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plate projecting forwards and outwards and provided on the medial side with a small tooth directed down- 
wards and a slender spine projecting forwards and outwards. 
?. Abdomen paler, the legs much less blackened, the posterior pairs almost entirely pale-ochraceous. 
Anterior pair of legs spined as in the male. 
Chelicera with a distinct inferior tooth in addition to the superior ones. 
Vulva as in PI. XI, Fig. 23. 
Length 3 3V4 mm, $ 5 mm. 
This little species is prettily coloured and is well characterised by the structure of the femur and 
tibia of the pedipalps of the male. In the ? specimen the anterior row of eyes are abortive. 
4. Melanophora procurva n. sp. 
PI. XI, Figs. 24 and 25. 
Specimen s. 2$? and 2 d8 from Kamaggas, Little Namaqualand, July and August 1904. 
Colour. Cephalothorax pale-testaceous ; legs ochraceous or pale-testaceous; abdomen pale-yellowish, 
more or less infuscated above, pallid below; sternum pale-testaceous. 
Anterior row of eyes strongly procurved, the medians smaller than the laterals and close to them, 
the laterals rather large and quite close to the anterior margin of the cephalothorax ; posterior row of eyes 
slightly wider than the anterior row, the anterior margins in a slightly, the posterior margins in a strongly 
procurved line, the median eyes very large, obliquely oval and contiguous to one another but slightly 
separated from the smaller lateral eyes. 
Chelicera with 1 large and 3—4 small superior teeth and a couple of minute inferior teeth. 
Legs. Metatarsus I with several outer and inner spines below in the $, the 3 with fewer spines ; 
tibia I unspined. 
Vulva of ? as in PL XI, Fig. 24. 
Pedipalps of S with the patella a little longer than the tibia (exclusive of the spur); the latter 
with a simple, stout, lateral, apical spur, which is slightly up-turned and is shorter than the rest of the 
segment; tarsus slightly shorter than the patella and tibia together with the process; palpal organ as in 
PI. XI, Fig. 25. 
Length ?? 6— 67 2 mm, 33 4 3 / 4 -6V 4 mm. 
5. Melanophora eorrugata Purc. 
1907, Purcell, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, Vol. XX, p. 332, pl. 15, figs. 63 and 64 ($$ and 33 from Hanover and 
Kuruinan, Cape Colony). 
Specimen s. a) 1 3 and 6 $$ from Rooibank, Southern Hereroland, May 1905, and 2 33 and I 9 
from "Southern Hereroland", September and October 1903. 
Tibia of second leg often with a spine below in the female. 
b) 1 3 (no. 813) from near Severelela, Kalahari, Bechuanaland Protectorate. 
Dr. Schultze also collected 3 other specimens of Melanophora from Southern Hereroland, 1 from 
Kubub in Great Namaqualand, 5 from between Khakhea and Kang, Kalahari, and 1 from Kamaggas 
in Little Namaqualand, all of them too immature for identification. 
