6 Some Lizards and Arachnids of Natal 



The palate of the new species, and of its several allies, is illustrated 

 in the accompanying figures. 



Order ARANE^. 



Brachionopus robustus, Pocock. P.Z.S. 1897, p. 740. (Text-fig. 2). 



The male of this species has not yet been described, although no 

 less than four species have been established on female characters. 

 An adult male from Bellair, Natal, collected by Mr. E. C. Chubb 

 (3rd October, 1919), seems to me very probably the male of robustus, 

 the type female of which was said to have come from East London. 



Comparing it with the known males of the genus Harpactirella, it is 

 remarkable in the shortness of the legs. • The carapace is as long as 

 the metatarsus and § of the tarsus of the fourth leg, or as long as the 

 tibia, metatarsus and § of the tarsus of the first leg. First leg not 

 modified. In legs I and II the patellae, tibiae, and metatarsi, are 



Text-fig. 2. 



Brachionopus robustus, Poc. 

 Palp of adult male from Bellair, Natal. 



