Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
99 
Labium with about fifty teeth in four or five irregular rows. Basal portion 
of maxilla with numerous teeth at the anterior corner : in the largest specimen 
there are between sixty and seventy, but fewer in smaller specimens. 
Posterior spinners. The basal segment is only a little longer than the two 
terminal segments taken together, the length of which is subequal to the 
breadth of the ocular tubercle. The terminal segment is conical and only a 
trifle shorter than the penultimate segment. 
Colour. Sternum, ventral portions of coxae of legs and palps, and ventral 
portion of abdomen black. Carapace brown, with a number of well-developed 
pale radiating stripes due to short appressed yellowish brown hairs (golden in 
the young) which also form a well-marked border to the carapace : the brown 
areas between the stripes are clothed with short appressed dark brown hairs. 
Abdomen superiorly finely mottled with indistinct small yellow spots, and 
bearing an ill-defined dark tree pattern : there is a pair of rather conspicuous 
dark blotches in the anterior portion near to the mid-line : the abdomen has a 
thick covering of shorter appressed hairs some of which are dark brown and 
others yellow, and, in addition, there is a number of long projecting stiffish 
yellow hairs rather sparsely distributed. The legs are pale ashy brown, being 
well covered with short appressed pale hairs, and in addition with some scat- 
tered longer hairs which are dark brown in their basal portion, becoming pale 
distally. There are no definite fringes of long hairs on the lower parts of the legs. 
Measurements. Total length 40, length of carapace 13-8, breadth of cara- 
pace 1 1 *75, breadth of ocular tubercle 2-1, length of first leg 40-5, of second leg 
38*5, of third leg 37-2, of fourth leg 46, of tibia I 6-6, of tibia II 5-8, of tibia IV 
7-5, of metatarsus I 6-25, of metatarsus IV 10*3. 
More recently, a still larger specimen has been received from Malelane : its 
measurements are: carapace length 15-8, carapace breadth 12-9, distance from 
fovea to anterior margin of carapace 10-5, distance from fovea to hind margin 
of ocular tubercle 8, length of metatarsus of fourth leg 11*9. The length of 
metatarsus IV compared with the distance between the fovea and the anterior 
margin of the carapace seems to be a good character. 
The proportion between the length of the carapace and that of the terminal 
segments of the fourth leg is not however an absolutely constant character, at 
any rate when the material includes specimens of different size and age. In 
one example, otherwise of subadult proportions, the carapace is just about 
equal in length to the metatarsus and tarsus of the fourth leg. 
The adult male of this species is represented in the collection by a specimen 
from Hectorspruit (F. Streeter, 5. v. 1911). In general characters it resembles 
the female fairly closely. The carapace presents well-marked pale radial 
stripes: the hinder half of the abdomen superiorly has about five pale trans- 
verse stripes: the lower surfaces of the abdomen, coxae and sternum are 
infuscated but the femora and more distal segments of the legs are quite pale 
inferiorly. 
The measurements are as follows: total length 28-5, length of carapace 
11-15, breadth of carapace 9-4, distance from fovea to anterior margin of 
carapace 7-35, distance from fovea to posterior margin of ocular tubercle 5-7, 
length of tibia I 6-15, of tibia IV 7, of metatarsus I 6-30, of metatarsus IV 10. 
The length of the carapace is subequal to that of the tibia together with 
three-fourths of the metatarsus of the first leg. 
The distance between the anterior median eyes is subequal to the diameter 
of an eye, and the distance between anterior median and anterior lateral is 
