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width of head behind ocular area nearly ;} of the length of first tibia. 

 Posterior row of eyes slightly recurved, the medians together slightly 

 wider than their distance from the posterior laterals. 



Legs moderately hairy, resembling those of bilineata, except : 

 Metatarsus II. sometimes with an inner upper spine at base ; III. 

 with 2 inferior and 1 anterior row of spines ; IV. with a stout apical 

 and basal inferior spine and 3-5 setae in the apical comb. Tibice I. 

 and II. with 6 spines in each inferior row, except the inner row of 

 II., which has only 4 spines, the superior rows always of 3 spines ; 

 III. with 1 outer spine besides an inferior row of 3. Femur IV. 

 spined above at base. 



Chelicera with the lower tooth obsolete. 



Length 9 J mm. 



8. Ariadna segestrioides, n. sp. 



1 ? (No. 8396) from Dunbrody, Uitenhage Div. (Bev. J. A. O'Ncil, 

 1898). 



Kesembling a Segestria in appearance. 



Colour. — Carapace blackish-brown, slightly paler in the middle. 

 Chelicera reddish-black. Legs blackish-browm to nearly black, the 



2 posterior pairs paler distally, their tarsi, and, to a lesser extent, 

 their metatarsi, pale yellowish, the 2 anterior pairs of tarsi reddish. 

 Abdomen pallid, with a median series of purplish spots above, the 

 under surface faintly suffused with purplish and with a dark purplish 

 patch posteriorly before the spinners. Sternum and labium blackish- 

 brown. 



Carapace as long as the tibia and about J-f of the metatarsus of 

 first leg, its width just behind the eyes about f of the length of the 

 first tibia and much shorter than the metatarsus. Median eyes in 

 close contact, their united width slightly, exceeding their distance 

 from the laterals, the posterior row recurved. 



Legs. — Fourth femur not thicker than the first, its dorsal length 

 more than 3 times its greatest thickness. Anterior tibia stout, 

 nearly cylindrical, its width a little less than the space between the 

 posterior lateral eyes. Short hairs on outer upper surface of the 



3 anterior pairs of patellae and tibiae slightly thickened at base. 

 Metatarsus I. considerably shorter than the tibia. Spines as in 

 bilineata, n. sp., except : Metatarsus II. with 2 (sometimes 1) 

 superior spines on each side, IV. with 4-5 setae in the apical tuft 

 and 4 stout spines below (including an apical pair) ; tibia I. with 

 3 inner and 3-4 outer superior spines, II. with 5-6 outer and 3 inner 

 superior spines, III. with 2 rows of inferior spines, besides a row of 



