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Pedipalp slightly larger than the third leg. Metatarsus not scopulate 
in its basal sixth nor at the apex. 
Posterior legs with some very long white hairs which form a mane. 
Colour. Headplate, mandibles and legs brownish with darker brown 
on the tarsus and metatarsus of the pedipalps, and blackish brown on the 
metatarsus and tarsus of the fourth leg. Dorsal plates of abdomen brown 
in the middle, blackened laterally, the posterior plates wholly black. 
Sides of abdomen with silvery white hairs. Abdominal sterna not 
inf uscated. Malleoli without darkened edges. 
Measurements. Total length 23 mm.: length of flagellum 7; 5, of 
tibia of pedipalp 7.5, of metatarsus and tarsus of palp 8*25, of tibia of 
fourth leg 8, of metatarsus of fourth leg 7*75. 
This species is closely related to S. marshalli , Poc. (Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (6) 16. p. 91. pi. 4. fig 9) mainly differing therefrom in respect to the 
terminal portion of the flagellum. 
Female. 
From the same locality and donor, the Albany Museum received an 
adult female Solpuga along with the male just described but it cannot be 
positively stated that the two are co-specific. The female of marslialli , 
according to Kraepelin (“Das Tierreich,” p. 63), has only one intermediate 
tooth between the second and third large teeth in the single series of the 
upper jaw but in the Serowe specimen there are two intermediate teeth 
the first of which is much smaller than the second, the latter being of 
quite moderate size. The headplate and appendages are yellow, the 
anterior margin of the former being infuscated, and a pair of faintly 
infuscated lines occur on the upper surface of each chelicera. Abdomen 
interiorly pale coloured. Posterior median angles of the first abdominal 
sternite broadly rounded but not produced. Tibia of pedipalp without 
cylinder bristles, those of the metatarsus being very slender and not 
numerous. 
Measurements. Total length 44 mm. ; length of metatarsus and tarsus 
of pedipalp 12, of tibia of same 10*5, of metatarsus of fourth leg 10, of tibia 
of same 10. 
Solpuga serraticornis , Purcell, var. nov. umtal/ica (text fig. 24). 
A specimen of the form thus designated was taken at Umtali by 
Miss Campbell who presented it to the Albany Museum. It differs from 
the ^ of serraticornis as described and figured by Purcell (Ann. S. A. 
Mus. I, p. 409, fig. 16) and by Kraepelin (“Das Tierreich,” p. 69) as 
follows : — 
The flagellum is longer and more slender, its tip when depressed just 
reaching the ocular tubercle ; the terminal portion is not curved but quite 
straight, tapering gradually to a fine point ; the fourth tooth of the single 
series in the upper jaw is of moderate size, being considerably larger than 
the third tooth ; abdominal tergites brownish. 
Total length 30 mm.; length of flagellum 5*75, of tibia of pedipalp 
10*5, of metatarsus and tarsus of pedipalp 10 '75, of tibia of fourth leg 9, 
of metatarsus of fourth leg 9. 
This form has a superficial resemblance to S. spiralicornis , Pure. 
[Novitates Zoologicae vol. X (1903) p. 304] and to S. pug ilat or. Hirst 
(Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) IX. p. 232) — which is probably the same species 
as spiralicornis — but the serrated edge on the flagellum agrees with that 
of serraticornis and the distal portion of the flagellum is not curved 
outwards. 
