26 Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Solpuga fusca C.L. Koch, 1842 [PI. VI, fig. 26]. Purcell in Annals S. Af. Mus. 
1, p. 417, figs. 22 and 22 a. Kraepelin in Das Tierreich, p. 79, fig. 54. 
This species is recorded by Purcell only from localities in the Cape Penin- 
sula. It may be noted that Kraepelin’s figure in Das Tierreich does not agree 
with Dr Purcell’s account in regard to the position of the anterior bend of 
the flagellum. 
Solpuga toppini Hirst, 1916. Annals Durban Mus . 1, p. 228, fig. 15. 
The type is from Ngxwala Hill, Ubombo, Zululand. 
The Durban Museum has several large females from the same locality 
which are probably referable to this species. The general colour in spirits is 
a dirty brown with olivaceous tinge, the chelicerae especially somewhat 
greenish, tergites all blackish, malleoli dark-edged. The single series of teeth 
in the upper jaw with two small intermediate teeth. Genital sternite with 
broadly rounded posterior margins. There is a stronger development of fine 
hairs on the palp and legs than in females of the venaior group, and the head- 
plate is rather more hirsute. Measurements: breadth of head-plate 12*5, 
length of tibia and tarsus of palp 11, of patella of palp 10-3, of patella of 
fourth leg 10-2, of tibia of fourth leg 9. These females are well separated from 
those of fusca, to which toppini seems to be related, in that the dentition of 
the lower jaw is quite normal for the genus. 
Solpuga Venator Pocock [PI. I, fig. 1 and PI. IV, fig. 12], 1897. Ann. Mag. Nat . 
Hist. 6, xx, p. 258, fig. 7. Purcell in Annals S. Af. Mus. 1, p. 407 and 11, p. 208. 
The type of this species came from Kleinpoort in the Eastern Karroo, and 
specimens from Port Elizabeth were identified therewith by Mr Pocock. 
Recorded by Purcell from the following divisions in Cape Colony : Namaqua- 
land, Kenhart, Carnarvon, Victoria West, Middelburg, Beaufort West, Prince 
Albert, Sutherland and Uitenhage; also from Warmbad in Great Namaland. 
It is known to me from : Brakkloof near Grahamstown (Mrs G. White) ; Alice 
(Albany Mus, coll.) ; Grattans, Koonap (E. Bennett); Carlisle Bridge (F. 
Bowker); Alicedale (F. Cruden); Longhcpe (Miss D. Cotton); De Aar (S. C. 
Cronwright-Schreiner) ; Griquatown (Dr R. Broom); Aus S. W. A. (female 
examples in Kimberley Mus.). Kraepelin records it from the following 
localities in S. W. Africa: Warmbad, Churutabis, Keetmanshoop, Kabus, 
Kuibis, Luderitzbucht, Gibeon and Rehobo th. 
The spines on the upper surface of the chelicerae are not so strongly 
developed as in monteiroi. A large female from Keetmanshoop (G. V. Haagner), 
in the collection of the Transvaal Museum, has the following measurements : 
Width of head-plate 15, length of patella of palp 16, of tibia and tarsus of 
palp 17, of fourth patella 14-75, °f fourth tibia 13-3. This specimen has a 
single intermediate tooth in the single series of the upper jaw. In a male from 
Dunbrody the single series of teeth in the upper jaw comprises four main 
teeth, but on the fourth basally there is a distinct additional tooth: in speci- 
mens from Redhouse a minute additional tooth occurs between the second and 
third normal teeth. A large female example from Griquatown sent along 
with an adult male of Venator has two such intermediate teeth, whereas the 
male has only one: this female may be referable to lethalis, but the dentition 
cannot be regarded as an infallible guide in distinguishing these two species. 
A female from Douglas has a single intermediate tooth; males from the 
same locality may have one such tooth or two, in which case one of them is 
very small. 
