Annals op the Tkansvaal Museum, 
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from in front the distance between the frontal eyes is 2/3rds to 3/5ths 
of the diameter of an eye. 
As in the types there are 3 pairs of sternal sigilla. The dentition 
is noteworthy as affording* what may fairly be described as an inter- 
mediate condition between the dentitions of typical Acanthodon and 
of Idiops : the teeth of the outer row are much larger than those of a 
typical Acanthodon, bnt the row does not extend the whole length of 
the fang groove. 
Total length 15.5 mm. 
Family ZODARXIDAE. 
Text fig. 2a. Capheris tramvaalicus sp. nov. Adult male seen from above. 
Text fig. 2b. Distal portion male palp of Capheris tramvaedims sp. nov. 
Capheris Transvaulicus sp. nov. (Text fig. 2 a-b). 
Type . — A single adult male example from Moorddrift, Waterber 
District (C. J. Swierstra and Roberts), in the collection of th 
Transvaal Museum. Only two species of this genus have been hitherto 
described, viz. : C. Crassimana (E. Sim.) (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 
1887, p. 371), from the Kalahari , and C. haematilis, E. Sim. (jenaische 
Denkschr. XVI, p. 181), from ITereroland, and both are stated to be 
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