35 Araneae. 237 
b) 1 d from Cape Cross, Southern Hereroland, varying slightly from the d from Kubub; tibia I 
with 3 inner and 1—2 outer spines below; tibia of pedipalp with the outer spur stouter and straighter along 
the upper edge. Length S 1 ^ mm. 
Section 2 
(see Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, Vol. XX, p. 322, 1907). 
4. Xerophaeus ahenus n. sp. 
PI. XI, Fig. 19. 
I $ from Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand, July 1904. 
Colour. Cephalothorax coppery-red, legs testaceous, abdomen pale fulvous-yellow, chelicera and 
sternum red. 
Cephalothorax longish (4 2 / 3 by 376 mm). Ocular area narrow; anterior median eyes large 
touching the laterals, their lower margins about on a level with the centres of the lateral eyes, which are 
at least a diameter from the anterior margin of the cephalothorax ; second row of eyes also strongly pro- 
curved, the medians obliquely oval, larger than the laterals, about V 3 of a long diameter apart and about 
or nearly a long diameter from the laterals; area formed by the 4 median eyes distinctly wider in front 
than behind. 
Chelicera with I large and 2 small superior teeth and 1 small inferior tooth. 
Legs. Metatarsus I with 2 basal spines. Tibia I with an inferior row of 2 spines, but with no 
scopula. 
Sternum and coxae of pedipalps somewhat longer and narrower than in the more typical 
forms of the genus. 
Vulva as in PI. XI, Fig. 19, with a short, median, flexible, tongue-like appendage lying some little 
distance in front in a cavity, from the hind edge of which a narrow flat median keel extends backwards 
to the edge of the genital cleft ; on each side of the keel are 2 dark bodies below the cuticula. 
Length of cephalothorax -\- abdomen 10V2 mm - 
Genus Melanophora C. Koch. 
1. Melanophora aculeata n. sp. 
PI. XI, Fig. 20. 
Specimens. a) 4 ?$, 2 36 and 3 juv. from Possession Island, off the coast of Great Namaqua- 
land, May 1903. 
Very near M. invida Purc. (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, Vol. XX, p. 328, 1907), but differing as 
follows : 
9$. Colour of cephalothorax dark-brown, veined with black ; abdomen black, covered with black 
hairs (sometimes yellowish and infuscated), pallid below; legs testaceous ; sternum and mouth-parts testaceous 
to brownish. 
Posterior median eyes distinctly nearer to the lateral eyes than to one another. 
Vulva as in PI. XI, Fig. 20, being relatively smaller and especially narrower than in M. invida Purc 
and not by any means Alling up the area between the lung-opercula, but otherwise presenting almost 
exactly the appearance of the vulva of the latter species. 
dd- Pedipalps and palpal organ as in the d of M. fuliginea Purc. (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 
Vol. XX, p. 327, pl. 15, figs. 45 and 46, 1907). 
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