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Colour of carapace and limbs rufescent ; abdomen very pale 

 yellowish, covered with numerous reddish, setigerous granules. 



Carapace broad, with very large longitudinal fovea ; its length 

 -J- that of first metatarsus ; its surface clothed with long curved 

 spines and smaller hairs and setae, those on the thoracic region 

 arranged in 6 radiating bands and a circumferential row at the 

 extreme margin, the interspaces almost naked. Eyes rather large, 

 the laterals not quite contiguous and rather far forward, a line 

 touching the anterior edges of the anterior pair, passing only just 

 behind the centres of the median eyes (when viewed from above) ; 

 distance between a lateral and a median eye less than the width of a 

 median eye. 



Abdomen clothed with numerous line hairs and setae, the dorsal 

 surface also with a number of curved spines, which are strongest 

 anteriorly and become much slenderer posteriorly. 



Legs very long and slender, bearing the scars of numerous spini- 

 form setae (mostly rubbed off) ; fourth leg longer than first. 



Sternum with numerous long, curved spines and setae. 



Length 6 mm. ; length of first leg (to base of femur) 18 mm. 



Gen. SCYTODES, Late. 



1. SCYTODES MONTANA, n. Sp. 



Specimens. — (a) 1 2 (No. 12248) and several young from the top 

 of Kalk Bay Mountain, Cape Peninsula (W. F. P., February, 1902). 

 $ . Colour pale yellow. Carapace with five black stripes in middle 

 part above, the median stripe narrow, running from anterior margin 

 backwards and ending just in front of the highest point of the cara- 

 pace ; the black stripes next to the - median one about twice as wide 

 as the latter, almost parallel (only slightly converging posteriorly), 

 extending from between the lateral eyes to the highest part of the 

 carapace, and suddenly curving outwards at each end to unite with 

 the outer stripes ; these latter about twice as broad as those next to 

 them, and extending from the anterior lateral angles of the clypeus 

 over the lateral eyes to a little distance behind the highest part of 

 the carapace ; from the lateral eyes to the highest part these stripes 

 bulge gently outwards, thus (), but behind this they diverge very 

 slightly for a short distance and are truncated at the hind end ; the 

 4 yellow stripes between the black ones narrow, equalling the median 

 stripe in width. Sides of the carapace traversed by a narrow, hori- 

 zontal black stripe, above which are 2 wavy stripes (or series of short 

 stripes), transected by fine vertical lines and enclosing a row of 

 4 small yellow areas on each side ; below the lowest encircling 



