Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
73 
ADDENDUM 
Solpuga niassa Karsch var. nov. kafulica [Text fig. 14]. 
What seems to be a distinct variety of this species is known to me from 
Kafula Futa, N. Rhodesia (Rev. C. M. Doke). The male presents considerable 
features in common with schonlandi, and, I think, will probably prove to be 
completely connected therewith by intermediate forms. It differs from 
schonlandi as follows: the flagellum is more slender and a little longer, the 
apex reaching back beyond the hind border of the basal enlargement, the 
recurrent portion of the shaft tapering from its commencement, rather rapidly 
so near the anterior bend, becoming somewhat twisted outwards distally, 
the apex rather bluntly pointed and with no distinct projecting core: the 
terminal fang of the upper jaw has the inner dorsal tooth almost obsolete: 
the lower border of the terminal fang well curved. Only one intermediate 
tooth in the single series of the upper jaw. Basal enlargement of flagellum 
markedly elevated as in schonlandi. 
Text fig. 14. Solpuga niassa kafulica sub sp. nov. Left upper jaw of male viewed 
from mesial side. 
In the female, there are indications of a second intermediate tooth in the 
upper jaw: this, which is actually the third tooth, is much smaller than the 
fourth, which again is considerably less than either the second or fifth. 
Measurements: breadth of head-plate M. 7, F. 13: length of patella of palp 
M. 12, F. 14: of tibia and tarsus of palp M. 12-3, F. 14-8: of patella of fourth 
leg M. 10-5, F. 12-25. 
According to Kraepelin/s figure of niassa in Das Tievreich, the upper jaw 
of the male has two well developed intermediate teeth, and the flagellum has 
peculiar serrations on its shaft, which are not in any degree represented in the 
specimen from Kafula Futa. The new variety is related also to 5 . rhodesiana 
Hirst ( Manchester Memoirs, lvi. 1911, No. 2, p. 8) which has two intermediate 
teeth in the upper jaw, whilst the flagellum is sharply pointed at the apex and 
distinctly shorter than that of kafulica. 
