior median eyes slightly smaller than in the 2 . 



Abdomen covered with black hairs below and with creamy- white 

 ones above, and furnished with a broad, fusiform, black mark 

 occupying the space between the two rows of dorsal sagilla. 



Legs longer and slenderer than in 2 , especially the 2 distal seg- 

 ments, the femur of first pair stouter than the others ; reddish to 

 almost black, with olivaceous hairs, but the dorsal surface of the 

 patellae, of the tibiae, and, to a lesser extent, of the metatarsi clothed 

 with white hairs, femora with an apical fringe of white hairs. 



Peclipalps clothed with dark olivaceous hairs, the tarsus and palpal 

 organ small. 



Length of carapace and abdomen 10J mm. 



(c) 1 2 from Kykgat, Great Bushmanland, Namaqualand Div. 

 (Max Schlechter, March, 1898). 



(d) 2 2 2 from the Bokkeveld Mountains about Nieuwoudtville, 

 Calvinia Div. (M. Schlechter, August, 1897 ; C. L. Leipoldt, Sep- 

 tember, 1898). Width of head in these specimens less than or 

 greater than the length of the first patella and tibia. 



(e) 3 ? ? and 1 juv. from Touws Eiver, Worcester Div. (B. M. 

 Lightfoot and W. F. P., August, 1903). Length of 2 ? 9J-15 mm. 



(f) 1 2 from Matjesfontein, Worcester Div. (W. F. P., August, 

 1903). 



The nests of this species are constructed under stones. 



Gen. SEOTHYEA, Pure. 



Seothyra fasciata, n. sp. 



1 2 (No. 12772) from the South-West Kalahari (Dr. Eric Nobbs, 

 August, 1903). The nests of this species were seen in large numbers 



