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upper edge to anterior lower edge), greatest breadth of shield 8 
(measured between lower edge from side to side), breadth across upper 
surface of shield 7.5. 
Galeosoma vandami, so. nov. 
Types. — Two female examples from Griffin Mine, Leydsdorp, 
collected by Mr. G. van Dam (14/1/1915), a series of six smaller 
specimens were also taken at Gravelotte, near Leydsdorp, by the same 
collector (28/1/19151. 
Abdominal shield . — The upper surface is almost regularly oval 
in outline : it is rather lightly convex behind, more strongly so in 
front, and is marked off throughout from the marginal surface, being 
separated therefrom by a distinct ridge which in the posterior third 
at least is sharp and slightly upturned, but in the anterior half is less 
prominent, and immediately in front may be practically obsolete, 
although even there the upper and marginal surfaces are angularly 
inclined to each other. The marginal surface anteriorly is not deeper 
than at the sides, sometimes, indeed, being less deep. The upper 
surface carries only a few long hairs, but they are numerous on the 
marginal surface, Dorsally, the soft skin immediately anterior to 
the shield presents several transverse rows of closely approximated 
short setae, and ventrolaterally in the immediate neighbourhood of 
the shield there are numerous obliquely arranged lines of setae, which 
serve to mark out that area from the rest of the ventral surface in 
naked eve view on account of its darker colour. These setae are, 
however, finer than those found in schreineri. 
Ocular area. — Distance between the two posterior median eyes 
about 1J times the distance between a posterior median and posterior 
lateral. The frontal eyes are variable in size and the cleft between 
them may be shallow or deep. 
Measurements of largest specimens — ■ 
Total length 18.5 mm. 
Length of carapace 7 mm. 
Breadth of carapace 5 mm. 
Length of shield measured along upper surface 9 mm. 
Breadth of shield measured across upper surface 7.5 mm. 
The Gravelotte specimens are not quite identical with the types 
from Griffin Mine : they are smaller, and the depth of the shield is 
on the average slightly less relatively to its length. 
Galeosoma coronatum , sp. nov. 
Type. — A single specimen from Kroonstad presented to the 
Albany Museum by Miss D. Chennells (Feb. 1915). 
Abdominal shield. — The upper surface does not present any 
flattened portion, but is strongly convex throughout and passes 
gradually without interruption into the sides, except in the posterior 
half, where a distinct but not prominent ridge marks the boundary 
between upper and lateral surfaces. The shield is beset wrtn long 
hairs almost throughout its surface. Lines of setae immediately 
adjacent to the shield on the upper and lateral surface of the abdomen 
are present, somewhat as in schreineri. 
Ocular area. — Posterior row of eyes subequally spaced. Quad- 
rangle formed by frontal and anterior, median eyes broader in front, 
the frontal! being much larger than the anteromedians and about 
half a diameter apart. 
