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Species incertae sedis. 
Solpuga brevipalpis Purcell, 1899. Annals S. Af. Mus. 1. p. 431, fig. 29. 
The types are female specimens from Naroep in Gt Bushmanland. It is 
an ally of 5 . lineata. 
Solpuga cajfr a Vocock, 1897. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, xx. p. 262. 
The types, two adult females, came from Estcourt. The colour characters 
are like those of S. toppini Hirst, from Ngxwala Hill, Zululand. 
Solpuga nigrescens Pocock, 1895. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, xvi. p. 88. 
The type is a female example labelled ‘ ‘ Lower Zambesi. ' ’ Mr Pocock doubt- 
fully identified therewith some specimens from the north-eastern region of 
Victoria Nyanza. 
Solpuga schultzei Kraepelin, 1908. Denks. d. med.-nat. Gesell. Jena, xm. 
p. 270, figs. 2 and 3. 
This species is based on a female example collected at Rooibank near 
Walfish Bay. It is closely related to picta — which according to Kraepelin 
includes nigrobraccata — the two species being remarkable in the great elonga- 
tion of the jaws, the first tooth of the upper jaw being considerably removed 
from the second as well as from the apex of the jaw. Apparently also, the 
tibia of the second leg has thickened hairs instead of spines on the dorsal side 
externally. 
Solpuga striata Kraepelin, 1914. Beit. z. Kennt. Land- u. Susswasserfauna 
Deutsch-Sudwestafnkas, Skorpiones u. Solifugae, p. 124, fig. 1. 
The type specimen, taken on farm Voigtsland about 38 km. east of 
Windhuk, is probably very immature, being only 11 mm. long (without 
mandibles). Kraepelin seemed to regard it as referable to the group of 
5 . lateralis and allies, but I have no doubt that it really belongs to the group 
of species including 5 . sericea Poc., 5 . zebrina Poc. and 5 . celeripes Hirst, and 
quite possibly is identical with one of these. The colour pattern represented 
in Kraepelin’s illustration is precisely similar to that exhibited by male and 
immature specimens of celeripes. 
Solpuga picta Kraepelin, 1899. Das Tierreich, p. 81, figs. 59 and 60. Purcell, 
Annals S. Af. Mus. 1. p. 431, fig. 30 ( 5 . nigrobraccata) . 
The species is merely located as Damaraland. 
Solpuga scopulata Karsch, 1880. Kraepelin, Das Tierreich, p. 60. 
This species is only known from a female specimen taken at Han tarn C.P. : 
it seems to be very like chelicornis Licht. 
Key to the South African species of the genus Solpuga Licht. mainly based 
on the characters of adult males. 
Group I. 
Dentition of upper jaw almost alike in the two sexes, the distal series 
composed of four or five teeth in a continuous row, not broken by long 
toothless intervals, the first and second teeth being relatively large. The 
