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medians, nearer to each other than to the very large laterals and placed some distance in front of a line 
joining the anterior margins of the laterals; area formed by the 4 lateral eyes a trifle broader in front 
than long. 
Legs. Tarsus and distal part of metatarsus of first leg very sparingly scopulate below, both segments 
with a number of slender spiniform setae below arranged in 2 rows, the metatarsus also with 2 outer and 
3 inner inferior spines and the tibia with 3 inferior spines on each side. 
Inferior Spinners with 3 large apical fusules. 
Length of largest $ 6 l / 2 mm. 
b) 2 subadult specimens from Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand, July 1904. 
2. Asemestlies decoratus n. sp. 
PI. XI, Fig. 30. 
Specimens. a) 3 $? from Kamaggas, Little Namaqualand, July and August 1904. 
Colour pale-yellow; the cephalothorax slightly more testaceous-yellow, finely bordered with black, 
and marked with 2 broad splashy black bands (clothed with black hairs), which, starting on the head from 
the posterior lateral eyes, take an outward and then backward course to the hind margin ; ocular area black, 
except in the middle behind; rest of the surface of cephalothorax clothed with prone yellowish hairs; abdomen 
with a medio-dorsal and 2 lateral bands formed of black patches more or less confluent longitudinally, the 
surface in between with scattered black dots, the underside not black-spotted ; legs (except on the 2 distal 
segments) banded and spotted with black above and on the sides, the femora with apical and mesial black 
band and subbasal black spot above (the mesial band sometimes reduced to a black spot on the fourth 
femur) ; sternum bordered with black. 
Anterior row of eyes (when viewed from the front) with the hind margins of the eyes in a slightly 
procurved line, the lateral eyes smaller than usual, being scarcely twice as wide as the medians, which are 
nearer to the laterals than to one another; posterior row of eyes narrower than the anterior row and 
lightly recurved, the median eyes smaller than the anterior medians and much nearer to the laterals than 
to one another, their centres in a line with the anterior margins of the large lateral eyes, the latter subequal 
to the anterior lateral eyes ; area formed by the 4 lateral eyes considerably wider than long. 
Anterior legs scopulate below on the tarsi and distal part of metatarsi; metatarsus I with 3 pairs 
of spines below ; tibia I with 2 inner and 3 outer spines below, besides 2 other spines on the inner surface ; 
femur I with an inner spine and 3 dorsal setiform spines. 
Inferior Spinners with 3 apical fusules. 
Vulva as in PI. XI, Fig. 30. 
Length of cephalothorax + abdomen 6 mm. 
b) 3 immature specimens from Lüderitz Bay, Great Namaqualand, April 1903, apparently belonging 
to this species. 
3. Asemesthes pallidus n. sp. 
PI. XI, Fig. 31. 
1 ? from Kamaggas, Little Namaqualand, July or August 1904. 
Colour as in A. decoratus n. sp., except that the femora of the legs are only lightly infuscated 
at the apex, the first pair being not distinctly banded, the bands being represented by faint infuscate 
marks only. 
Jenaische Denkschriften. XIII. 6 Schultze, Forschungsreise in Südafrika. L 
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