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tarsus). Tibiae I— IV with 1—2 apical spines below but without other spines, the spines of the two anterior 
pairs very small. Metatarsi III and IV spined. Scopula of third metatarsus and of fourth tarsus practically 
entire (with some fine setae in basal half). 
Apical segment of posterior Spinners a little longer than the ocular tubercle and at least twice 
as long as the penultimate segment. 
Labium with 29 — 37 teeth in 3 — 4 rows. 
Total length (including chelicera) ig 1 / 2 —2I 1 / 2 mm; length of cephalothorax in largest $ 87, mm, 
width 6 1 /, mm, length of tibia of first leg 4 1 /., mm , distance from fovea to posterior margin of ocular 
tubercle 47, mm. 
This species is closely allied to H. longipes Purc. (Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XI, p. 343, 1902) 
from Clanwilliam and Piquetberg Divisions, Cape Colony, but differs very distinctly in the shape of the 
palpal organ, whose spine is much straighter proximally and slenderer distally in longipes (PI. XI, Fig. 2). 
In the <3 of longipes, too, the legs are relatively shorter and the tibiae spined at the apex only. 
The females closely resemble H. magna Purc. (Ann. S. Afr. Mus., Vol. III, p. 102, 1903) from Uitenhage 
Division, Cape Colony. 
2. Harpactirella lapidaria n. sp. 
PI. XI, Fig. 3. 
Specimens. 1 $ and 2 $$ from Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand, August 1904. Also 1 juv. from 
the same locality. 
S (type). Colour. Cephalothorax and limbs brown to yellowish-brown, the former clothed with 
shorter blackish hairs and longer pallid hairs, without pale radiating stripes, and fringed at the borders with 
long pale-yellowish hairs, the longer hairs on the legs pallid, black at base ; abdomen with pale-yellowish 
skin, marked above with the usual black median stripe, which is enlarged anteriorly and flanked on each 
side by a row of oblique marks; the hairs on the abdomen pale-yellowish, with a few black ones inter- 
mixed, a group of the latter being on the anterior black area, the underside of the abdomen blackened on 
the inner edges of the posterior opercula and between these but otherwise without markings. 
Cephalothorax very slightly shorter than the fourth metatarsus and as long as the tibia together 
with about 7s °f the metatarsus of first leg. 
Tibia of first leg 6 times as long as high in the middle, its length equal to that of the metatarsus 
and V, ; of the tarsus and to the distance from the fovea to the middle of the chelicera, the apical spur rather 
short, much shorter than its spine. Metatarsus I distinctly curved, its length much exceeding the distance 
from the fovea to the anterior margin of cephalothorax. Tibiae I— IV with a pair of apical spines but 
without other spines. Metatarsus I unspined, II with short apical spine, III and IV with several spines. 
Palpal organ (PI. XI, Fig. 3) with the spine about as long as the bulb, rather strongly curved 
but straighter and more turbinate in the basal part than in the preceding species, the apical portion slightly 
stouter than in H. longipes Purc. but slenderer than in H. spinosa n. sp. 
Spinners as in the preceding species. 
Labium with 12 apical teeth in one row. 
$$. Colour of cephalothorax and legs yellow, the former with some longer yellowish hairs besides 
the black ones, especially on the cephalic portion ; otherwise much as in the $. 
