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taken at Windhuk. Subsequently Kraepelin (11) redescribed the species 
under the name of P. flavidus Poc. from larger specimens obtained in the 
same locality ; and he recently (12) records it also from Swakopmund, 
Okahandja, Neudamm, and from a locality in South Ovamboland. 
There is a fine specimen in the Durban Museum collected at Heichamchab, 
Swakop Eiver, about 500 ft. above sea level, where it was taken by a soldier 
of the 1st Battalion D.L.I, during the recent campaign. If this specimen 
actually is, as I believe, referable to hraepelini, it would seem advisable to 
draw up a further description of the species, as Werner's was clearly 
insufficient, whilst Kraepelin' s description and figure do not tally completely 
with the characters of the specimen ; indeed, if Kraepelin's figure Ih correctly 
represents the details of the granulation of the first and second caudal 
Text-fig. 1. — Farabuthus hraepelini Werner. Upper surface of first two caudal 
seg-meiits of female from Heichamchab. 
segments of an adult, the Heichamchal^ example must Ije referred to some 
other species : it is perhaps permissible, however, to doubt the accuracy of 
that figure, as his accompanying figure la seems to be almost certainly 
incorrect in the number of ridges in the series on the second caudal segment 
of mosamhicensis. 
The Durljan Museum specimen has the following characters : 
Carapace coarsely granular throughout; ocular tubercle quite smooth 
above. 
Tergites of a1)domen finely granular in their anterior half, more strongly 
granulated but not very coarsely so in the posterior half. The last tergite 
is fairly closely and coarsely granulated over the mesial area, the granules 
of the posterior median portion, w^hich are largest, being transversely elongated 
