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Cephalothorax equal in length to the metatarsus and % — 4 / 6 of the tarsus of fourth leg and to 
the tibia and metatarsus together of first leg. Ocular tubercle l / 5 of its length or less from the anterior 
margin of cephalothorax. 
Rastellum composed of long spiniform setae or slender spines. 
Legs. Tibia of first leg almost 3 times as long above as high in the middle, its length a little 
exceeding that of the metatarsus and slightly less than or equal to the distance from the fovea to the hind 
margin of the ocular tubercle. First leg (including coxa) shorter than the fourth (by at least V-, of the fourth 
tarsus). Tibiae I — III with 2, IV with 2 — 3 apical spines. Metatarsus I unspined, II with small apical spine, 
III and IV with several spines. Scopulae as in $ of the foregoing species. 
Spinners as in d- 
Labium with 9 — 20 apical teeth in 2 — 3 rows. 
Total length (including chelicera), d 13 mm, $ 16 mm; length of cephalothorax 6 5V (i mm, $ 5 3 / 4 mm; 
length of tibia of first leg S 4 1 /;; mm > ? 3V5 mm > distance from fovea to posterior margin of ocular tubercle 
d 2 4 / 5 mm, $ 3 mm. 
This little species is very closely related to H. longipes Purc, but it differs sufficiently in the structure 
of its palpal organ, which although very similar to that of tongipes in general shape, has the spermatic duct 
differently proportioned. The difference is shown in PI. XI, Figs. 2 and 3, from which it may be seen that the 
mesial loop of the spermatic duct is much slenderer in longipes (Fig. 2) than it is in lapidaria (Fig. 3). 
In longipes, too, the legs are relatively shorter and the labium much more numerously denticulated. 
One of the two females of H. lapidaria has the abdomen curiously duplicated in the upper part. 
Fam. Dictynidae. 
Genus Auximus F. Sim. 
1. Auxhnus capensis Poe. 
1900, Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, Vol. VI, p. 323 (?? from Port Elizabeth and Cape Peninsula). 
Specimens. 2 $°. and 3 juv. from the Cape Fiats, Cape Peninsula, in September 1904. 
2. Auximus hottentottus Poe. 
1900, Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7. Vol. VI, p. 323 (<j> from Garies, Little Namaqualand). 
Specimens. a) 5 ?? ar >d I 3 from Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand, July 1904, and 1 juv. from the 
same locality, August 1904. The 3, which has not yet been described, has the following characters : 
<$. Legs longer than in the ?; metatarsus I considerably longer than the tibia, the outer upper 
side with a short but well-marked coneavity just proximal to the middle, the outerside being also produced 
at the proximal end of the coneavity into a large strong spur bearing a powerful spine and directed outwards. 
Pedipalps with the patella much longer than high, its distal end very obliquely truncated on each 
side, the upperside thus acutely pointed at apex. Tibia longer than high, the distal edge of outerside 
oblique but entire and nearly straight, the upperside strongly laterally compressed, forming an obtuse ridge 
along the middle and produced at the distal end into a peculiar mattock (or — )-shaped rostrum, the lower 
branch of this rostrum being flattened before and behind and with a broad truncated apex, the upper branch 
shorter and claw-like, curving slightly inwards and backwards; the innerside of the tibia with the distal 
edge oblique and entire, except just below the rostrum, where it is emarginate. Tarsus shorter than the 
femur and than the patella and tibia together, strongly convex above, its outer and inner edges not lobed. 
