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side, under the lateral eyes, are three white streaks on a red 
ground. The falces are dark brown with white scales on the 
front faces. There are tufts of long black hairs behind the lat¬ 
eral eyes. The abdomen has the front end and the lower sides 
covered with black hairs, more or less streaked with white. 
The middle of the dorsumi, in front, is covered with a mixture 
of white and red hairs, while behind is a short central white 
band, with wide bands of rich red on each side, cut by two pairs 
of white bars, edged with black. The red bands join behind 
to form a red region above the spinnerets. The palpi are light 
colored and are thickly covered with long white hairs. The 
legs are brown or yellow, sometimes having dark spots. The 
femoral joints in the first, second and third pairs are marked 
with dark transverse striae on their front faces, and the first 
and second legs have a good many white scales, besides thin 
fringes underneath, which are white under the femora and 
black under the patellae and tibiae. The tibia of the first leg 
has three pairs of spines, and the metatarsus two pairs. 
The quadrangle of the eyes is equally wide in front and 
behind. The front eyes are in a slightly curved row with 
the middle twice as large as the lateral, which are a little sepa¬ 
rated from them. 
We have five females from Durban. 
Thyene natalii sp. nov. 
Plate XXV, figs. 4-4b. 
$. Length 5-8 mm. Legs 1342, first plainly stoutest and 
longest. 
?. Length 7.5 mm. Legs 3412, first plainly stoutest, third 
and fourth plainly longest. 
The quadrangle of the eyes occupies about one-half of the 
cephalothorax and has the sides nearly parallel. The anterior 
eyes are close together in a straight row, the middle being twice 
as large as the lateral. The second row is plainly nearer the 
first than the third, and the third is a little narrower than the 
cephalothorax. 
