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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
This species is at once distinguished from any of the previously 
described members of this genus in the rudimentary anterior pocket of the 
epigyne. 
Family .ZODAKIIDAE. 
Cydrela vandami, sp. nov. (Text fig. 11, 1 and 3.) 
Type . — A single adult female from Roodeplaat, Pretoria District, 
collected by Mr. G. van Dam (24th May, 1915). 
Colour . — Carapace and appendages dark chestnut-brown, almost 
black : abdomen dark with several small yellowish-white areas, all 
longitudinally elongated and situated in the mid-line, the most conspicuous 
one being situated anteriorly, a smaller one just above the anal papilla, 
and a third about midway between the two just mentioned. Sternum 
reddish-brown. 
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Ocular area of Cydrela vandami, sp. ncn., 1; of C .spini^ypns Hewitt, 2 ; Epigyne of 
* Cydrela vandami , sp. nov., 3 ; of C. spmifrons Hewitt, 4 ; of C. friedlanderae Hewitt, 5. 
Carapace . — The clypeus is completely devoid of bristles, spines, or 
even stiff hairs. The eyes are arranged in two rows, the anterior row 
being strongly procurved, the posterior row a little recurved. Antero- 
median eyes subequal to the posteromedians in size, about J a diameter 
apart, and about the same distance from the anterolaterals, but about 
1J diameters distant from the posteromedians. Anterolaterals about 
3 diameters apart. Posteromedians about § of a diameter apart and 
nearly 4 diameters distant from the posterior laterals. 
Abdomen covered with slender hairs. 
Epigyne . — The pair of pits or pockets which are often found on the 
-epigyne in this genus seems to be quite absent. There is, however, a single 
rather ill-defined median depression anterior to and between the dark- 
coloured paired convexities : on the outer side of each convexity is a pair 
-of sigilla devoid of hairs. 
