Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
105 
Our Salisbury male has the following measurements: total length 35-75, 
length of carapace 14-5, greatest breadth of carapace 11-5, breadth of carapace 
anteriorly 5-25, "distance from anterior margin of carapace to posterior end of 
“tubercle” 9-4, breadth of U-shaped groove of fovea, measured anteriorly 
2-15, length of tibia I 9-1, of tibia IV 8-5, of metatarsus I 8-7, of metatarsus IV 
11, of apical segment of posterior spinners 2-25. The length of the fourth 
metatarsus thus very decidedly exceeds the distance from the anterior margin 
of the carapace to the end of the foveal tubercle: such is not the case in the 
Umtali male, where in fact the distance from the anterior margin to the tip 
of the tubercle slightly exceeds the length of the fourth metatarsus. 
The carapace is unfortunately too rubbed for description of the hair 
covering: apparently, pale radial stripes were present. The upper surfaces of 
body and appendages are more or less ashy brown, the distal margins of the 
segments of the legs and palps from the femora onwards being fringed with 
white hairs. The upper surfaces are nowhere rufous or ferrugineous. Apparently, 
nothing very distinctive is found in the palpal characters nor in those of the 
first leg. It may be noted that the process at the apex of tibia I is strongly 
curved outwards, and the spine it bears is also curved. The spine of the bulbal 
organ is moderately long, curved, and drawn out suddenly to a point at the 
apex. 
The narrowness of the carapace anteriorly will perhaps prove to be dis- 
tinctive of the species: in the specimen now described the carapace is com- 
pressed laterally in its anterior portions, whereas in males of other species it 
seems to be more depressed. 
Family ZODARIIDAE. 
Diores godfreyi sp. nov. (text fig. 13 a-c). 
The type is a single adult female example taken at Somerville C. P. by the 
Rev. R. Godfrey who writes of it: “the spider was found inside a nest built 
exactly after the pattern of a false scorpion’s, a nest of small pieces of grit 
lying hemispherically on a stone with a slender silken lining on the inside of 
the hemisphere and on the enclosed surface of the stone.”,* Similar nests have 
been found by Mr F. Cruden at Alicedale, the species of that locality being 
referable apparently to D. bivittatus Simon. The Somerville species differs 
from bivittatus in the following characters : size, colour pattern, and form of 
epigyne. 
Colour. The abdomen superiorly is dark purplish, and its posterior half 
has five short transverse pale stripes which are restricted to the mesial region: 
the most anterior stripe is chevron-shaped and the second one is distinctly 
bowed in the middle: posteriorly, in the neighbourhood of the vent, is a pale 
patch formed by fusion of several posterior stripes. Lower surfaces of abdomen 
whitish. Carapace and legs straw coloured. 
Ocular area very similar to that of bivittatus but the anterior median eyes 
are not quite so large as in that species: the distance between the anterior 
medians is f of the diameter of an eye, whereas in bivittatus it is about one- 
quarter of a diameter. 
Pedipalp. There are no distinct spines on the palp but spiniform setae 
occur on the tarsus, two of which are rather stronger than the rest. The claw 
is longer and stronger than that figured by Simon for bivittatus, or than in 
Alicedale specimens which I refer to that species. 
