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Legs. — Coxa III with a patch of stiff setae on the post-ventral border. 
Metatarsus I with 2 or 3 apical spines below, and 2 or 3 along the inferior 
surface : II with 3 apical spines below and 2 along the inferior 
surface : III with 6-8 spines dorsally on each side, 3 at the apex inferiorly, 
and 1 or 2 on the lower surface : IY with about 14 spines inferiorly on the 
anterior side, superiorly with only 2 or 3 weak spines on the posterior side. 
Posterior spinners. — Apical segment a little shorter than the middle 
segment. 
Posterior sternal sigilla about 1J diameter apart and about of 
a diameter distant from the sternal margin. 
Colour. — Cephalic region pale-yellowish : rest of carapace brown like 
the legs. Abdomen not strongly infuscated above, but with a dull-purplish 
tinge anteriorly. 
Measurements. — Total length 13 *5 mm., length of carapace 4*25 mm. 
The Transvaal Museum has a larger specimen from the same locality, 
which I refer to this species. It has 7 teeth on the chelicerae, 4 or 5 
denticles on the maxilla, posterior sternal sigilla about a diameter apart 
.and J-J of a diameter distant from the sternal margin, metatarsi II and III 
with 4 spines along the inferior surface. The total length is 18-5 mm. 
Mr. G. van Dam has recently taken an adult female example from 
a spot situated only a few inches away from the place where the type male 
was found. Some of its characters are : — 7 cheliceral teeth on one side, 
8 on the other side, one of them being very small : metatarsus I with 3-4 
spines inferiorly apart from those at the apex, II with 3-6 spines inferiorly : 
the fovea is broadly curved. In the immediate neighbourhood some 
immature female examples of P. pretoriae rufescens were taken : these 
have the fovea more acutely curved, metatarsi I and II have only 2 spines 
infeiiorly, and the coxa III character is very distinct. 
From various localities in the Pretoria District female specimens 
have been taken, which seem to be referable to the same species, but this 
identification cannot be regarded as final until male examples from those 
localities become available. 
Specimens resembling this form are known from Lyttelton Junction 
(G. van Dam and A. Roberts), where also several examples of pretoriae 
were taken. 
At the Hogsback, near Lyttelton Junction, a large female with young 
was taken (26th April, 1915). Its total length is 20 mm., the carapace 
length 7 mm. There are 8 cheliceral teeth, 5 strong cusps on the maxilla, 
posterior sternal sigilla about a diameter apart and f-j* of a diameter 
distant from the sternal margin, the terminal and middle segments of the 
posterior spinners subequal in length, metatarsus II with 3 apical spines 
inferiorly, and 3 on the lower surface, metatarsus III with 4 spines at the 
apex inferiorly, also 4 on the lower surface, and about 12-14 on each side 
dorsally. 
In a large specimen from Koedoespoort, the posterior sternal sigilla 
are scarcely more than -§ of a long diameter apart, and in one from 
Schoeman’s Rust, near Crocodile River Bridge, they are a trifle less than 
a diameter apart. 
The species has also been taken at Hatfield (G. van Dam). 
