Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
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Female characters are by no means constant throughout the genus Blossia. 
In a female from N.W. Gordonia, the tergites and chelicerae are armed with 
long and rather stiff setae, but not with spines, and the head-plate is devoid 
of spinules: moreover, the jaws are more slender and longer than in females 
of unguicornis. 
In this genus, modified fleshy hairs on the sternites are not confined to the 
adult males, nor to the second sternite, although most strongly developed on 
that sternite in males. In adult females of B. unguicornis there occurs a mesial 
papilla on both fourth and fifth sternites : this papilla is split down the middle, 
and carries on each side a long pinkish thickened hair like those on the second 
sternite of males, but not nearly so stout. They also occur on the same sternites 
in the adult male. 
Similar modified hairs occur in a female Blossia (cp. setifera Poc.) from 
Salisbury, being found on all three sternites II, IV and V: on II there are three 
or four modified hairs on each side, but in IV and V only two hairs occur on 
each side of the midline: they are situated rather further apart than in 
unguicornis. 
These modified hairs are probably homologous with the stigmatic combs 
of the Galeodidae: the combs of Galeodes occur on the second and third 
sternites, and modified setae in a corresponding position are found also on 
the fifth sternite. 
Blossia crepidulifera Purcell, 1901. Annals S. Af. Mus. n. p. 215, fig. 4. 
The type came from Robertson C.P., and Dr Purcell cited also several 
records in the Worcester div. 
Blossia karrooica Purcell, 1901. Annals S. Af. Mus. 11. p. 217, fig. 5. 
The types were taken at Prince Albert C.P. 
Blossia litoralis Purcell, 1903. Annals S. Af. Mus. in. p. 4, fig. 3. 
Types from the western shore of the Cape Peninsula. 
Blossia laminicomis Hewitt, 1919. Annals Transvaal Mus. vi. p. 65. 
The type was taken at De Aar, C.P. -» 
The point of origin of the flagellum is a little posterior and dorsal to the 
distal end of the row of feather bristles. 
Blossia falcif era Kraepelin [Text fig. 10 a\, 1908. Jena. Denkschr. xm. p. 277, 
fig- 8. 
This species is known from the neighbourhood of Windhuk : other localities 
cited are Neudamm and Tsumab. I have previously recorded the species from 
Quibis in Gt Namaland, and it is known to me also from Douglas C.P. 
(Dr R. Broom). These southern specimens do not agree absolutely with 
Kraepelin’s figure of the type, but the flagellum is very similar throughout, 
and I think it advisable to regard such differences as occur in the dentition 
as of varietal value only. The lower jaw of the type, which is figured with 
five teeth, instead of four as occur in the specimens examined by me, is perhaps 
abnormal, for, according to the description, the type specimen presents con- 
siderable differences in this respect in the jaws of the two sides. In the upper 
jaw of the type, the terminal fang is fairly large- the distance from the tip 
to that of the first tooth being however distinctly less than the distance 
between the apices of the fifst and fourth teeth. The example from Quibis 
