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Colour. — Carapace with the well-developed, median black stripe 

 reaching to highest part of dorsal surface and lying between 2 still 

 narrower, parallel yellow stripes, which extend from behind the 

 median eyes to the hind margin and unite to a single stripe behind 

 the median black stripe ; on each side of the yellow stripe is a very 

 broad black band with practically straight inner and strongly sinuous 

 outer margins, and containing a longitudinal yellow spot in the 

 middle ; sides of the carapace with a network of thick black lines 

 enclosing several tiers of yellow markings and uniting above with 

 the broad black bands. Abdomen pale yellowish, apparently hardly 

 spotted at all. Sternum yellow, with some dots and lateral marginal 

 lines. Legs infuscated, the distal segments paler, the tibiae darkened 

 at base and apex, and the posterior ones with mesial band as well. 



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

 ridges, which almost touch the median line and then suddenly bend 

 outwards almost at right angles in front (PL X., fig. 21). 



Length of trunk 5 mm. 



15. SCYTODES LANCEOLATA, n. Sp. 



2 $ $ (No. 9471) from Hanover (S. C. Cromvright Schreiner, 

 1901). 



Colour pale yellowish. Carapace with 3 black stripes above, the 

 median yellow stripe rather broad, the median black stripe very fine 

 posteriorly and not reaching behind the middle of the carapace, the 

 outer black stripes broad, each with a longitudinal series of 3 or 4 

 yellow spots or stripes ; sides of carapace reticulated with black, 

 showing several tiers of yellow spaces. Abdomen with transverse 

 black bands and rows of spots, the under side black-spotted. Sternum 

 with 4 pairs of marginal black lines and 2 central rows of dots. 

 Femora of legs with black bar at apex, the anterior surface, at least 

 in the anterior pairs, also sprinkled with black ; tibiae sparsely 

 sprinkled with black, the apex with a black band ; patellae blackened 

 below. 



Palpal organ about as long as the tarsus ; the process compressed 

 and lanceolate distally, the short apical part subulate, with sigmoid 

 curvature and with slender keel in front (PI. X., fig. 22). 



Length of trunk 4f mm. 



16. SCYTODES ELIZABETHS, n. Sp. 



2 $ $ (No. 5665) from Port Elizabeth (J. L. Drege, November 

 1899). 



Colour pale yellowish. Carapace with 3 black dorsal stripes, the 



