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Family CAPONIID^. 



Gen. CAPONIA, E. Sim. 

 1. Caponia spiralifera, n. sp. 



Specimens. — 20 $ $ and 28 2 2 and young (No. 9469, &c.) from 

 Hanover (S. C. Cronivright Schreiner). 



$ $ ? $•. Colour. — Carapace and limbs deep yellow or somewhat 

 orange-yellow. Sternum yellow, with large, roundish-cordate, orange, 

 central area, which is more distinctly denned in the $ $ than in the 

 2 2 ; abdomen pale yellow, often with ventral blackish mark pos- 

 teriorly in the 2 2 ', the claws, the area containing the median eyes, 

 and the base of each lateral eye black, the margins of the sternum 

 with a black or dark brown spot at base of each leg or at least of 

 each of the 3 posterior pairs. 



Carapace as long as the tibia, metatarsus, and ^— f of the tarsus of 

 first leg. ^interior lateral eyes a little larger than the posterior 

 lateral eyes, the middle lateral eyes variable, equal to (rarely slightly 

 smaller than) the posterior eyes or intermediate in size between the 

 anterior and posterior pair (very rarely subequal to the anterior 

 pair). 



Palpal organ of $ . — Process of bulb curved somewhat spirally, 

 the outwardly directed basal part rather longish, scarcely thickened 

 at the end, which is obtuse and rounded (PL XI., fig. 29) ; the middle 

 portion clavate distally and curving outwards and bearing a small, 

 simply recurved, inner, distal spine, and sometimes a tiny process 

 next to it ; the distal portion strong, recurved, bifid at apex, the main 

 branch short, compressed, obliquely lanceolate and pointed (PI. XI., 

 fig. 28), the inferior branch longer, slender, filiform and subterete, 

 the apices of the 2 branches diverging. 



Length of $ $ 7-9, of 2 2 up to 12J mm. 



2. Caponia kareooica, n. sp. 



Specimens. — 4 $ $ and 3 2 2 (No. 12876) collected at Matjes- 

 fontein, Worcester Div., by Mr. E. M. Lightfoot, my wife, and 

 myself. 



Very close to C. spiralifera, n. sp., but differing slightly in the 

 structure of the palpal organ of the $ . 



Carapace and colour as in spiralifera, but the abdomen without 

 posterior black patch below. 



Process of palpal organ with the outwardly directed basal part 



