Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Solpuga monteiroi Pocock, 1895 [PI- VII, fig. 38]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, xvi, 
p. 87. PI. IV, fig. 6 (figure erroneous). Also Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, xx. 
p. 257, fig. 6 on p. 261. 
The author’s second figure was also incorrect in its representation of the 
spiny armament of the chelicera. 
The type came from Delagoa Bay. Kraepelin records it from Walfish 
Bay, and from other localities in the northern portion of South West Africa, 
viz. Windhuk, Okahandja, Okakena, Osire, and Grossfontein. I have recorded 
it from Victoria Falls, and it is also known to me from: Mt Temple, Bechuana- 
land (T. C. Lanham) ; Rooikranz, Rustenburg dist. (Transvaal Mus.); Vyge- 
boompoort in Waterberg dist. (G. van Dam); Tsessebe (E. C. Wilmot) ; Kraai 
Pan (Kimberley Mus.) ; Griffin Mine, Leydsdorp (G. van Dam) ; and Newington 
in N. E. Transvaal (Dr J. P. Fenoulhet). 
The distribution of this species appears to agree closely with that of the 
scorpion Uroplectes vittatus Thor. 
Specimens from Mt Temple have a straight flagellar shaft, whilst those 
from Tsessebe have a shallow sinuation thereon at a little distance from the 
apex. In one example from the former locality, the basal enlargement of the 
flagellum is not so elongate as in typical examples and the spines on the 
chelicerae not so strong. 
Female examples apparently referable to this species are distinguishable 
from those of Venator, globicornis , and allies, from the fact that the patella 
and tibia of the fourth leg are subequal in length: moreover the cylinder 
bristles on the palp are comparatively few, the tarsus being devoid thereof 
and the femur having only very few such bristles. 
Solpuga schlechteri Purcell [PI. IV, fig. 15], 1899. Annals S. Af. Mus. 1. p. 41 1, 
figs. 17 and 17 a. 
The type came from Naroep in Great Bushmanland. In Das Tierreich, 
Prof. Kraepelin suggested that this may be cospecific with serraticornis : it is 
clear however that such is not the case, and in Kraepelin’s most recent list 
the species is maintained on the evidence of specimens from Luderitzbucht 
and Kuibis, which differ from Purcell’s description only in possessing a single 
intermediate tooth, instead of two, in the upper jaw. We have the species 
from Kakamas (Miss H. C. Olivier), and from Keimoes near Upington (S. M. 
Gadd). In the Keimoes example there is a single intermediate tooth in the 
upper jaw : in the Kakamas specimens two such teeth are represented, although 
the second tooth is either a mere rudiment or only minute. 
The feather bristles of the upper jaw are not strongly developed: they 
are comparatively numerous on the lower jaw. 
Solpuga serraticornis Purcell, 1899. Annals S. Af. Mus. 1. p. 409, fig. 16. 
The type came from the neighbourhood of Bulawayo. 
Adult specimens from Bulawayo have been kindly lent to me by Dr G. 
Arnold. In both sexes the dorsal surfaces are somewhat infuscated, but not 
deeply so, the pigmentation extending over the soft skin for some little distance 
lateral to the tergites. In the male the spines on the upper and lateral surfaces 
of the chelicerae are numerous and long, but not very stout : the upper margin 
of the basal enlargement of the flagellum is curved, not greatly elongated. 
In the female there are two intermediate teeth in the single series of the 
upper jaw: cylinder bristles occur on the patella, tibia, and tarsus of the palp, 
but not many on the patella. 
