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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Epigyne. There is a mesial dark brown glabrous area considerably broader 
than long, with strongly curved surface. There is no pocket or depression on 
this surface, except in the pair of minute, backwardly directed, deeply pig- 
mented clefts which form the anterior termination of the furrows that con- 
stitute the lateral boundaries of the area. The epigyne of the Alicedale species 
has a deep and broad mesial pouch, separated from the genital opening by a 
narrow raised bridge which connects the convexities of the two sides. 
Measurements. Total length 3-75, length of carapace 1-65, breadth of cara- 
pace 1 -i. 
Text fig. 13. a, Diores godfreyi sp. nov. Palp of female, b, Eyes of same, c, Epigyne 
of same, d, Epigyne of Diores bivittatus Sim. from Alicedale. 
Mr E. Simon described several species of this genus, and gave a key to the 
characters of the seven species then known, in his account of the spiders 
collected by Dr L. Schultze in S.W. Africa ( Denkschr . med. nat. Ges. zu Jena, 
xvi. p. 185, 1910). 
D. godfreyi seems to belong to the group of triangulifer from Damaraland, 
transvaalicus from Hamman’s Kraal, and vittipes from Stellenbosch, species 
only known to me from Simon’s descriptions. In these species, as in vittatus, 
the six hinder patellae are armed with spinules superiorly, but in godfreyi no 
spinules occur : instead, there are rather numerous short, more or less spiniform 
setae. The third patella of vittatus from Alicedale has a number of similar 
stout setae and in addition about twenty short strong spinules. 
