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however, 2 long bands or rows Converting backwards from each group of lateral eyes are noticeable; lateral 
margins of thorax with a row of longer spines slightly curving forwards, those at the posterior angles several 
deep, slender and twice as long as the more anterior ones. 
Median eyes close together, half a diameter apart; laterals a little less than a diameter apart. 
Abdomen with a number of erect, strongly curved, cylindrical (not clavate), pale-yellowish, obtuse 
hairs, these hairs arranged in the posterior part in the usual transverse rows but more anteriorly they are 
more evenly scattered than in the previous species, so that the 3 pairs of spaces are scarcely traceable. 
Legs much spined ; the femora with 2 rows of longish pallid spines below, the upper edge of each 
with a row of about 8 long, slightly curved and rather slender spines, each of these spines alternating with 
a shorter and slenderer whitish spine, all the spines arising from black granules. 
Length 8 mm. 
b) 1 9 and 1 juv. from Angra Pequena, Great Namaqualand. The 2 is evidently an adult of 
this species, but its spines are not so well-preserved as in some of the smaller typical specimens and 
the cephalic portion of the cephalothorax is of a deep red colour. Total length of $ 11 mm, width of 
cephalothorax 5% mm, this width equal to the length of the tibia and half the patella and nearly equal to 
the metatarsus and tarsus of first leg. 
3. Stearins hahn\ Karsch?. 
1 878 Hexomma hahnii Karsch , Z. Ges. Naturw., Bd. LI, p. 325, pl. 9, figs. 2 — 2 c. (Adult $ from „Hereroland 
[Mission Hahn]".) 
Specimens. I $ from Otjimbingwe in Southern Hereroland, September 1903, and 3 others from 
„Southern Hereroland", September and October 1903. 
In all these the cephalothorax, the abdomen and most of the leg-segments are entirely denuded of 
hairs and spines, but judging from the well-marked groups left by the scars, the patterns of which closely 
agree with Karsch's figure, it seems very probable that these specimens are females of S. hahni, which 
appears to have come from the same area. 
Genus Loxosceles Lowe. 
Loxosceles pilosa n. sp. 
Specimens. a) 2 $$ from Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand, July and August 1904. 
Colour pale-yellowish, the cephalothorax broadly infuscated on the sides and posterior part of head 
(except on a patch behind the ocular area) and on the sides of the thorax, and with a narrow median in- 
fuscate stripe down the thorax and several radiating stripes from the fovea, the extreme margin of the 
cephalothorax finely yellowish ; legs with a greenish or blackish tinge on the yellow ground; skin of ab- 
domen pallid. 
Cephalothorax broad, with deep fovea, its length a little exceeding half the first metatarsus; its 
surface with a number of long curved spines arranged as in L. spinulosa Purc. (Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, 
Vol. XV, p. 140, 1904) and a number of appressed black hairs scattered about (partially rubbed off). Eyes 
arranged much as in L. spinulosa, but the anterior lateral eyes distinctly slightly larger than the others and 
only slightly nearer to the posterior lateral eyes than to the medians. 
Abdomen clothed above with black and red hairs arranged in groups forming a mottled pattern 
(many rubbed off) and with a small number of curved spiniform setae scattered about. Genital opening 
bordered posteriorly by a narrow transverse yellow plate extending from lung to lung, and anteriorly by a 
large 3-Iobed yellow area, the lateral lobes being the lung-opercula. 
