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the apex of the fang. The lower jaw has no distinct lateral keel on its outer 
side distally: the distance from the tip of the fang to the apex of the first 
tooth is about equal to if— if times the distance between the apices of the 
two large teeth. The basal enlargement of the flagellum is high, not produced 
anteriorly: the upper margin is acute, but does not form a sharp keel well 
marked off from the outer turgid portion: on its outer side it is flanked by a 
strong chitinous thickening which is continued obliquely downwards into the 
fang. The shaft is short, lightly curved, considerably flattened at the anterior 
bend in an antero-posterior direction, but elsewhere is more or less cylindrical, 
gradually diminishing in width towards the apex, which is truncate with a 
central projecting core. In dried specimens the shaft bends downwards over 
the basal enlargement, and thus the apex becomes carried far back, distinctly 
behind the hind margin of the basal enlargement. There is a fairly strong 
development of spines and stiff bristles on the upper and outer surfaces of the 
chelicera. Colour: head-plate and appendages pale yellowish, the front margin 
of the former infuscate : abdominal tergites pale brown : malleoli not infuscated. 
The female has four or five teeth in the single series of the upper jaw: 
upper and lateral surfaces of the chelicera more or less distinctly marked with 
three darkish longitudinal stripes: hairs of abdomen greyish. This latter 
character will separate it from the female of Venator in which the hairs of the 
abdomen are uniformly lemon yellow. 
So far as I can discover, the female presents no structural or colour 
characters which will serve to distinguish it from globicornis which is common 
in the Pretoria district, or from ferox which occurs in the Free State and 
Transvaal. However, the relation between the width of the head-plate and 
the length of the several segments of the fourth leg may perhaps ultimately 
furnish a guide to the specific identity of adult examples. 
Measurements. Total length, M, 41: width of head-plate, F, 12-85: length 
of tibia and tarsus of palp, M, 13-5, F, 11-85 : of patella of palp, M, 13, F, io-8: 
of tibia of fourth leg, M, io-8, F, 9: of patella of fourth leg, M, 11-2, F, 9-6. 
Solpuga globicornis Kraepelin, 1899 [PI. V, fig. 21]. Das Tierreich, p. 76, fig. 47. 
This species has been previously recorded by me from various localities 
in the Pretoria district, and with some doubt from the Lydenburg and Zout- 
pansberg districts. 
In the lower jaw of the male the distance from the tip of the fang to the 
apex of the first tooth is equal to about if times the distance between the 
apices of the two large teeth. 
In the female, the patella of the fourth leg seems to be always longer than 
the tibia. 
Measurements of several females apparently referable to this species are 
as follows: 
Width of 
Length of 
tarsus + 
Length of 
Length of 
Length 
head- 
tibia of 
patella 
patella 
of tibia 
plate 
palp 
of palp 
IV 
IV 
Immature example from Pretoria 10-9 
n-3 
10-4 
9-5 
8-8 
Adult from Gezina 
I2-I 
12 
11-25 
10 
9-4 
Adult from Wonderboom 
... 12-5 
ii-8 
10-65 
9-7 
9-3 
Only very few cylinder bristles occur on the tibia of the female palp: 
there are some also on the tarsus. 
