ANNALS 
MEDEDELINGEN 
OF THE VAN HET 
J’ransvaal * Museum . 
S L V. AUGUST, 1915. 2. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW OR RARE SPECIES OF 
ARANEAE FROM THE TRANSVAAL AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
By John Hewitt. 
The material described in this short paper was collected during the 
past few months by several members of the Transvaal Museum staff, 
and for the opportunity of examining it I am greatly indebted to 
Dr. H G. Breyer, the Director of that institution. Hitherto, the 
Terricolous spiders of the Transvaal have been almost completely 
ignored by collectors, yet the fauna is evidently a rich one. The 
family Migidae is now recorded from the Transvaal for the first time 
(M oggridgda breyeri, sp. nov.), yet no less than fifteen species of this 
family are known from the Cape Province, and one may safely predict 
that the genus Moggridgea will prove to he well represented in the 
Transvaal. 
related to M. crudeni, mihi, from Alicedale, C.P. (Annals, Transvaal 
Museum, iv, pt. 1) in the character of the fovea and in the spinulation 
of the coxae : it differs from that species in the ocular characters, 
and from all species of Moggridgea known to me in the presence of a 
small tubercle on the surface of the carapace on each side, about in the 
same transverse line as the anterior angle of the fovea. 
Types . — A series of five female specimens from Gravelotte, near 
Leydsdorp. collected by Dr. H. G. Breyer and Mr. G. van Dam for 
the Transvaal Museum. There are no previous records of this genus 
from the Transvaal. 
