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short, nearly or quite rectangular at the bend (except in one speci- 

 men, where it is almost as in spiralifera) ; the middle part with its 

 clavate apex not or scarcely curving outwards and bearing a com- 

 pressed, strongly sigmoid, inner distal spine ; the distal incurved part 

 with shorter apical fork, of which the longer inferior branch is dis- 

 tinctly compressed and laminate and about as broad as the evenly 

 pointed shorter main branch (PI. XI., fig. 30). 

 Length $ $ 6J-7J mm., $ up to 9 mm. 



3. Caponia forficifera, n. sp. 



Specimens. — (a) 2 ^ $ (No. 7815) from Brandvlei, Worcester 

 Div. (I. Meiring, W. F. P., August, 1900). 



Colour as in the foregoing species, but the carapace and, to a 

 lesser extent, the limbs more orange ; abdomen without posterior 

 black patch. 



Carapace very slightly or very distinctly longer than the tibia, 

 metatarsus, and tarsus of first leg. Eyes as in the foregoing 

 species. 



Process of pedipalp with the basal part short, scarcely or not at all 

 thickened at the bend, which is obtuse and rounded ; clavate end of 

 middle part not curving outwards and bearing a lightly curved inner 

 spine, which runs close to the inturned distal part ; the latter with 

 the fork very short, scissors-shaped, both blades compressed and 

 subsimilar or the inferior branch slightly longer and narrower than 

 the main branch (PI. XI., fig. 31). 



Length 7 mm. 



(b) 1 $ from the Pass at Avontuur near Stormsvlei, Swellendam 

 Div'. (W. F. P.). 



(c) 1 $ from the forest at Knysna (W. F. P., March, 1896). 

 Colour yellow (evidently that of a recently moulted specimen). 



4. Caponia braunsi, n. sp. 



1 $ (No. 12905) from Willowmore (Dr. H. Br aims). 



Closely allied to the preceding species but larger. 



Carapace dark orange, the central part paler yellowish ; its 

 length equal to that of the tibia, metatarsus, and about f of the 

 tarsus of first leg. 



Process of pedipalp with the basal bend thickened and angular but 

 the apical fork small and nearly as in forficifera, n. sp. ; the inferior 

 branch slenderer than the main branch (PI. XL, fig. 32). 



Length 10 J mm. 



