2ß6 W. F. PURCELL, -,. 
Chelicera with 3 superior but no inferior teeth. 
Vulva as in PI. XI, Fig. 15, the central portion smooth, grooved along the median line, the lateral 
portions finely and densely granulär ; anterior depression smooth, with sharp anterior edge, which is generally 
some little distance from the brown oval bodies, as in the figure, but sometimes quite close to them. 
3- Pedipalps and palpal organ almost exactly as in X. capensis Purc, differing solely in the shape 
of the outer tibial spine, which is longer, reaching almost to the apex of the palpal organ, and is quite 
straight at the apex and simply pointed (PI. XI, Fig. 16). 
Length of cephalothorax -j- abdomen, 99 8— ii 1 / 2 n irn ) 3 9 mm. 
b) 28 99 and several juv. from Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand, July and August 1904. 
2. Xerophaeus hottentottus n. sp. 
PI. XI, Fig. 17. 
3 99 from Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand, July and August 1904. 
Colour as in X. longispina n. sp. 
Ocular area rather wide, the anterior median eyes moderately large, 1 / 2 — 3 / 4 of a diameter apart, 
and not touching the smaller laterals; posterior median eyes moderately large, about half a long diameter 
or more apart and little more than a diameter from the small lateral eyes; area formed by the 4 median 
eyes distinctly broader in front than behind. 
Chelicera with 1 large and 2 small superior teeth but with none on inferior margin. 
Legs. Metatarsus I with 2 basal spines. Tibia 1 with 2—3 spines in the inferior row, the distal 
half with a narrow weak scopular band on innerside. 
Vulva as in PI. XI, Fig. 17, the central area of the ovate plate strongly convexly raised, the anterior 
edge of the raised portion falling suddenly perpendicularly and provided with a cavity just posterior to the 
edge; posterior part of the raised portion with a pair of black deep pits from which a pair of shallow black 
grooves converge posteriorly to the edge of the genital cleft, the grooves separated by a narrow keel ; sides 
of the plate densely granulär. 
Length of cephalothorax + abdomen 8V4 — ioV 2 mm. 
3. Xerophaeus aridus Purc. 
PI. XI, Fig. 18. 
1907, Pukcbll, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, Vol. XX, p. 319, pl. 14, fig. 26 (? from Great Bushmanland). 
Specimens. a) 4 99, 1 3 and 2 juv. from Kubub, Great Namaqualand, March and April 1904. 
99. Tibia I with 2 — 3 spines in the inferior row. Posterior row of eyes not so strongly procurved 
as in the type, a line joining the posterior margins of the lateral eyes cutting off about % at least of the 
median eyes. Chelicera with a minute inferior tooth, which is rarely absent. 
3 (not previously described). Both rows of eyes even less procurved than in the females. 
Chelicera without inferior tooth. 
Tibia I with 3 spines in the inferior row. 
Pedipalps with the tibia about as long as the patella, the outer spine of tibia short, arising from 
the lower outer edge, slenderer distally and curving upwards and inwards ; tarsus quite small ; palpal organ 
small, as in PI. XI, Fig. 18, terminating distally in a short spine. 
Length $$ 9— 12 mm, 3 6 3 / 4 mm. 
