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Very near T. capensis Purc. (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, Vol. XX, p. 299, 1907), but differing 
as follows : 
Colour darker, pale-testaceous ; a double median line on anterior part of head just behind the eyes, 
the groove on each side of the head, and some radiating lines on the thorax lightly infuscated; underside 
of abdomen with a pair of longitudinal dark stripes; silky hairs on body and legs pale, but the tuft at the 
end of each tarsus black ; the spines mostly darker or black. 
Chelicera with 4 or 5 superior and 3 inferior teeth on the inner margin. 
Legs. Metatarsus I with 1 subbasal spine on outerside only, but without other spines, the 
2 scopular bands broad and well-developed on each side and below, leaving only a very narrow strip along 
the middle of the underside free. Tibia I with 3 — 4 outer and 2 — 3 inner spines below, the distal spine 
of each row remote from the apex, each side with a narrow but distinct scopular band below alongside the 
row of spines, the scopulae reaching almost to the base. 
Vulva with the triangulär fovea suddenly circularly enlarged at anterior end (PI. XI, Fig. 11). 
Length of cephalothorax -+- abdomen 5V3 mm. 
b) 1 ? from Kubub, Great Namaqualand, March or April 1904. Colour pale-yellowish, as in 
T. capensis Purc. Metatarsus I with 2 inner and 2 outer subbasal spines below. Tibia I with 5 inner 
and 6—7 outer spines below, several of these on each side being much smaller than the others and out of 
line with them. 
In this species the posterior median eyes are obliquely oval and are the largest of the eight, being 
slightly larger than the anterior lateral eyes. The numerous cylindrical but pointed setae (resembling 
slender spines), which are present, particularly on the uppersides of the 3 distal segments of the anterior 
pair of legs, are longer than in T. capensis Purc. 
3. Theuma velo.ni n. sp. 
PI. XI, Fig. 12. 
Specimens. 3 $$ from Kubub, Great Namaqualand, March and April 1904. 
Very close to T. pusilla n. sp. and T. capensis Purc. 
Colour as in T. capensis Purc 
Anterior row of eyes scarcely or only slightly procurved, the medians a little smaller than the 
laterals ; posterior row of eyes wide, only slightly recurved, the medians not small, obliquely oval, subequal 
to the lateral eyes of both rows, slightly less than a diameter apart and about l x / 3 diameters from the 
posterior lateral eyes, the latter eyes a little nearer to the anterior laterals than to the posterior medians but 
not as distinctly so as is usual in the species of this section. 
Chelicera with 1 smaller and 3 larger superior teeth and 3 smaller inferior teeth. 
Legs. Metatarsus I unspined, or with 2 outer subbasal spines below, densely scopulate, except 
along a very narrow strip along the middle of the underside. Tibia I with 4 — 5 inner and 3 outer spines 
below, the distal spine of each row always remote from the apex, the lower edge of the innerside with a 
narrow but distinct scopula in distal half of segment along the row of spines, the outer scopula obsolete or 
present and very narrow. 
Vulva very like that of T. pusilla n. sp., except that the passage connecting the triangulär fovea 
with its anterior enlargement is much wider, as in PI. XI, Fig. 12. 
