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of broader yellow stripes, on each side of which is a very broad, 

 curved, black band, the latter bearing a small yellow spot just before 

 the middle of the carapace ; sides of carapace broadly blackened 

 inferiorly, with a row of 4 yellow spots on each side and a row of 

 larger or smaller, more irregular yellow marks above these ; posterior 

 part of carapace with median yellow spot. Abdomen with trans- 

 verse yellow stripes, the under side often yellow. Sternum usually 

 with 3 paler, transverse, marginal marks on each side. Femora of 

 posterior legs with 2 distal yellow bands ; patellae yellowish at base ; 

 tibiae of posterior legs generally with 2 yellowish bands ; metatarsi 

 variable, the posterior pairs being generally pale yellowish and the 

 anterior pairs infuscated and with or without 2 yellow bands. 



Horny plates on under side of abdomen of 2 and the palpal organs 

 of $ much as in S. lyriformis, n. sp. 



Total length of trunk in $ 6|- mm. 



In the 2 ? 2 with cocoons almost the whole animal, with the 

 exception of the 2 distal leg-segments and the 2 submedian yellow 

 stripes, is dark brown. 



(b) 3 ? $ from Port Elizabeth (J. L. Drege, J. P. Cregoe) in 

 which the legs are without yellow bands and are paler and more 

 yellowish from the tibia on ; the tibiae generally infuscated at base 

 and apex. 



13. SCYTODES CAFFRA, n. Sp. 



1 ? (No. 9933) from Zululand (W. Anderson). 



Colour. — Carapace black, the anterior two-thirds with a median 

 yellow stripe containing a narrow, median black line which almost 

 reaches to middle of carapace ; posterior surface of carapace with 

 median yellow patch ; sides with 4 tiers of rather small yellow spots. 

 Abdomen transversely striped with black and yellow. Sternum 

 black, with a posterior, an anterior, and 3 pairs of lateral yellow 

 spots. Femora of legs infuscated, yellowish at the base above and, 

 in the posterior pairs, also behind ; patellae yellowish above ; tibiae 

 yellowish, but infuscated at base and apex ; metatarsi yellowish, 

 darkened at the base. 



Horny plates on under side of abdomen with a pair of strong 

 curved ridges. (In the type one ridge is more angularly bent than 

 the other.) (PI. X. 5 fig. 20.) 



Length of trunk 9 J mm. 



14. SCYTODES CEDRI, n. Sp. 



1 ? (No. 4255) from Keurbosch Kraal Eiver, Cedarberg Range, 

 Clanwilliam Div. (B. M. Lightfoot, August, 1898). 



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