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nearer to the hind dorsal margin of the chelicera than to the hind margin of 
the basal enlargement. The length of the flagellum will probably prove to be 
somewhat variable, but I have not yet seen material that can be regarded 
as intermediate between this species and coquinae, which is mainly distin- 
guished therefrom by its shorter flagellum. 
The basal enlargement of the flagellum is considerably elongated, and the 
anterior bend, which is not markedly broadened, lies immediately over the 
second tooth, or even very slightly anterior thereto. The shaft is subcylindrical 
almost throughout, but towards the tip there suddenly appears a dark brown 
sharp cutting edge dorsally: this is usually very slightly raised above the 
rounded surface of the main portion of the shaft, but to a variable extent, 
the cutting edge being more prominent in Peddie specimens than in examples 
from Grahams town, and is scarcely visible in a specimen from Brakkloof 
near Grahamstown. The terminal fang of the lower jaw is not long, the 
distance from its tip to the apex of the first tooth being equal to about if-if 
times the distance between the apices of the two large teeth. 
In the female the anterior tergites are reddish brown, becoming dark 
brown or nearly black near their lateral borders: in the sixth tergite the 
Text fig. 7. Solpuga devbiana Pocock. Shewing flagellum and terminal portion of 
left upper jaw viewed from mesial side: specimen from Peddie. 
posterior border is also infuscated, and succeeding tergites are quite black. 
Sides of abdomen with pale hairs. Sternites dark brown at their lateral 
margins, but only very narrowly so anteriorly, and more broadly so in the 
posterior sternites. Hind legs red, chelicerae reddish, and head -plate with a 
red tinge. In the male the general colour is dull drown and the tergites are 
very dark, black behind and at the sides: mesial portions of six anterior 
tergites brown. Hind limbs brown, with well developed mane, the hairs thereof 
white with j ust a tinge of pale violet. Scopula of palp rufous. Sides of abdomen 
whitish. 
A subadult male, lacking the flagellum, taken in Grahamstown (15. xii. 
1918), greatly resembles the female in colour: it differs therefrom in the well 
developed mane of the hind leg, and the sides of the abdomen are whiter than 
in the female. 
Measurements of adult male from Peddie and of adult female from Grahams- 
town: breadth of head-plate, M, 7-1, F, 8-6: length of patella of palp, M, 7-7, 
F, 6-7: of tibia and tarsus of palp, M, 7 -8, F, 7-6: of patella of fourth leg, 
M, 6-9, F, 6-8: of tibia of fourth leg, M, 6-25, F, 6-1. 
Solpuga tookei sp. nov. [Text fig. 8]. 
The type of this species is a single adult male from Mariannhill, Natal, 
kindly presented to the Albany Museum by the Curator of the Museum at the 
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