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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
Idiops gunningi var. elongatus Hewitt. 
Locality : Moorddrift, Waterberg District. 
All the nests were found on hard ground amongst thorn scrub ; they 
were about 6 inches deep, not quite perpendicular, and wider at the bottom 
than the top ; the lids were level with the ground, but the edges fitted 
into the top of the tube, which widened to accommodate them. The 
lid was D -shaped when seen from above, as in other members of the genus, 
and showed on the under surface a circular patch corresponding with the 
lumen of the tube. 
The following are measurements taken from a typical nest : — 
Depth of tube 155 mm. 
Width inside at the top of the tube 25 x 23 mm. 
Width at the bottom of the tube 28§ mm. 
Breadth of lid 25f mm. 
Length of lid (front to back) 23 J mm. 
Thickness of lid. 4 mm. 
Breadth of hinge 22 mm. 
Family MIGIDAE. 
Moggridgea paucispina Hewitt. 
Locality : Wonderboompoort. 
The nests of this species were found in crevices of rocks at Wonder- 
boompoort ; they were always short, rather flattened and pouch-like, 
about an inch and a quarter in length. The spiders themselves were always 
found clinging very tightly to the lids when attempts were made to open 
them, consequently claw or fang marks are conspicuous, but close together, 
and not as in Stasi opus, in the form of a ring. An empty nest was found 
in a small tree amongst the rocks at the same place, and another containing 
a female was found in the ground on the Pyramids Range. 
A male and a female, besides some juvenile specimens, were subse- 
quently taken in March, 1916, at Wonderboompoort, all from rocks. 
The following measurements were taken of a nest at Wonderboom- 
poort : — 
Male. 
Depth of tube 32 mm. 
Width of the entrance (inside edge of rim) 13J X 9J mm. 
Width of the widest part of the pouch... 17 mm. 
Breadth of lid 13J mm. 
Length of lid (front to back) 9| mm. 
Thickness of lid 1J mm. 
Breadth of hinge 9 mm. 
Moggridgea microps Hewitt. 
Locality: Malelane, Barberton District. 
This species was found in trees in a wooded ravine at Malelane, and 
appeared to be fairly common, judging by the number of old nests that were 
seen. Sometimes a hollow in the bark had been chosen for the nest and 
