LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

PAGE

G. A. Boutencer, F.R.S.

Descriptions of Six New Perciform Fishes from the Coast of Natal.

Blatesml— Ville, cj re tte, eal Me ee a0 oe 63

Description of a New Fish of the Genus Paratilapia from the Upper

Zambesi. Plate XIV. dhl Be Gs oe ee, emer eens, COL

W. L. Distant.

Rhynchotal Miscellanea (Second Series) Sod Cee OMCs S30 oo Aor 2)

Sir G. F. Hameson, Bart, M.A., F.Z.S.

The Moths of South’ Africa (Part TIE.) .. 3. -2 =. «. =. =. ‘a. 389

L. PERINGUEY.

Sixth Contribution to the South African Coleopterous Fauna. Plate XIII. 167

The Rey. Ocravius Pickarp-Campripes, M.A., F.R.S.

Descriptions of some New Species and Characters of Three New Genera

of Araneida from South Africa. Plates IX.—XII. sie, gases, eee

W. F. Purcetu, Pu. D.

Descriptions of New Genera and Species of South African Solpugide, with

Bichimiest Heures Aas vel ax sco 8 tee. fon) el ce oe ee

New Arachnida collected by Mr. S. C. Cronwright Schreiner at Hanover,

Cape Colony. Plate I. eee eee ee. ade oc sag sam eer - 15}

New South African Spiders of the Families Migide, Ctenizide, Barychelide,

Dipluride, and Lycoside. Plate VIII. and four text-figures .. .. 69

W. L. Scuater, M.A.

Check List of the Birds of South Africa, containing additions and

corrections since the issue of the successive volumes of the ‘‘ Birds

in the Fauna of South Africa’ Series .. .. .. .. «.. «- =. 003

LIST OF NEW GENERIC NAMES

INTRODUCED IN THIS VOLUME.

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Melanoblossia, n. g., Solpugide (Arachnida), Pure. .. .. .. .. .. «. 6

Toreus, n.g., Solpugide (Arachnida), Pure. SOP MCE o-50. 6c 9

Lipophaga, n.g., Solpugide (Arachnida), Pure. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 410

Leothyra, n.g., Theraphoside (Arachnida), Pure. Te ee ane sh oO

Censorinus, n.g., Reduviide (Rhynchota), Dist... .. .. .. .. .. .. O57

Timotheus, n.g., Reduviide (Rhynchota), Dist. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. £988

Galeosoma, n.¢., Ctenizide (Arachnida), Pure. .. .. .. .. -- +. «. 92

Paromostola, n.g., Ctenizidz (Arachnida), Pure. ac Vag! «a eco eees saan Ub

Broevippanisg ly cosidsl (Arachnida) PtnCes i ae lee 4 ee co all

L2eTA KONA, Tale er, Iba COED (NECavANCK))), Ibi Go 656 oo op oo co oo Jy

Cedmon, n.g., Theraphoside (Arachnida), P.-Cambr. NA eee Mine. pee eS

Mero, n.g., Theridiide (Arachnida), P.-Cambr. .. .. .. .. .. «. «. 156

Lucrinus, n.g., Theridiide (Arachnida), P.-Cambr. .. .. .. .. .. «. 162

Gazanus, n.g., Carabidee (Coleoptera), Pering. .. .. .. .. .. «.. «. 204

Hemus, n.g., Tenebrionids (Coleoptera), Péring. .. .. .. .. «.. «. 228

Aphrotus, n.g., Tenebrionids (Coleoptera), Péring. .. .. .. .. «- «. 252

Diestesoma, n, g., Tenebrionida (Coleoptera), Peéring. Scie seas Coe

Dorelogena, n.g., Tenebrionide (Coleoptera), Péring. AN Se haces iors ate, aire)

Asemogena, n.g., Tenebrionids (Coleoptera), Péring. i 6) O60 BEes te el

Paractenodia, n.g, Mylabride (Coleoptera), Pering. .. .. .. .. -. «. 288

Pterocerota, n.g., Pterothysanide (Lepidoptera), Hamps. me as ee et O89

Bracharoa, n.g., Lymantriade (Lepidoptera), Hamps. .. .. .. «.. «.. 392

Micraroa, n.g., Lymantriade (Lepidoptera), Hamps. Soh Poise aves Agate are 204

Homochira, n.g., Lymantriade (Lepidoptera), Hamps. .. .. .. -. «.. 409

Cymaroa, n.g., Lymantriade (Lepidoptera), Hamps. ae Desc rice or 210

Pteredoa, n.g., Lymantriadx (Lepidoptera), Hamps. wea gusters sie acten sy LM

Procrateria, n.g., Noctuide (Lepidoptera), Hamps. .. .. .. .. «.. «- 426

Copifrontia, n.g., Noctuide (Lepidoptera), Hamps. .. .. .. .. .. «. 483

Stomafrontia, n.g., Noctuide (Lepidoptera), Hamps. PRT nate ts om ate OO

DATE OF ISSUE OF THE PARTS.

Part 1, pp. 1-42, issued January 15, 1903.

Part 2, pp. 43-62, issued March 19, 1903.

Part 3, pp. 63-68, issued April 9, 1903.

Part 4, pp. 69-142, issued October 30, 1903.

Part 5, pp. 143-166, issued January 15, 1904.

Part 6, pp. 167-300, issued December 31, 1904,

Part 7, pp. 301-302, issued May 11, 1905.

Part 8, pp. 303-388, issued July 27, 1905.

Part 9, pp. 389-438, issued July 27, 1905.

List OF PLATES.

PLATE

South African Solpugide and Spiders.

II. Dinoperca queketti.

Ill. Epinephelus grammatophorus.

IV. Epinephelus albomarginatus.

VY. Epinephelus andersoni.

VI. Dentex lineopunctatus.

VII. Pagrus nigripinnus.

VIII. New South African Spiders.

New South African Spiders.

XIII. South African Coleoptera.

XIV. Paratilapia carlotte.

ANNALS

OF THE

SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM.

1.—Descriptions of New Genera and Species of South African

Solpugide, with 8 text figures—By W. F. Purcenu, Ph.D.,

First Assistant.

THE present paper contains descriptions of a new Solpuga, a new

Blossia, and 3 new genera of the family Solpugide. Two of the new

genera are remarkable on account of the apparent absence of a

flagellum on the chelicerz of the adult male, a character not hitherto

found in any South African form and known only in the North

American genus Hremobates.

As it is of the greatest importance to ascertain the maturity and

sex of a specimen, when identifying it, it may be advisable to point

out clearly the important sexual differences presented by the

structure of the first abdominal sternite. All the South African forms

in the Collection (including all known South African genera) were

examined, and it was found that adult specimens could always be

readily distinguished from immature specimens and the sex

ascertained with certainty, quite independently of the presence of a

flagellum. The sex of immature forms, although not usually required,

can also be ascertained, at least in older individuals, but less readily

than in the adult.

Adult male.—The sternite or hardened cuticula of the ventral

surface of the first abdominal segment is composed of a right and

left half joined together along the median line by soft skin. The

sexual opening is a median longitudinal slit situated near the middle

of the sternite in a convexly raised, spindle-shaped, oval or even

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circular area, which it divides into a right and left half, each half

being formed of a piece of hardened cuticula (genital sclerite),

movably articulated with the adjacent half-sternite by means of a

strip of soft skin. This soft skin bears no hairs and is usually sunken

in, forming a curved groove. It is characteristic of the adult male

that the oval or circular area is always large, generally about half as

long as the sternite itself, but sometimes longer.*

In immature males a similar pair of genital sclerites occurs, but

they are much smaller, being only 4-4 of the sternite in length.

pe ee

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Fie. 1.—First abdominal sternite of various specimens of Solpuga venator, Poe.

{x 3 times), all from the same locality (Dunbrody).

Adult female.—In the adult female the genital sclerites are absent

and the sternite is generally deeply grooved along the median line.

The sexual opening is very large and conspicuous, being situated in

the soft skin under the posterior region of the sternite, and of course

not visible until this is lifted. Moreover, the hind margin of the

segment is cleft or emarginated, generally strongly so, in the middle,

the hind median angles of the half-sternites not being united by soft

skin quite up to the hind end. The depth of this emargination or

incision, as well as the shape of the sexual opening, varies consider-

ably in the different species, and may be used as a specific or group

character.

The immature female may be recognised from the immature male

by the absence of the genital sclerites and from the adult female by

the absence of a large and conspicuous sexual opening and generally

also by the absence of the posterior median incision.

* In the species which were more closely examined (S. venator, S. hostilis) the

hairs en the genital sclerites are pointed and differ from the majority of the hairs

on the rest of the sternite, which are mostly conspicuously forked at the apex.

New Genera and Species of South African Solpugide. 3

Sup-Famiry SOLPUGIN A.

Gren. SOLPUGA.

SoLPUGA COLLINITA, Nn. sp.

Type.—1 3 (No. 9764) found by Dr. H. Brauns at Willowmore,

Cape Colony, in a house at night, in December, 1901.

g. Very closely allied to S. cervina, Pure. (Ann. 8, A. Mus.,

v. 1, p. 415, 1899), but distinctly differing in the structure of the apex

of the flagellum,

Head-plate as in cervina, but more thickly covered all over with

long hairs and bristles; the ocular tubercle with about 10 con-

spicuous sete on anterior surface, besides a few, fine, short sete and

hairs.

Chelicere as in cervina ; the distal tooth of upper jaw somewhat

Fic. 2.—Solpuga collinita, n. sp., dorsal finger of left chelicera from the outer

side (A), and from above (B); a, apical lobe; b, outer process of «; ¢, external

lobe ; d, filiform process.

smaller than the second tooth. The flagellum also similar, excepting

that the sharply-pointed, curved, apical spur * is replaced by a more

complicated expanded lobe (a, fig. 2). This lobe is laterally com-

pressed, and appears broadly ovate with rounded apex when seen

from the side (fig. 24), while on the outer side it is provided with a

* In cervina this spur is really composed of 2 spurs so closely appressed that they

appear at first sight to form only one piece. In the type there is a slight cleft

separating the apices of the double spur.

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straight acute process extending outwards at right angles from the

posterior upper part (0, fig. 2). The upper edges of both the lobe

and its process are continuously serrated. Moreover, the anterior

part of the large lateral lobe (c, fig. 2), found in both species, is

continued in the form of a spiral collar round the outer side of the

flagellum to join the under side of the apical lobe. The curved

filiform process (d, fig. 2) on the inner side near the apex is finely

serrated.

Tergites of abdomen and thorax deeply infuscated, except the

posterior ones, the abdominal tergites thickly clothed with long

brown sete, which are blackened at the base. Soft, pale yellowish

skin on the sides of mesial and posterior abdominal segments with

similar sete, the sides of the anterior segments naked. Tergites and

sides of abdomen without a coat of short fine hairs; abdominal

sternites thickly covered with fine yellowish hairs.

Pedipalps remarkably long and slender as in cervina, the tibia

equal to the metatarsus and tarsus together and about 14 times as

long as the width of the head-plate ; under side of the 3 distal

segments with a number of longish truncated cylinder-bristles, which

are numerous on the tarsus and metatarsus but less numerous on

the tibia; distal end of pedipalps and the basal part (including base

of femur) pale yellowish, the remainder dark purplish.

_ Legs also dark purplish, but the basal segments, the tarsi, metatarsi

and upper surface of tibiz pale yellowish, the metatarsi purplish at

the sides in the basal half.

Measurements.—Total length (including chelicere) 294 mm. ;

median length of head-plate 5, width 54; length of pedipalp (exclu-

_ sive of coxa) 324; length of tibia 104.

Susp-Famimy DAISIIN 4.

Gren. BLOSSIA.

BuLossIA LITORALIS, N. sp.

Specimens.—2 3 g and1ad. 9 (No. 8795 ; November) from the sea-

shore opposite Duiker Klip, near Hout Bay,and 1 juv. @ (No. 3792)

from the sea-shore at Oukraal, near Camps Bay, all found under

stones just above high-water mark by my wife and myself. Both

localities lie on the western shore of the Cape Peninsula between

Camps Bay and Hout Bay. I have also seen a specimen, no doubt,

belonging to the same species, much higher up on the mountain side,

and have taken a very young specimen on Signal Hill.

New Genera and Species of South African Solpugide. 5)

The species is very closely allied to B. crepidulifera, Pure. (Ann.

S. A. Mus., v. 2, p. 214, 1901), but differs in the dentition of the

chelicere.

3 gf (Types). Colowr pale ochraceous, the distal and proximal part

of the legs and the under side of the body very pale yellowish, the

head-plate and the abdominal tergites faintly tinged with brown in

places, the anterior margin of head-plate finely blackened.

Head-plate with medium-sized and longish spines at the sides and

in front (longer than those in crepidulifera), and in addition with a

number of minute brown spinules scattered over the surface.

Chelicere.—Dorsal finger strong ; its upper edge straight (except

distally, where it curves downwards), without differentiated distal

bristle ; its ventral edge with an inner, very blunt, laminate tooth

and a smaller, more conical, outer tooth next to one another near

the apex, and followed by 2 strong pointed teeth, the distal one of

the 2 latter having its posterior side longer than that of the proximal

one; then follow 2 smaller teeth and the teeth of the double series.

Ventral finger with the usual small tooth between 2 large ones in the

middle, but in addition with another tooth about midway between

the large distal tooth and the apex of the finger. Flagellum very

like that of crepidulifera, but with the stalk longer and the expanded

portion more ovate.

Seb

Fic. 3.—Blossia litoralis, n. sp., right chelicera of ¢ from outer side (the base

of the flagellum shining through the translucent jaw).

Abdomen as in crepidulifera.

Pedipalps with the dorsal cylindrical bristles on the tibia as long

as those on the metatarsus (as in crepidulifera, karrooica, &¢.) ; tibia

with strong spines below; metatarsus with 3 stout spines below,

the proximal one longest and about twice as long as the inferior

cylindrical bristles.

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9 and juv.—Head-plate with the numerous short sets more

cylindrical, the stouter ones being dark brown but not spiniform.

Pedipalps with 3 stout spines below on both tibia and metatarsus.

Dentition of chelicere normal, the dorsal finger with only 1 inter-

mediate tooth.

Measurements.— g $114, large 9 16 mm. in length.

Gren. MELANOBLOSSIA, n. g.

Head-plate almost semicircularly produced in front. Ocular

tubercle with a semicircle of fine sete on the medial side of each

eye. Chelicere rapidly narrowed in the middle part, stout at base.

Pedipalps short, the tibia and metatarsus without spines below.

Legs short, posterior femora not thickened but several times as

long as wide; metatarsi of second and third legs with dorsal

spines; tarsi of second and third legs 1-jointed, those of fourth

leg 2-jointed and slender, the distal joint shortest.

Adult ¢ with fleshy hairs on the second abdominal sternite.

Flagellum not rotatable, consisting of a flexible, densely hairy rod

directed forwards and lying against the inner surface of the upper

jaw, and so completely hidden between the chelicere.

Type: M. brawnsi, n. sp.

The two species described below differ rather considerably in the

convexity of the head-plate and in the denseness of the covering of

short sete. The small flagellum of the typical species so closely

resembles the adjacent hairy setee that it would be difficult to recog-

nise it but for the presence of the conspicuous flagellum in an exactly

similar position in M. globiceps, n. sp.

MELANOBLOSSIA BRAUNSI, 0. sp.

Specimens.—1 ad. $ (type, No. 10,092) and 6 immature specimens

(Nos. 8781, 9762), collected at Willowmore, Cape Colony, by Dr. H.

Brauns, who first discovered the species. Also, 1 juv. from Hanover,

collected by Mr. 8. C. Cronwright Schreiner.

Diurnal; adult g¢ found on December 1, 1901.

3. Colour for the most part black; thoracic tergites brownish

yellow; tergites of first 5 abdominal segments brownish in the

middle but more yellowish laterally ; sternites of abdomen yellow

in anterior but reddish in the posterior segments, the soft skin at

the sides deep black; coxee and trochanters yellowish but more or

less strongly infuscated; malleoli black-edged; legs black, with

peculiar blueish-white sheen on the dorsal surface of the metatarsi,

New Genera and Species of South African Solpugide. 7

tibia, and distal part of femora (also observable on the tarsus and

metatarsus of the pedipalps),

Head-plate with some longer and shorter, fine, notched sete above

but not densely clothed with minute cylindrical bristles; the surface

moderately convex, the hinder portion inclined and not rising per-

pendicularly ; head-plate and thickened portion of chelicerze together

oval in outline and distinctly longer than broad.

Chelicere with fine notched bristles. Dorsal finger strongly late-

rally compressed, forming a vertical lamina, except quite at the base;

the upper edge rising convexly from the base; the lower edge con-

cave just before the middle; apical fang small, curved downwards,

followed by a series of 6 small teeth, the 2 distal ones on a prominent

convex edge; the seventh tooth large, followed by 2 large outer and

a couple of very long inner teeth. Ventral finger longer than the

dorsal one, with the usual 3 teeth. Flagellum small and incon-

Fic. 4.—Melanoblossia braunsi, n. sp. A, vight chelicera of ¢ from outer side;

B, dorsal finger of right chelicera from inner side more highly magnified to show

the flagellum, f.

spicuous, being merely a straight, hairy, pallid rod, resembling one

of the series of hairy sete placed immediately below it (see fig. 48)

on the inner side of the dorsal finger above the space between the

two large basal teeth.

Pedipalps clothed, but not densely, with long and short notched

bristles, some of those on the under side, especially of the tibia,

stouter and longer.

Abdomen with blackish brown or black setz and hairs; second

segment with a group composed of a pair of long, narrow, clavate,

brownish, acutely pointed, fleshy hair-structures on each side on

ventral surface; genital sclerites forming a long, narrow, spindle-

shaped area, exceeding half the sternite in length.

Inmature 2 2 .—First 4-5 segments of abdomen as in g or more

yellowish, especially in younger specimens, posterior segments dark

brown; under side of abdomen yellowish. In young specimens the

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dark pigment is less intense, and the tibie and metatarsi of the legs

are pale yellowish, with the dorsal glaucous sheen.

Chelicere.—Dorsal finger with first and third tooth large, the

second and fourth small, the fifth larger than the fourth, followed

Fic. 5.—Melanoblossia braunsi, n. sp., right chelicera of ? from outer side.

by several small outer and some inner teeth. Ventral finger with

the usual 3 teeth in the middle, but in addition the terminal fang is

minutely denticulated above in front of the large distal tooth.

Measurements.—Ad. 3 63, largest immature ¢ 94 mm. in length.

MELANOBLOSSIA GLOBICEPS, 0. sp.

Type.—I1 ad. g (dried specimen, No. 1056) from Namaqualand,

Cape Colony, bearing the label ‘‘ O’okiep, G. Worden, 1886.”

3. Colouwr* black, the legs whitened apparently in much the

same way as in the previous species.

Head-plate broad and high, strongly convex, the posterior surface

rising vertically; posterior and lateral margins semicircularly rounded

and forming with the thickened basal portion of the chelicere a

complete circle; surface of head-plate thickly covered with very

short and numerous, blackish brown, cylindrical or pointed bristles,

and provided also with a few long sete.

Chelicere very stout at the base but strongly and suddenly nar-

rowed in the middle, furnished with rather fine, dark brown, longish

setae but without short ones like those on the head-plate. Dorsal

finger strongly laterally compressed, lightly curving downwards

distally, the upper edge rising convexly from the base, the lower

edge sharp and laminate, sinuous, being lightly convex in the

middle but lightly concave in front of and behind the convexity,

the edge without any large teeth but with 4 small recurved teeth.

Ventral finger equalling the dorsal in length and straight, the apex

* In old dried specimens it is not always possible to give the colour in detail,

owing to discoloration of parts of the body.

New Genera and Species of South African Solpugide. 9

shortly upturned, the upper edge provided with 4 teeth near the

middle, of which the proximal and distal ones are large and equal

and the 2 intermediate ones smaller, the proximal intermediate tooth

being the smallest of the four; the upper edge also minutely and

unevenly denticulated or roughened in front of the distal tooth.

Flagellum much larger and more conspicuous than in M. braunsi,

n. sp., but similarly situated, formed of a curved pallid rod densely

Fic. 6.—Melanoblossia globiceps, n. sp., right chelicera from inner side.

covered with soft pallid hairs, those at the apex longest, forming a

club.

Pedipalps stout and shortish, with long, fine, brown hairs and set

and densely covered besides with short and very numerous, blackish

brown, mostly truneated, cylindrical bristles, those on the upper side

of the femur extremely short, those on the tibia, metatarsus, and

tarsus longer.

Legs clothed, especially on the femora and basal segments, with

numerous short, white, notched bristles, besides long brown hairs

and sete.

Abdomen with numerous white hairs at the sides and below, the

second segment with a group of 8-12 long, filiform, pale yellowish,

fleshy hairs spread over each half of the sternite.

Measurement.—Total length 92 mm.

Sup-Faminy KARSCHIIN A.

Gen. TOREUS, n. g.

Adult male without distinguishable flagellum. Upper lobe of

rostrum bent downwards at apex, the upper edge of the apical

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part curving strongly downwards and the lower edge horizontal

Fic. 7.—Toreus capensis (Purc.), rostrum of ad. 3.

and slightly concave; the setal plate strongly inclined, nearer the

vertical than the horizontal. Other characters as in Ceroma,

Karsch.

Type: 7’. capensis (Purc.), originally described as Ceroma capensis

in Ann. 8. A. M., v. 1, p. 339, figs. 15-150, 1899.

In Ceroma the dorsal lobe of the rostrum is more evenly pointed

and the setal plate less vertical.

The typical specimen, which was found in the Cape Peninsula,

was originally described as a female of the genus Ceroma on account

of the absence of the flagellum. The genital plate, however, is that

of the adult male. |

Gen. LIPOPHAGA, n. g.

Head-plate with the anterior margin only slightly curving forwards.

Ocular tubercle slightly projecting beyond the anterior margin, its

anterior surface without hairs but bearing a pair of spines placed on

a pair of prominent conical tubercles. Pedipalps of moderate length

and rather stout; the metatarsus appearing slenderer towards the

base, especially when seen from the side, its under side with numerous

truncated cylinder-bristles. All the legs with a single tarsal joint

and small pulvillus; the first leg with a pair of minute claws; meta-

tarsi of second and third pair with 4-5 stout dorsal spines and several

slenderer inferior spines, that of fourth leg also with inferior spines.

Chelicerze with a series of very short ridges at anterior edge of the

large smooth area on inner surface.

Adult 3 differing from the ¢ and young in having the chelicers

and head-plate much more strongly spined, the pedipalps somewhat

longer and slightly stouter and provided with a row of strong spines

on the lower inner edge of the tibia. Flagellum not distinguishable.

Upper lobe of rostrum with the lower edge slightly concave and the

New Genera and Species of South African Solpugide. api

upper edge convex, the apex, however, scarcely downcurved ; lower

lobes about as long as the upper lobe.

Type: L. trispinosa, n. sp.

The local name of this and other Solifuge is according to Mr.

Goold ‘ Vet-vreter’”’ (Fat-eaters).

LIPOPHAGA TRISPINOSA, 0. sp.

Specimens.—5 ad. 3 g,1lad.? ,and3 juv. (No. 10,091) from Stomp-

neus and Soldatenpost at St. Helena Bay, Malmesbury Div., Cape

Colony, found by Mr. J. E. C. Goold under stones in May and June,

1902.

3 3 (Types). Colowr very pale yellowish. Cheliceree with a

lateral and 2 dorsal, darkly infuscate stripes, which unite distally, the

upper and outer surface besides with generally somewhat indistinct,

infuscate reticulation. Head-plate strongly infuscated, the greater

part (middle and posterior portion) being covered with a fine but

indistinct and blurred reticulation, excepting the narrow transverse

anterior band and a large, oblique, antero-lateral patch on each side,

which are more uniformly infuscated; median line yellow; ocular

tubercle deep black. Abdominal tergites more or less extensively

infuscated at the sides and in the middle, but with a large yellow

area on each side of the median patch; some of the segments infus-

cated also along the anterior and posterior margins. Pedipalps with

the 3 distal segments and the distal half of the femur infuscated, the

under side of the femur and tarsus, however, and to some extent that

of the metatarsus and tibia, pale yellowish. Legs partially infuscated,

principally on the sides of the femora, tibize, and proximal part of the

metatarsi.

Head-plate—Hind margin with 4 very strong, large, equal spines,

besides a smaller outer spine on each side and a number of still smaller

ones scattered between the large spines; whole surface densely

covered with minute cylindrical bristles and provided with some

stout, medium-sized and small, scattered spines, especially towards

the sides.

Chelicere with numerous, stout, pointed spines, many of them

quite short and conical, on the upper and outer surfaces but with no

distinguishable flagellum. Dorsal finger conical, nearly straight,

the terminal fang strong, slightly curved; distal tooth moderate,

second tooth small, third large, fourth small, fifth and sixth large—then

follow 2 small teeth, a large one and several small ones; inner row

composed of a few basal teeth. Lower finger considerably longer

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than the upper, with 3 strong teeth near the middle, the intermediate

rather large but smaller than the other two.

Fic. 8.—Lipophaga trispinosa, n. sp., right chelicera of ad. ¢ from outer side.

Pedipalps (like the legs) densely covered with minute cylindrical

bristles ; under side of tarsus and metatarsus with numerous, mode-

rately long, truncated, cylindrical bristles; tibia with scarcely any of

the longer cylinder-bristles below, but with 3 powerful spines in the

distal half along the inner inferior margin, in addition to a few

smaller slender spines ; femur with several inner spines.

Abdomen.—Genital sclerites forming a long spindle-shaped area

and considerably exceeding half the sternite in length.

?. The infuscate reticulation on the chelicerz andhead-plate very

distinct and sharply defined. Head-plate and limbs without the dense

coat of minute cylinder-bristles ; the spines on the former replaced by

long spiniform sete (except on the ocular tubercle). Chelicere also

with the stout spines replaced by spiniform setz and slender spines,

somewhat larger than in the g, the upper finger strongly curved

downwards at the apex, the dentition as in the ¢ ; lower finger not

longer than the upper. Pedipalps with fewer cylinder-bristles on the

under side of the metatarsus and tarsus, the spines on the tibia and

femur replaced by much slenderer, long sete. Genital sternite with

the posterior median cleft very deep, extending through more than

half the length of the sternite, the inner hind angles rounded off.

The young resemble the female (except in the genital sternite).

Measurements.—Total length of ¢ g 154 mm., ? 204; length of

head-plate in a $ 3, 9 3, of pedipalp (exclusive of coxa) in g 1234,

? 104.

(13)

2.—New Arachnida collected by Mr. S. C. Cronwright Schreiner at

Hanover, Cape Colony. With Plate I—By W. F. Purcetn,

Ph.D., First Assistant.

THE altitude of the town of Hanover is 4,686 ft. above sea-level, and

the district of that name forms part of the high-lying arid karvoo-

plateau which occupies the interior of Cape Colony.

During the last four months of 1901 and the beginning of 1902

Mr. 8. C. Cronwright Schreiner set himself to collect the Arachnid

fauna of this district, and with very remarkable success got together

several thousands of specimens, which were well preserved in spirits

and given to the South African Museum. Although the great bulk

of this collection was made by Mr. Schreiner himself in the immediate

neighbourhood of the town of Hanover, a considerable number of

specimens were obtained on farms in the district by the Dutch

farmers and their children, whose services were enlisted, the farms

mentioned in this paper in this connection being Vlagkop, Palmiet-

fontein, and Poortjesfontein, all 5-6 miles north of Hanover ; Hier-

fontein, about 8-9 miles west of Hanover; and Krapfontein, about

15 miles west of Hanover.

Mr. Schreiner was particularly successful in collecting a large

number of specimens of trap-door spiders, which, although numerous,

require considerable perseverance as well as experience to detect in

their well-concealed burrows. Three large trap-door spiders (a Gorgy-

rella and 2 species of Stasimopus) of the family Ctenizid@ were found

to be common in the district, but 2 smaller species of the same family

and 1 of the family MWigide were also obtained, all these spiders being

new. Mr. Schreiner also found numbers of a trap-door Lycosa* and

of a most interesting new Hresid, which, although not belonging to

a trap-door-building family, constructs the remarkable nest described

and figured further on.

* No doubt L. domicolu, Sim., but I cannot discover the original description of

this species, which is mentioned in Simon, Araign., 2° Ed, v. 2, pp. 329 and 341.

14 Annals of the South African Museum.

In the present paper 2 new Solifug@ and 13 new spiders are

described, these being, however, only a portion of the new species

contained in Mr. Schreiner’s collection.

Orper SOLIFUGA.

D2SIA SCHREINERI, N. sp.

(Pl. 1, figattk)

Types.—1 nearly mature ¢ and 1 ad. 3 (No. 8783) from Hanover,

1 ad. @ (No. 9775) from Hierfontein, 1 ad. g (No. 9765) and 1

nearly mature ? (No. 9783) from Palmietfontein, and 1 ad. g (No.

9776) from Vlagkop (ad. 9 in December, g g in October and

December).

2? 9. Head-plate resembling that of lecpoldti, Pure., in colour,

but with the long setz slightly stronger and more conspicuous,

especially on the anterior side of the eye-tubercle, which bears, in

addition to a number of fine sets, 3 pairs of long conspicuous spines

(forming part of the semicircular row round each eye), the upper

pair being setiform and the distance between the middle (stoutest)

pair at most only slightly exceeding half the distance between the

eyes.

Chelicere pale yellowish or pale ochraceous, the dorsal infuscated

stripes not expanded nor united distally, the inner stripe less distinct

than the outer one, the dorsal surface marmorate on each side of

the outer stripe; the lateral surface not marmorate, with a feeble

infuscate stripe at base. Jaws normal, the dentition as in kolbez,

Pure., except that there is always only one intermediate tooth

above; the distal upper tooth smaller than the second.

Abdomen.—Tergites with a narrow median infuscate band and on

each side a broad infuscate lateral patch. Soft skin on each side with

a long transverse row of 4—7 short, strongly curved, claw-like spines

near the anterior margin in segments I and II; with a group of 1-4

similar spines (becoming longer posteriorly) in 1-2 rows in the upper

part in segments III—-VI or III-V and with a pair of long subseti-

form spines on each side in segment IX (a similar inferior spine

sometimes present in segment VIII and a shorter superior one some-

times in segment VII) ; segment X without spines; also an inferior ~

transverse row of 4—6 small curved spines near hind margin in

segment IIT and adjoining these in the lower anterior part of the sides

in segment IV is a transverse row of 4-8 parallel longitudinal ridges.

All the curved spines on segments I-VI are curved backwards, and

New Arachiuda. 15)

are considerably or only slightly darker than the other hairs and

sete. Their number appears to be rather variable.

Pedipalps infuscated in the same manner as in lezpoldti, excepting

the femur, which has a dorsal longitudinal stripe as well as the

under side and the distal portion of the segment infuscated, the

sides also faintly infuseated in the middle portion. Shape of meta-

tarsus and tarsus as in leépoldti, but the spine-armature of the meta-

tarsus, tibia and femur very much stronger and similar to that in

kolbei, Purc. (Ann, S. A. Mus., v. 1, p. 391).

Legs with the proximal and distal segments pale yellow; the

femora infuscated, especially in fourth leg, on the anterior surface,

the distal part of the posterior surface and to a lesser extent above ;

the tibie infuscated, excepting below; metatarsus I infuscated

(excepting below), II and III slightly or scarcely at all infuscated at

the base on each side, IV infuscated in the basal half on each side.

Metatarsi IT and III spined as in letpoldts.

3 ¢. Head-plate with the long sete very strong and stout ; the

spiniform sete and spines on the upper and anterior surfaces of the

ocular tubercle very strong.

Chelicere bristling with long, strong, spiniform setz above and

with short ones on the outer side. Upper finger (pl. I., fig. 11)

very straight distally, becoming gradually pointed towards the apex ;

terminal fang compressed laterally, concave on the inner side and

only slightly curving outwards; the dorsal edge (seen from the

side) slightly convex in the basal part, but lightly inclined and

quite straight in the distal half; the ventral edge evenly concave,

excepting at the terminal fang, where it is straight; distal tooth saw-

edge-like, very low and remote from the apex, second and fourth

tooth strong, long and directed forwards, third (intermediate) tooth

small, the fourth tooth followed by an outer and an inner row of 3-4

teeth each. Lower finger normal, with 2 long hooked teeth and a

small intermediate one. Flagellum a thin-walled, transparent,

colourless, laterally compressed, elongate pear-shaped, hollow

capsule, rounded in front and drawn out posteriorly into a grooved

blunt point ; the opening occupies the whole lower half of the inner

surface ; the outer side with a brownish rib along the middle and

rotatably attached at about + of its length from the anterior end to

the inner surface of the upper finger on a level with the fourth

* The inferior row of spines and ridges in the third and fourth segments were

first noticed by Pocock in D. bernardi, Poc., from Hex River Valley, Cape Colony,

but they are also present in D. leipoldti, Pure.

16 Annals of the South African Musewm.

tooth. Rotated forwards, the flagellum reaches to the apex of the

upper finger.

Abdomen.—The spines corresponding to those on the soft skin of

the sides in the ? thinner, longer, and much less conspicuous than

in the ?, those of the more posterior segments scarcely, if at all,

distinguishable from the bristles, but the inferior spines and ridges of

segments III and IV distinct. Ventral side of segment II with a large

patch of turbinate and clavate, ochraceous to brown, fleshy hair-

structures (about 15-20 large and from 40 to over 100 smaller

ones).

Pedipalps longer and stouter than in the 9, the spine-armature

much the same, except that in the metatarsus the 2 distal setz of

the inner row are replaced by 2 strong, much shorter spines, each

tipped by a fine bristle, which is apparently sometimes absent

(broken off?), and in the femur there is a very strong spiniform seta,

equalling the inferior sete in stoutness, on the inner surface distally

(represented in the ? by a much finer seta).

Measurements.—Total length of ad. ? 204mm., of $ g 194-23, of

pedipalp in ? 14, in largest g 20, of head-plate 9 3:2, 3 4.

Closely allied to D. leipoldti, Pure. (Ann. S. A. Mus., v. 1, p. 388),

but differing principally in being much more strongly spined on the

pedipalps. The abdomen is pale yellowish in the g, but may be

reddish in the immature @. Found under stones in the day-

time.

BLOssIA ECHINATA, 0. Sp.

(PLA. tie. 10)

Specimens—1 g (No. 9777) and 1 ad. @ (No. 9769) from

Hanover (gf in January, ? in December).

3 (Type). Colour pale yellow; head-plate with faint infuscate

stains (except in the middle), the anterior margin narrowly

blackened ; the 3 distal segments of pedipalps (except below) and

the distal part of the femur fuscous brown ; legs III and IV with

the femora yellowish at base, fuscous brown distally, the tibize

fuscous brown on the sides; metatarsus of leg IV and the base of

that of leg III fuscous brown on the sides.

Head-plate with long and medium-sized, strong, notched spines

scattered over its surface, some of those at the sides and in front

being almost as long as those at the hind margin.

Chelicere bristling with numerous, long, stout spines; the distal

dorsal bristle long and slender, lightly curved, not reaching to apex

of jaw, its surface minutely roughened in the distal half. DorsaZ

New Avrachiuda. 17

finger (pl. L., fig. 10) almost straight, furnished with a small sharp

tooth before the middle on the dorsal edge; the ventral edge almost

straight, the teeth of the distal series pointed, composed of 2 large

distal ones remote from the apex, a smaller third tooth and a large

fourth tooth, the latter slightly smaller than those of the distal pair

and followed by a smaller tooth and others of the double series ;

terminal fang long, curving slightly outwards and downwards

towards the apex, its lower edge with a minute tubercle or slight

convex dilatation before the large distal tooth. Ventral finger high,

with 3 pointed teeth in the middle, the intermediate one small

(obsolete on one side) ; in front of these is a rounded upright keel

on the inner edge and a smaller, brown, tubercular tooth or keel on

the outer edge of the upper side. Flagellwm long, very like that of

karrooica, Pure., the lightly inflated basal part elongate and strongly

curved, laterally compressed, and open along the ventral side, the

anterior end attached to the inner side of the finger above the third

(intermediate) tooth ; the distal part forming a linear, laterally com-

pressed rod, slightly longer than the inflated basal part and strongly

curving outwards, but appearing almost straight when seen from the

side, the apex suddenly pointed and upturned.

Abdomen.—The tergites in the anterior and middle portion of

the abdomen (like those of the thorax) with a number of strong

notched spines, replaced by slenderer setze in the posterior segments ;

second abdominal segment below with 2 clusters of 3 fleshy, pale

yellowish hairs each, meeting distally in the median plane, the hairs

long, filiform and curved.

Pedipalps with the cylindrical bristles on the dorsal surface of the

tibia as long as those on the metatarsus, as in karrooica; the

metatarsus with 3 long, strong, very distinct, ventral spines; the

tibia with 4 (sometimes 3 ?) long spines below.

Total length 10 mm.

?. Only one of the 6 female Blossi@ captured appears to be the

@ of this species. The colour of this specimen is much as in the ¢,

except that the limbs are still more faintly infuseated, while the

thoracic and abdominal tergites are distinctly, although lightly, tinged

with fuscous brown, especially towards the sides. The chelicerze and

head-plate are strongly spined, as in the g (except that the spines

are shorter and relatively stouter), and furnished in addition with

numerous very short and stout spinules, corresponding in part to the

short, cylindrical sete of the other species, some of which setz are

also present here. First 6 abdominal tergites with a row of

moderately long spines along hind margin, besides some very short

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and stout spinules scattered over the surface, the posterior segments

with cylindrical sete instead of spines. Spines on the metatarsus as

in the g but shorter, the tibiae with a row of 4 spines below, besides

a longer, slenderer, proximal one. Dentition of cheliceree normal,

with one intermediate tooth above. Second abdominal segment

injured below.

Total length 13+ mm.

This species is closely allied to B. karrooica, Pure. (Ann. 8. A.

Mus., v. 2, p. 216), and B. setifera, Poc. (Ann. Mag. N. H., ser. 7, v. 5,

p- 301). It is found under stones.

Orpver ARAN EZ.

Fam. MIGIDZ.

MoGGRIDGEA SETICOXA, N. sp.

Types.—3 ? @ (measuring from 10-124 mm. in length) from

Hanover (No. 9459) and Hierfontein (No. 10053) (September and

January).

@ @. Colowr.—Carapace, cheliceree and limbs pale yellowish

olivaceous, the yellow predominating in some parts, the green in

others, the lateral edges and median longitudinal line of the cephalic

portion darkened; abdomen pale yellowish, the upper side more or

less dark purplish ; sternum, coxz, and often parts of the legs, pale

yellowish ; spines on the legs black.

Carapace wide, its length (measured laterally to the ocular area) a

little less than that of the tibia, metatarsus and tarsus of first leg, but

considerably less than that of the tibia and metatarsus of fourth leg

in largest 9. Ocular area almost 24 times as wide as long, its width

a little less than the length of the metatarsus of first leg ; the anterior

row of eyes with its hind margin only very slightly procurved (when

seen from above), the lateral eyes much larger, their diameter 2-24

times that of the small median eyes; posterior row strongly recurved,

the eyes smaller than the anterior medians, equal to each other or

the laterals slightly larger, the medians distant about their own

diameter or slightly less from the laterals, which again are separated

from the anterior laterals by scarcely more than a long diameter of

the latter.

Legs.—Tarsi land II with minute sete below in rows ; III densely

studded below and at the sides with stout, black, setiform spines,

especially distally ; IV with black sete, those on the under side mostly

stout or even spiniform. Metatarsus I with 6-9 spines on each side; II

New Arachnida. 19

with 5-8 spines on each side ; III and IV with some long distal spines

or spiniform set ; IV also with an infero-posterior apical tuft of 3-4

spiniform sete, exactly resembling those of a Stasimopus. Tibia I

almost or quite twice as long above as wide, with 5-6 inner and 6-8

outer spines; II with 4—6 spines on each edge; III with some curved,

apical, setiform spines above; IV with some long distal spines or

spiniform seta below. Patella III with an anterior upper row of

shorter, stout, curved (at apex of segment almost setiform) spines,

and a posterior upper row of longer, stout, spiniform sete ; IV with a

broad, anterior, upper band of shorter setiform spines, and a posterior

upper row of longer, stout, spiniform sete. Coxe muticous, with

stoutish sete below ; III with a posterior basal group of 9-10 more

spiniform sete below.

Labvum with the teeth longish and on the anterior half only.

Coxe of pedipalps with the basal teeth long, the toothed area in the

distal half of the coxa very narrow and composed of only 1-2 rows

of teeth.

Measurements of a 2? .—Total length 114 mm. ; length of carapace

4-1, width 32.

The specimens were found under stones.

Fam. CTENIZIDA.

STASIMOPUS SCHREINERI, n. sp.

Types.—One large ? (36 mm. in length ; November), and 4 smaller

2 ¢ (21-28 mm. in length; Nos. 9513, 9516, 9551, 9558) from

Hanover and Poortjesfontein (October, November), and1 3 (No. 9159)

from Hanover (September). g found under a stone, 2 ? in trap-

door burrows. Five younger specimens, the smallest measuring

92 mm. in length, were also obtained, but are not comprehended in

the following description.

Closely allied to S. lecpoldti, Pure. (Trans. S. A. Phil. Soe., v. 11,

p. 348).

2 2. Colowr much darker than in leipoldti, the abdomen more or

less blackish purple above, especially posteriorly.

Carapace almost as long as the patella, tibia’ and metatarsus of

first leg, and as the tibia, metatarsus and tarsus of fourth leg in the

large ¢, but shorter in the smaller specimens. Ocular area wide,

its width behind equalling the metatarsus together with 4—3 of the

tarsus of first leg, but slightly less than the fourth metatarsus. Eyes

rather far apart, disposed much as in lezpoldti ; the anterior laterals

large and oval, the posterior medians small, strongly oval, subequal

20 Annals of the South African Musewm.

to or even slightly smaller than the posterior laterals, and distant

from them by about an eye’s diameter or less; the area formed by

the posterior median and anterior lateral eyes distinctly, sometimes

only very slightly, narrower behind than in front; distance between

the posterior and anterior lateral eyes considerably exceeding the

long diameter of the latter ; the distance between the former pair of

eyes also distinctly and generally considerably exceeding the width

of the anterior row of eyes.

Pedipalps with a band of 11-18 short, close-set spines along the

whole length of the inner side of the tarsus, and an internal row of

2-4 (rarely only one) stout spines on the tibia; tarsus with a tiny

basal patch of 10-20 minute spinules above, the tibia with a tiny

apical group of 2-8 such spinules above.

Legs.—Length of tibia of first leg at least equal to that of the

metatarsus, and very slightly (large ?) or more considerably

(smaller 9 ?) exceeding the width of the anterior row of eyes, but

always decidedly less than the width of the posterior row ; tibia with

an internal band of 7-20 spines, occupying the distal third at least,

the upper side with a tiny apical patch of minute spinules ; metatarsus

with a tiny basal patch of spinules above, occupying ;4,—-1 of the

length. Second leg with a broad band of spines on outer surface of

tarsus and 4-12 spines on inner surface of tibia. Third leg with 0-3

posterior and a number of distal anterior spines on the tarsus, 16-23

spines in the anterior and posterior bands on the metatarsus, a

number of distal spines on each side of the tibia, and a band of 11 or

more stout spines on the anterior side of the patella; the latter also

with a number of slenderer distal spines and spinules above (quite

absent in lezpoldti); metatarsus with an apical patch of spines or

sete below. Fourth leg with a number of anterior spines on the 3

distal segments; the anterior patch of red spinules on the patella

very large, extending over more than 4 and up to 3 of the length of

the anterior side ; infero-posterior apical tuft of metatarsus composed

of 4-9 similar spiniform setz arranged in a transverse row, as in

leipoldtt.

Labiwm with 4-8 apical teeth.

Measurements of large 2 .—Total length 36; length of carapace

11:9, width 104; length of metatarsus of first leg 4; width of ocular

area 9.

3g. Colowr.—Carapace dark brown, the cephalic region and the

granules black; chelicerze brown; abdomen black, only the genital

segment below, the lung-books and the spinners pale yellowish ; pedi-

palps and 2 anterior pairs of legs black, but their tarsi, the distal part

New Arachnida. PAM

of the tibia of the pedipalps and the greater part of the metatarsi of

the legs pale ochraceous ; the 2 posterior pairs of legs pale yellowish,

more or less infuscated in parts, especially on the femur of third leg;

sternum pale yellowish behind, lightly infuscated in front; the 2

posterior pairs of coxz and the anterior lower edges of the 2 anterior

pairs pale yellowish ; cox of pedipalps dark brown.

Carapace covered with confluent granules and ridges on the

thoracic portion ; the cephalic portion not punctate, with some fine

granules and ridges in the posterior part only, and densely, finely

and transversely striated and wrinkled in the anterior part at the

sides, the upper part with 3 strong keels, of which the lateral ones

are abbreviated behind, while the median one becomes very fine and

is continued to the fovea. Carapace as long as the metatarsus and

about 1 of the tarsus of first leg, but a little shorter than the

metatarsus of fourth leg. Eyes much as in the ?, but the anterior

laterals hardly larger than the medians.

Pedipalps not spined, remarkably long and thin, reaching beyond

the apex of the metatarsus of first leg, when stretched out in front ;

all the segments, including the femur, almost straight; the tibia

swollen, elongate-clavate, as long as the fourth metatarsus and very

distinctly longer than the carapace ; patella very long and slender,

only a little shorter than the tibia and at least equal to the tibia of

first leg. Process of palpal organ long and very slender, much

longer than the bulb, strongly bent at the thickened base and curved

again distally.

Legs.—First leg very long and slender, the tarsus swollen and

scopulate below, with 1 internal and 0-1 external spine ; metatarsus

quite straight, thickly spined on both sides below but not along the

median line ; tibia a little longer than the metatarsus, thickly spined

below ; patella with a few, distal, subsetiform spines below. Second

leg spined like the first, the tarsus like that of the first but with 1-2

internal spines and 1 external one. Third leg with the tarsus cylin-

drical, scopulate below, and with 3 anterior and 2-3 posterior spines ;

metatarsus slightly curved, spined below, with a few spines also

along the anterior and posterior sides ; tibia spined at the apex on

each side and with a distal patch of spinules above ; patella with an

anterior row and a distal patch of spinules above. Fourth leg with

the tarsus cylindrical, without trace of scopula, and provided with

1-2 internal and 11-13 external spines ; metatarsus slightly curved,

with a few spines below and externally ; tibia with a pair of minute,

distal, external spines; patella with a large patch of minute spines

extending over about 2 of the length of the anterior side ; the posterior

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apical fringe of sete on the metatarsus present but less distinctly

differentiated than in the ?.

Measurements.—Total length 12; length of carapace 4:9; length

of pedipalp (including coxa) 18}; length of first leg 21.

Nests.—The nests with the surrounding earth of 3 of the younger

specimens and the tube and lid of one of the typical females were

sent to me by Mr. Schreiner. Their dimensions in mm. are as

follows :—

No. 9525. No. 9520. No. 9524. No. 9558.

Width of lid taken parallel

HOMMINIGC§ ./.0s enc a-ceennee 72 15 16 20

Width of lid taken at right

angles to hinge......... 8 144 142 194

Width of hole at 10 mm.

POM COSC 05.07 vccouen 64 11 124 %

Wadthvot hinge 22.1... .2262 4 9 94 114

Average thickness of lid

DOUG Ho 2 aice oct seacaran eee 2 24 34 24

Length of occupant ......... 132 194 ? 28

Width of its carapace ...... 4 52 6 8+

The hole in the 3 smaller specimens is cylindrical and almost but

not quite perpendicular, inclining slightly towards the hinge side as

it descends, so that the deeper part comes to lie below the hinge

(cf. pl. I., fig. 1). It is well lined with silk, and widens slihgtly but

very distinctly all round at the opening, commencing at about

4-5 mm. from the edge.

The door is thick and nearly circular, the circumference being,

however, slightly straightened at the hinge, excepting in the smallest

specimen. The upper surface is irregular, concave or nearly flat and

coated with mud, thus resembling the surrounding earth. The under

side is flat or more or less lightly convex; it is strongly bevelled at

the edge, the bevelled surface passing over quite gradually into the

flattened lower surface (the lower edge somewhat angular in places

in the smallest specimen only). There is no circle of conspicuous

large holes on the under surface, only very few, if any, of the larger

holes being present.

STASIMOPUS UNISPINOSUS, Nn. sp.

(Pl. L., figs. 1-2.)

Types.—1 large ? (38 mm. in length) and 5 smaller ones

(24-30 mm. in length) from Hanover and the neighbouring farm

New Arachnida. 23

Poortjesfontein in October (Nos. 9426, 9523, 9579). Three younger

specimens, the smallest 114 mm. in length, and a large number of

very young individuals from a nest were also sent but are not

comprehended in the following description.

2 @. Colour as in letpoldti, but the upper side of the abdomen

extensively blackish brown posteriorly and furnished anteriorly with

a blackish brown median spot, generally followed by another smaller

spot.

Carapace as long as the patella, tibia, and 2—2 of the metatarsus of

first leg, and equal to the tibia, metatarsus, and ?—# of the tarsus of

fourth leg. Hyes compact, the width of the ocular area behind 2

to nearly equal to the length of the metatarsus of first leg and 3—?

that of fourth leg. Anterior row of eyes with the hind margin (seen

from above) straight or slightly procurved, the median eyes nearer to

the laterals than to one another, the laterals much larger, strongly

transversely oval. Posterior row straight or nearly so, a line joining

the anterior margins sometimes slightly recurved or even slightly

procurved ; the median eyes oval or subcircular, their outer edges

very distinctly nearer together than the outer edges of the anterior

lateral eyes ; posterior lateral eyes oval, subequal to the median eyes

and less than an eye’s diameter from them, their distance from the

anterior laterals generally much less than (rarely equalling) the long

diameter of the latter; a line parallel to the long axis of the body

and touching the outer edges of the anterior laterals would cut or

touch the posterior laterals but rarely pass on their median side.

Pedipalps and legs more numerously spined than in lecpoldti.

Tarsus of pedipalps with 6-9 shortish spines on the inner side; the

tibia with 1, rarely 2, distal internal spines in addition to the basal

spine ; the upper surface of the tarsus with a basal patch of 10-20

minute spinules, the tibia with a similar apical patch of 6-15

spinules. First leg with the tibia slightly shorter than the

matatarsus, 14-14 times as long as the width of the anterior row

of eyes and provided with a band of 11-25 short spines along at

least the distal half of the anterior surface; the superior band of

spinules on the metatarsus occupying from about 4 to % of the

length of the segment. Second leg with 4-12 short spines on

anterior surface of tibia, and with the superior patch of spinules

on the metatarsus slightly shorter ; otherwise spined like the first

leg. Third leg with 5-17 posterior spines on the tarsus and 16-32

stout spines in the anterior and posterior bands on the metatarsus ;

the tibia with a large anterior and posterior distal patch of stout

spines ; distal superior patch of red spinules on the tibia large,

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occupying 2-4 of the length of the segment; patella with a superior

distal patch of stoutish or slender, sharp spinules, in addition to the

short stout spines along the anterior surface ; metatarsus with an

inferior apical tuft composed of 3-11 irregularly arranged, unequal

spines and some spiniform bristles. Fourth leg with a number of

spines on the anterior surface of the 3 distal segments ; the basal

atch of red spinules on the patella very large, reaching to the distal

fifth or sixth of the segment on the anterior surface ; infero-posterior

apical tuft on metatarsus formed of a single, long, stout spine,

usually flanked by 1-3 slenderer spines or spiniform set, the under

surface sometimes also with a stout spine remote from the apex.

Labium with 5-8 apical teeth.

Measurements of largest @.—Total length 38 mm.; length of

carapace 121, width 101; length of metatarsus of first leg 43; width

of ocular area 33.

This species is closely allied to S. ocwlatuws, Pocock (P.Z.S., 1897,

p. 728), from Bloemfontein.

Nests. —The nests with the surrounding earth of 2 of the younger

specimens and of 1 of the typical females and the lid of another of

the typical females were sent to me by Mr. Schreiner. Their

dimensions in mm. are as follows :—

No. 9561. No. 9560. No. 9523. No. 9579.

Width of lid taken parallel

bO HINO eases es ceve 6+ 104 194 234

Width of lid taken at right

angles to hinge ......... 3 92 174 224

Widthiol hinge). -..0...-2--.4 24 ? 8 11

Width of hole at 10 mm.

IOTAWEDEES \.2cccescaiess 5 8 154 ?

Average thickness of lid

AOU sere. eects sieecs. 24 4 53 4

Length of occupant ......... 113 ine 244 29

Width of carapace ......... 23 dt iE 8+

These nests closely resemble those of S. schreinert described above

but there are some differences in the structure of the lids by which

they may be easily distinguished.

The lids of wnispinosus (pl. I., figs. 1-2) are relatively much

thicker (cf. measurements), the edges less bevelled, the peripheral

surface appearing much less wedge-shaped, when seen from the side,

and passing over at the more ‘angular lower edge rather suddenly

into the flattened under surface. This is particularly marked in the

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2 smallest specimens, in which the lids are almost cylindrical and

quite cork-like. But the principal feature of these lids is the

presence of a number of very conspicuous, large pits, arranged in a

circle and situated half-way between the centre and the circumference

of the lower surface. These pits may be open, or partly filled up, or

spun over with some strands of siik, being, however, still visible as

dark spots. Sometimes the portion of the circle nearest the hinge is

obliterated.

GORGYRELLA SCHREINERI, 0. Sp.

(Pl. I., figs 3-4.)

Types.—35 specimens (No. 9518, &c.), mostly adult females from

Hanover, and 5 from the neighbouring farms Vlagkop and Poort-

jesfontein. Adult ? ¢ from September to January. Cocoons in

December. Young in January.

2 2. Colour like that of G. namaquensis, Pure. (Trans. $.A. Phil.

Soe., v. 11, p. 350) or darker ; the carapace and limbs pale ochraceous,

often faintly infuscated ; chelicerze yellowish brown to darker brown ;

abdomen wholly pale yellowish to dirty ochraceous, the dorsal

surface sometimes darkened with purplish brown; sternum and

coxe pale yellow to ochraceous; labium and eoxe of pedipalps

slightly darker ochraceous to light brown.

Carapace (measured laterally to the ocular area) as long as the

tibia, metatasus, and +—} of the tarsus of fourth leg and as the patella,

tibia, and 4—2 of the metatarsus of first leg. Ocwlar area wider than

in namaquensis, its width equalling or exceeding the length of the

metatarsus of first leg (by about + of the tarsus), its length also

generally much less than the distance between the lateral eyes.

The area formed by the anterior lateral (frontal) and anterior

median eyes parallel-sided or wider in front (rarely very slightly

wider behind), the median eyes 2-14 times their diameter apart, the

frontal eyes subequal to or considerably larger than the medians and

4-1 diameter apart. Posterior median eyes generally distinctly

further from the posterior laterals than from one another (sometimes

only as far); the area formed by the 4 median eyes very distinctly

wider behind than in front ; posterior lateral eyes large, their distance

from the anterior margin of carapace less than 4 the width of the

ocular area.

Pedipalps and legs as in namaquensis, except that the tibia of the

fourth leg is provided with 3-10 (rarely 0-2) short spinules along the

outer surface, at least at the base; the metatarsus of the third leg

with 2 (sometimes 3) distal spines (rarely spiniform setze) below ;

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the inner distal edge of patella of third leg with 4-9 stout apical

spinules ; the inferior surface of coxe of first leg generally entirely

without dentiform spinules, sometimes, however, with a few weak

and inconspicuous ones confined to a narrow area in the basal half

of the posterior margin of the coxa, this area very much less

extensive than the large denticulate area on the coxa of second leg.

(In namaquensis the denticulate area on the first leg is almost or

quite as extensive as that on the second leg, and occupies almost

half of the inferior surface of the coxa.)

Genital operculum smooth for some distance in front of the hind

margin (in one specimen with a transverse groove near hind margin,

as In namaquensis).

Measurements of largest @.—Total length 33 mm.; length of

carapace 10, width 9; length of tibia of first leg 44.

Cocoons.—The cocoons, of which 2 specimens were obtained, con-

sist of a white oval capsule, almost flat on one surface, but strongly

convex on the other, and of a tough parchment-like texture. The

oval edge of the flattened side is provided all round with a broad free

flap. I counted in one uninjured cocoon 89 eggs, measuring on an

average 2'4 mm. in diameter (in spirits). The flat side of this

cocoon measured 22 mm. by 13 mm., and its thickness was about

9-10 mm. The eggs occupy only slightly over half the inner cavity.

The embryos, which were preserved on December 1st, were already

considerably advanced.

A 2 with a brood of young was dug up on January 11th.

Nests.—The nests, with the surrounding earth of 4 of the speci-

mens, were sent to me by Mr. Schreiner, the dimensions being as

follows :—

No. 9509. No. 9519. No. 9508. No. 9510.

Width of lid taken parallel

LO PUNO Opes sac sjec ase 18 184 21 24

Width of lid taken at right

angles to hinge......... 154 15 184 184

Width of thinger tosses... 132 17 164 194

Width of hole at about

20 mm. from edge ... 104 12 154 164

Average thickness of lid... 2 24 3 3

Length of occupant......... 20 194 26 27

Width of its carapace ...... 5} 64 72 9

Although constructed on the same plan as those of Stasimopus,

the nests of Gorgyrella are easily distinguishable from those of that

genus.

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The hole is much more slanting, and although cylindrical or nearly

so in the deeper parts, it widens funnel-like towards the opening on

each side and also at the hinge, but not on the side opposite to the

hinge (pl. I., fig. 3). The hole is, therefore, oval in section near the

opening, with the hinge-side flattened.

The lid is D-shaped in outline (pl. I., fig. 4), being strongly

truncated at the hinge-margin. The hinge is very wide, exceeding

in width the cylindrical part of the hole. In other respects the lid

resembles that of Stasimopus schreineri, described above. The edge

is strongly bevelled, passing over quite gradually into the lower

surface, on which there is no circle of conspicuous pits. A small

group of these pits are, however, sometimes present in the centre.”

The lids and loosened tubes of a number of other specimens were

also sent by Mr. Schreiner, having been removed from the surround-

ing earth. In such cases the bevelling at the edge of the under

surface is frequently quite absent, owing to the flattening out of the

lid by pressure during packing. Such lids have the false appearance

of being perfectly flat on the under surface.

ANCYLOTRYPA PUSILLA, Nl. Sp.

Type—1 3 (No. 9455) from Hanover (October).

g. Colowr.—Carapace pale yellowish, not black-bordered but

* The nests of the 3 large trap-door-building spiders at Hanover may be dis-

tinguished as follows :—

a. Lid D-shaped, the hinge very wide, wider than the cylindrical part of the

hole ; no circle of conspicuous pits below (hole more strongly slanting,

the upper part oval in section, with one side flattened).

Gorgyrella schreineri, n. sp.

b. Lid nearly or quite circular, the hinge narrower than the cylindrical part of

the hole, which is only slightly slanting.

at, Lid moderately thick, strongly bevelled at the edge, with rounded lower

edge ; under side without circle of conspicuous pits.

Stasimopus schreineri, n. sp.

bt, Lid very thick, less strongly or scarcely at all bevelled at the edge, the

lower edge more angular; under side with a circle of very conspicuous

pits be ROO . .. .. Stasimopus wnrispinosus, n. sp.

I may mention here an TMereenng alkoacnikon | in connection with old trap-door

nests. In November, 1897, Mr. Isaac Meiring discovered 3 Geckos in a closed

trap-door nest of a species of Stasimopus common round Worcester, Cape Colony.

The spider was, of course, no longer in the nest. In February, 1902, Mr. Schreiner

found a number of old trap-door nests at Hanover inhabited by the same species of

Gecko, which has been identified by Mr. W. L. Sclater as Pachydactylus mari-

quensis, Smith. One such nest sent to us was that of Gorgyrella schreineri, n. sp.,

and in it one young and two adult Geckos had been found. Mr. Schreiner men-

tions that the doors of the nests inhabited by Geckos remain in working order, and

are kept closed as usual.

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finely sprinkled with olive-brown towards the middle, the lateral

margins of the cephalic portion conspicuously olive-brown ; chelicere

yellowish brown; abdomen broadly purplish black above, the sides

and posterior surface of abdomen, the whole under surface of body,

the legs and the pedipalps very pale yellowish.

Carapace just exceeding the metatarsus and half the tarsus of first

leg in length, provided with two pairs of black setiform spines or

stout sete behind and with a number of small black sets along the

lateral margins and behind. Ocular area scarcely more than twice

as wide as long, with parallel sides; the anterior row of eyes with

their posterior margins in a straight line (seen from above), the

median eyes rather large, larger than the eyes of the posterior row

and more than half as large as the anterior laterals; the posterior

row slightly recurved, the posterior lateral eyes slightly longer than

the medians and about half the length of the anterior laterals,

separated from the latter by almost their own length and from the

former by slightly less, the posterior median eyes subquadrate, nearer

to the posterior laterals than to the anterior medians.

Pedipalps not spined ; process of palpal organ a little longer than

the bulb, yellowish at base but black distally, the basal three-fifths

stout and straight, becoming slenderer distally, the distal two-fifths

very fine and slender, lightly curved.

Legs.—All the tarsi scopulate, I and II with 0-1 small external

spines below, III with 1 anterior and 0-1 posterior spine, IV

with a series of longer and shorter spines (about 2 deep) along outer

lower edge and 1 spine at the inner lower edge. Metatarsus I very

slightly curved, not scopulate, with 3 distal, 1-2 mesial, and 2 basal

spines (the inner mesial and basal spine being much weaker than the

others) ; II without inner spines below, except at the apex. Tibia I

very slightly curved, slightly shorter than the metatarsus, not in-

crassated nor spurred, with 3 apical spines below, 3-4 other stout

spines along the outer lower edge, 2-3 mesial and basal ones just

above these on the outer surface, and a pair of proximal ones along

the inner upper edge; II with 3 apical spines below, 1-2 along the

upper inner edge, and 3-4 stout setiform spines along outer lower

edge ; [V with 3 internal spines and several long, setiform, inferior

spines. Patell@ I and II mostly with an internal spine, III with

numerous spines on anterior surface and one distal one on upper

surface. Claws of legs with a number of teeth in each row.

Posterior spinners with the apical segment distinctly longer than

the penultimate one.

Abdomen with long spiniform sete above, especially at the base.

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Posterior sternal sagilla moderate, oval, their distance apart being

at least equal to the width of the labium and about twice their own

length, which slightly exceeds or is subequal to their distance from

the lateral margin of sternum.

Measurements.—Total length 9, length of carapace 33.

This is the second South African species of the genus recorded.

It was found under a stone.

CYRTAUCHENIUS DENTATUS, N. sp.

Types—4 2? ? (Nos. 9418, 9511, 9515) from Hanover (October,

November), all of about the same size and apparently adult. They

were dug up from trap-door nests.

2 @. Colouwr.—Carapace yellowish brown, sometimes tinged

with olivaceous, the cephalic portion darker brown at the sides

and behind but without dark median band, the thoracic portion with

a white insertion on each side posteriorly; chelicere dark brown,

sometimes olive-brown ; legs pale ochraceous, the femora greenish

yellow; abdomen pale yellowish, the dorsal surface with large,

median, dark purplish area, which is broadest in front but does not

reach hind end, the posterior end also purplish round the spinners ;

sternum and cox pale ochraceous, the cox of pedipalps, and often

also the anterior and lateral part of sternum, brown.

Carapace as long as the patella, tibia, and 3-4 of the metatarsus of

first leg, and equal to or exceeding (by about + of the tarsus) the

tibia and metatarsus of fourth leg. Ocular area nearly 24 times as

wide as long, very distinctly or only slightly wider behind than in

front, the hind margin of the anterior row forming a nearly straight

to very distinctly procurved line, the anterior margins of the

posterior row forming a very distinctly recurved line; posterior

lateral eyes larger than the anterior medians but smaller than the

anterior laterals, their distance from the latter 2 or at least over 4 of

their own length and equal to or slightly exceeding their distance

from the posterior median eyes, which are round or squarish,

slightly larger or smaller than the anterior medians and equally

remote (by 4 or a whole diameter) from them and from the posterior

laterals.

Legs —Tarsi I and II thickly scopulate, I not spined, II with 1-2

external spines below, III with 2-7 stout spines in the posterior

dorsal row. Metatarsi I and II scopulate to the base on each side,

the scopula absent along the middle below in the proximal part,

especially in II; I and II with 2-3 apical (the inner one sometimes

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absent), 1 (sometimes 2) outer mesial, and 1 (sometimes 0) outer

basal spines below, the latter sometimes replaced by setiform spines

in II; III with an apical pair and 0-2 other spines below ; IV with

0-2 spines along the upper inner edge. Tibie III and IV with 1-2

apical spines or spiniform sete, III also with an antero-dorsal band

of spines, a postero-dorsal row of 2-4 spines, 1-3 dorsal spines, and

2 distal posterior spines; IV unspined at the upper inner edge.

Claws of anterior legs with 4-7 teeth in each row; inner claw of

posterior legs with 0-2 basal and 2 mesial (axial) teeth, the outer

claw with 1-2 mesial (axial) and 0-1 basal teeth. The legs other-

wise as in C. lateralis, Pure. (Trans. 8. A. Phil. Soc., v. 11, p. 357).

Coxe of pedipalps with 1-5 rather strong, black teeth at the

anterior basal margin.

Posterior sternal sagilla moderately large, ovai, their distance

apart equal to their distance from the lateral margin of sternum

opposite the third leg, and slightly less than or slightly exceeding

their own length.

Posterior spinners with the apical segment only a little longer

than the penultimate segment (seen from below).

Measurements.—Total length 19; length of carapace 64, width 43.

Nests——Mr. Schreiner sent me the upper portion of the web-

tubing with doors attached of a couple of the nests. According to

Mr. Schreiner the hole descends to a depth of about 25 cm., and

is well lined with web, especially in the upper part, while the door

is a flexible limp flap, being merely a continuation of the web-tubing.

The upper surface of the door lies flush with the surrounding surface

of the ground, and it is quite undiscoverable, unless a crack is left

open. Its edge apparently slightly overlaps the edge of the tube.

In one case a double entrance was observed.

In the specimens sent to me the door appeared to be about 9 mm.

in diameter and subcircular in outline, the hinge occupying, however,

quite half the circumference. The under side of the door, like the

interior of the tube, is white and smooth, but the upper side is rough

and covered with adhering particles of fine sand.

Famity THHERAPHOSIDA.

HARPACTIRA BAVIANA, 0D. Sp.

(ect. ..fig: 9)

Types.—2 3 3 from Hanover and 5 ? ? from Hanover and the

farms Poortjesfontein and Krapfontein (Nos. 9562, 9959, 9960,

New Avrachiida. 31

10048). Also about 90 young from Hanover (gf g in October,

? @ in October, November, and January).

Closely agrees with the description given of H. namaquensis, Pure.

(Trans. 8. A. Phil. Soe., v. 11, p. 324), and apparently differing only

in the following characters :—

Carapace with a considerable number of dark olivaceous or olive-

black hairs between the pale golden bands, and also on the cephalic

area behind and at the sides. Posterior lateral eyes elongate,

generally considerably longer than the posterior median eyes.

Palpal organ, when seen from the side (pl. I., fig. 9), with the

process stouter at the base and becoming very regularly thinner from

the base to the apex, more quickly in the proximal part, but very

gradually in the distal half, its strongest curvature appearing at the

middle, while the distal part is straighter and very fine (seen from

the front the distal part appears strongly curved outwards).

Measurements of large 3 and 2 from Hanover.—Total length

gf 40, 2 51; length of carapace g 16, 9 194, of metatarsus of first

leg g 121, @ 94.

~ In namaquensis (pl. I., fig. 8) the proximal # or # of the process

(when seen from the side) appears stout, only very slightly curved

and becoming very gradually thinner, then tapering suddenly and

passing into the fine, somewhat bristle-like, distal fourth or fifth, the

strongest curvature appearing at the point where the bristle-like part

commences (seen from the front the process appears slightly out-

curved at the apex only). The posterior median eyes, also, are

generally almost or quite as large as the posterior laterals.

H. baviana is found under stones, generally in shallow excavations,

but sometimes also in burrows a few inches deep. It is a very

common species, although adults were rarely met with.

Faminry ERESIDAL.

Gren. SEOTHYRA, nov. gen.

Cephalic portion of carapace very high, strongly rounded posteriorly,

rounded also at the anterior lateral corners and just as long as wide,

its upper surface strongly and evenly convex from in front to behind

in the ? (being highest in the centre) but somewhat flattened with

the highest part behind in the adult g. All the eyes small and

equal, the median eyes in 2 rows and close together; the area

formed by the lateral eyes scarcely, if at all, narrower behind than

in front, less than twice as wide as long. Clypeus considerably

32 Amnals of the South African Museum.

wider than the anterior median eyes. Superior spinners very small,

scarcely half the length of the inferior ones. Legs shorter in the ?

but longer in the ad. g; the first pair in the ad. g with the tibia,

patella, and femur strongly incrassated, the 3 posterior pairs slender.

Cheliceree elongated and the cribellum very small in the ad. 3.

Allied to Dorceus and Adonea from the N. African deserts. The

females and immature males are sedentary and construct curious

trap-door nests, but the adult g runs about in the daytime and

mimics an ant in its movements and general appearance while

running.

SEOTHYRA SCHREINERI, N. sp.

(Pl. I., pp. 5-7.)

Specimens.—19 3 3 and 20 ? ? from Hanover (types, No. 9955,

December); also 1 2? and 19 young from Hanover (No. 9568,

November), and a few young from Poortjesfontein. The young

3d resembles the ? in colour.

? 2. Colour (in spirits) of limbs flavous, the distal ends of the

pedipalps and first 2 pairs of legs orange or reddish brown ; carapace

yellow, the thoracic portion paler, the cephalic portion darker and

often more brownish yellow; cheliceree reddish; abdomen pale

yellowish or quite pallid.

Whole spider covered (but not densely) with fine black bristles

and shorter, more appressed, white hairs, which are scarcely visible

in spirits, but become silvery when dried.

Anterior median eyes about a diameter apart, very close to the

posterior median eyes and 14~2 diameters from the anterior margin

of carapace. Vulva with a large, depressed, anterior area lying at

the bottom of a cavity with longitudinal oval opening, the depressed

area suddenly expanding posteriorly into a large, transversely oval

area, the latter not depressed but defined on each side by a curved

groove containing a dark spot. Legs IV, I, I, I11.—All the tarsi and

metatarsi (especially the posterior pairs) with short black spines

below, metatarsus I also with an internal apical spine; tibia I with

a fringe of long hairs on inner side, II with a couple of spines along

under side, III and IV with 1-2 apical spines below.

3 g. Carapace more or less infuscated, with black hairs; the

thoracic portion brownish yellow posteriorly, with white hairs at the

lateral margins; summit of cephalic portion reddish, with white

hairs; chelicerze blackish red or red ; coxa, trochanter, and generally

also the base of the femur of first leg reddish yellow or ochraceous,

rest of the leg more or less blackened, but the tarsus, metatarsus,

New Arachnida. 33

parts of the tibia (especially the distal part of the upper surface), and

sometimes part of the patella above, paler, yellowish or reddish ; the

3 posterior pairs of legs mostly yellowish but often partly infuseated,

the femora black distally, the coxa pale yellowish. Abdomen

blackened, the upper surface with a very broad band of pale hairs

(often creamy or whitish in spirits but yellow when dry), which

covers nearly the whole upper surface or is constricted in one or two

places. Pulmonary opercula often pale yellowish, with white hairs.

Sternum reddish yellow. The sternum, the cox, trochanters, and

paler basal portion of the femora of all the legs with silvery white or

pale yellowish hairs, as well as black ones ; so also the patelle (only

very sparingly in I), tibize (except basal part of I), metatarsi (except

distal part of IV), and base of the tarsi. Legs I, IV, I, I11.—Tibia I

without interior fringe of long hairs. Pedipalps dark, the tarsus

narrow at apex and produced, the palpal organ ending distally in

a flattened bidentate process, one of the teeth slender and filiform,

the other broader and obtuse.

Measurements.—Total length 3 gf 43-64, 9 ? 5-8 mm.

Nests.—Mr. Schreiner supplied me with a number of details con-

cerning the structure of the nests, and also with several complete

nests with the surrounding earth. The accompanying figs. 6 and 7

on pl. I., drawn to natural size, have been made from two of these

nests, and the descriptions of the nests and habits given in the

following are from Mr. Schreiner’s notes. *

* For the purpose of travelling the loose sand in which the nests are built may

be held together for a short time by first carefully moistening with water. Another

and more permanent method, which I suggested to Mr. Schreiner, was employed by

him with great success, and is the following: A quantity of solid paraffin is

melted and carefully and gradually poured (by means of a small stick) on to the

sandy soil at half an inch or so from the edge of the door. The sand rapidly soaks

up the melted paraffin, and on cooling the whole mass may be removed and easily

transported without damage. The ground, of course, should be perfectly dry. In

order to examine such a nest it is necessary to soften the paraffin of the upper

part. This is best done by wrapping the nest in cotton-wool, leaving only the

upper surface exposed, and then placing the whole in warm oil of turpentine. If

the nest is a large one it may be placed in water up to within a quarter of an inch

from the upper surface and warm turpentine then poured upon the water. After

a short time the door will be sufficiently flexible to be turned over and examined,

and will remain flexible for some time after removal from the turpentine bath, but

ultimately the whole will harden as before.

As showing how great a heat these spiders can endure, Mr. Schreiner sends me

the following note: ‘‘When, on one occasion, I had poured the melted paraffin

and it had soaked into the sand and saturated the ‘butterfly’ lid, after a little

while the spider (finding it a bit hot, no doubt!) walked out from under the lid,

leaving a little arch in it where she had travelled! No doubt this capacity to stand

heat is essential to creatures living in sand which, in the hot summer days, becomes

almost too hot for the hand to endure.”

34 Annals of the South African Museum.

According to Mr. Schreiner the nests are built in ruddy, gritty

sand, composed of disintegrated dolerite boulders, the particles of

which are coarsest on the surface but become finer deeper down.

The door consists of a large, four-lobed, flexible flap, shaped like the

outspread wings of a butterfly, one pair of lobes or “wings” being

slightly wider than the other (pl. I, fig. 5). The beautifully sym-

metrical outline is only faintly visible, and is interrupted between

the larger pair of lobes, being here continuous with the webbing of

the tube. The door of one of the largest nests met with by Mr.

Schreiner had an expanse of 40 mm., while that of the nest of a

subadult g# sent measured 30 mm. in expanse.

The door lies in a shallow concave excavation similar in outline,

and in the nests figured about 4-5 mm. deep, becoming shallower

towards the edges. The inside surface of the excavation is composed

of very fine sand of a lighter colour than the surrounding surface,

and much smoother. Being larger than the door, it is not com-

pletely covered by the latter, a narrow depressed band of the lighter

coloured fine sand being left exposed all round (except, of course,

at the hinge), and it is only the presence of this band which enables

one to detect the nest at all by means of the eye.

The small entrance to the hole lies just between the bases of the

larger lobes. The hole itself descends straight or with a curve to

a depth generally less than but never exceeding 2 inches. It is

provided on the convex (hinge) side with a small side chamber at

some distance from the entrance. According to Mr. Schreiner the

hole is generally straight or nearly so, and not so curved as in fig. 7,

while the side chamber is generally deeper down. The upper part of

the hole is webbed for some distance from the entrance, and is

invariably inclined as in fig. 7. At the entrance, which is strongly

transversely oval, the upper part of the web-tubing passes over into

the door, thus forming a hinge occupying half the circumference of

the opening. At the lower half of the opening the web-tubing is

produced into a characteristic, rounded, stout, tongue-shaped flap,

which lies nearly horizontally on the bottom of the excavation below

the centre of the door.

The structure of the door is peculiar. The door consists merely

of a number of particles of fine sand, loosely held together by strands

of fine silk. The under side is, however, smooth and well lined with

white silk, but the upper surface is strewn with grit and exactly

resembles the surrounding ground. The whole forms an extremely

flexible mat, which Mr. Schreiner compares with the fresh skin of’

a kid. Except for the peripheral band it completely fills the ex-

New Arachiuda. 35

cavation, so that its upper surface is flush with the surrounding

ground.

The door is never lifted, for the small spider merely crawls out

anywhere from under the edge, as from under a blanket (several

were observed doing so), the raised portion of the limp door closing

down again immediately from its own weight. The tongue-like flap

at the opening of the hole no doubt facilitates entering the latter,

besides preventing sand from falling in.

Habits —The female spiders and young of both sexes feign death

when disturbed. The nests of the immature spiders were found

fairly abundant during November, while the adult form of both

sexes appeared early in December (only one adult @ was found in

November). The adult males run about the veld by day, but one

specimen was dug up from a nest, apparently just after moulting.

The males have a curious habit of raising their front legs and

showing fight. When running, the males, according to Mr.

Schreiner, show a close resemblance in colouration and move-

ments to the smaller specimens of a large ant (Camponotus ful-

vopilosus, de Geer), which has similar yellowish hairs on the

abdomen above and is common in the locality. Unlike the

female, but like the ant, the male runs with its body high off the

ground,

During January and February the spiders and nests disappeared,

and it was not until March 10th that the tiny nests of some young

ones were observed, only to disappear at the approach of bad

weather. During some weeks of fine weather in the beginning

of May large numbers of these tiny nests were again observed.

Famiry LYCOSIDAS.

LiycosA SCHREINERI, Nn. Sp.

Types.—d5 2? 9,334, and 3 young from Hanover and from the

neighbouring farms Vlagkop and Palmietfontein.

2? ¢. Brown bands on carapace covered with black or blackish

brown hairs and provided with radiating stripes of white hairs; the

submarginal bands yellow, covered like the black margins with

white hairs; the median band yellow, with whitish or yellowish

hairs, its cephalic portion parallel-sided, often with 2 dark spots

and generally marked off from the narrower thoracic portion by

a slight angular constriction, the thoracic portion narrowed behind

the median stria. Posterior median eyes large, scarcely or slightly

36 Annals of the South African Museum.

less than their own diameter apart ; anterior row of eyes considerably

narrower than the second row, procurved, the medians slightly larger.

Chelicere covered with fiery red and yellow hairs in front and with

3 strong teeth in lower margin, the 2 distal ones subequal. Upper

surface of abdomen divided into 3 blackish grey and blackish brown

areas by 2 longitudinal yellow lines, which extend with interruptions

to hind end of body but converge and unite anteriorly, the posterior

part of the upper surface with a series of transverse, angularly

undulate bars, bordered posteriorly by white hairs and extending

across the median dark band and generally also across the 2

yellow stripes; the anterior half of the median band strongly con-

stricted just behind its middle, the portion before the constriction

cuneate, strongly narrowed in front; the lateral bands black at

anterior ends. Under side of abdomen black. Median bar of vulva

narrowed behind, about 14-14 times as long as the transverse bar,

the cavity on each side long, slightly wider than the median bar, and

about 24-3 times as long as wide. Legs reddish yellow to reddish,

the femora infuscated in parts; tibia IV with broad black band at

apex and base below, I-III not banded, or III also blackened at

apex and base. Tarsi, metatarsi, and tibie of first 2 pairs of legs

scopulate below; tarsi III and IV with narrow scopula on each

side; metatarsi III and IV thinly scopulate below and more thickly

so at the sides. Basal spines in metatarsus I not or scarcely reaching

the mesial spines.

$ 6. Colour much as in the @ ; tibiaof first 2 pairs of legs equally

clothed all round with pale appressed hairs, but without differentiated

scopula below; metatarsi III and IV with scopula in the distal

half only.

Measurements.— $ g 124-154, 2 @ 154-214mm. in length.

A rather rare species, somewhat larger than ZL. darlingi, Poc.,

which occurs abundantly in the same locality and very closely

resembles scireinert in colour and structure. In the specimens of

darlingt from the same locality the dark median band is relatively

broader and more sharply and evenly defined on each side, and the

anterior half of the band is only slightly or not at all constricted

behind its middle, the whole anterior half, therefore, forming a

larger cuneate mark. One, at least, of the specimens of schreineri

was taken from a nest provided with a movable lid, like that of

L. domicola, Sim., which occurs abundantly in the same neigh-

bourhood.

New Arachnida. 37

LYCOSA RIMICOLA, n. sp.

Specimens.—9 $ 3 and 9 2 @ (types, No. 9423) from Hanover

(September, October). Also many other specimens from the farms

Vlagkop, Palmietfontein, and Poortjesfontein.

@ 2. Carapace dark brown, with some fine, black, radiating lines

and covered with grey hairs; the narrow, paler, submarginal band

frequently obliterated; the paler median band often indistinct

and then indicated only posteriorly, but when distinct the cephalic

portion is broad with 2 parallel dark lines or oblong spots, while the

thoracic portion is narrowed behind and frequently with laciniate

margins. Posterior median eyes slightly less than their own diameter

apart ; the anterior row of eyes scarcely or not at all narrower than

the row formed by the posterior median eyes, their lower margins in

a straight or slightly procurved line, the median eyes a little larger

than the laterals. Upper side of abdomen with light or dark greyish

ground colour, a row of black spots on each side, an anterior

longitudinal brown band finely bordered with black, and a pair of

equally broad yellowish bands (obliterated in dark specimens)

enclosing the brown band between them and converging and then

uniting anteriorly ; posterior to these are generally also a series of

transverse angular bands of yellow. Legs reddish yellow, the femora

with some faintly infuscate marks above but not distinctly banded,

the anterior pairs frequently darker distally. Chelicer@ with some

yellowish hairs in front, the lower margin with 3 teeth, of which the

distal one is much the smallest. Core more or less infuscated.

Sternum generally black. Under side of abdomen black. Tarsi and

metatarsi, and to a lesser extent the tibizw of the first 2 pairs of legs,

scopulate ; tarsi III and IV with a thick scopula on each side ;

metatarsi III and IV more thinly scopulate ; spines on legs I and

II small, those on the metatarsi especially remarkably short. Median

bar of vulva long and linear, bordered on each side by a long,

still narrower, parallel-sided cavity, the transverse posterior bar

short.

$$. Very like the ?, but the spines on the anterior legs much

longer.

Measurements.— 3 g 11-13 mm., 2 ? 15-19 mm. in length.

A strongly built and rather common species, somewhat resembling

L. promontorit, Poc., in appearance, but larger ; the latter species also

occurs in this locality. LZ. rimicola is found in various hiding-places,

such as cracks in the ground, &c.

38 Annals of the South African Museum.

Lycosa LATIVITTATA, N. sp.

Types.—3 9 2? and 6g g (No. 9427) from Hanover.

2 2. Carapace with 2 well-marked, broad, dark brown or blackish

bands and narrow, blackish, lateral border, the submarginal yellow

stripes very distinct and not obscured by the hair-covering; the

median yellow band also well marked, its cephalic portion with a pair

of small dark dots and marked off from the narrower thoracic portion

by a slight angular constriction, the thoracic portion rather broad, con-

stricted just behind the median stria, then widened again posteriorly.

Posterior median eyes smallish, at least their own diameter apart ;

the anterior row of eyes slightly procurved, at least as wide or, if

anything, slightly wider than the second row, the eyes subequal.

Abdomen above and at the sides blackish grey to nearly black, with

some scattered black dots ; the upper surface with a sharply defined,

very broad, median, yellow band, which is widest in front and

extends right up to hind end, becoming only slightly narrower

posteriorly ; the band bordered on each side by a row of black

spots, with a larger black mark on each side at anterior end ; under

surface, and generally also the lower part of the sides, pale yellowish,

the under surface with a median dark stripe, which is dilated on the

epigastric area and pointed at the posterior end, also with a pair of

dark lateral stripes or rows of spots. Vulva much broader than long,

divided by 2 angular grooves into a median bar and 2 lateral pieces,

the median bar incurved and dilated behind. Legs pale yellowish

or ochraceous, provided (also on under side) with rather numerous,

long, erect, fine, black bristles; the femora mottled with infuscate

marks but not distinctly banded ; legs I and II scopulate on the tarsi

and metatarsi but not on the tibie, III and IV scopulate on the

sides of the tarsi only ; basal spines of metatarsus I not quite reach-

ing the mesial spines. Chelicere@ with some pallid hairs in front, the

3 inferior teeth subequal. Sternwm black, with or without median

yellow line. Coxe pale yellowish or ochraceous, sometimes with

infuscate markings below.

gg. Asin @, except that in legs I and II the metatarsi are not

scopulate and have longer spines below, the long, fine, erect black

bristles especially numerous on under side of second leg.

Measurements.— @ ¢ 53-63 mm., @ 2? 82-9} mm. in length.

A small species, found under stones, &c.

LycosA ARBUSCULA, N. sp.

Types.—11 § g and 22 ? ? from Hanover (No. 9429 ; September,

October).

New Arachnida. 39

2289. Carapace coloured and marked exactly as in lativittata,

n. sp. Posterior median eyes smallish, their distance apart at least

equalling or even slightly exceeding their own diameter; the anterior

row slightly procurved, as wide as or slightly wider than the second

row, the median eyes slightly larger than the laterals. Abdomen

above and at the sides blackish grey to nearly black, with some scat-

tered black dots ; upper surface with a narrow, median, yellow stripe,

which is tranversely dilated at its anterior end like a T and provided

in the posterior 3 of its length with paired lateral branches directed

obliquely outwards and backwards; the stripe and its lateral branches

bordered with deep black; a black spot also on each side of the

anterior dilation. Under surface, and frequently also the lower part

of the sides, pale yellowish, marked as in lativittata. Vulva, legs,

chelicere, and sternum as in lativittata, the cox often with infuscate

markings. Legs with the basal spines on metatarsus I not or only

just reaching the mesial spines.

Measurements.— 3 g 5-64 mm., ? ? 6-9 mm. in length.

This species so closely resembles lativittata that practically the

only difference between the two is the substitution of a broad,

straight-edged yellow band in the latter in the place of the tree-

shaped band on the abdomen of the former.

LiycosA BRUNEIPES, n. sp.

Types.—19 2 9 and7 $ g (No. 9428 ; September, October) from

Hanover.

? 2. General colour above and below pale yellow to ochraceous.

Carapace only slightly infuscated on the 2 darker bands, but provided

here with black hairs; the cephalic portion of the median yellow

band strongly constricted at its hind end, provided with a pair of

()-shaped lines, which are generally fused anteriorly (sometimes

almost entirely) with the dark lateral bands but sometimes reduced

to a pair of posterior spots or even almost absent; the thoracic

portion of the yellow median band constricted near hind end of

median stria and thence parallel-sided or even widened again

posteriorly ; infuscate lateral border generally absent or indistinct,

the margin then broadly yellow. Posterior median eyes smallish,

very slightly less than their own diameter apart ; the anterior row at

least as wide as or, if anything, slightly wider than the second row,

the lower margins in a slightly recurved or nearly straight line, the

median eyes largest. Abdomen with a broad, pale yellow, uninter-

rupted median line above, which is narrower posteriorly and ex-

40 Annals of the South African Museum.

tends to hind end and has its lateral margins more or less sinuate,

its anterior part more or less ampliated like a broad, blunt arrow-

head, the median part above the heart more intensely yellow and

sometimes bordered with black (in the latter case the barbs of the

arrow-head may become cut off from the shaft or be even almost

obliterated) ; lateral part of upper surface with a broad, irregular,

infuscate band, which is furnished posteriorly with a longitudinal

row of yellow spots or medial bar-like incisions, and which breaks up

laterally into a number of black spots on the sides of the abdomen ;

under surface with the median and the 2 lateral rows of spots

generally distinct; the epigastric area without black marks. Vulva

a brown hairy plate about as long as wide, with a round, reddish

black spot near each posterior corner, the posterior margin with a pair

of emarginations and a short rounded lobe between them. All the

legs strongly browned in the distal half, the 2 distal segments long

and slender; first and second pairs scopulate on the tarsi and

metatarsi but not on the tibie; third and fourth pairs with a

narrow scopula on the sides of the tarsi but none on the meta-

tarsi; basal spines of metatarsus I long, reaching up to or beyond

the bases of the mesial spines. Sternwm generally with a row

of 3 lightly infuscate spots on each side. Chelicere with some

whitish hairs and fine black bristles in front; the distal tooth of

inferior margin smaller than the other two.

3 & resembling the ?, except that the scopula is reduced to a

scanty distal strip on each side in metatarsus I and is practically

absent in IT, the black bristles on under side of second leg not longer

than those on the other legs. Tibia of pedipalp as long as the tarsus.

Measurements.— 3 g 54-7 mm., ° ? 6-104 mm. in length.

A small species, somewhat resembling lativittata, n. sp., in appear-

ance, but with the dorsal yellow band on the abdomen less parallel-

sided and the lateral part of the upper side of abdomen and carapace

not so deeply blackened. It is found under stones, &c., and is fairly

abundant.

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EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.

Stasimopus unispinosus, n. sp., upper part of nest in section (nat. size).

lid from below, showing circle of pits ; h, hinge

(nat. size).

Gorgyrella schremeri, n. sp., upper part of nest in section (nat. size).

es 24 ,, lid from above; h, hinge (nat. size).

Seothyra schreineri, n. sp., diagram showing outline of lid of nest (from a

sketch supplied by Mr. Schreiner).

surface view (nat. size) of a nest, hardened with

solid paraffin, with the lid softened by turpentine

and partly rolled over to show the small entrance

to the hole and the flap. (According to Mr,

Schreiner a lid in its natural condition would

not remain in this position owing to its creat

limpness.)

vertical section of a nest, taken in the direction

shown by the arrow in Fig. 6 (drawn to nat.

size from a specimen hardened with solid

paraffin) ; a—b, extent of lid on each side of hole;

h, hinge of door (the latter torn away) ; f, flap at

entrance to hole; ch, side chamber; g, surface

29 99 +)

of sand.

Harpactira namaquensis, Purc., palpal argan (seen from the side).

Harpactira baviana, n. sp. a a #5

Blossia echinata, n. sp., right chelicera of ¢ from outer side (basal part of

flagellum visible through the translucent jaw).

Desia schreineri, n. sp., left chelicera of ¢ (seen from inner side).

Ann. S. Afr. Mus. Vol IIL pale

Figil, «CN

West,Newman lith.

Figs 1-2, Stasimopus unispinosus. Figs 3-4, Gorgyrella schreineri.

Figs 5-7, Seothyra schreineri. Fig. 8, Harpactira namaquensis.

Pig. 9, Harpactira baviana. Fig. 10, Blossia echinata.

Fig. ll, Daesia schreineri.

(43 )

III.—Rhynchotal Miscellanea. (Second Series.)—By W. L. Distant.

Part I.—RHYNCHOTA FROM THE TRANSVAAL,

MASHONALAND, AND BRITISH NYASALAND.

REDUVHODA.

I have previously in these pages (ante vol. ii. p. 244) enumerated

and described the CorEtp from the above localities. I now follow

the same method with the RepuvVIID™.

HETEROPTERA FROM THE TRANSVAAL.

Famity REDUVIIDA.

Sus-Faminy TRIBELOCEPHALINE.

Tribelocephala boschjesmana, Stil. Pienaars River (W. L. D.);

Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and

Coll. Dist.)

Sus-Famity STENOPODINZ-.

Sastrapada baerensprungi, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Oncocephalus annulipes, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Pienaars

River (W. L. D.); Rustenburg (W. L. D.).

denticulatus, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Pienaars

River (W. L. D.).

5 caffer, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Thodelmus quinquespinosus, Fabr. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

”

Sus-Faminry SALYAVATIN.

Petalochirus wmbrosus, Herr. Schaeff. Barberton (Rendall).

Sus-Famiry HOLOPTILINA,

Holoptilus vulpes, Stal. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and Coll-

Dist.).

44 Annals of the South African Museum.

Holoptilus lupus, Wallengr. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and

7 Coll. Dist.).

Susp-Faminry ACANTHASPINZ.

Varus varius, Walk. Pretoria (W. L. D.) ; Johannesburg (Ross)

Barberton (Rendall).

Reduvius tarsatus, Germ. Pienaars River (W. L. D.); Lyden-

burg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and Coll. Dist.).

Edocla quadrisignata, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Johannesburg

(Fry),

Acanthaspis nugaz, Stal. Transvaal (W. L. D.); probably Pretoria.

a obscura, Stal. Waterberg; Warm Baths (W. L. D.);

Rustenburg (W. L. D.); Lydenburg Distr.

(Pret. Mus. and Coll. Dist.).

a lurco, Stal. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and Coll.

Dist.)

rubricosa, Stil. Zoutpansberg (Kaessner).

e lydenburgi, sp. n. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and

Coll. Dist.)

Cethera musiva, Germ. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and Coll.

Dist.).

Platymeris guttatipennis, Stal. Pretoria (Kaessner) ; Lydenburg

Distr. (Pret. Mus. and Coll. Dist.).

Phonergates bicoloripés, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Pienaars

River (WV. lis):

55 concoloripes, Reut. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and

Coll. Dist.).

5 basilicus, Stal. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and

Coll. Dist.).

5 quadrimaculatus, sp. n. Lydenburg Distr. (Krantz).

Cerilocus dohrni, Stal. Lydenburg Distr. (Krantz).

» parvus, sp.n. Lydenburg Distr. (Krantz).

Sus-Famity PIRATINA.

Eictomocoris cruciger, Fabr. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and

Coll. Dist.).

Pirates eneicollis, Schaum. Pienaars River (W. L. D.).

» Trubricosus, Stal. Barberton (Rendall).

» lugubris, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Rustenburg (W. L. D.).

5, conspurcatus, Dist. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Sirthenea africana, sp. n. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Rhynchotal Miscellanea. 45

Sus-Famity ECTRICHODIN ~2,

Physorhynchus crux, Thunb. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Johannesburg

(Ross) ; Barberton (Rendall) ; Lydenburg.

- bigemmis, Stal. Lydenburg.

* patricius, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton

(Rendall) ; Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus.

and Coll. Dist.).

‘3 natalensis, Stil. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Lydenburg

Distr. (Zutrzenka).

55 crocatus, sp. n. Lydenburg Distr. (Krantz).

Susp-Faminy HARPACTORIN-.

Leptodema ancanthocephala, Carlini. Lydenburg (Krantz).

Harpactor erythrocnemis, Germ. Barberton (Rendall).

‘a pulvisculatus, Dist. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Johannesburg

(Ross) ; Middelburg (W. L. D.).

55 segmentarius, Germ. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton

(Rendall); Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus.

and Coll. Dist.).

a tristis, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Lydenburg Distr.

(Pret. Mus. and Coll. Dist.).

- albopunctatus, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton

(Rendall) Zoutpansberg (Kaessner); Ly-

denburg Distr. (Krantz); Natal Frontier.

3 rapax, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton (W. L. D.).

ee puberulus, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.). |

paludatus Dist. Lydenburg Distr. (Krantz).

Galiiletes bicolor, Dist. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Cosmolestes insignis, sp. n. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Hematochares longiceps, Walk. Waterval Onder (Ross).

Pantoleistes princeps, Stil. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Natal Frontier.

Coranus oblongiceps, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Coranopsis vittata, Horv. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

3 fiossi, sp. n. Waterval Onder (Ross).

Vitumnus scenicus, Stal.

Var. sedulus, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Var. cinnabarinus, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.) ; Barberton (Rendall) ;

Waterberg (W. L. D.).; Zoutpansberg (Kaessner).

Var. lydenburgus, Dist. Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and Coll.

Dist.).

Var. scenicus, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton (Rendall) ;

Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus. and Coll. Dist.).

46 Annals of the South African Museum.

Var. miniatus, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton (Rendall) ;

Waterberg; Warm Baths (W. L. D.).

Var. sobrinus, Stal. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Lydenburg Distr.

(Zutrzenka).

Var. barbertonus, Dist. Barberton (Rendall).

Var. pretorius, Dist. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

Nagusta subflava, sp. n. Pretoria (W. L. D.).

5, junodi, Montand. Natal Frontier.

Blapton ramentaceus, Germ. Pretoria (W. L. D.); Lydenburg

Distr. (Krantz).

ACANTHASPIS LYDENBURGI sp. n.

Pale sanguineous ; head from behind insertion of antenne, its apex,

and a subapical median line, antennae, rostrum excluding base,

anterior margin of pronotum, a broad transverse fascia at junction of

anterior and posterior pronotal lobes, scutellum excluding apex,

hemelytra, head beneath, median and posterior fasciz to prosternum,

the meso- and meta-sterna, posterior segmental margins to abdomen,

spots to connexivum, cox, bases and apices of anterior and inter-

mediate femora, the tibiz and the whole of posterior legs, black ;

under surfaces of the anterior and intermediate tibiz ochraceous; a

submarginal fascia to mesosternum, a basal marginal linear spot and

a large subapical spot to corium, pale sanguineous.

Anterior lobe of pronotum sculptured, but faintly and obsoletely

centrally sulcate, posterior lateral pronotal angles subprominent and

subnodulose ; apex of scutellum tuberculously prominent; rostrum

with the second joint a little longer than the first ; femora unarmed ;.

body pilose, especially the antenne, legs, and under surface.

Long. 15 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 44 mm.

Hab. Transvaal; Lydenburg District.

PHONERGATES QUADRIMACULATUS sp. 1.

Pale sanguineous; head, four small spots on transverse constric-

tion of pronotum, clavyus and subclaval fascia—excluding bases of

each, membrane, sternum—excluding lateral margins, coxe, disks of

basal and apical abdominal segments, and anal appendage black ;

antenne and rostrum piceous-brown.

Allied to P. basilicus Stal, from which it differs by the more

slender body, less produced and more rounded lateral pronotal

angles, four spots to the pronotum, different colour of the corium, &c.

Long. 13 mm.

Hab. Transyaal; Lydenburg District.

Rhynchotal Miscellanea. 47

CERILOCUS PARVUS, sp. 0.

Black ; a large ochraceous discal spot near inner angle of corium ;

body beneath and legs piceous-brown ; antenne excluding basal

joint, rostrum, coxe, tibiz, tarsi, disk of metasternum, basal disk of

abdomen, and small spots to connexivum brownish-ochraceous.

Pronotum with the anterior angles scarcely prominent; disk of

both lobes longitudinally impressed, posterior lateral angles subpro-

minent and rounded ; basal joint of antennee not quite reaching apex

of head and about one-fourth the length of second joint ; second joint

of rostrum very slightly longer than first.

Long. 17 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 44 mm.

Hab. Transvaal; Lydenburg District.

SIRTHENEA AFRICANA, Sp. 0.

Pronotum castaneous ; hemelytra, ocelli, and eyes black ; head,

rostrum, basal angles of corium, apical margin of membrane, body

beneath and legs ochraceous ; lateral areas of sternum and abdomen,

the whole of metasternum and anal segment of abdomen piceous ;

antennee ochraceous, second joint and base of third joint piceous ;

anterior pronotal lobe longitudinally but irregularly suleate, the sul-

cations piceous, the posterior lobe deeply foveate near lateral angles,

posterior margin obscurely piceous; hemelytra opaque; legs finely

pilose.

Long. 20 mm.

Hab. Transvaal ; Pretoria (Distant).

PHYSORHYNCHUS CROCATUS, Sp. Nn.

Reddish ochraceous ; antenne, eyes, hemelytra, lateral areas of

meso- and meta-sterna and anal segment black; base of first joint

of antenne and basal angles of hemelytra reddish-ochraceous ; pro-

notum concolorous, central suleation profound, abdominal incisures

deep and crenulate.

Long. 16-19 mm.

Hab. Transvaal; Lydenburg. East Africa; Mamboia.

COSMOLESTES INSIGNIS, Sp. nl.

Head, pronotum, scutellum, sternum, and legs piceous, thickly and

brownly pilose; corium and abdomen beneath piceous-testaceous ;

abdomen thickly irrorated with small ochraceous spots, its sublateral

margins piceous, connexivum above and beneath alternately ochra-

ceous and black; membrane shining cupreous ; posterior angular

48 Annals of the South African Museum.

margins and a central transverse basal fascia to pronotum, posterior

central area united with spatulate apex of scutellum, basal angle of

corium, coxal spots, and lateral margins of meso- and meta-sterna

shining luteous ; antennze and rostrum piceous; posterior area of

pronotum finely granulate and of a more brownish hue than the

anterior lobe; scutellum foveate at base and broadly spatulate at

apex; an ochraceous spot on sternum between the anterior and

intermediate tibize; legs beneath more brownish than above and

thickly pilose ; margins of anal segment and a central fascia to same

black.

Long. 13 mm.

Hab. Transyaal; Pretoria (Distant).

The unspotted head and pronotum render this species very distinct.

CORANOPSIS ROSSI, sp. Nn.

Pale sanguineous; head in front of eyes and its basal margin,

antenne, rostrum, anterior lobe of pronotum—excluding frontal and

lateral margins—a transverse series of three spots to posterior pro-

notal lobe, basal and lateral margin of scutellum, membrane, and

oblique lateral fascia to prosternum, meso- and meta-sterna, cox,

legs, a submarginal series of transverse linear spots and anal segment

to abdomen black; a spot near intermediate and posterior cox

sanguineous ; apical margin of membrane fuliginous and passing

abdominal apex; body and legs pilose.

Long. 11 mm.

Hab, Transvaal; Waterval Onder (A. Ross).

VITUMNUS SCENICUS.,

Vitumnus scenicus, Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. p. 69 (1865).

Var. a. Harpactor sedulus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh., 1855, p. 41, 6.

Hab. Transvaal; Pretoria.

Var. b. Harpactor cinnabarinus, Stal, Ofy. Vet.-Ak. Férh., 1855,

peat.

Reduvius sertus, Dist. Nat. in Transy. Append., p. 254,

pl. 11, f. 8 (1892).

Hab. Transvaal; Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton (Rendall) ;

Warm Baths, Waterberg Distr. (W. L. D.); Zoutpansberg

(Kaessner).

Var. c. lydenburgus, var. n.

Sanguineous ; head, antennz, rostrum, central longitudinal fascia

to anterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, clavus, excluding base,

Ehynchotal Miscellanea. 49

membrane, spots to connexivum, sternum, legs, segmental margins,

sublateral fascize, and apex of abdomen black; head beneath and

with a large spot above between eyes, sanguineous,

Hab. Transvaal; Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus.).

Var. d. Harpactor scenicus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh., 1855, p. 41, 4.

Reduvius capitatus, Dist. Nat. in Transy. Append., p. 255,

pla fa 1892).

Hab. Transvaal; Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton (Rendall) ;

Lydenburg Distr. (Pret. Mus.).

Var. c. Harpactor miuatus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh., 1855, p. 41, 2.

Hab. Transvaal; Pretoria (W. L. D.); Barberton (Rendall) ;

Warm Baths, Waterberg Distr. (W. L. D.).

Var. d. Harpactor sobinus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh., 1855, p. 41, 3.

Reduvius negamicus, Walk., Cat. Het., vii., p. 191, n. 38

(1873).

Hab. Transvaal; Pretoria ; Lydenburg Distr. (Zutrzenka).

Var. c. barbertonus, var. 0.

Black; head beneath, spot between eyes, rostrum, excluding

apex, and legs ochraceous ; antennz piceous, basal joint brownish-

ochraceous ; tarsi piceous.

Hab. Transvaal; Barberton (Rendall).

Var. f. pretorius, var. n.

Piceous, greyishly pilose; head beneath, spot between eyes,

rostrum, excluding apex, disk of sternum, abdomen, and legs

ochraceous ; apex of abdomen, apices of tibize, and the tarsi piceous.

Hab. Transvaal; Pretoria.

NAGUSTA SUBFLAVA, sp. 0.

Above pale ochraceous, or brownish-ochraceous ; body beneath,

legs, rostrum, and antenne luteous; sternum hoary, pilose ; mem-

brane scarcely passing the abdominal apex; pronotum with the

anterior lobe sulcate, the posterior lobe finely granulate, the lateral

spines slightly directed upward; scutellum with a very distinct

central basal impression.

Long. 14 mm.

Hab. Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant).

Annals of the South African Museum.

HETEROPTERA FROM MASHONALAND.

(CoLLEcTED By Mr. G. A. K. MARSHALL.)

Famiry REDUVIID-.

Sup-Faminy EMESIN£.

Stenolemus marshalli, sp. nu. Umfuli River.

Sup-Famity STENOPODIN.

Oncocephalus annulipes, Stal. Salisbury.

Thodelmus quinquespinosus, Fabr. Salisbury.

Sup-Famity SALYAVATIN.

Lisarda cenosa, Stal. Salisbury.

Petalochirus wmbrosus, Herr. Schaeff. Umfuli River.

Sup-Faminry ACANTHASPIN.

Varus flavoannulatus, Stal. Salisbury.

Reduvius tarsatus, Germ. Salisbury.

. mashone, sp.n. Salisbury.

Edocla quadrisignata, Stal. Umfuli River.

Acanthaspis curvidens, sp.n. Salisbury.

Cethera musiva, Germ. Salisbury.

Phonergates bicoloripes, Stal. Salisbury.

i, concoloripes, Reut. Salisbury.

Cerilocus bicolor, sp. n. Salisbury.

Sus-Faminy PIRATINZ.

Pirates lugubris, Stal. Salisbury.

Sus-Famity ECTRICHODINZ.

Physorhynchus patricius, Stal. Salisbury.

3 principalis, sp. n. Salisbury.

Sus-Famiry APIOMERINZ.

Cleontes genitus, sp. n. Umfuli River.

Rhynchotal Miscellanea.

Susp-Famiry HARPACTORINZA.

Leptodema acanthocephala, Carlini. Umfuli River.

Loptodytes mashone, sp. n. Umfuli River.

Harpactor erythrocnemis, Germ, Salisbury.

y; pulvisculatis, Dist. Salisbury.

ss seqmentarius, Germ. Salisbury.

7 tristis, Stal. Salisbury, Umfuli River.

ae albopunctatus, Stal. Salisbury, Umfuli River.

i violentus, Germ. Salisbury, Umful River.

3 rapax, Stal. Salisbury.

Sphydrinus venans, Stal. Salisbury.

Callilestes stigmatellus, Dist. Salisbury.

Pantoleistes princeps, Stal. Salisbury.

Phonoctonus formosus, Dist. Salisbury.

Coranus carbonarius, Stal. Salisbury.

, oblongiceps, Stal. Salisbury.

Coranopsis vittata, Horv. Salisbury.

Vitumnus scenicus, Stal.

Var. cinnabarinus, Stal. Salisbury.

Var. scenicus, Stal. Salisbury.

Var. miniatus, Stal. Salisbury.

Var. sobrinus, Stal. Salisbury.

Var. mashonus, Dist. Salisbury.

Var. salisburyanus, Dist. Salisbury.

Var. rhodesianus, Dist. Salisbury.

Nagusta albata, sp.n. Salisbury.

STENOLH MUS MARSHALLI, sp. ni.

Brownish-ochraceous; antenne annulated with luteous; peduncu-

late portion of the head, posterior margin of the pronotum, hemelytra,

numerous annulations to anterior legs and to intermediate and

posterior femora, a subbasal annulation to intermediate and posterior

tibia, luteous; hemelytra spotted with brown, the spots consisting

of a small one near apex of clavus, and two discal, the anterior one

largest and containing a pale vein, apical margins of the same colour

spotted with white; pedunculate portion of head a little shorter than

remaining portion; pronotum conyex, the anterior area obscurely

centrally carinate; body, legs, and antenne longly pilose — ab-

domen mutilated.

Long. 12 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland; Umfuli River (G. A. K. Marshall).

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REDUVIUS MASHONS, Sp. 0.

Head and eyes black; antennz piceous; pronotum brownish-

ochraceous, the basal area of the anterior lobe black; scutellum

piceous; corium brown, basal angle, claval apex and a rounded

spot on each side of same, posterior lateral margin, and apical

margin, obscure ochraceous; membrane brown, somewhat paler

at base and apex; connexivum luteous with elongate black spots ;

body beneath brown, lateral margins and a central line to abdomen

luteous, lateral margins with large transverse black spots; legs

luteous, subapical and apical annulations to femora, base, apices,

and a median annulation to tibia, and apices of tarsi piceous.

Anterior lobe of pronotum profoundly centrally suleated, posterior

lobe finely punctate, posterior lateral angles shortly tuberculously

spinous.

Long. 16-17 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland; Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall).

Allied to R. labeculatus, Dist., but with the pronotum much less

furrowed.

ACANTHASPIS CURVIDENS, Sp. n.

Head, rostrum, pronotum, scutellum, sternum, and legs dull

reddish-ochraceous; connexivum and abdomen beneath stramineous;

corium and membrane black; base of corium reddish-ochraceous.

Anterior lobe of pronotum strongly furrowed, posterior lobe with

its disk rugulose, the lateral angles strongly spinously produced and

directed backward; legs moderately pilose ; antenne mutilated.

Long. 18 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 6 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland; Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall).

CERILOCUS BICOLOR, Sp. n.

Reddish-ochraceous ; eyes, corium, and membrane black; con-

nexivum stramineous much suffused with piceous; basal lateral

areas of abdomen beneath piceous.

Anterior angles of pronotum nodulosely prominent, disks of anterior

and posterior lobes longitudinally impressed, lateral posterior angles

subprominent, subnodulose, and rounded; basal joint of antenne

not quite reaching apex of head, and about one-fourth the length

of second joint ; rostrum with the first and second joints subequal in

length.

Long. 234 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 7 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland; Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall).

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PHYSORHYNCHUS PRINCIPALIS, sp. 0.

?. Head, pronotum, scutellum, and sternum reddish-ochraceous ;

abdomen sanguineous; hemelytra, legs, abdominal incisures, and

stigmatal areas black; tarsi brownish-ochraceous; basal joint of

antennz black, remainder mutilated; abdomen above with a small

black spot on the lateral area of each abdominal segment. Pronotum

concolorous, the longitudinal incision fine, but not reaching the base

of posterior lobe, longitudinally foveate near posterior angles; scu-

tellum foveate on disk; body very elongate, hemelytra almost

reaching abdominal apex.

Long. 35 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland; Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall); Orange River

Colony (South African Museum).

CLEONTES GENITUS Sp. nD.

Luteous; head, antennz, anterior lobe of pronotum, anterior tibiz,

membrane, and rostrum black; corium, base of membrane, apical

area of connexivum, and abdomen beneath reddish-ochraceous ;

connexivum above and beneath, excluding apical area, pale strami-

neous; distinctly pilose, especially the lateral margins of head, pro-

notum and abdomen, and legs; posteriorly produced posterior

margin of pronotum profoundly concave.

Long. 15 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland; Umfuli River (G. A. K. Marshall).

LopoDYTES MASHONZ sp. 0.

Head, antenne, anterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, and legs

pale castaneous; posterior lobe of pronotum, corium, membrane, and

prosternum pale ochraceous ; body beneath thickly greyishly pilose ;

above moderately pilose; head, antenne, and legs longly pilose;

corium and posterior legs more or less greyishly tomentose ; pronotum

with the anterior lobe tuberculate at anterior angles, and quadri-

tuberculate at the posterior transverse incision; posterior lobe

longitudinally foveate and with a distinct central longitudinal carina-

tion, lateral areas also foveate; membrane about reaching the base

of the sixth abdominal segment.

Long. 19 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland; Umfuli River (G. A. K. Marshall).

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VITUMNUS SCENICUS.

Vitumnus scenicus, Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. p. 69 (1865).

Var. mashonus, var. n.

Reddish-ochraceous ; spot behind eyes, antennz, apex of rostrum,

posterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum, claws, membrane, spots to

connexivum, marginal sternal and abdominal spots and striz, apices

of tibiae, and the tarsi black ; posterior abdominal segmental margins,

pale luteous.

Hab. Mashonaland; Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall).

Var. salisburyanus, var n.

Black; anterior lobe of pronotum, and head entirely or in part,

sanguineous.

Hab. Mashonaland; Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall).

Var. rhodesianus, var. n.

Resembling var. salisburyanus, but with the legs sanguineous.

Hab. Mashonaland; Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall).

NAGUSTA ALBATA, Sp. n.

Pale reddish-brown; rostrum, coxz, and legs luteous; body beneath

cretaceous-white, margins of sternum and abdomen reddish-brown,

abdomen with a central luteous line; first joint of antenne castaneous,

remaining joints mutilated. Pronotum with the anterior lobe

centrally suleate, the posterior lobe finely granulate, the lateral

spines directed a little upward and backward; membrane pale

ochraceous, semihyaline, passing the abdominal apex; anterior

femora somewhat strongly incrassate ; legs pilose.

Long. 15 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland; Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall).

HETEROPTERA FROM BRITISH NYASALAND.

(CoLLECTED BY Dr. PERCY RENDALL.)

Famity REDUVIIDE.

Sus-Famiry STENOPODINZ.

Pygolampis nyase, Dist. Fort Johnston.

FRhynchotal Miscellanea. 5D

Susp-Faminy SALYAVATINZE.

Petalochirus wnbrosus, Herr. Schaeff. Fort Johnston.

Susp-Famiry ACANTHASPINZE.

Reduvius tarsatus, Germ. Fort Johnston.

Sup-Faminy PIRATIN&-.

Hictomocoris cruciger, Faby. Zomba.

E maculicrus, Fairm., Zomba.

Pirates rendalli, sp. n. Zomba.

Susp-Famity HARPACTORINZ-.

Harpactor erythrocnemis, Germ. Fort Johnston.

Bf segmentarius, Germ. Fort Johnston.

7” paludatus, sp. n. Fort Johnston.

Sphydrinus venans, Stal. Fort Johnston.

Cosmolestes pictus, Klug. Fort Johnston.

Vitwmnus scenicus, Stal.

Var. sobrinus, Stal. Zomba.

Margasus opulentus, sp. n. Fort Johnston.

PIRATES RENDALLI, sp. 0.

Black ; head, pronotum, and scutellum shining with an olivaceous

hue, corium dull opaque, membrane levigate; apex of rostrum

castaneous. Anterior lobe of pronotum longitudinally excavate ;

anterior and intermediate femora distinctly spined beneath; legs

somewhat longly pilose.

Allied to the West African P. spinipes, Serv., but differing by the

opaque and scarcely ridged corium.

Long. 23 mm.

Hab. British Nyasaland ; Zomba (P. Rendall).

HARPACTOR PALUDATUS, Sp. Nn.

Reddish-ochraceous ; antennz, rostrum, eyes, apical area of head,

a large spot behind eyes, two longitudinal discal fascize to pronotum—

widened posteriorly but not reaching the posterior margin, scutellum,

excluding basal spot, a sub-claval streak and membranal margin of

corium, head beneath, sternum, legs, and margins of abdominal

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segments black; acetabula, lateral margins of sternum, posterior

margin of prosternum, and biannulations to first and second joints of

antenne reddish-ochraceous, third and remaining joints of antenne

castaneous ; first and second joints of rostrum about equal in length

or first shghtly the longest; body and legs moderately pilose ;

membrane brownish-ochraceous, its basal margin irregularly black ;

anterior lobe of pronotum centrally sulcate, posterior lobe entire ;

ante- and postocular areas of head about equal in length.

Long. 114-16 mm.

Hab. Nyasaland; Fort Johnston (Rendall); Transvaal; Lyden-

burg District (Pret. Mus. and Coll. Dist.).

MARGASUS OPULENTUS, Sp. n.

Head, rostrum, antenne, tibiz, and tarsi castaneous ; pronotum,

cerium, and sternum ochraceous densely pilose; connexivum

ochraceous, glabrous; lateral angles and posterior margin of

pronotum, and a large subquadrate spot on the first four segments

of the connexivum shining indigo-blue ; membrane shining, brassy-

green; abdomen beneath shining olivaceous-green; anterior and

intermediate femora shining olivaceous-green, their apices castaneous ;

posterior femora castaneous with a subapical olivaceous-green annula-

tion; cox and trochanters dark castaneous. Basal joint of

antenne about as long as head and pronotum together; second and

third joints together shorter than the first ; head a little shorter than

pronotum ; lateral pronotal angles a little prominent and obtusely

angulated.

Long. 30 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 8 mm.

Hab. Nyasaland; Fort Johnston (Dr. P. Rendall).

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Part I1.—DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIOUS ETHIOPIAN

SPECIES.

Famity LYGAZID-AE.

AULACOPELTUS MINOR, sp. n.

Reddish-ochraceous ; head, antenne, membrane, legs, rostrum,

basal angles of head beneath, and large irregular lateral sternal

spots, black ; abdomen beneath piceous.

Allied to the only other described species of the genus A. excavatus,

Fabr., from which it differs by the less produced posterior angles of

the pronotum, by the somewhat broader and less elongate pronotum,

different colour of the head, smaller size, and paler colouration.

Long. 14 to 16 mm.

Hab. British Nyasaland ; Zomba (K. J. Cameron).

Var. Abdomen beneath pale sanguineous, its lateral margins and

apex piceous.

Famity REDUVIID-E.

Susp-Faminry ACANTHASPINZ-E.

CENSORINUS, gen. nov.

Body elongate ; ocelli situate between the posterior areas of eyes ;

first joint of antenne about as long as head and considerably passing

its apex, second joint about twice as long as first; second joint of

rostrum longer than first joint; pronotum with the anterior and

posterior lateral angles spinously produced, anterior lobe armed with

two long spines, posterior lobe with two shorter discal spines near

posterior margin; scutellum with a long, obliquely erect apical

spine ; connexivum with the posterior segmental angles prominently

produced; legs slender, pilose, anterior femora not incrassated,

posterior legs with the tibie a little longer than the femora, abdomen

beneath with a distinct central longitudinal ridge.

Allied to Centrogonus Bergr. = Vellejus Stal (nom. preoc.).

CENSORINUS FERRUGINEUS, Sp. 0.

Dull ochraceous ; head in front of eyes, a central and two lateral

strie behind eyes, some irregular spots and the discal spines to

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anterior pronotal lobe, longitudinal strie on anterior margin, a spot

near lateral angles and a basal fascia to posterior lobe, disk of

scutellum and base of apical spine, veins and scattered irregular

spots to corium and membrane, spots to connexivum, head and body

beneath, rostrum, legs and antenne black; base of first antennal

joint, base and apex of second joint, bases and subapical annulations

to femora, subbasal and subapical annulations to tibie, tarsi,

acetabula, and marginal spots to abdomen, ochraceous. Head

centrally, longitudinally suleate ; pronotum with the anterior spines

short, suberect, the discal spines to anterior lobe long, erect, the

lateral angles strongly laterally, spinously produced, the discal spines

to posterior lobe a little directed backward; membrane passing

abdominal apex; legs and antenne distinctly and longly pilose.

Long. 25 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 7 mm.

Hab, Madagascar (Cowan).

TIMOTHEUS, gen. nov.

Head robust, anteocular and postocular portions about equal in

length, the disk tumid, a distinct transverse impression between

eyes; rostrum robust, first joint much shorter than second, antenn

mutilated; pronotum with the lobes almost equal in length, but

anterior lobe narrowest, subglobose, sculptured, its anterior angles

tubercularly prominent, posterior lobe gradually widened, lateral

angles subprominent, posterior margin strongly concave ; scutellum

trispinous—a long suberect spine at each basal angle, and a similar

spine at apex; corium about half as long as abdomen; membrane

large; connexivum suberect; anterior and intermediate femora

moderately incrassate.

Allied to Platymeris.

TIMOTHEUS PERINGUEYI, Sp. Nn.

Sanguineous; head, rostrum, anterior pronotal lobe, a central

fascia, an elongate spot near each lateral angle, and posterior

lateral margins of posterior pronotal lobe, scutellum, a central

spot to corium, spots to connexivum above and beneath, anterior

area of prosternum, meso- and meta-sterna—excluding lateral

margins, abdominal segmental margins, and legs black; clavus,

posterior portion of claval margin, and the membrane opaque

piceous; body and legs pilose ; anterior lobe of pronotum excavate,

posterior lobe rugulose.

Long. 12 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony; O’okiep. (Type in 8. African Museum.)

ERhynchotal Miscellanea. 59

KHAFRA MODESTA, sp, Nn.

Black ; head, rostrum, basal joint of antenne (remainder muti-

lated), a large spot on each side of anterior lobe of pronotum,

scutellum, excluding apex, cox, legs, anal segment of abdomen,

and some elongate spots on apical half of connexivum, dull cas-

taneous ; femora irregularly marked with piceous, a subapical annu-

lation being most distinct; tibize with the base and a very obscure

central annulation, piceous.

Pronotum with the posterior lateral angles spinously subprominent ;

scutellar spine long, robust, directly upward and backward ; abdomen

beneath finely transversely striate.

Long. 25 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 74 mm.

Hab. Nyasaland (Farle).

PHONERGATES NIGRIVENTRIS, Schout.

Dull black ; head, pronotum, scutellum, lateral margins of sternum,.

and anterior and intermediate femora, dull red; a transverse spot

between eyes, two spots near anterior margin of posterior pronotal

lobe, apex of scutellum, and apices of anterior and intermediate

femora black; antennz fuscous.

Long. 12 to 14 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 34 to 4 mm.

Hab. Hast Africa; Nyasa, Mamboia (Coll. Dist.) ; Congo.

Var. Scutellum black, with its apex red ; femora entirely black.

In the typical form described by Schouteden the scutellum is

entirely red.

Sup-Faminry PIRATIN.

PIRATES EREBUS, Sp. 0.

Body above and beneath piceous-brown ; antenn, rostrum, coxe,

and legs dull dark ochraceous; eyes, ocelli, and an oblong spot

to corium near apex of clavus, pale stramineous. Anterior lobe

of pronotum centrally sulcate, its lateral areas irregularly striate ;

lateral margins of abdomen beneath sometimes brownish-ochraceous.

Long. 23 mm.

Hab. Madagascar (Cowan) ; Antananarivo.

Susp-Faminty ECTRICHODINZ.

HEXAMEROCERUS JUNODI, Sp. n.

Metallic olivaceous-green; hemelytra black, opaque, with a

whitish transverse spot near centre; connexivum above and beneath

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spotted with ochraceous at the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth

segments; antenne glossy piceous, first joint, excluding base and

apex, luteous; legs shining black; bases and apices of femora,

and the tarsi, luteous; apices of tarsi fuscous; head, pronotum,

and body beneath coarsely punctate, sub-granulate; femora pro-

minently spined beneath; antennz with the second joint rather

longer than the third and fourth joints together.

Long. 12 mm.

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junod).

PHYSORHYNCHUS ABBREVIATUS, Sp. n.

9. Black; central fascia to head from between eyes, pronotum

—excluding black cruciform suleation, apical prolongations to

scutellum, basal angles of hemelytra, lateral margins of con-

nexivum, lateral margins of sternum and abdomen beneath,

legs, a large central triangular spot to second abdominal seg-

ment, a larger subquadrate spot to third segment, and two

small central spots to fourth segment, ochraceous; cox, tro-

chanters, a basal suffusion to femora beneath, extreme apices

of femora and tibia, and extreme bases of tibiew black; antenne

mutilated ; pronotum impunctate, somewhat crenulate on transverse

constriction, the central suleation broadened and foveate on disk,

foveately impressed near the lateral angles; hemelytra abbreviated,

only reaching the base of fifth abdominal segment; connexivum

excluding margin, finely transversely rugulose, abdomen above

finely and irregularly transversely striate; body beneath glabrous,

anterior margins of second, third, fourth, and fifth abdominal

segments more or less crenulate.

Long. 2? 34 mm.

Hab. Hast Africa; Mpwapwa.

PHYSORHYNCHUS COSTALIS, sp. Nn.

Head, scutellum, and body beneath metallic indigo-black ;

hemelytra black ; anterior area of head, rostrum, pronotum, basal

angles of hemelytra and clavus, lateral margins of hemelytra

—hbroadly, margins of sternum and abdomen beneath, anal seg-

ment of abdomen, and legs reddish-ochraceous ; connexivum,

posterior legs, and apical margin to abdomen, ochraceous ; antenne,

transverse pronotal constriction and central sulcation to anterior

lobe, and spots to connexivum, black; anterior pronotal lobe dis-

tinctly, posterior lobe obsoletely punctate; scutellum rugose ;

Rhynchotal Miscellanea. 61

membrane g reaching apex of abdomen; antennex with the first

and second joints fuscous, first joint reddish-ochraceous at base;

remaining joints mutilated.

Long. 16 mm.

Hab. British East Africa; Nengia.

PHYSORHYNCHUS SPLENDENS, sp. n.

Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, and scutellum pale sanguineous;

antennz, rostrum, posterior lobe of pronotum, and legs shining

black; hemelytra black opaque ; connexivum and abdomen beneath

shining indigo-black ; bases of tibia very narrowly, and the tarsi

brownish-ochraceous ; pronotal central sulcation deep, foveate, not

extending far on the posterior lobe; extreme apex of head black,

ochraceous on each side; anterior femora inwardly brownish-

ochraceous ; legs prominently pilose.

Long. 13 mm.

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junod).

Susp-Famiry HARPACTORIN-E.

SPHEDANOLESTES SINGULARIS, Sp. n.

Reddish-ochraceous ; head, antennz, rostrum, and tibiz black ;

femora pale brownish, biannulated with luteous, their bases, the

cox, and trochanters, reddish-ochraceous ; disk of abdomen pale

luteous with three large black ringlets on each side situate on the

third, fourth, and fifth abdominal segments; membrane pale bronzy;

post-ocular portion of head a little longer than ante-ocular portion ;

first joint of rostrum shorter than second joint; connexivum well

developed in ¢, its margin lobately sinuate; posterior pronotal

angles subprominent and broadly rounded.

Long. g and ° 14-16 mm.

Hab. Madagascar; Fianarantsoa.

VITUMNUS SCENICUS.

Vitumnus scenicus, Stil, Hem. Afr. iii. p. 69 (1865).

Var. nyasanus, var. n.

Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, rostrum, prosternum, cox,

trochanters, and legs sanguineous; posterior lobe of pronotum

and corium, stramineous; antenne, a triangular spot behind eyes,

two very large spots to posterior pronotal lobe, scutellum, clavus,

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membrane, some lateral and central sternal spots, abdomen beneath,

apices of tibize and the tarsi, black ; apex of abdomen sanguineous.

Hab. British Nyasaland.

MARGASUS MAURUS, Sp. n.

Head, rostrum, and legs sanguineous; corium, connexivum,

abdominal margin, apex of anterior tibie, intermediate and pos-

terior femora—excluding apices, intermediate and posterior tibise—

excluding bases, black; pronotum, scutellum, base of corium, and

body beneath luteous; membrane pale bronzy; antenne with the

first and second joints black, remainder mutilated. Anterior lobe of

pronotum tuberculously rugose with four prominent spinous tubercles,

two discal and one on each lateral margin, posterior lobe with two

longer and more slender discal spinous tubercles, the lateral angles

also spinously produced; scutellum foveate at base, its apex not pro-

duced ; femora a little nodulose, more prominently so near apices.

Long. 18 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5 mm.

Hab. Madagascar; Fianarantsoa.

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IV.—Descriptions of Six new Perciform Fishes from the Coast of

Natal.—By G. A. Boutencer, F'.R.5.

Mr. J. F. QueKetT, Curator of the Durban Museum, has sent me

for identification a large series of fishes from the Coast of Natal.

The fishes from that coast have received but little attention, and it is

therefore not surprising that several specimens contained in the

Collection have proved to belong to undescribed species. I have

already described one,* a Galeid Selachian, under the name of

Scylliogaleus queketti. Mr. Alex. Anderson, of Durban, who takes a

great interest in the fishes in which he deals, and who brought the

fishes over with him on a recent visit to England, informed me that

the specimens were mostly procured from deep water, about 40

fathoms. It so happens, however, that the little Dog-fish, which

I described as from that depth, was obtained from the rocks at the

River Umkomaas, as I am now informed by Mr. Quekett. The

perciform fishes here described are probably all from deep water.

The specimens here figured have been presented to the British

Museum, along with many others, by Mr. Quekett.

DINOPERCA QUEKETTI. (Plate II.)

Depth of body 2? times in total length, length of head 3 times.

Upper profile of head descending in a nearly straight line ; lower jaw

projecting; snout as long as or a little longer than the diameter of

the eye, which is 3 to 4 times in length of head; interorbital

width 4 times in length of head; maxillary extending to below

the centre of the eye, the width of its distal extremity 3 to #

the diameter of the eye; supramaxillary bone narrow ; both jaws

with a broad band of minute villiform teeth and an outer series of

* Ann. and Mag. N.H. (7) x. 1902, p. 51, pl. iv.

64 Annals of the South African Museum.

rather large conical teeth; a triangular patch of vomerine teeth and

a moderately broad band of palatine teeth; przopercular border

rounded, feebly serrated; two small, indistinct opercular spines ;

head densely scaled, with the exception of the end of the snout, the

lips, and the lower jaw. Gill-rakers about as long as the gill-fringes,

27 or 28 on lower part of anterior arch ; pseudobranchie very large.

Dorsal XI 18, originating above axilla; spines weak, fourth and fifth

and eleventh longest, + or 2 the length of the head, ? the length of the

longest soft rays; the soft dorsal densely scaled, high and pointed in

front, with slightly concave border. Anal III 13, opposed to soft

dorsal and similar in shape; spines rather feeble, graduated, first

very short, third twice as long as second and as long as longest

dorsal. Pectoral very asymmetrical, obtusely pointed, # length of

head; ventral quite as long, reaching vent. Caudal slightly

emarginate. Caudal peduncle 14 as long as deep. Scales 85}2,

strongly ctenoid, with smaller ones between them ; lateral line very

indistinct, on about 55 scales. Blackish-brown; maxillary and

cheek lighter, greyish-brown, with a blackish oblique streak from

the preorbital to the angle of the preopercle.

This species is described from two specimens. The larger

measures 410 mm., the smaller 250.

It is evidently closely related to the fish from the Mekran Coast

and Sind, described by Day as Hapalogenys petersi, and for which I

have proposed the genus Dinoperca. It differs in the absence of the

barbel-like papillae about the lips which caused the Indian species to

be referred to Hapalogenys ; also in the higher dorsal and anal fins,

the shape of the body and fins, and, apparently, in the larger scales

above the lateral line, Day having given the number as about 100.

EPINEPHELUS GRAMMATOPHORUS. (Plate III.)

Teeth in narrow bands, in two series on the sides of the mandible;

canines strong. Depth of body 3 to 3? times in total length, length

of head 22 to 2% times. Snout as long as diameter of eye, which is

4 to 44 times in length of head; interorbital width 54 to 6 times in

length of head ; lower jaw projecting ; maxillary extending to below

posterior border of eye, the width of its distal extremity 3 to 2

diameter of eye; serre at angle of preopercle slightly enlarged ;

opercular spines equidistant, lower much further back than upper;

opercular flap pointed; head nearly entirely covered with cycloid

scales; maxillary naked. Gill-rakers nearly as long as gill-fringes,

15 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XI 17, originating above

Six new Pererform Fishes from the Coast of Natal. 65.

base of pectoral; third and fourth spines longest, nearly half length

of head; last spine 2 to 4 length of head, and a little shorter than

longest soft rays. Pectoral nearly 2 length of head ; ventral shorter.

Anal IIT 8; second and third spines equal, 2 length of head; longest

soft rays nearly half length of head. Caudal rounded. Scaies

ciliated, 85-95 1°; lateral line 65-70. Pinkish-brown ; head with

dark brown spots, vermiculations, and oblique lines; a dark brown

streak along the maxillary ; fins greyish.

Total length 330 mm.

Two specimens.

This species bears some resemblance to H. morrhua, C. and V.,

from which it differs principally in the higher number of soft dorsal

rays, the rounded caudal fin, and the larger scales.

KPINEPHELUS ALBOMARGINATUS. (Plate IV.)

Teeth in narrow bands, in two series on the sides of the mandible ;

canines strong. Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 3

times in total length. Snout as long as the eye, which is 4 times in

length of head; interorbital width 44 times in length of head; lower

jaw projecting ; maxillary extending to below posterior border of eye,

the width of its distal extremity 3 the diameter of the eye; 3 to 5

enlarged serre at the angle of the preopercle; middle opercular

spine nearer lower than upper, lower much further back than upper ;

opercular flap pointed; head nearly entirely covered with cycloid

scales ; maxillary naked. Gill-rakers as long as gill-fringes, 13 or 14

on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XI 14, originating above base

of pectoral; third to fifth spines longest, 4 length of head, a little

shorter than the soft rays. Pectoral 3 length of head, scarcely

longer than the ventrals. Anal III 8; third spine longest, } length

of head; longest soft rays nearly half length of head. Caudal

rounded, subtruncate. Scales ciliated, 110-120 “*; lat. 1. 68.

Reddish-brown, covered with numerous small round blackish spots ;

belly whitish, unspotted ; pectorals uniform yellow; other fins dark

grey-brown, edged with white, the dorsal and caudal with more or

less distinct round black spots at the base.

Total length 290 mm.

Two specimens.

Most nearly related to H. preopercularis, Blgr., which has the third

anal spine shorter, fewer scales between the dorsal spines and the

lateral line, and a different colouration.

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EPINEPHELUS ANDERSONI. (Plate V.)

Teeth in narrow bands, in two series on the sides of the mandible ;

canines feeble. Depth of body 4} times in total length, length of

head 3 times. Snout 44 times in length of head, diameter of eye

and interorbital width 6 times; lower jaw projecting; maxillary

extending beyond vertical of posterior border of eye, the width of its

distal extremity 3 diameter of eye; serre at angle of preopercle

scarcely enlarged ; lower opercular spine nearer median and a little

further back than upper; opercular flap pointed; head nearly

entirely covered with cycloid scales; maxillary naked.* Dorsal XI

15, originating above upper opercular spine; third and fourth spines

longest, + length of head, last spine ? length of head, longest soft

rays 2. Pectoral 3 length of head; ventral shorter. Anal III 8;

second and third spines equal, not quite + length of head; longest

soft rays nearly 4 length of head. Caudal rounded. Seales cycloid,

110 42; lateral line 78. Pale purplish-brown, with large round dark

brown spots forming seven longitudinal series on each side; two

oblique dark streaks on each side of the head, from the eye to the

opercle; dorsal fin with large round dark spots.

Total length 370 mm.

A single specimen.

The fish I have the pleasure of naming after Mr. Alexander

Anderson, of Durban, bears most resemblance to the young of

E. tawvina, Forsk. It differs, apart from the ‘colouration, in the

narrower interorbital region, the cycloid scales, and the lesser

depth of the body.

DENTEX LINEOPUNCTATUS. (Plate VI.)

Depth of body 24 times in total length, length of head 3 times.

Forehead slightly gibbose ; length of snout equal to diameter of eye,

and to interorbital width, + length of head ; least depth of preorbital

3 diameter of eye; jaws equal in front, upper extending to below

anterior fifth of eye ; canine teeth strong; interorbital region covered

with scales ; 7 series of scales on the cheek, between the suborbital

region and the preopercle ; a patch of small scales on the suborbital

region, which is otherwise wholly naked. Dorsal XII 10, originating

above base of pectoral ; fourth to sixth spines longest, not quite $ length

of head, second and twelfth spines as long as soft rays, $ length of

head. Anal III 8; spines very strong, second longest, longer than

soft rays, + length of head. Pectoral falciform, as long as head,

* The gill-arches not present in the original specimen.

Siw new Perciform Fishes from the Coast of Natal. 67

reaching origin of anal. Ventral 2 length of head, reaching vent.

Caudal deeply emarginate, angularly notched. Scales very feebly

denticulated, 53 ;%,. Red, the upper half of the body with 6

longitudinal series of purplish dots; these dots distributed more

irregularly on the occiput and nape.

Total length 320 mm.

A single specimen.

Closely allied to D. argyrozona, C. and VY. Distinguished by the

larger eye, the shorter body, the fewer series of scales on the cheek,

and the colouration.

PAGRUS NIGRIPINNIS. (Plate VII.)

Depth of body 22 times in total length, length of head 3 times.

Forehead slightly humped, interorbital region broad and flat; length

of snout 24 times in length of head, diameter of eye 44 times,

interorbital width 3 times; least depth of przorbital equal to

diameter of eye; jaws equal in front, upper extending to below

anterior border of eye; canine teeth strong, 4 in each jaw; a single

series of large molar teeth; interorbital region, occiput, cheek, and

gill-cover densely covered with small strongly imbricate scales;

these scales form 16 series on the cheek. Dorsal XII 10, originating

above base of pectoral; third to fifth spines longest, 2 length of head,

twelfth shorter than the soft rays, which measure 4} length of head.

Anal ITT 8, second and third spines equal, strong, nearly as long as

the soft rays, + length of head. Pectoral falciform, as long as head,

reaching beyond origin of anal. Ventral 2 length of head, not quite

reaching vent. Caudal angularly emarginate. Scales feebly

denticulated, 70 3°; lat. line 62; scales on pectoral region very

small. Greyish- brown above, irregularly blotched with darker,

whitish beneath; caudal greyish, other fins black.

Total length 400 mm.

A single specimen.

Allied to P. laniarius, C. and V. Differs in the smaller scales, the

single series of molar teeth, and the colouration.

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IV.—Epinephelus albomarginatus.

V.—Epinephelus andersoni.

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V.—New South African Spiders of the families Migide, Ctenizide,

Barycheliide, Dipluride, and Lycoside.—By W. F. Purcetn,

Ph.D., First Assistant. (Plate VIII and 4 text figures.)

THE present paper contains descriptions of 64 new South African

spiders, viz., 31 four-lunged spiders (3 Migide, 21 Ctenizide, 5

Barychelide,and 2 Dipluride), and 33 two-lunged spiders (Lycosid@).

Most of those included in the first three families are true trap-door-

building species, a group very numerously represented in South

Africa, but as yet only imperfectly known.

Faminry MIGIDA.

Gen. MOGGRIDGEA O. P. Cambr.

1. MoGGRIDGEA MORDAX nN. sp.

Types.—6 ad. ? with cocoons and 5 nests (Nos. 12403-12408)

from the low veld at the Hot Springs near Montagu, Cape Colony,

found by my wife and myself in November, 1902.

2? 2. Colour of carapace, limbs, and chelicere reddish yellow to

olivaceous yellow, in parts even olivaceous; abdomen olivaceous

black, or the under side pale yellowish.

Carapace wide, its length (measured laterally to the ocular area)

exceeding that of the first tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus, and subequal

to or a little shorter than the fourth tibia and metatarsus. Fovea

strongly but not angularly recurved; a fine median groove sometimes

present behind it. Ocular area about 21-24 times as wide as long,

very like that of M. seticoxa Pure. (Ann. 8. A. Mus., v. 3, p. 18,

1903), but its width considerably exceeding the length of first

metatarsus; anterior median eyes less than a diameter apart and

nearly twice a diameter or more from the anterior laterals, which are

very large and nearly twice as long as the median eyes; posterior

row recurved, the median eyes oval, larger than the laterals and

70 Annals of the South African Musewm.

about as long as the anterior medians; clypeus not exceeding 4 the

diameter of an anterior lateral eye (generally much less).

Legs.—Metatarsus TV with 3-5 spiniform sete in the apical tuft.

Tibia I less than twice as long above as wide. Patella III with a

broad anterior band of spines and setiform spines above. Core II

and III with a basal patch of sharp stout spinules, the patches sub-

equal, III also with a few, more distal spinules below posteriorly,

which are rarely absent.

Labiwm with 17-22 teeth in anterior part, of which the posterior

ones are short; the teeth on the coxe of pedipalps only in 1-3 rows

in the distal half but numerous in the basal half.

Total length * 17-20 mm.

Cocoons.—The cocoon is a compressed oval sack with one end

rounded off and the other more truncated. Its wall is very white

and of a fine although tough and parchment-like texture. It is

suspended just above the bottom of the burrow with the truncated

end uppermost by means of some threads of silk running from the

two upper corners to the sides of the burrow. One cocoon measured

18 mm. in length, 12 in width, and 7 in thickness, and contained 65

eggs, each about 24 mm. in diameter and in an early stage of

development (end of November).

Nests.—The lids are D-shaped, rather thick and flat, becoming

thinner at the margin all round. The hinge is very wide and

Fic. 1.—A, section through upper part of terrestrial trap-door burrow of

Moggridgea mordax n. sp. (nat. size); B, lid of same, seen from below; a, edge of

tube-lining ; bb, surface of ground.

occupies almost the whole of the truncated margin. The upper

side of the lids is covered with earth and generally overgrown

by a black fungus, while the under side is lined with white silk

* Total length includes the chelicers but not the spinners.

New South African Spiders. (it

and provided with a pair of conspicuous pits in the centre, which

are always placed as in fig. 1s.

The hole descends at a considerable incline in the upper part and

reaches a depth of 4-44 inches (10-114 cm.). At the opening the

tube-lining is suddenly bent outwards to form a depressed funnel-

shaped, spreading rim about 2-3 mm. in width all round, against

which the lid closes.*

It is characteristic of both M. mordaxr n. sp. and M. terricola

E. Sim., that the lid is not placed with its upper surface flush with

the ground but is distinctly raised above it, just as if it were a

detached piece lying loose upon the veld. This circumstance makes

it very difficult to distinguish these lids in the case of M. mordax

from the many small flat pieces of earth which have become

loosened from the cracked surface of the ground, so that one

has generally to lift the piece before one can be certain whether

it covers a nest or not.

2. MoGGRIDGEA LEIPOLDTI n. sp.

Type.—1 2 (No. 3619) found by Mr. C. L. Leipoldt on the road

from Clanwilliam to Van Rhyns Dorp, Cape Colony, in December,

1897.

Closely resembling the foregoing.

?. Abdomen pale yellowish, the hair-bearing tubercles black.

Carapace longer than the tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of first leg,

but shorter than the tibia and metatarsus of fourth leg. Fovea

without the median groove. Ocular area with its width very

slightly less than the length of the first metatarsus; posterior

median eyes narrow elongate, twice as long as the small lateral

eyes.

Coxa III with a basal patch of 26-27 stout short spinules, the

other coxze muticous.

Labium with 23 teeth on anterior half.

Total length 19 mm.

3. MoGGRIDGEA COEGENSIS N. sp.

Type.—I1 ? (No. 5678) found by Mr. I. L. Drége at Coega, Uiten-

hage Division, in May, 1899.

* The nests of Gorgyrella schreinerit Pure. (Ann. 8. A. Mus., v. 3, p. 26, pl. 1,

fig. 3, 1903) closely resemble these in many respects, the upper part of the hole

being similarly inclined and similarly shaped in both, except that in Gorgyrella

the spreading rim is much more steeply funnel-shaped to fit the strongly bevelled

edge of the lid.

72 Annals of the South African Museum.

Allied to M. mordaz n. sp.

¢. Abdomen olivaceous black, the opercula and the genital seg-

ment yellowish below.

Carapace wide, the thoracic portion almost rotundate ; the length

a little exceeding that of the tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of first leg

but less than that of the tibia and metatarsus of fourth leg. Fovea

smaller, semicircular, with a small median groove behind it. Ocular

area with its width exceeding the length of the first metatarsus ;

posterior median eyes oval, less than the anterior medians in length

but a little longer than the small posterior laterals and rather remote

from them.

Cora III with a basal patch of spiniform sete; II with a much

smaller and scarcely distinct group (formed of 6-8 sete placed closer

together than elsewhere).

Labiwm with 20 teeth in anterior part.

Total length 144 mm.

The Migide (2?) from Cape Colony* may be grouped as

follows :—

a, Fourth metatarsus without apical infero-posterior tuft of spiniform sete; femur

of second leg with only fine hairs below. Nest arboreal and provided with two

doors. Eastern Cape Colony + .. .. Pwcilomigas abrahami (O. P. Cambr.).

b. Fourth metatarsus with an apical infero-posterior tuft of 3-5 spiniform setz

regularly arranged in a transverse row; femur of second leg with 1-2 rows of

stout spiniform sete below .. .. .. .. «.. «- Moggridgea O. P. Cambr.

at. Coxa of third leg with a basal patch of short stout spinules.

a®. Coxe of first, second, and third legs with basal patch of spinules. Nest

arboreal and with one door.t{ Grahamstown and Uitenhage Division.

M. dyeri O. P. Cambr.

b?. Coxe of second and third legs only with basal patch of spinules. Terres-

trial. Montagu 56 6e 66 of Go oo co oo WE upon Mm, gy.

. Coxa of third leg only with basal patch of spinules.

a3. Posterior median eyes narrow elongate; the anterior laterals very

large and convex. Clanwilliam or Van Rhyns Dorp Divisions.

M. leipoldti n. sp.

* M. meyeri Karsch (Zeit. ges. Naturw., v. 52, p. 384) is evidently a Stasimopus

but certainly not a Moggridgea.

+ The Museum has 1? from Seymour, Stockenstrom Division, and one with its.

nest from the Pirie Bush near Kingwilliamstown (Ff. 4. Pym). The latter was

found on a Knobwood Tree. The types came from Grahamstown. P. pulchripes

KE. Simon (Ann. Soe. ent. Belg., v. 47, p. 23, 1903), from Natal, differs according to

Simon’s description in haying the anterior lateral eyes smaller, instead of larger,.

than the medians.

+ The Museum has specimens from Grahamstown (Dr. Schdnland).

New South African Spiders. 73

b3, Posterior median eyes broadly oval or nearly rounded; the anterior

laterals moderately large. Terrestrial. Cape Peninsula.

M. terricola E. Sim.

b*. Coxa of third leg with at most a basal group of short sete.

a4, Anterior row of eyes (seen from above) with its front margin

forming a straight or even very slightly recurved line, the lateral

eyes comparatively small, their area only about twice that of the

posterior lateral eyes. Nest arboreal and with one door. Cape

Peninsula S640 60 oo oc oo oo JING Gergeioa IM, Sinm,

b+. Anterior row of eyes with its front margin forming a strongly pro-

curved line, the lateral eyes very large and convex, their area

many times larger than that of the posterior lateral eyes.

a5, Coxa of third leg with a distinct postero-basal group of shorter

and more densely crowded (often spiniform) sete on under

side.

. Ocular area narrower, its width less than the length of

metatarsus of first leg. Hanover .. MW. seticova Pure.

b°, Ocular area broader, its width greater than the length of

metatarsus of first leg. Uitenhage Division

MW. coegensis n. sp.

b5. Coxa of third leg muticous .. .. .. .. Terrestrial.

Worcester Division .. .. .. .. MM. peringueyi E. Sim.

Faminy CTENIZIDA.

Gen. STASIMOPUS E. Sim.

1. STASIMOPUS ERYTHROGNATHUS N. sp.

Types.—6 ad. 2 @ (No. 2857) from the village of Worcester, Cape

Colony, collected by Mr. Isaac Meiring in November, 1897, together

with 2 nests.

2? 2. Colowr.—Carapace brown, yellowish posteriorly ; chelicerze

reddish brown; pedipalps and legs brown, the 2 posterior pairs

yellowish below and also in places above ; coxee of legs and posterior

part of sternum more or less ochraceous; coxa of pedipalp reddish ;

anterior part of sternum fuscous brown ; abdomen dirty pale yellowish,

with broad dark patch above along the middle.

Carapace * as long as the patella and tibia together with 2—? of the

metatarsus of first leg and as the tibia, metatarsus, and 2—+ of the

tarsus of fourth leg.

* The length of the carapace is taken laterally across the edge of the ocular area.

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Ocular area.—Width behind less than"or just equal to the length

of the metatarsus of first leg and about 3-of the length of the fourth

metatarsus ; anterior row of eyes (viewed from above) procurved or

with the posterior margins of the eyes in a straight line, the lateral

eyes strongly transverse, elongate oval; the posterior row with the

anterior margins in a straight or slightly recurved line; the median

eyes small and subrotund, as far apart as, or very slightly further

apart than, the anterior lateral eyes and distant about their own

diameter or slightly more from the posterior lateral eyes; the latter

oval, much larger than the posterior medians, their distance apart

equal to or only slightly less than the width of the anterior row;

distance between the posterior and anterior lateral eyes equal to

or a whole long diameter of the latter.

Pedipalps with a band of about 10-14 short spines on inner side

of the tarsus, mostly extending up to the base; the tibia with 2-3

stout spines and the patella mostly with 2-4 slenderer spines or

setiform spines on the inner surface; tarsus with a basal patch of

22-40 minute spinules above, the tibia with a distal patch of 11-22

such spinules above.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg decidedly shorter than the metatarsus, its

length a little less than the width of the posterior row of eyes (by

less than the width of a lateral eye) but considerably greater than

the width of the anterior row; tibia with an internal band of 5-9

short spines occupying the distal 14 of the segment, the upper side

with a large apical patch of minute spinules extending over -4 of

the dorsal length; metatarsus with a long dorsal band of such

spinules occupying 3—? of the length of the segment. Third leg with

13-22 spines in anterior and 22-34 in the posterior band on the

metatarsus ; patella with some stout short spinules along anterior

side and a number of slenderer ones in distal part of upper surface ;

patch of red dorsal spinules on tibia large, occupying nearly the

distal half of the dorsal length; metatarsus without apical tuft of

sete below. Fourth leg with the patch of red spinules on the patella

very large, extending over more than 4 (up to #) of the length of

the anterior surface ; the infero-posterior apical tuft on metatarsus

composed of 6-9 subequal spiniform setz regularly arranged in a

transverse row.

Labium with 5-10 apical teeth.

Total length 36 mm.; length of carapace 114, width 93; length

of metatarsus of first leg 44; width of ocular area 4.

Nests.—The nests resemble those previously described (Ann. 8. A.

Mus., v. 3, pp. 22 and 24) in general appearance, excepting that the

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upper part of the tube is more widely funnel-shaped, being strongly

widened all round, particularly at the hinge side, from about 10 mm.

from the outer edge. The lids resemble those of S. schreineri in

shape, the peripheral surface being strongly bevelled and passing

over gradually into the lower surface at the rounded lower edge.

Fic. 2.—Section through upper part of trap-door burrow of S. erythrognathus

n. sp. (nat. size); a, edge of tube-lining.

The under side is, however, provided with a circle of conspicuous

pits, as in the lid of wnispinosws Pure. The dimensions of a nest

are as follows :—Width of lid taken parallel to hinge 30 mm., taken

at right angles to hinge 31; width of hinge 6; width of hole at about

15 mm. from edge 19; average thickness of lid about 43.

2. STASIMOPUS BREVIPALPIS N. sp.

Specimens.—(a) Two large and 2 smaller ¢ ¢ and 1 ad. g (Nos.

8846 and 8895) from the farm ‘‘ Bonnie Vale,” at Bushmans Drift,

on the Breede River, Swellendam Division (near Ashton), dug out of

the ground by Mr. Charles Groom during the construction of a water

furrow.

9 9 (Types). Colowr as in S. leipoldti Pure. (Trans. 8. A. iPiile

Soe., v. 11, p. 348) or even darker, the abdomen without conspicuous

dark patch above.

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Carapace as in the foregoing; its length sometimes equalling the

tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of fourth leg.

Ocular area.—Width behind exceeding the length of the tibia and

shorter than or even very slightly exceeding the length of the meta-

tarsus of first leg and about 3-4 of the length of the fourth metatar-

sus ; anterior row of eyes (seen from above) lightly procurved or with

the hind margins in a straight line, the lateral eyes large, broadly

oval, transverse; the posterior row very distinctly recurved, the

median eyes small, rotund, slightly further apart than the anterior

lateral eyes and distant about their own diameter or slightly more

from the posterior lateral eyes; the latter subrotund or slightly oval,

small, subequal to or only slightly larger than the posterior medians,

their distance apart very distinctly exceeding the width of the anterior

row; distance between the posterior and anterior lateral eyes slightly

or considerably exceeding the long diameter of the latter.

Pedipalps spined much as in the foregoing species, but the basal

patch on the tarsus smaller, composed of only 9-20 spinules, and

the distal patch on the tibia absent or composed of 1—4 spinules.

Legs.—Length of tibia of first leg decidedly less than that of the

metatarsus and exceeding the width of the anterior row of eyes, but

less than the width of the posterior row (often by more than the

width of a lateral eye); tibia with a band of 5-10 spines occupying

from 4 to the whole of the length of the inner surface, the upper side

with a small distal patch of spinules occupying at most + of the

dorsal length, the basal patch on the metatarsus long, almost equal-

ling but not exceeding half the length of the dorsal surface. Third

leq with 14—21 spines in the anterior and 18—23 in the posterior band

on the metatarsus; patella with some short stout spines along

anterior surface and a few (not more than a dozen) or no slenderer

spinules in distal part of upper surface; patch of red spinules on

tibia occupying only about 2 of the dorsal length; metatarsus with-

out apical tuft of sete below. Fourth leg with the patch of red

spinules on the patella large, occupying from 4-2 of the length of

the anterior surface ; the infero-posterior apical tuft on the metatar-

sus composed of 6-8 subequal spiniform setze regularly arranged in

a transverse row.

Labium with 4-8 apical teeth.

Total length 30 mm.; length of carapace 10, width 82; length of

metatarsus of first leg 3+; width of ocular area 34.

3. Colowr.—Carapace and chelicere reddish black, the latter with

dark reddish bands above; abdomen fuscous-yellow above, paler

below ; pedipalps and 2 anterior pairs of legs blackened proximally

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but becoming pale ochraceous distally, the 2 posterior pairs pale

fusco-ochraceous, the femur of third leg strongly darkened ; sternum

pale ochraceous, infuscated anteriorly and at the sides; 2 posterior

pairs of coxe pale ochraceous below, the other cox more or less

dark brown.

Carapace with the thoracic portion covered with confluent granules

and ridges, which become sparser and weaker at the anterior lateral

angles ; the cephalic portion covered with coarse shallow pits on each

side in the posterior part, the anterior part transversely and weakly

striated at the sides, the upper part with 3 low keels, of which the

lateral ones are abbreviated behind but the median one is continued

to the fovea. Carapace a little longer than the metatarsus of first

leg and subequal to that of fourth leg. yes much as in the ¢.

Pedipalps not quite reaching to the apex of the tibia of first leg

when stretched out in front; the femur curved, concave on the inner

side; the tibia swollen, fusiform, the outer side very convex and the

inner side straight, almost # as long as the metatarsus of fourth leg

and about 2 as long as the carapace; the patella short, its length

only a little exceeding 4 the tibia and equal to 4 the tibia of first leg ;

spine of palpal organ much longer than the bulb, the basal three-

fourths thicker, gradually tapering and slightly curving down-

wards the distal portion slender and filiform, strongly curving

outwards.

Legs. —First leq long and slender, the tarsus swollen and scopulate

below, with 0 internal and 1-2 external spines; metatarsus slightly

curving downwards distally, scopulate below in the distal fifth or

sixth, the under side thickly spined on each side and also with 1-3

spines along the median line ; tibia decidedly shorter than the meta-

tarsus, spined below and on the inner side; patella strongly spined

distally. Second leg like the first, but shorter, sometimes without

spines along the median line of metatarsus below. Third leg with

the tarsus slightly swollen below and scopulate, with 4-6 anterior

and 7-9 posterior spines; metatarsus almost straight (except quite

at base); the spines otherwise much as in the g of S. schreinert

Pure. (Ann. §. A. Mus., v. 3, p. 21). Fourth leg with the tarsus

stout, slightly incrassated from the base distally, scopulate almost to

the base and furnished with 2—3 internal and 14-15 external spines ;

metatarsus very slightly curved, with infero-posterior tuft of setiform

spines; tibia with 6-9 external spines; patella with a patch of

spinules extending over half the length of anterior surface.

Total length 15mm.; length of carapace 64, of pedipalp (including

coxa) 153, of first leg 264.

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(b) 1 ad. 9 (No. 12394) with nest and cocoon from Ashton Station,

Robertson Division, collected by Mr. T. O’Connor.

Cocoon.—The cocoon resembles that of S. quadratimaculatus n. sp.,

described further on (p. 79).

Nest.—The nest resembles that of S. erythrognathus n. sp., but is

smaller. The lid was firmly fastened down, as is usually the case

during the hatching period, being attached all round the lower edge

to the lining of the tube by means of silk. The dimensions are as

follows :—Width of lid taken parallel and at right angles to hinge

22 mm.; width of hole at 10 mm. from edge 163; width of hinge

15 ; average thickness of lid about 4; length of occupant 294, width

of its carapace 73.

3. STASIMOPUS QUADRATIMACULATUS Na. sp.

Specimens.—6 ad. ? 2 (types; Nos. 12397-12402) with 5 of the

nests, 2 also with cocoons, from the low veld at the Montagu

Baths, collected by my wife and myself in November, 1902. Also,

2 immature specimens (one with the nest) from the same locality.

2 ¢@. Colour as in brevipalpis n. sp., but the abdomen with a

small but very distinct quadrate infuscate mark anteriorly above and

generally also a large infuscate patch posteriorly above the spinners.

Carapace as long as the patella and tibia together with % or the

whole of the metatarsus of first leg and as the tibia and metatarsus

together with # or the whole of the tarsus of fourth leg.

Eyes much as in erythrognathus n. sp.; the posterior median eyes

sometimes less than their own diameter from the posterior laterals.

Legs.—Length of tibia of first leg equalling or slightly exceeding

(rarely less than) the width of the posterior row of eyes and often

only slightly less than the length of the metatarsus; apical patch of

spinules on the tibia small, occupying at most } of the length of the

dorsal surface; dorsal band on metatarsus I occupying from 4} of

the length of the dorsal surface. Third leg with 12-21 spines in the

anterior and 14-24 in the posterior band on the metatarsus; the

distal dorsal spinules on the patella mostly setiform and sometimes

absent. ourth leg with 8-11 regularly arranged, subsetiform spines

in the infero-posterior apical tuft of the metatarsus. Legs otherwise

as in erythrognathus n. sp.

Measurements of adults.—Total length 27-32 mm. ; length of cara-

pace 10-11; width of ocular area in largest ? 34.

The two immature specimens have the posterior eyes closer

together on each side.

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Cocoons.—The white cocoon is of soft texture and subspherical in

shape, except on one side, which is flat and provided round the edge,

at least in part, with a narrow free flap (aa, fig. 3). An uninjured

cocoon contained 43 eggs, each measuring about 23 mm. in diameter

(in spirits) and still at a very early stage of development (Novem-

ber 25th). The cocoon is placed at the bottom of the burrow.

Qa a

Fie. 3.—Longitudinal section through cocoon of S. quadratimaculatus n. sp.

(nat. size).

Nests.—The nest closely resembles that of S. wnisprnosus Pure.

(Ann. S. A. Mus., v. 3, p. 24, pl. 1, figs. 1-2), having the lids very

thick and cork-like and generally much less strongly bevelled at the

edge than those of the two preceding species. The lower edge also

is more angular and less rounded. The lids of the adults measure

23-275 mm. across (taken parallel to the hinge) and 54-9 mm. in

average thickness, the diameter of the hole at 1 cm. from the edge

being 164-18 mm. All the holes measure 18-19 cm. in depth, and

they are not enlarged at the bottom. In every case the spider was

found at the bottom of the hole.

These nests abound in the open veld near the Baths, and numbers

of open and deserted ones were met with.

4, STASIMOPUS BIMACULATUS n. sp.

Type.—l1 2 (No. 9942) from Willowmore, Cape Colony, collected

by Dr. H. Brauns, in December, 1901.

Closely related to the foregoing.

?. Colowr brown, the carapace behind and the 2 posterior pairs

of legs paler and more yellowish, the pedipalps ochraceous above

along the middle of the patella and tibia, the 2 posterior pairs of

legs and the 4 pairs of coxze pale ochraceous ; abdomen pallid, with

small black dorsal patch in front and a larger one behind.

Carapace as long as the patella, tibia, and metatarsus of first leg

and as the tibia, metatarsus, and 2 of the tarsus of fourth leg.

Ocular area compacter than usual, its width behind just equal to

the length of the tibia and slightly exceeding that of the metatarsus

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of first leg and about 2 or more of the length of the metatarsus of

fourth leg. Anterior row of eyes (seen from above) with its posterior

margin forming a slightly recurved line, the lateral eyes large, trans-

versely oval ; the posterior row markedly recurved, the median eyes

large, oblique, slightly larger than the anterior medians, their distance

apart distinctly exceeding the distance between the anterior lateral

eyes and their distance from the posterior lateral eyes less than 4

their own diameter ; the lateral eyes oval, almost equalling or slightly

smaller than the posterior medians, their distance apart subequal to

the width of the anterior row; distance between the posterior and

anterior lateral eyes subequal to the long diameter of the latter.

Pedipalps with a small distal group of about 4 spines on inner

side of tarsus and a single apical spine on inner side of tibia; patella

not spined; basal patch of red spinules on tarsus occupying 4 or

more of the dorsal length, the tibia with tiny distal patch above.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg slightly longer than the metatarsus, its

inner surface with a distal patch of 8-11 small spines occupying 4

or less of the length; basal patch of spinules on metatarsus long,

occupying quite 2 of the dorsal length; the distal patch on the tibia

small, occupying about + of the length of the dorsal surface. Third

leg with 15-16 spines in both anterior and posterior band on the

metatarsus ; patella with a small patch of spinules in distal part of

upper surface ; the distal patch on the tibia occupying less than 4 of

the dorsal length; metatarsus without apical spines below. Fourth

leg with 7-9 spines on the distal half of the inner surface of the

tibia ; infero-posterior tuft on metatarsus composed of 10-12 subequal

spiniform setz regularly arranged in a transverse row.

Total length 224 mm.; length of carapace 9, width 7; length of

metatarsus of first leg 3; width of ocular area 3}.

5. STASIMOPUS CASTANEUS N. sp.

Type.—1 @ (No. 5378) from Port Elizabeth, collected by Mr. I. L.

Drége in 1899.

@. Colowr.—Carapace dark brown, only slightly paler posteriorly ;

cheliceree, pedipalps, and legs dark reddish brown, the 2 posterior

pairs of legs paler and more yellowish below; sternum dark

brown, pale yellowish posteriorly ; abdomen dirty yellowish.

Carapace subequal to the patella, tibia, and metatarsus of first leg

in length and almost as long as the tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of

fourth leg.

Ocular avea.—Width behind about 2 of the length of the fourth

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metatarsus. Anterior row of eyes (viewed from above) with its

posterior margin forming a straight line; the lateral eyes rather

small, transverse. Posterior row with its anterior margin form-

ing a straight line; the median eyes slightly transverse, their

distance apart about their own diameter less than the distance

between the anterior lateral eyes and their distance from the

posterior lateral eyes equal to their own diameter; the latter eyes

distinctly oval, scarcely larger than the medians, their distance apart

equal to the width of the anterior row; distance between the

posterior and anterior lateral eyes about 1} times the long diameter

of the latter.

Pedipalps with a broad band of short spines on inner side of tarsus

extending right to the base; the 4—5 spines on inner side of tibia

short and stout; patella not spined; tarsus with small basal

patch of spinules above, the tibia without distal patch of spinules

above.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg equalling the metatarsus, its length

subequal to the width of the posterior row of eyes; tibia with

a distal patch of 10-14 small spines occupying 4-3 of the length of

the inner surface; metatarsus with a basal patch of spinules occupy-

ing about + of the length of the upper side, the tibia with a slightly

smaller distal patch above. Third leg with about 28 spines in the

anterior and in the posterior band on the metatarsus; patella with

a dense patch of short red spinules in distal part of upper surface,

the distal patch on the tibia extending over about 4 the dorsal length;

metatarsus without apical spines below. Fourth leg with the patch

of red spinules on the patella very large, nearly reaching distal

margin ; the infero-posterior apical tuft on the metatarsus composed

of about 10 subequal spiniform setee arranged in a regular transverse

row, the under side of the metatarsus with 2-3 spines along the

middle ; tibia also with several spines below.

Labium with 8 apical teeth.

Total length 33 mm.; length of carapace 102, width 94; length

of metatarsus of first leg 32; width of ocular area 3%.

6. STASIMOPUS UMTATICUS nh. sp.

Type.—1 ? (No. 8848) collected near Umtata, Cape Colony, by

Miss Pegler, and presented to the Museum by the Rev. F. C. Kolbe.

?. Colour much as in castaneus n, sp.; the abdomen pale

yellowish, slightly infuscated anteriorly above.

Carapace slightly shorter than the patella, tibia, and metatarsus of

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first leg and equal to the tibia, metatarsus, and 2 of the tarsus of

fourth leg.

Ocular area.—Width behind about 2 of the length of the fourth

metatarsus. Anterior lateral eyes not very large, transverse; the

posterior row with the anterior margins of the eyes forming

a lightly recurved line, the small median eyes transversely oval,

their distance apart slightly less than the distance between the

anterior lateral eyes and their distance from the posterior lateral

eyes about equal to their own diameter; the latter eyes distinctly

oval and a little larger than the medians, their distance apart equal

to the width of the anterior row; distance between the posterior and

anterior lateral eyes a little exceeding the long diameter of the latter.

Pedipalps as in the foregoing species, except that the tibia has

a few distal apical spinules above.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg as long as the metatarsus, its length

exceeding the width of the posterior row of eyes by a lateral eye’s

diameter at least; spines and spinules as in the foregoing species.

Third leg with about 21 spines in the anterior and 17-19 in the

posterior band on the metatarsus ; patella with a number of short

stout red spinules at apex above, similar to those on the tibia.

Fourth leg with the patch of red spinules on the patella very large,

extending over at least # of the anterior surface ; the infero-posterior

tuft on the metatarsus composed of about 11-12 setiform spines, the

inner half of which are crowded together in a transverse row, while

the outer (inferior) half are more irregularly arranged and scattered.

Labiwm with 5 apical teeth.

Total length 30} mm.; length of carapace 10, width 84; length

of metatarsus of first leg 34; width of ocular area 3}.

7. STASIMOPUS KENTANICUS N. sp.

Types.—2 9? ¢ (No. 12411) with nests, found near the village of

Kentani, Cape Colony, by the Rev. F. C. Kolbe in 1902.

Closely allied to wmtatecus n. sp., but differing in the following

respects :—

2 9. Colour of abdomen nearly black, the under side paler, the

genital segment and the 4 lung-opercula pale yellowish; anterior

spinners and basal segment of posterior spinners with a black mark

at apex below.

Hyes.—Posterior median eyes not transverse, rather large, further

apart than the anterior lateral eyes, their distance from the posterior

laterals equalling or less than their transverse diameter; the latter

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eyes longitudinally oval, smaller than the posterior medians and

distant 14-2 times their own length from the anterior lateral eyes.

Pedipalps.—Patella sometimes with an internal apical spine ; tibia

with a number of spinules in the small apical dorsal patch.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg equal to the metatarsus, its length exceed-

ing the width of the ocular area (by about twice the width of

a posterior lateral eye), the inner surface with 20-35 spines

extending over more than the distal half of the segment; basal

patch of spinules on the metatarsus extending over 4-4 of the length

of the dorsal surface. Third leg with 25-33 spines in the anterior

and a similar number in the posterior band on the metatarsus ;

patella with a number of setiform or sharply pointed black spines but

no short, stout red spinules at apex above. Apical tuft of metatarsus

of fowrth leg composed of 8-12 spiniform setee, of which only 4-7 of

the inner ones are in a close-set transverse row, the rest being

irregularly scattered and more separated, as in the previous species.

Labium with 8 apical teeth.

Total length (abdomen contracted) 27 mm. ; length of carapace 114,

width 10; length of metatarsus of first leg 3-8; width of ocular

area 34.

Nests.—Lids thick, the under surface unevenly convex and

strongly rounded at the edges, the peripheral surface not or only

in places marked off from the under surface ; ring of pits almost

entirely obliterated. Hole as in the other species.

8. STASIMOPUS KOLBEI N. sp.

Types.—1 ex. in spirits (No. 5317) and 1 dried specimen (No. 4542),

found near the mouth of the Qoloro River, Kentani District, Cape

Colony, in 1899, by the Rev. I’. C. Kolbe, together with a nest.

? 2. Colowr.—Yellowish brown, the chelicere darker; the 2 pos-

terior pairs of legs below, the 4 pairs of coxe and the posterior part

of the sternum pale yellowish ; abdomen dirty pale yellowish, infus-

cated above.

Carapace equal in length to the patella, tibia, and # or the whole of

the metatarsus of first leg and to the tibia, metatarsus, and 4-Lof the

tarsus of fourth leg.

Ocular area relatively longer and narrower than usual, its width

only 24 times its length, being a little less than the length of the

metatarsus of first leg and about 2 of the Jength of the metatarsus of

fourth leg. Anterior row of eyes (viewed from above) with its pos-

terior margin almost straight (scarcely procurved), the lateral eyes

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transverse and large; the posterior row with its anterior margin

straight or scarcely recurved, the median eyes obliquely oval, larger

than the anterior medians and posterior laterals and situated close to

the latter, being distant from them only 4 of an eye’s diameter, their

distance apart slightly less than or almost equal to the distance

between the anterior lateral eyes ; posterior lateral eyes oval, small,

their distance apart subequal to the width of the anterior row, which

is not very much less than that of the posterior row ; distance between

the posterior and anterior lateral eyes equal to or less than the long

diameter of the latter.

Pedipalps with the broad band of short spines on inner surface of

tarsus extending to the base; the 3-5 spines on inner side of the

tibia scattered over almost the whole length of the segment; tarsus

with a minute basal patch of only about 10 spinules above, the tibia

with a similar distal patch of spinules.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg subequal to or slightly longer than the

metatarsus, its length also considerably exceeding the width of the

posterior row of eyes; internal band of spines on tibia occupying

more than 4 the length of the segment; basal patch of spinules on

the metatarsus small, occupying }—1 of the length of the upper sur-

face, the tibia with a similar, slightly smaller apical patch. Third

leg with about 15-18 spines in the anterior and a similar number in

the posterior band on the metatarsus ; patella with a distal patch of

spinules above; the distal patch on the tibia extending over 4 the

length of the dorsal surface ; metatarsus without apical spines above.

Fourth leg with the large patch of red spinules on the patella extend-

ing over 3 or less of the anterior surface ; infero-apical tuft on the

metatarsus composed of about 6-8 subequal setiform spines regularly

arranged in a transverse row.

Total length of dried specimen 174 mm.; length of carapace 84,

width 62; length of metatarsus of first leg 3; width of ocular

area 24.

Nest.—Lid thick and cork-shaped, much like that of S. wnispinosus

Pure. (Ann. 8. A. Mus., v. 3, pl. 1, figs. 1-2), the peripheral surface

strongly marked and scarcely bevelled, except on the hinge side ;

under surface flattened, but with the ring of pits almost obliterated ;

hinge very broad.

The following is a synopsis of the species (? ?) from Cape Colony

in the Collection * :—

* S. caffrus (C. L. Koch), S. meyeri (Karsch) (see note on p. 72), S. artifex and

schinlandi Poc., from Cape Colony, are not known to me.

New South African Spiders. 85

a. Metatarsus of fourth leg without infero-posterior apical tuft of sete or spines

Species from Natal.

>. Metatarsus of fourth leg with an infero-posterior apical tuft of sete or spines

Species from Orange River Colony and Cape Colony.

a*, Metatarsus of third leg with a group of apical spines below.

Metatarsus of fourth leg with the apical tuft composed of 4-5 subequal

setiform spines regularly arranged in a transverse row and with 3-5:

irregularly arranged other spines on the outer side of the tuft. King-

williamstown * So 00 ob 06 co Go 00 06 Sp GOsariaaNS IPC.

>. Metatarsus of fourth leg with the apical tuft composed of a single, large

stout spine, which is usually flanked on one or both sides by 1-3 much

slenderer spines or spiniform sete. Hanover .. S. unispinosus Pure.

bt, Metatarsus of third leg without group of apical spines below.

a3,

Ocular area very wide, its width behind equal to the length of the meta-

tarsus together with 4 or more of the tarsus of first leg and slightly less.

than or subequal to the length of the metatarsus of fourth leg ; posterior

row of eyes strongly recurved.

a4, Patella of third leg with a number of slenderer dorsal spines at apex

in addition to the stout ones along the anterior surface. Hanover

S. schreinert Pure.

b+. Patella of third leg without any slenderer dorsal spines at apex.

Clanwilliam Oe eS ee Tee yy ALCL DOLCE unc.

. Ocular area narrower, its width behind less than or only slightly exceeding

the length of the metatarsus of first leg and about 3+ of the length of

the metatarsus of fourth leg.

a>, Basal patch of spinules on upper side of metatarsus I long, extend-

ing over at least 4 of the dorsal length of the segment.

a°. Tibia of first leg shorter than the metatarsus; posterior median

eyes small, distant more than $ their own diameter from the

posterior lateral eyes.

a7, Basal patch of spinules on metatarsus II not longer than the

distal dorsal patch on tibia IL; distal patch on tibia I occupy-

_ ing $-} of the length of the segment; basal patch on meta-

tarsus I occupying less than 3 the length of the segment;

posterior lateral eyes about 13-1? times as long as the medians

and separated from them by a little more than a diameter of

the latter. Graaff Reinet} .. .. .. .. 8S. palpiger Poc.

b7. Basal patch of spinules on metatarsus II distinctly longer

than the distal patch on the tibia (generally twice as long or

more).

* 1 ¢ from Kingwilliamstown (F. A. Pym).

+ 1 2 from Graaff Reinet.

Annals of the South African Museum.

v8.

‘

Distal patch of spinules on tibia I large, extending over

+4 of the length of the dorsal surface; metatarsus IIT

with 13-22 spines in the anterior and 22-34 in the pos-

terior band ; posterior lateral eyes much larger than the

medians. Worcester .. .. S. erythrognathus n. sp.

Distal patch of spinules on tibia I small, extending over

not more than ¢ of the length of the dorsal surface ; meta-

tarsus III with 12-21 spines in the anterior and 14-24 in

the posterior band.

a’. Posterior lateral eyes much larger than the posterior

medians; length of tibia I equalling or slightly ex-

ceeding (rarely slightly less than) the width of the

posterior row of eyes. Montagu

S. quadratimaculatus n. sp.

v9. Posterior lateral eyes small, subequal to or only slightly

larger than the posterior medians; length of tibia I

less than the width of posterior row of eyes (often

considerably less). Swellendam and Robertson Divi-

MONS 556 oo 60 ca co oo Mo MAMET I, So.

b®. Tibia of first leg slightly longer than the metatarsus; posterior

median eyes large, larger than the anterior medians and separated

by less

Willow

than 4 their own diameter from the posterior lateral eyes.

MOR 566 56 oo 5a Go oo 55 SHTICK M, Sos

b5, Basal patch of spinules on upper side of metatarsus I small, occupy-

ing only about 4-4 (rarely nearly }) of the length of the dorsal

surface.

a, Ocular area much more than 23 times as wide as long.

a™, Metatarsus IV spined along the middle below. Port Eliza-

[WW GG Go dts om oo sa do 56 So Getmcne Tm, So:

bt", Metatarsus IV without spines along the middle below (except

quite at apex).

a’. Length of tibia I subequal to or less than the width of

the ocular area ; all the setiform spines of apical tuft of

metatarsus IV crowded into a transverse row. Pear-

SOM S55 966 Go do oo oo so Sn abu Jeo.

2, Length of tibia I very distinctly exceeding the width of

the ocular area; only the inner setiform spines of apical

tuft of metatarsus IV crowded together in a transverse

row, the outer (inferior) ones being more scattered and

irregularly arranged.

a3, Patella III with a number of short stout red

spinules at apex above, similar to those on the

tibia. Umtata Se seh aie SO UCATLCUS Messe

* Several ¢ ? from Pearston (Dr. R. Broom).

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bt3, Patella III with the distal dorsal spines black and

finely pointed at apex or setiform. Kentani

S. kentanicus n. sp.

be. Ocular area only 23 times as wide as long. Kentani District

S. kolbei n. sp.

Gun. ACANTHODON Guérin.

1, ACANTHODON PECTINIPALPIS N. sp.

Types.—3 ad. 3 3 (No. 9938) from Zululand, collected by Mr.

‘W. Anderson, Director of the Geological Survey of Natal.

3 3. Colowr pale ochraceous, the legs often faintly tinged with

greenish ; abdomen deeply infuscated above, the under surface and

the lower part of the sides pale yellowish.

Carapace with a number of setiferous granules on the thoracic

-and on each side of the cephalic portion ; its length a little less than

that of the metatarsus of fourth leg, and slightly exceeding that of

the metatarsus of first leg.

Ocular area as wide as or even considerably wider than long; the

area formed by the anterior median and anterior lateral (frontal)

eyes parallel-sided or wider behind, about 14-13 times as long as

the posterior width, the laterals (frontal eyes) larger than the

medians and very close together ; posterior row of eyes procurved,

the medians small, almost or quite as far from the laterals as from

one another, their outer margins the same distance apart as those

of the anterior median eyes; the posterior lateral eyes large and

reniform.

Pedipalps.—Tibia twice as long as the patella and twice as long

as thick, with a deep excavation in distal part of infero-external

surface, the outer and part of the proximal margins of the excavation

armed with a semicircular band of stout spines, which are 2-3 rows

deep proximally but in a single row distally, except quite at the

apex ; tarsus with 1 stouter and a couple of slenderer apical spines

above ; spine of palpal organ much longer than the bulb, very thick

in the basal half, then suddenly bent and strongly attenuated from

the middle onwards, the distal part being slender and filiform, with

small sigmoid flexure at tip.

Legs.—First leg with the tibia shorter than the metatarsus and

furnished distally at the inner lower edge with a pair of large

tubercles, of which the distal one is produced into a stout, black

spur-like process, while the proximal one is short and turgid, with

sharply conical black apex; under side of tibia with 4-5 external but

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no internal spines; metatarsus almost straight or very slightly

curved, without concavity or thickening near base on inner surface,

and furnished with 1-2 internal and 3-4 external spines; tarsus

with 0-1 internal and 0-3 external spines. All the tarsi scopulate

to the base. Metatarsi not scopulate.

Total length 83-114 mm.

2. ACANTHODON SPIRICOLA N. Sp.

Types.—2 ad. 2 2? (Nos. 12413-4, one with young) and 6 nests,

found by the Rey. F. C. Kolbe under the shelter of roots in forests

near the village of Kentani, Cape Colony, in 1902.

9 ¢. Colour yellow; abdomen pallid, with the dorsal surface

infuseated ; cephalic portion of carapace slightly brown in places in

one specimen.

Carapace (measured across outer side of frontal eye-tubercle) as

long as the tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of fourth leg and as the

patella, tibia, and metatarsus of first leg.

Ocular area as long as wide, its width 2 or slightly more of the

length of the metatarsus of first leg. The area formed by the

anterior lateral and anterior median eyes wider in front than behind

and nearly twice as long as its posterior width, the median eyes

about an eye’s diameter apart; the anterior lateral eyes and the

eyes of the posterior row like those of A. kolbe: Pure. (Trans. 5. A.

Phil. Soc., v. 11, p. 354).

Legs much as in A. kolbei, but the tibia of third leg with 5-10

spines in the posterior dorsal band.

Labium with 2-4 apical teeth.

Abdomen not tuberculate above.

Total length 18 mm.; length of carapace 5:8, width 44.

Nests.—The silken tube is cylindrical, and always descends

spirally to a depth of 6-8 cm. in the manner represented in the

accompanying figure, which shows the nest in section seen with the

hinge on the left. In the deeper part the tube is gradually widened,

while at the upper end it becomes compressed and has an oval

opening. The edges of the tube-lining are spread out horizontally

on the surface of the ground, forming a flat rim about 1 mm. wide

all round, except at the middle of the hinge. The latter is broad

and situated along one of the longer sides of the oval rim. The lid,

which is D-shaped in outline, is peculiar. Its upper surface is

strongly but irregularly convex and covered with earth and a

minute green vegetable growth and often also tiny pieces of moss.

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‘The under surface is smooth and concave right wp to the edge, which

is quite sharp and fits against the outer edge of the outspread rim of

the tube.

Fic. 4.—Section through trap-door nest of 4. spiricola n. sp. (nat. size) ; a, edge of

silken lining ; bb, surface of ground.

Measurements of nest of the ? with young—Width of lid

and of rim of silken tube taken parallel to hinge 13 mm. ; width of

same taken at right angles to hinge 10; width of opening of tube

74 by 94; diameter of tube at 1 cm. from opening about 62 and

near bottom 94; thickness of lid in centre 3; width of hinge 93;

width of carapace of occupant 44.

3. ACANTHODON KENTANICUS 0. sp.

Type.—1 2 (No. 12412) with nest, found by the Rev. F. C. Kolbe

in open ground under an Acacia tree, near the village of Kentani,

Cape Colony, in 1902.

?. Colowr pale greenish ochraceous, the yellow predominating

in some parts, the green in others; carapace brown between the

two groups of eyes; abdomen pallid (damaged above).

Carapace as long as the tibia, metatarsus, and ++ of the tarsus of

fourth leg and as the patella, tibia, and + of the metatarsus of first

leg.

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Oculav area long, much longer than wide, and extending back-

wards to almost midway between its anterior margin and the middle:

of the fovea; its width subequal to the length of the metatarsus of

first leg. The area formed by the anterior lateral (frontal) and

anterior median eyes wider in front than behind and very long,

about 3 times as long as its posterior width; the median eyes.

small, about their own diameter apart; the lateral eyes much larger,.

very close together, and placed on a common tubercle, which is only

shallowly grooved along the middle above, the visual axis less hori-

zontal than in kolbei and spiricola. Posterior row of eyes with its.

posterior margin slightly procurved, the median eyes distinctly

nearer to the laterals than to one another, the laterals large, about

as far from the anterior margin of carapace as from one another.

Legs.—First leg with the tibia as long as the metatarsus and 3 of

the tarsus. Tibia of third leg with about 15 spines in the posterior

dorsal band. Legs otherwise much as in kolbev.

Labium with 2 teeth.

Total length 18 mm.; length of carapace 5°8, width 4:9; length of

ocular area 1:9.

Nest.—The tube is short (44 cm. in depth) and perfectly straight,

descending at a slight incline towards the hinge-side, as in Stasi-

mopus. It is cylindrical and wide in the deeper part, but becomes

narrower near the opening, which is only slightly oval. The lid is

flat and rather thin but not flexible, resembling that of kolbez, the

upper side being very rough and uneven, and the lower side smooth,

flat and lined with white silk. The edge of the lid closes against.

the outspread rim of the tube-lining, as in the other species.

Measurements in millimetres.—Width of lid taken parallel to

hinge 144 and at right angles to hinge 12 mm. ; average thickness of

lid 14; width of hinge 124; diameter of hole at 1 cm. from opening

9-16, near bottom 11.

4, ACANTHODON VERSICOLOR N. sp.

Type.—1 ¢ (No. 12001) found by Mr. D. L. Patrick on Baviaan

Kopje, three miles east of Umtali, Mashonaland, in June, 1902.

?. Colowr.—Carapace deep brown, paler mesially behind ;

cheliceree reddish black; legs deep brown, the tibizw, metatarsi, and

tarsi of the 2 anterior pairs and the tibia and tarsus of the pedi-

palps reddish to reddish black, dark, especially at the sides ; femora

of all the legs and of the pedipalps with the under surface and the

sides pale yellowish, contrasting sharply with the dark brown colour

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of the upper surface of the femora and of the under surface of the

trochanters and patellz ; abdomen blackish, the under side paler.

Carapace as long as the tibia, metatarsus, and 1 of the tarsus of

fourth leg.

Ocular area wider than long, its width 2 of the length of the first

metatarsus. Area formed by the frontal eyes and the anterior

median eyes of the posterior group parallel-sided and about 14 times

as long as wide behind; the frontal eyes about 4 an eye’s diameter

apart, with the visual axis inclined upwards at an angle of about

45°; anterior median eyes of the posterior group much more than an

eye’s diameter apart. Posterior row of eyes with its hind margin

straight, the median eyes small, much nearer to the laterals than to

one another, their outer margins much further apart than those of

the anterior median eyes; posterior lateral eyes large, their dis-

tance from the anterior margin of the carapace subequal to their

distance from the posterior median eye of the other side.

Pedipalps spined as in Gorgyrella namaquensis (Trans. 8. A. Phil.

Soe., v. 11, p. 351).

Legs.—Tibia of first leg as long as the metatarsus and about 4 of

the tarsus. Tibia of second leg with only 3 external spines or spini-

form sete. Patella of third leq with about 4 stout spines overhang-

ing the upper posterior part of the distal edge. All the ¢arsz spined

below.

Total length 28 mm. ; length of carapace 11; length of metatarsus

of first leg 33.

5. ACANTHODON FRYI Nn. sp.

Type.—1 ¢ (No. 12756) found by Mr. Harold A. Fry at Johannes-

burg, Transvaal, between December, 1902, and March, 1903.

@. Colowr.—Carapace brown, paler mesially behind ; chelicere

dark reddish ; legs brown, the tibiw, metatarsi, and tarsi of the 2

anterior pairs and the tibia and tarsus of the pedipalps darker ;

abdomen black, the under side paler.

Carapace as long as the patella, tibia, and 4 the metatarsus of first

leg, but slightly shorter than the tibia and metatarsus of fourth leg.

Ocular area wider than long, its width only very slightly less than

the length of the metatarsus of first leg. Area formed by the frontal

eyes and the anterior median eyes of the posterior group almost

parallel-sided (only very slightly wider in front) and about twice as

long as wide behind; the frontal eyes large, oval, nearly 4 a long

diameter apart and looking slightly upwards, the visual axes cutting

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nearly at right angles, the common tubercle broadly grooved above.

Posterior lateral eyes long, reniform, their anterior margins in a line

with the posterior margins of the anterior median eyes and their

posterior margins in a line with those of the posterior median eyes,

their distance from the anterior margin of the carapace subequal to

their distance from either median eye of the other side; the 4

median eyes forming a rectangle which is somewhat broader than

long, the anterior medians small, much more than a diameter apart,

the posterior medians ovate and a little shorter, their distance

from the laterals about 4 more than their distance from one

another.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg as long as the metatarsus and 4 of the

tarsus. Tibia of second leg with about 5 external spines or spini-

form sete. Patella of third leg with 1-3 apical spines overhanging

the upper posterior part of the distal edge and with a single spine

nearer the middle of posterior upper surface (besides the anterior

band). All the tarsi spined below.

Total length 35 mm. ; length of carapace 12; length of metatarsus

of first leg 4.

Gren. GALEOSOMA n. g.

Upper part of abdomen with the cuticula very thick, hard and

inflexible, forming a symmetrical oval piece of armour encasing the

dorsal and upper part of the lateral surfaces and completely covering

the spinners from above; under side of abdomen soft-skinned, pro-

vided with a large glabrous scar on each side at a little distance in

front of the larger spinners. Labium transverse, strongly truncated.

Other characters as in Acanthodon.

Type: Galeosoma scutatum n. sp.

GALEOSOMA SCUTATUM 0. sp.

Type.—1 ¢? (No. 9733) from Luipaards Vlei, Krugersdorp, Trans-

vaal (October or November, 1901; W. Watson).

?. Colour pale ochraceous, the carapace infuscated at the lateral

margins of the thoracic portion, the cephalic portion also darkened

laterally and at the fovea; chelicere light brown; soft skin of

abdomen pale yellowish, the hardened dorsal shield deep black to

reddish black.

Carapace (measured across the edge of the ocular area) consider-

ably shorter than the patella, tibia, and metatarsus of first leg.

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Ocular area longer than wide, the area formed by the anterior

median eyes of the posterior group and the frontal pair widest in

front and 12 times as long as its width behind; frontal eyes large,

much larger than the anterior median eyes. Posterior row with its

posterior margin almost straight, the median eyes small, rotund,

slightly further from the lateral eyes than from one another; the

posterior lateral eyes large, strongly reniform.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg equal to the metatarsus and tarsus in

length.

Abdomen.—Dorsal shield regularly oval (when seen from above),

its length about 14 times its width and about 12 times the median

length of the carapace ; its lower edge convex in outline, when seen

from the side, and quite entire behind and in front, the posterior

margin thickened; surface of shield coarsely punctate, shiny,

glabrous (except at the margin, which is hairy). Vertical anterior

part of dorsal surface of abdomen not covered by the shield, the

uncovered part slightly exceeding half the shield in length. Pos-

terior scars on under side of abdomen obliquely transverse, broader

towards the sides of the body and with the posterior margins

sinuated in the middle,

Labium with two rows of teeth at apex (7, 2). Coxe of pedipalps

toothed over the greater part of the under surface, the teeth very

minute posteriorly but larger at the anterior border, especially at

each end of the segment.

Total length 164 mm.; length of carapace (measured across edge of

ocular area) 52, width 52; length of abdominal shield 94, width 6°8.

Grn. PAROMOSTOLA n.g.

Intermediate between Homostola Sim., and Hermachastes Poc.,

agreeing with the former in having the fovea of the carapace strongly

procurved, the chelicere provided with two well-developed rows of

teeth below (the outer row reaching nearly to the distal end of the

groove and composed of 5 or 6 strong teeth), the inner (5-6) spines

of the rastellum very stout, strong, and rather blunt, and the labium

less than twice as wide as long and narrowed a little in front. Pos-

terior sternal sagilla moderately large, about as large as in Homostola

but much more lateral, their distance apart slightly exceeding twice

their length and their distance from the lateral margin slightly less

than their length. Inferior claw of tarsi well developed.

Type.—Paromostola abernethyi n. sp.

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PAROMOSTOLA ABERNETHYI N. Sp.

Type.—1 ¢ or juv. (No. 12704) from the Kentani District, Cape

Colony, collected by Mr. H. P. Abernethy, and presented by the

Rev. F. C. Kolbe.

Carapace as long as the tibia and 2 of the metatarsus of fourth leg

and subequal to the tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of first leg; colour

pale yellowish, the thoracic portion and the lateral borders and

median band of the cephalic portion lightly infuscated. Ocular area

considerably more than twice as wide as long.

Abdomen and spinners as in Homostola zebrina Pure.

Legs pale yellowish. Tarsi I and II scopulate to base. Meta-

tarsus I scopulate in distal half; II with a few scopular hairs

distally ; I and II with 1-2 inner and 3 outer stout spines below.

Tibie I and II with 2-3 long, slender outer spines below (none at

apex). Patella III with an anterior row of 3 strong spines. Claws

with 2-3 longish teeth at the base, those of the anterior legs also

with 2-3 minute teeth at the middle, which are apparently absent in

the outer claw of the posterior leg.

Labium with 9 teeth in 3 rows. Coxe of pedipalps with many

teeth at the base

Total length 134 mm.

Gren. HERMACHASTES Poe.

1. HERMACHASTES TRICALCARATUS Na. Sp.

Types.—4 ad. ¢ ¢ (No. 11724) from Steenbergs Cove, 1 ad. g

(No. 11996) from Stompneus, and 3 ad. g ¢ (No. 11723) from Sol-

daten Post, all at St. Helena Bay, Malmesbury Division, collected by

Mr. J. E. C. Goold in May, 1902.

3 3. Colour pale ochraceous; carapace with faint greenish or

fuscous patches radiating inwards from the margins, the cephalic

portion ochraceous, with a dark stripe along middle and one at each

lateral margin; abdomen with the median black or blackish brown

stripe abbreviated posteriorly and widened anteriorly into a large

patch and flanked on each side by a row of short, obliquely trans-

verse, similarly coloured stripes, which do not unite with the median

stripe ; under surface of abdomen with a dark spot a little in front of

the larger spinners, the sides with a larger spot just above these

spinners but otherwise without spots or stripes ; distal part of first

leg reddish.

Labium with 0-4 minute teeth in front. Coxe of pedipalps gene-

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rally with a group of minute teeth (up to 20) at the base, rarely

almost muticous.

Posterior spinners with the apical segment short and scarcely or

slightly longer than 4 the length of the penultimate segment

(measured below).

Pedipalps.—Spine of palpal organ shorter than the bulb, curved

and moderately slender (much slenderer than in collinws and nearly

as in lightfoott).

Legs.—Tarsi muticous. Metatarsus I rather strongly curved; the

under side strongly concave in the proximal half, straight in the

distal half, with 2 (sometimes 1) inner and 3 (sometimes 2 or 4)

outer spines; the inner surface besides with 2 (sometimes 3) large,

very strong, curved spines near the middle, a smaller spine near the

apex and 1-2 (rarely 0) mesial ones along the upper edge; the outer

surface with 1-2 additional spines, and the dorsal surface often with

a mesial spine. Tibia I stout, its length along upper side about

91-91 times its height at distal end, where it is considerably

thickened below; the distal tubercle strong, bearing 2 very stout,

more or less pointed spurs, of which the outer one is a little narrower

and longer than the very broad inner one but much stouter than the

outer apical spine of the under surface, the tubercle conically pro-

duced between the 2 spurs; proximal tubercle bearing a very stout

pointed spur with distinct sigmoid curvature; tibia numerously

spined and generally with a mesial and a basal spine along inferior

inner edge. Tarsi I-III scopulate to the base, the scopulee divided

by a narrow band of fine sete in I and II and by a band of longer

sete in IIT; metatarsus I rather thinly scopulate in distal half only,

II in distal three-fourths only, III without scopula or at most with a

few distal scopular hairs.

Total length 11-14 mm.

2. HERMACHASTES GOOLDI N. sp.

Types.—3 ad. ¢ § (No. 11706) from Stompneus, St. Helena Bay,

Malmesbury Division, collected by Mr. J. E. C. Goold in May, 1902.

3. Closely resembling the foregoing species but slightly

smaller.

Colour.—Transverse stripes on abdomen meeting or nearly meet-

ing in the median line above.

Legs.—Metatarsus of first leg with 1-2 inner and 3 outer spines

below ; its inner surface besides with 1, sometimes 2, large curved

spines near the middle, a smaller spine near the apex, and generally

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also a mesial one along the upper edge; the outer surface with 1-2

additional spines, and the dorsal surface generally with a mesial

spine. Tvbia of first leg slenderer than in the foregoing species and

less thickened below distally, its length along dorsal side nearly three

times its height at distal end; the distal tubercle bearing a broad,

stout, pointed, external spur and, at its base, a longer stout spine

which is only slightly or scarcely at all stouter than the apical outer

spine of the under surface; proximal tubercle more distal than in

the foregoing species, and bearing a stout spur with sigmoid curva-

ture. Metatarsus of first leg scopulate in distal two-thirds, that of

third leg with small distal patch of scopular hairs, sometimes ex-

tending over a third of the length of the segment.

Total length 104-114 mm.

3. HERMACHASTES SCHREINERI DN. sp.

Specimens.—Over a hundred females and young (types ; No. 11793,

&c.) from Hanover, collected between September, 1901, and March,

1902, by Mr. 8. C. Cronwright Schreiner, and also a few from the

neighbouring farms Vlagkop and Poortjesfontein, 5-6 miles north of

Hanover. No adult % was found.

2 @ (Adult). Colowr.—Carapace pale yellowish or greenish yellow,

weakly infuscated in places, particularly along the lateral margins of

the cephalic portion ; femora of legs pale greenish yellow, the remain-

ing distal segments yellow, the patelle and tibiz often bright yellow;

abdomen pale yellowish, the upper surface brownish black in anterior

half, the posterior part strongly marked with the usual tree-pattern,

the posterior bars not reaching the ventral surface in front of the

spinners ; ventral surface of body pale yellowish, the abdomen

generally with a brownish black spot in front of each lateral

spinner.

Carapace a little or considerably longer than the fourth metatarsus

and tarsus, but subequal to or a littie shorter than the first tibia and

metatarsus.

Chelicere with the inferior margin (measured along the groove)

shorter than the sternum; rastellum strong.

Labium with 5-8 apical teeth in 1-2 rows. Coxe of pedipalps with

16-30 basal teeth.

Legs.—Tibia I equal to the metatarsus in length. Tarsi not spined,

the 2 anterior ones scopulate. Metatars: I and II with 1-2 inner

and 3 outer (the apical sometimes double) strong spines below,

scopulate in distal part. Jvbie I and II without apical spines,

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but with 0-2 long setiform outer spines below; IV spined only

below and on the inner surface above. Claws with 3-5 long teeth

in the basal row furthest from the axis of the leg; the row nearest

this axis composed of 5-6 teeth in the anterior legs, but absent or

represented by 1-2 minute rudiments on the outer claw and by 1-3

minute teeth on the inner claw of the fourth leg.

Posterior spinners with the apical segment short and subhemi-

spherical, only about 4-32 as long as the penultimate segment.

Total length of a large @ 234 mm.; length of carapace 734,

width 6; length of tibia of first leg 4.

Nests.—Mr. Schreiner, who dug up large numbers of the nests,

sent me a couple with the surrounding earth, and the following

description is taken from his notes * :—

The spider constructs its tubular hole in firm soil, avoiding loose

sand and choosing sometimes bare ground and sometimes grass or

the middle of a small bush. The hole is about 4—6 inches (10-15 cm.)

deep, generally fairly straight and lined inside with web.{ At the

surface the hole is surmounted by a turret or tube composed of grass,

small sticks, seeds, &c., bound together by webbing and projecting

for a short distance (generally 4-1 inch) above the level of the sur-

rounding ground. The top edge of the turret is irregular. Some-

times the hole has a forked entrance and sometimes a blind side

chamber is present, but this is apparently exceptional. The hole is

open at the top, although occasionally Mr. Schreiner observed a fine

film of web stretched across the base of the turret.

I have subsequently observed similar nests at the Hot Baths,

Montagu, made by the ? of H. validus Pure.

4. HERMACHASTES FLAVOPUNCTATUS Nh. sp.

Types.—2 ex. (No. 12695) from the Hogsback, Amatola Range,.

found in a rotten tree-trunk by Mr. F. A. Pym in 1902.

@ @. Colour olivaceous, with ochraceous streaks; chelicerze

nearly black ; legs fusco-olivaceous, but the patella and the naked

strips on the tibize and metatarsi ochraceous; abdomen deep pur-

plish black, with numerous, conspicuous, roundish, pale yellow

spots above and at the sides, but without trace of the tree-pattern ;

* An account of these nests has already been published by Mr. Schreiner in a.

very interesting paper, entitled ‘Some Arachnids at Hanover, Cape Colony ”

(Popular Science Monthly, v. 62, p. 152, Dec., 1902).

+ In the specimens sent me the hole is slightly inclined to the perpendicular.

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under side of abdomen pale yellowish, mottled with black; sternum

and coxe pale to reddish ochraceous.

Carapace distinctly longer than the fourth metatarsus and tarsus,

and as long as the tibia, metatarsus, and ? of the tarsus of first leg.

Chelicere with the inferior margin (measured along the groove)

considerably shorter than the sternum; rastellum well developed,

composed of a row of stout spines extending over whole anterior

margin, the outer spines acuminate at apex.

Labium with about 28-32 teeth in 3-4 rows occupying almost

the entire anterior half. Core of pedipalps with 38-52 teeth at

base.

Posterior sternal sagilla larger than usual, their distance apart a

little less or a little more than twice their own length.

Legs.—Tibia I very distinctly longer than the metatarsus. Tarsi

not spined, the 2 anterior pairs scopulate. Metatarsus I with 0-1

inner apical and 3 outer spines, scopulate over 2 of its length; II

with 1-2 inner and 3 outer spines, scopulate in distal part only.

Tibie I and II unspined below or with 1-3 outer, often setiform

spines (including sometimes an apical spine). Claws with 3-4 teeth

in the basal row furthest from the axis of the leg in the anterior and

9-3 in the fourth pair of legs; the more distal row nearest the axis

composed of 2-3 teeth in all the legs.

Posterior spinners with the apical segment conical, subequal to the

penultimate in length.

Total length 17 mm.; length of carapace 6, width 44.

Gen. HERMACHA E. Sim.

1. HERMACHA BREVICAUDA 0. sp.

Types.—2 ad. 3 g (Nos. 4453 and 8898) from the slopes on the

outskirts of Capetown at the foot of Devils Mountain (July; F.

Treleaven and W. fF. P.).

3 8. Colowr.—Carapace dark mahogany brown, with pale silky

hairs ; cheliceree nearly black, with pale hairs and black bristles ;

legs ochraceous, except the femora and coxe, which are pale

olivaceous or yellowish olivaceous; abdomen pale yellowish below,

the upper surface and sides black, speckled with numerous, small,

pale yellowish, isolated or confluent spots, and with some larger

yellow markings on dorsal surface, the black forming distinct or

indistinct oblique lines behind on each side and a longitudinal

median one.

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Carapace as long as the metatarsus and 2 of the tarsus of fourth

leg and as the tibia and metatarsus of first leg, but much longer than

the metatarsus and tarsus, Anterior row of eyes strongly procurved,

the anterior margins of the median eyes (viewed from above) in

a line with the centres of the large lateral eyes; posterior row

slightly recurved, the median eyes subtriangular, longitudinal, smaller

than the anterior medians and posterior laterals; the latter eyes

elongate, as long as or longer than the anterior medians but much

smaller than the anterior laterals and distant from these about 4-2

of their own length.

Labium muticous. Core of pedipalps with a large, numerously

toothed area at base.

Posterior spinners short, much shorter than the sternum and

about as long as the genital segment on under side of abdomen, the

distal segment a little longer than the penultimate one (seen from

below), these 2 segments together subequal to the stout basal

segment; anterior spinners short, only about their own diameter

apart.

Fiastellum composed mostly of rather stout setiform spines.

Pedipalps much as in H. lanata Pure. (Trans. §. A. Phil. Soc.,

v. 11, p. 374); the process of the palpal organ reaching nearly or

quite to the base of the tibia.

Legs much as in lanata, but some of the spines absent. Meta-

tarsus I with 0-2 straight spines along middle of inner surface.

Tibia I very robust, slightly longer than the metatarsus, furnished

with 0-1 internal spine below and only 1-2 nearer the upper edge,

the outer surface without any superior spines. Metatarsus I scopu-

late in the distal two-thirds, II scopulate to the base, these scopul

entire; III with thin scopula in distal third; IV with a few

scopular hairs distally.

Total length 144 mm.; length of carapace 64; length of metatarsus

of first leg 3.

2. HERMACHA EVANESCENS 0. sp.

Specumens.—Over 40 females and young (types; No. 11833, &c.),

from Hanover ; also 14 from Vlagkop, 5-6 miles north of Hanover

1 from Eierfontein, 8-9 miles west of Hanover, and 9 from Poortjes-

fontein, 5-6 miles north of Hanover (the latter collected by Mr. T.

Neser).

2 @ (Adult).—Colour of legs and carapace reddish yellow to

greenish yellow, the carapace covered with fine yellow or olivaceous

hairs ; abdomen black above and on upper part of the sides, more or

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less speckled, at least on the sides and posteriorly, with pale yellowish,

so as to form the usual tree-pattern ; under surface of abdomen and

lower part of the sides pale yellowish and provided with a black spot

on each side posteriorly ; sternum and cox reddish yellow or the

posterior coxe pale ochraceous.

Carapace equal to or even considerably shorter than the fourth

metatarsus and tarsus and as long as the tibia, metatarsus, and

41-1 of the tarsus of first leg. Fovea always distinctly procurved.

Posterior lateral eyes equal to or smaller than the anterior laterals

and almost touching or a little remote from them ; posterior median

eyes mostly small, subrotund and distant about 4 their own diameter

from the laterals or almost touching them.

Fastellum composed of stout setze, intermingled with fine ones.

Labiwm with 0-2 apical teeth. Coxe of pedipalps with a narrow

strip of about 30-45 teeth at base.

Legs.—Tibia I subequal to or slightly longer than the metatarsus,

with 1-3 apical and 0-2 other outer spines or spiniform sete below

and 0-1 at inner upper edge. Metatarsus I unspined or with 1-3

spines near base below (sometimes with an apical one as well) ;

I and II densely and broadly scopulate to the base, III sparsely

scopulate beyond the middle, [TV with a few scopular hairs (some-

times almost absent) at apex. Tarsi I and II with dense undivided

scopula, III with rather dense scopula, divided by a broad band of

sete, IV broadly setose below but scopulate on each side. Inferior

claw of anterior legs rather small, hidden amongst the distal hairs.

Posterior spinners a little shorter or longer than the sternum but

not exceeding the sternum and labium together; apical segment

about +-4 longer than the penultimate segment and a little shorter

than the basal segment.

Total length 30 mm.; length of carapace 104, width 8; length of

tibia of first leg 42.

Nests.—According to Mr. Schreiner * the nests consist merely of

a deep web-lined hole, and are built in hard brack ground, which

cakes like a brick when dry. The holes are fairly straight and vary

like those of Hermachastes schreinert n. sp., but are deeper. They

differ from those of the latter species, however, in never having a rim

of sticks, &c., round the opening, which is flush with the surrounding

surface.

* Mr. Schreiner has already published some of his observations on these nests in

the Popular Science Monthly, v. 62, p. 153, December, 1902.

New South African Spiders. 101

Faminy BARYCHELIDA..

Gren. HARPACTIRELLA * Pure.

1. HARPACTIRELLA HELEN 0. sp.

Specimens.—2 ad. § 3 (types; No. 11710) and many adult ? ¢

and young from Stompneus, St. Helena Bay, Malmesbury Division,

collected by Mr. J. E. C. Goold in May and June, 1902. The adult

3 3 were found in May.

3 3. Colour as in H. treleavent Pure. (Trans. 8. A. Phil. Soc.,

v. 11, p. 341, 1902), except that the 2 spots between the posterior

lung-books are absent; under side of sternum and coxe pale

ochraceous to greenish yellow.

Carapace as long as the metatarsus and } of the tarsus of fourth

leg and as the tibia and 2 of the metatarsus of first leg.

Rastellum composed of fine sete.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg 4 times as long as high in the middle,

very distinctly longer than the metatarsus and also than the distance

from the centre of the fovea to the anterior margin of the carapace ;

the metatarsus lightly but distinctly curved, its length almost equal

to the distance from the fovea to the anterior margin of the ocular

tubercle. Spines of legs as in treleaveni. First leg (including the

coxa) much shorter than the fourth (by nearly the length of the

fourth tarsus). Scopule as in treleavent.

Pedipalps.—Palpal organ with the spine slender and terete, a little

longer than the bulb, the distal part filiform and curving outwards,

Posterior spinners longish, the apical segment (seen from below)

* This genus was originally placed in the Theraphosid@ on account of the feeble-

ness of the rastellum, which generally consists of rather slender sete in the ¢, but.

of stiff and spiniform setz and frequently also some slender spines in the ¢. It is

closely related to Brachionopus Poe., from which it differs in the stronger deyelop-

ment of the scopule of the 2 anterior pairs of legs. These scopule in the ? are

dense and broad, extending at least half-way up the sides on the tarsus and distal

half of the metatarsus, so as to be plainly visible from above. They are quite entire,

and that on the metatarsus is quite as long as that on the tarsus. The scopula of

the fourth tarsus is imperfectly or more or less distinctly divided along the middle

by a row or narrow band of fine black sete in some of the species (including the

type), but in domicola n. sp. it is divided by a broader band; that of the third

metatarsus may be finely divided or entire. The labium bears from 10 to over 30

apical granules in 2-4 rows, and the maxille have a large patch at the base. The

sternum is oval, and 1-4 longer than broad. The claws of the legs are not toothed

(in the first pair). The distance of the ocular tubercle from the anterior margin

varies from + to over 4 of its length.

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subequal to the penultimate segment and to the ocular tubercle in

length.

Sternum as in treleavent.

@@. Closely resembling treleavenit in most respects, except that

the ocular tubercle is slightly further back, being about + of its

length from the anterior margin of carapace. Carapace subequal to

or a little shorter than the metatarsus and tarsus of fourth leg and

equal to the tibia, metatarsus, and 4-3 of the tarsus of first leg.

Tibia of first leg relatively longer than in treleavemi, its length about

23 times its height in the middle. First leg (including coxa) much

shorter than the fourth (by almost the whole length or by more than

the length of the tarsus of the latter).

The carapace has more yellowish hairs, which frequently form

radiating stripes, while the younger individuals are as a rule much

darker than those of treleaveni.

Total length g g¢ 14-17, large 9? 22 mm.

2. HARPACTIRELLA MAGNA D0. Sp.

Type-—1 @ (No. 5248) from Dunbrody, on the Sundays River,

Uitenhage Division (Rev. J. A. O’Newl, 1899).

Closely allied to H. lightfoott Pure.

@. Colour of carapace and limbs brownish yellow, the 3 distal

segments of the legs more yellowish; hairs on carapace pale

yellowish, intermingled with very few black ones; those on the

limbs greyish yellow; abdomen pale yellowish, the dorsal surface

and upper part of the sides strongly marked with black reticulations

and provided with the usual tree-pattern posteriorly, the hairs on the

paler parts pale golden yellow ; ventral surface without conspicuous

spots ; sternum brown.

Carapace subequal to the metatarsus and tarsus of fourth leg, and

only slightly longer than the tibia and metatarsus of first leg.

Ocular tubercle about } of its length from anterior margin.

Rastellwm composed of setze, but with some stout truncated spines

(broken sete ?) at inner part.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg slightly less than 3 times as long as high

in the middle, its length slightly exceeding that of the metatarsus

and considerably less than the distance from the fovea to the hind

margin of the ocular tubercle. First leg (including coxa) shorter

than the fourth leg (by 4 the fourth metatarsus). Legs spined much

as in treleavent. Scopule of. fourth tarsus and third metatarsus

practically entire.

New South African Spiders. 103

Labium with over 30 teeth in 3-4 rows.

Apical segment of spinners long and terete, about 4 longer than

the ocular tubercle and 4—? longer than the penultimate segment.

Total length 35 mm.; length of carapace 93, width 74; length of

first leg 294.

3. HARPACTIRELLA DOMICOLA 0. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 1 2 (type; No. 8897) found on Bonnie Vale Farm

at Bushmans Drift, on the Breede River, Swellendam Division (near

Ashton), by Mr. Charles Groom, in 1901.

?. Colour of carapace brown, the limbs more yellowish, the hairs

on the former mostly black but the longer ones pallid and radiate ;

abdomen pale fulvous, with the usual black reticulations and pattern

above, the ventral surface with faint median black line and with a

black spot on inner side of each posterior lung-book.

Carapace a little longer than the metatarsus and tarsus of fourth

leg, and as long as the tibia, metatarsus, and # of the tarsus of first

leg. Ocular tubercle distant at least 4 of its length from the anterior

margin ; the posterior median eyes much smaller than the anterior

medians or posterior laterals.

Rastellum feeble, composed of long sete.

Legs.—Tibia of first leg about 24 times as long as high, its length

a little exceeding that of the metatarsus and considerably less than

the distance from the fovea to the hind margin of the ocular tubercle.

First leg much shorter than the fourth (by the length of the fourth

tarsus). Scopula of third metatarsus practically entire; that of

fourth tarsus very conspicuously divided (except perhaps quite dis-

tally) by a thick band of long black sets. Spines as in ¢releavent,

except on metatarsus II, which has an inferior apical spine.

Labiwm with 12 apical teeth in 2 rows.

Apical segment of spinners conical, subequal to the penultimate

segment in length but slightly shorter than the ocular tubercle.

Total length 25 mm. ; length of carapace 9, width 63; length of

first leg 25.

(b) 1 2 (No. 12393) found in a trap-door nest at Ashton by myself

in November, 1902. This specimen has all the metatarsi spined at

the apex, but the under surface of the abdomen is without black

markings.

Nest a cylindrical tube, 17-18 cm. (7 inches) deep, widening

slightly towards the opening but not funnel-shaped, strongly inclined

and descending towards the hinge-side at an angle of nearly 45°,

much as in Gorgyrella (Ann. S. A. Mus., v. 3, pl. 1, fig. 3). Lid

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flat, oval in outline, but broadly truncated at the hinge, its diameter

taken at right angles to the hinge equal to the diameter taken parallel

to the hinge (each being 19 mm.).

The under side of the lid is lined with white silk, but the upper

surface is rough and covered with clay. At the edge the lid broadly

overlaps the edge of the hole. Width of hinge about 13 mm. ;

diameter of hole at 1 cm. from opening 13 mm.; width of hole at.

opening 15 mm.; width of carapace of occupant 55 mm.

Synoptic Table of the Adult Females of HARPACTIRELLA.

a. Apical segment of spinners (measured below) 3-3 longer than the penultimate

segment, and longer than the ocular tubercle.

at. Colour brownish yellow. First leg decidedly shorter than the fourth (by 4

the fourth tarsus). Uitenhage Division .. .. .. .. H. magnan. sp.

bt. Colour blackish brown. First leg subequal to the fourth or only slightly

shorter (by at most + of the fourth tarsus). Paarl Division

H. lightfooti * Pure.

b. Apical segment of spinners subequal to the penultimate segment in length, and

shorter than, or at most only slightly longer than, the ocular tubercle.

a2. Scopula of fourth tarsus divided along the middle by a very conspicuous and

rather thick band of longish black sete. Metatarsus II spined at apex.

Posterior median eyes very small, much smaller than the laterals or the

anterior medians. Robertson and Swellendam Divisions

H. domicola n. sp.

b?. Scopula of fourth tarsus entire or divided by a fine band or row of slender

sete. Metatarsus II not spined. Posterior median eyes generally only

slightly smaller than the anterior medians.

a3, Carapace as long as the tibia and metatarsus of first leg. Scopula of

fourth tarsus undivided. Prince Albert... .. .. H. karrooica Pure.

b3, Carapace as long as tibia, metatarsus, and 2—? of the tarsus of first leg.

Scopula of fourth tarsus imperfectly or more or less distinctly divided by

a line of fine sete.

a+. Ocular tubercle further forward, about 4+ of its length from the

anterior margin. First leg shorter than the fourth by 4-4 of the

fourth tarsus. Cape Peninsula... .. .. .. 4H. treleaveni Pure.

b+. Ocular tubercle further back, about 4 of its length from the anterior

margin. First leg shorter than the fourth by almost the whole

length or more than the length of the fourth tarsus. Malmesbury

Division Bile iss) st} tes corey | sus Uetou eet Cum ge eLenceen SDs

* FH. lightfooti may possibly be the ¢ of longipes Purc., to which it is closely

related. The female specimens doubtfully referred to longipes in a previous paper

(Trans. 8. A. Phil. Soc., v. 11, p. 344) do not really belong to that species.

New South African Spiders. 105

GEN. BRACHIONOPUS Poe.

1. BRACHIONOPUS ANNULATUS N. Sp.

Type.—I| ex. (No. 12752) from Kentani, Transkei (Miss A. Pegler).

Colour brown, the legs lightly infuseated ; hairs on carapace mostly

greenish black, tipped with orange ; abdomen covered with orange-

tipped hairs intermingled with black ones, the latter forming the

usual pattern of stripes above, the under side spotted with black and

with a median black line; legs yellowish red at the apex and base

of the joints; sternum reddish yellow, with faint median darker

stripe.

Carapace as long as the patella, tibia, and slightly over 4 the

metatarsus of first leg, but shorter than the iourth tibia and meta-

tarsus. Hyes much as in B. robustus Poe.

Legs.—Tarsi all with the scopula distinctly divided by a band of

black sets. Metatarsi I and II with the scopula confined (except at

the tip) to the under side of the segment, and provided with 3-4

black setae along the middle but not distinctly divided, the length of

the scopula very much less than that of the tarsus; III and IV with

a row or band of setz along the middle ; I and II with a single spine

at apex ; III and IV with several apical, besides some other spines.

Tibie I and II sometimes with an apical spine.

Labium with a single apical tooth. Core of pedipalps with a

small basal patch of 7-17 teeth.

Spurners very short, the 2 apical segments subequal in length and

together equalling the basal segment.

Total length 134 mm.

2. BRACHIONOPUS TRISTIS N. Sp.

Type.—1 ex. (No. 4197) from Barberton, Transvaal (J. P. Cregoe,

December, 1897).

? or guv. Colour brown; hairs on carapace pale yellowish, mostly

darkened at base; abdomen covered with yellowish hairs mingled

with brown ones, the under side pale yellowish, with stripes of dark

brown hairs; sternum reddish yellow, with faint median infuscate

stripe; legs nearly concolorous.

Carapace as long as the patella, tibia, and 3 of the metatarsus of

first leg.

Legs, spinners, and eyes much as in the previous species.

Labiwm with 8 apical teeth. Coxe of pedipalps with about 26-28

teeth at base.

Total length 134 mm.

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Famiry DIPLURIDA.

Gen. THELECHORIS Karsch.

THELECHORIS AUSTRALIS N. sp.

Type.—1 2? (No. 8899) from Dunbrody, on the Sundays River,

Uitenhage Division (Rev. J. A. O’ Neil).

?. Colour yellowish brown; carapace with appressed, pale

yellowish, silky hairs, and narrow radiating dark stripes, the

lateral and anterior margins also narrowly infuscated, the ocular

tubercle black ; chelicerz, the tibia and tarsus of pedipalp and the

tibia and metatarsus of first leg dark reddish brown ; labium and

cox of pedipalps broadly white along anterior margin; abdomen

densely covered with dark olive-brown hairs; posterior spinners.

black-ringed at apex of basal and mesial segments; the anterior

spinners pale yellowish.

Carapace slightly longer than the tibia, metatarsus, and 4 the

tarsus of first leg, and as long as the metatarsus and 2 of the tarsus

of fourth leg. Ocular area about ‘twice as wide as long. Anterior

row of eyes (viewed from above) distinctly procurved, the lateral eyes

large, oval; posterior row straight, the median eyes subtriangular,

longitudinal, about as long as the anterior medians and very close to

the posterior laterals ; the latter eyes oblong, much larger than the

medians, but considerably smaller than the anterior laterals and very

close to these.

Chelicere with a single row of teeth below. Labiwm muticous.

Legs IV, III, I, Il. Metatarsus I considerably longer than the

tibia. All the tarsi, metatarsi, and tibiz spined.

Median length of sternwm slightly exceeding its width.

Posterior spinners about 3 times the median length of sternum,

the 2 basal segments subequal in length (measured below), the distal

segment long, flexible, subannulated at least near apex, its length

slightly less than that of the 2 basal segments together, but almost

14 times the median length of the sternum.

Total length 16 mm.; length of carapace 6, width 5; length of

metatarsus of first leg 23; length of spinners 9+.

GEN. EVAGRUS Auss.

EVAGRUS ATROPURPUREUS 0. sp.

Type.—1 ex. (2 or young; No. 3906) found by me under a stone

at the village of Prince Albert in September, 1896.

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Colour brownish ochraceous to pale ochraceous ; carapace with

short, radiating, infuscate stripes and infuscate lateral borders ;

cheliceree brownish ; femora of legs more or less infuseated, striped

longitudinally with pale ochraceous, the inner and under surfaces of

the 2 anterior pairs pale yellowish, distal segments of first 2 pairs

also more or less browned; coxe, sternum, &c., pale ochraceous ;

abdomen dark purplish, the under side along the middle, the lung-

opercula and the anterior spinners pale yellowish ; posterior spinners

darkened, the apical segment paler, white distally, the 2 basal seg-

ments black-ringed at the apex, the mesial segment and the distal

half of the basal segment thickly spotted with white on ventral

surface.

Carapace oval, considerably longer than wide. Posterior row of

eyes with the hind margin in a slightly procurved line (viewed from

above), the lateral eyes large, much larger than the medians and

more than their own length distant from the anterior margin of

carapace ; posterior row straight, the median eyes somewhat oval,

slightly larger than the anterior medians and very close to the

posterior lateral eyes; the latter as large as the anterior laterals and

almost touching them.

Legs I and II with the femora, patelle, and tibiz very stout, com-

pressed. Tarsi with 1-2 spines below but not scopulate. Metatarsus

I with 2 rows of 3 stout spines each below and another row of 3

spines along inner surface. Tibia I with 3 apical inferior spines,

one outer inferior spine near middle, and 2 inner dorsal spines.

Patella I not spined.

Sternwm longish oval. Labiwm considerably wider than long,

muticous like the coxze of pedipalps.

Posterior spinners stout and short, half as long as the abdomen

and about equal to the sternum and half the labium; the basal

segment longest, the distal segment subequal to the mesial segment

and slenderer.

Total length 8 mm.; length of carapace 34, width 24; length of

metatarsus of first leg 1; length of posterior spinners 2.

Faminy LYCOSIDA.

Up to the present some 32 species of Lycosid@ have been described

or recorded from South Africa, but some of these are certainly

synonyms and others possibly wrongly identified. The number of

good species are represented approximately as follows : Anomalomma

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(2 spp.), Artoria (1 sp.), Evippa (1 sp.), Lycosa (15 spp.), Ocyale

(2 spp.), Pardosa (2 spp.), Zenonina (1 sp.), and 2 spp. of Lycosa

which I now place in a new genus (Pterartoria), making a total of

26 species. To these I now add 33 new species and 1 new variety,

viz., Anomalomma (2 n. spp.), Artoria (1 n. sp.), Lycosa (12 n. spp.),

Pardosa (7 n. spp. and 1 n. var.), Trabea (4 n. spp.), and the 2

new genera, Proevippa (1 n. sp.) and Pterartoria (6 n. spp.).

Key to the South African Genera.

a. Body and legs with plumose hairs * (without scales).

at. Carapace elongate. Chelicere with 2 inierior teeth. Tarsi not scopulate.

a*. Cephalic region distinctly elevated... .. .. .. .. Proevippan. g.

b?. Cephalic region not elevated .. .. .. «. «. Anomalomma KE. Sim.

bt. Carapace normal. Chelicere with 3 inferior teeth. Anterior tarsi scopu-

ERCUEnt Eke 5 Go o6 a6 odo do o6 64 66 BO PMONAOTUD ml, &e

d. Body and legs with finely ciliated hairs or with scales, but no plumose hairs.

a3. Labium reaching up to or beyond middle of maxille.

a+, Third leg longer than the first. Anterior row of eyes recurved

Ocyale Aud.

b4. Third leg shorter than the first.

as. Sides of head sloping .. .. Lycosa Laty.

b5, Sides of head vertical, at least in the lower part. Anterior row of

eyes strongly procurved.

a°, Anterior median eyes about as far from the anterior laterals as

from one another %.| “22) i. G2 tes | 2 9 e- -ATiona hor

b®. Anterior median eyes much further from the anterior laterals

than from oneanother =. <2 =. =. =. Lrabea th. Sim”

43. Labium short, not reaching to the middle of the maxille. Sides of head

vertical, at least in lower part.

a?, Cephalic region not elevated. Body covered with hairs

Pardosa C. Koch.

b7. Cephalic region distinctly elevated. Body covered with scales.

a®, Abdomen oblong. Chelicerze with 2 inferior teeth ..vippa E. Sim.

b®, Abdomen ampliated and truncated behind. Chelicere with 3

HAO? TAN 66 bo oo 05 So 05 00 oo LACMOMIUN Wie (Sihi0.

* These hairs are most easily detected by examining the metatarsus of a leg

under a coyer-glass with a compound microscope.

New South African Spiders. 109

Gen. ANOMALOMMA E. Sim.

1. ANOMALOMMA SCHREINERI N. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 31 9 9 and 3 3 S (types; Nos. 9431, 11755,

11785, &c.) from Hanover, and several specimens from Vlagkop,

5-6 miles north of Hanover, collected by Mr. 8. C. Cronwright

Schreiner.

2 @. Carapace more or less infuscated laterally and clothed with

black hairs, the broad yellowish median band clothed with yellow

hairs; submarginal stripes indicated by a few yellowish spots or

almost absent ; no marginal band of white hairs present. Anterior

median eyes generally with their lower edges slightly lower than the

line joining the upper edges of the anterior lateral eyes, the latter

eyes a little nearer to the edge of the carapace than to the eyes of

the second row; posterior quadrangle a little more transverse than

in A. albiventre HE. Sim., the eyes of the second row also relatively

larger, considerably larger than the posterior eyes.

Abdomen coloured much as in albiventre and clothed with similar

plumose hairs; the dorsal surface fulvous yellow, with a median

yellow or testaceous stripe bordered by black anteriorly, and marked

with a number of transverse, triangular, black marks and lines more

posteriorly ; the sides fulvous yellow, with black spots or more or

less entirely blackened; the ventral surface pale yellowish, rarely

with a few dark spots towards the sides. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 1) with

well-developed, prominent, median lobe, whose hind margin is trun-

cated or slightly sinuated ; the lateral lobes of hind margin generally

depressed, appearing about as long as the median lobe when viewed

from below, but converging towards one another dorsally to the

median lobe when seen from behind, the median angles of the lateral

lobes not produced backwards.

Legs pale yellowish, strongly banded and spotted with black, the

distal segments often brownish ; tarsi without scopula; basal spines

on first tibia reaching only just beyond the base of the mesial

spines.

Sternum pale yellowish, or faintly infuscated towards the sides.

Chelicere with 2 inferior teeth.

Inferior spinners close together, the superior spinners with incon-

spicuous apical segment.

3g. Differs from g of albiventre principally in having .the

dorsal eye-area wider behind and less quadrate. Carapace clothed

with white hairs on median band. Abdomen as in ?, but the

posterior yellow area above the spinners furnished with some white

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hairs. Tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of first leg clothed with white

hairs, the patella also with white hairs at base on each side. Pedi-

palps pale yellowish, the patella and tibia subequal, together longer

than the tarsus; the latter with a longitudinal narrow distal strip of

scopula above; the bulb not large.

Length ¢ ? 54-8, g 54 mm.

(b) 1 2? from Prince Albert (W. F. P.). Carapace uniformly

darkened, without bands; abdomen also uniformly darkened above

and on the upper part of the sides, with 2 rows of yellowish dots

above ; legs weakly banded on the femora; median lobe of vulva

slightly wider than in the typical form.

than in the typical form; basal spines on first tibia longer, reaching

to middle of the mesial spines; sternum black.

(d) 1 ? from Signal Hill, Capetown (R&. M. Lightfoot). Vulva,

tibial spines, and sternum as in ? from Ceres. Abdomen uniformly

covered with testaceous yellow hairs intermingled with long black

setee above, the posterior part with a few small spots of white

hairs.

2. ANOMALOMMA BISINUATA 0. Sp.

Specimens.—(a) 1 2 and 1 g (No. 12747) from Dunbrody, on

the Sundays River, Uitenhage Division (Rev. J. A. O’ Nevl).

@ (Type). Carapace infuseated laterally, without marginal bands

of white hairs, the median pale yellowish band narrow posteriorly

and clothed with white hairs. Anterior lateral eyes slightly nearer

to the anterior margin than to the eyes of the second row, which are

rather large.

Abdomen pale fulvous yellow, speckled with black but without

conspicuous dorsal pattern, clothed with yellow plumose hairs above ;

ventral surface pale yellowish, without spots. Vulva (pl. vii, fig. 2)

a simple plate with bisinuate hind margin.

Sternum pale yellowish, faintly infuscated.

Legs pale ochraceous, banded, without scopule.

Chelicere with 2 inferior teeth.

3. Darker. Carapace with coppery hairs in median band.

Abdomen black, the dorsal surface with large yellowish patch clothed

with coppery hairs anteriorly and with a double series of yellowish

spots as well as a number of coppery hairs posteriorly and a few

white hairs above the spinners. Anterior legs partly infuscated ;

first leg clothed with white hairs on the tarsus and metatarsus

(except at the base and apex of each segment), with a broad band of

New South African Spiders. JBuE

white hairs near the middle of the tibia (but remote from the apex

of the segment), and also with some white hairs on the base of the

patella and femur. Pedipalps as in schreineri n. sp.

Length 9° 64, ¢ 44 mm.

(b) 1 2? from Hermanuspietersfontein, Caledon Division (R. M.

Inghtfoot). Anterior lateral eyes midway between the anterior mar-

gin of carapace and the eyes of the second row.

Gren. PROEVIPPA n. g.

Very like the South African species of Anomalonuma, but with the

carapace still narrower and longer and the cephalic region distinctly

elevated. Superior spinners much as in Anomalomma albiventre, &c.,

the distal segment being mostly inconspicuous. Legs robust,

excepting the slender metatarsi and tarsi, and without any scopulee ;

the claws with about 7 teeth. Labium scarcely or not reaching to

the middle of the maxille. Chelicere long. Abdomen clothed with

plumose hairs (also present on the legs). Palpal organ of ¢

resembling that of A. albiventre.

PROEVIPPA LIGHTFOOTI n. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 3 3 3 (types; No. 9315) from the top of the

Muizenberg Range, 1 g from the flats at Bergvliet, Constantia Area,

and 1 2 from the flats at Retreat, all these localities in the Cape

Peninsula.

Sg. Carapace reddish yellow, infuscated anteriorly on the head

and towards the sides, thickly covered with white appressed hairs ;

the cephalic portion with black bristles in front and marked at

posterior margin with a pair of black spots bearing black hairs.

Dorsal eye-area slightly wider behind, its lateral length also a little

less than the anterior width, and the posterior eyes only a little

smaller than those of the second row, the distance between these

latter eyes from 14 to nearly twice their own diameter ; anterior

median eyes slightly larger than the laterals and nearer to these

than to one another, their lower margins slightly below the level of

the upper edges of the lateral eyes.

Abdomen very pale yellowish, the upper surface sometimes fulvous

yellow, provided anteriorly with a median, testaceous, fusiform

stripe extending to the middle and bordered on each side by a black

line or series of black spots; middle and posterior part of abdomen

with several transverse bands and rings of black; sides marked with

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a few black spots, their anterior part broadly blackened; ventral

surface blackened, the postgenital region often only partially so;

whole abdomen covered with white hairs, but the dorsal surface with

3-4 small patches of black hairs on each side.

Sternum black. Chelicere with 2 inferior teeth.

Leqs.—Three posterior pairs pale yellowish, clothed with white

hairs, and banded and marked with black except on the tarsi; first

pair of legs with the femur, patella, and tibia very robust, the femur

pale yellowish above but blackened below and distally (except on the

inner side), the blackened parts clothed with black hairs and the

yellowish parts with white hairs ; patella and tibia brownish yellow,

thickly covered with black hairs, the hairs on the under side long,

forming a thick mane, the patella with a patch of white hairs on

inner side, the tibia with 4 long inner and 3 long outer inferior

spines, the distal pair being inserted some little distance from the

apex ; metatarsus and tarsus of first leg slender, pale yellowish and

clothed with white hairs, the metatarsus with a brown spot clothed

with black hairs at base above, its under surface with 1 short (apical)

and 2 long spines on each side. Claws of legs black.

Pedipalps brownish yellow; the tibia longish, longer than the

patella; tarsus moderate, much shorter than the tibia and patella

and provided with a distal strip of scopula along the middle above.

?. Like the g, but with the front legs normal and resembling

the others; the tibia spined as in the g. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 3) a

rounded plate, with truncated, deeply excavated and emarginated

hind margin.

Length g g 44-6, 9 5mm.

(b) 1 g from the Waterfall Mountains, Tulbagh Division (f. J.

Lightfoot).

Gen. PTERARTORIA n. g.

Carapace mostly very like that of Pardosa, the sides of the head

being generally vertical in the lower and sloping in the upper part in

the ?, but almost entirely vertical in the g ; sometimes, however,

with much more sloping sides, as in Lycosa. Dorsal eye-area sub-

quadrate or narrowed in front; anterior row of eyes procurved and

narrower than or as wide as the second row, the lateral eyes about

midway between the eyes of the second row and the anterior margin

of carapace. Apical segment of superior spinners small. Labium

reaching at least to middle of maxilla. Chelicerze with 3 inferior

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teeth, the distal tooth often smaller. Anterior tarsi scopulate at the

sides ; fourth metatarsus frequently equalling the tibia and patella in

the g, but shorter than these segments in the 9 ; anterior tibia

generally with 3 inner and 2 outer, longish, inferior spines, in addi-

tion to a short apical pair; superior claws of hind legs with 6-8

teeth, the inferior claw not toothed. Body clothed with appressed

plumose hairs, as well as with ordinary ciliated hairs.

Type: P. subcrucifera n. sp.

The two species described under the names Lycosa lativittata and

arbuscula Pure. (Ann. §. A. Mus., v. 3, p. 38, 1903) also fall into this

genus.

1. PTERARTORIA SUBCRUCIFERA N. Sp.

Specimens.—(a) 12 2? 9 and 10 g & (types; No. 9264, &c.) from

the Cape Peninsula (Lions Rump, slopes of Devils Peak and Table

Mountain, Camps Bay and Sea Point).

? 2. Carapace longer than the fourth metatarsus and subequal

to the tibia and metatarsus of first leg, covered with pallid hairs ;

colour dark brown or nearly black, the submarginal, yellow lateral

bands imperfect ; cephalic portion of median band ampliated, rotund

and generally provided with a pair of dark marks, the thoracic por-

tion nearly parallel-sided or more or less widened or even subrotund

in the anterior part. Dorsal eye-area as long as wide in front, sub-

quadrate. Eyes of the second row relatively small and much more

than their own diameter apart, the second row wider than the first

by nearly 4 an eye’s diameter on each side. Anterior row of eyes

considerably procurved, the eyes small and equal.

Abdomen.—Dorsal surface with a yellow band (or series of spots)

on each side, the bands converging and often uniting behind and in

front, enclosing a large, mostly dark brown area, which is provided

in front with, a narrow median yellow line and is frequently trans-

versely dilated in places, particularly in the middle, somewhat in the

form of a cross;* sides of abdomen black, mottled with yellow;

under surface more or less pale yellowish, often with a dark median

stripe. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 4) somewhat transverse, the greater part

occupied by a large 4-sided fovea, which is open along the straight

posterior margin; the raised border enclosing the fovea emarginate

in the middle and furnished with a dark spot on each side near

hind end.

Legs pale yellowish, strongly banded with black, especially on the

* In some specimens the abdomen is provided with a couple of large white

median patches posteriorly, placed one behind the other.

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femora; tarsi and metatarsi of 2 anterior pairs scopulate at the

sides.

Sternum blackened. Chelicere with the distal inferior tooth

generally smaller.

3g. Abdomen very differently marked, the dorsal surface black

towards the sides and provided with a median, yellow or brownish

red band which is very broad in the anterior half but much narrower

(rarely absent) in the posterior half of abdomen, the anterior portion

of the band furnished with a median stripe of white hairs, the stripe

often bordered on each side by a black line; under surface often

blackened. Carapace with the sides of the head steep. Fourth

metatarsus as long as the tibia and patella.

Length 3 ¢ 42-64, 2 2 7-81 mm.

(b) 1 g andl ¢@ (No. 3285) from Ceres (W. F. P.).

Darling Bridge, Worcester Division (H. Hermann).

(d)8 gg and 3 2 2 (No. 7828) from Brandvlei, Worcester

Division (I. Mewing, W. F. P.).

2. PTERARTORIA CALDARIA 0. sp.

Type.—1 2 (No. 12649) from the Hot Baths near Montagu

(November, 1902, W. F. P.).

?. Carapace subequal to the first tibia and metatarsus but a

little longer than the fourth metatarsus; colour brown, the sub-

marginal stripes formed of a row of yellow spots on each side; the

median yellow band broad, the cephalic portion broadly oval, con-

stricted behind, the thoracic portion widened and oval anteriorly.

Anterior row of eyes considerably procurved, a little narrower than

the second row, the eyes subequal; eyes of the second row moder-

ately large, scarcely more than their own diameter apart; dorsal

eye-area a little shorter than wide in front, subquadrate.

Abdomen reddish brown above, with yellowish plumose hairs; the

narrow median yellow stripe on anterior half dilated transversely in

front; posterior part of abdomen with a series of transverse black

lines down middle; ventral surface pale yellowish.

Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 5) related to that of the previous form but

more complicated, the median emargination of the border deeper

and preceded by an additional transverse edge; a transverse black

line present on each side posteriorly.

Sternum black, with large yellow patch.

Chelicere yellow at base, black distally, the distal inferior tooth

smaller.

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Legs pale yellow, spotted and banded with black, especially on the

femora; anterior tarsi and metatarsi scopulate at the sides.

Total length 7 mm.

3. PTERARTORIA SAG N. sp.

Type-——I1 2 (No. 4170) from the Hex River Valley, Worcester

Division (Ff. Treleaven).

Closely allied to caldaria n. sp.

2. Carapace subequal to the fourth metatarsus and to the first

tibia and metatarsus in length; colour dark brown, the submarginal

yellow stripes interrupted, the cephalic portion of the median band

enlarged and provided with a pair of dark stripes, the thoracic

portion of this band a little narrower anteriorly, much narrower

posteriorly. Anterior row of eyes strongly procurved, the eyes sub-

equal; second row wider than the anterior row by about 4 an eye’s

diameter on each side, the eyes of moderate size, their distance

apart considerably exceeding their diameter ; dorsal eye-area almost

forming a square, being only slightly wider behind than in front.

Skin of abdomen reddish brown above and at the sides (the hair

covering mostly rubbed off), with some black spots; dorsal surface

with a narrow, median, black-bordered, yellow stripe in anterior half

and with a yellow spot on each side at anterior end ; under side pale

yellowish. Vulva (pl. vii., fig. 6) longer than wide, consisting of a

horseshoe-shaped marginal portion enclosing a depression in which

lie a pair of deeper cavities; on each side near posterior end of the

plate is a black spot.

Sternum yellowish, infuseated. Chelicere yellowish brown, with

oblique infuscate band in front, the 3 inferior teeth equal.

Legs yellowish, banded ; scopulee feeble but present on the sides in

the two anterior pairs of legs.

Total length 7 mm.

4, PTERARTORIA FLAVOLIMBATA N. Sp.

Specimens.—1 ? (No. 12203) from Hout Bay (November, 1901,

W. F. P.) and 1 g (No. 9140) from the Cape Flats near Princess

Vlei (May, 1901, W. F. P.), both localities in the Cape Peninsula.

2? (Type). Carapace a little longer than the fourth metatarsus

but subequal to the first tibia and metatarsus; lateral margins

broadly yellow, the median, reddish yellow band broad, its cephalic

portion a little dilated on each side, its thoracic portion only slightly

dilated anteriorly, broad throughout. Anterior row of eyes moder-

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ately procurved, narrower than the second row, the median eyes

slightly larger; the eyes of the second row rather large, scarcely

more than an eye’s diameter apart; dorsal eye-area subquadrate, its

width in front only slightly exceeding the length of the sides.

Abdomen reddish brown or fulvous, mingled with black above and

on the sides, with a narrow, median yellow stripe in anterior half

and a large white median band with angular lateral edges in posterior

half; ventral surface pale yellowish. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 7) broadly

transverse, consisting of a median bar, which is dilated posteriorly

and terminates free anteriorly, and of a pair of curved lateral

elevations, each containing a black spot; in the angle between the

median bar and the lateral pieces is a smaller convexity.

Sternum yellow in the middle, black laterally.

Chelicere with basal yellow patch; the proximal inferior tooth

strongest.

Three anterior pairs of legs pale yellowish, strongly banded and

marked with black, except on the tarsi; black bands on fourth leg

mainly present on the femur, the more distal segments faintly

banded with reddish yellow; cox also spotted with black; tarsi

and anterior metatarsi scopulate laterally.

3. Dorsal eye-area nearly quadrate.

Abdomen brown laterally, with a broad yellow median band

above becoming narrower posteriorly and reaching hind end, the

anterior part of this band with a narrow median strip of white hairs

bordered by dark brown laterally.

Legs long, pale yellowish, not banded, the anterior femora

infuscate at the base; fourth metatarsus equal to the tibia and

patella.

Pedipalps pale yellowish, the femur blackened below, the patella

and tibia subequal and together a little shorter than the tarsus; the

bulb (pl. viii., fig. 8) very large, provided with a strong blunt spini-

form process in the middle below.

Total length ? 8, fg 4% mm.

5. PTERARTORIA POLYSTICTA ND. sp.

Type.—1 ? (No. 7898) from Marcus Bay, Bredasdorp Division

(1. A. Fry).

@. Carapace a little longer than the fourth metatarsus and than

the first tibia and metatarsus; colour dark brown, with radiating

black lines, the submarginal stripe broken up into 3-4 yellow spots ;

the median yellow band broad, subrotund and provided with 2

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‘dark spots on the cephalic portion, the thoracic portion of the band

dilated anteriorly, narrower posteriorly. Anterior row of eyes con-

siderably procurved, the median eyes slightly larger; second row

considerably wider than the anterior row (by nearly 4 an eye’s

diameter on each side), the eyes rather large and about a diameter

apart; dorsal eye-area subquadrate, the anterior width equalling the

length of the sides.

Abdomen infuscated laterally above and provided with a large,

median, whitish area, which contains a narrow, median, black-

margined yellow stripe on anterior half of abdomen and several

median blackish markings in middle and posterior part of abdomen

(the hairs on upper surface mostly rubbed off); under surface

whitish. Vulva (pl. vii., fig. 9) a semicircular plate containing a

triangular fovea, the bottom of which is convexly elevated along the

middle.

Sternwm and legs coloured as in the preceding species.

Chelicere reddish yellow, with oblique black band in front, the

.3 inferior teeth subequal.

Total length 74 mm.

6. PTERARTORIA FISSIVITTATA N. sp.

Type.—l1 ¢ (No. 5798) found at Grahamstown in November, 1899,

by the Rev. J. A. O’Neil.

?. Carapace with the median band rather narrow, the cephalic

portion of the band only slightly enlarged and provided with a fine

median dark line. Anterior row of eyes slightly procurved, the

median eyes small, only slightly larger than the laterals; posterior

median eyes about a diameter apart; dorsal eye-area about as wide

in front as long at the sides.

Abdomen black, brown and gray at the sides, with strong, median,

percurrent yellow band above, which is wider in front and contains

a narrow, median, brownish yellow area bordered by 2 narrow black

lines above the heart; under side pale yellowish, without stripes ;

the sides in the lower part pale yellowish, mottled with black.

Vulva (pl. vi., fig. 10) with a pair of curved grooves posteriorly

enclosing a short keel, which is dilated behind; the sides of the

vulva with a reddish black, comma-shaped mark, the posterior end

of the comma being tubercularly raised.

Legs.—Tibia I with only 2 inner and 1-2 outer spines below

besides the apical pair; metatarsus I with long basal spines,

scopulate at the sides for # or more of its length.

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Chelicere with 3 inferior teeth, the distal tooth smallest.

Core and sternwm pale yellowish, the latter partially infus.

cated.

Total length 8 mm.

Gen. LYCOSA Latr.

1. LcosA PATRICKI n. sp.

Specumens.—1 @ (type; No. 12521) and 1 g (No. 12004),

apparently belonging to the same species, found on the Commonage

at Umtali, Mashonaland, by Mr. D. L. Patrick, in November, 1901.

Related to capensis Sim. (= hectorta Poce.), schreinert Pure.,

darlingt Poe. (= subvittata Poc.), &e.

2. Cuarapace slightly shorter than the first tibia and metatarsus

and as long as the fourth metatarsus and 1-4 of the tarsus; cephalic

portion of median band broad, strongly constricted behind and

furnished with a pair of longitudinal infuscate lines, the thoracic

portion of the band dilated anteriorly but narrower than the

cephalic portion. Anterior row of eyes moderately procurved,

the median eyes distinctly larger; second row wider than the

anterior row by about +4 of an eye’s diameter on each side,

the eyes very large, considerably less than a diameter apart, their

distance from the anterior margin of the carapace also distinctly

less than a diameter.

Abdomen pale fulvous yellow above, with a slightly darker median

area and another on each side along the upper lateral borders, the

median series of black transverse bars in posterior part almost:

obliterated ; ventral surface pale yellowish. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 11)

much longer than wide, consisting of a A-shaped border enclosing a

long subtriangular fovea, in which les a long median bar whose

posterior end is transversely dilated; posterior ends of the A dark

reddish brown.

Cheliceré with some yellow hairs in front, the 3 inferior teeth

subequal. Sternwm reddish yellow.

Legs reddish yellow, the femora weakly banded, the posterior tibie

not banded.

3. Dark areas on abdomen much blacker, the ventral surface

posterior to the genital segment \intensely black and sharply con-

trasting with the pale yellow of the sides and of the genital segment.

Sternum with a long, narrow, U-shaped, black mark. Apex of

third and base and apex of fourth tibia darkened.

Total length ¢ 184, g¢ 154 mm.

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2. LiycosA GRACILITARSIS nN. sp.

Type.—1 ad. @ (No. 5343) from a Mission Station 20 miles east of

Pietersburg, Transvaal (Rev. J. W. Daneel, 1898).

?. Closely resembling Z. schreinert Pure. (Ann. §. A. Mus,, v. 3,

p. 35) from Hanover, Cape Colony, but differing principally in

having the eyes of the second row larger and only 2 of a diameter

apart, and those of the first row also larger, especially the medians,

which are very distinctly larger than the laterals and distant only

about half their own diameter from the posterior median eyes (in

schreinert distant at least their own diameter). Anterior row of eyes

narrower than the second row by only + or less of a posterior median

eye’s diameter on each side.

Carapace as long as the tibia and metatarsus of first leg and

slightly longer than the metatarsus and 4 the tarsus of

fourth leg.

Chelicere with white hairs in front and some yellowish ones.

Core and sternwm nearly black.

Abdomen similarly marked as in sclireineri, but the 3 longitudinal

dark bands paler; the greater part of the sides as well as the under

surface of the abdomen black. Vulva with the fovez slightly longer

than in schreineri.

Legs with the tarsi very slender; only the fourth tibia distinctly

banded.

Total length 19 mm.

3. LYCOSA AURATA N. sp.

Type.—1 2 (No. 4196) from Barberton, Transvaal, collected by

Mr. J. P. Cregoe in December, 1897.

@. Carapace slightly longer than the tibia and metatarsus of

first leg and subequal to the metatarsus and 4 the tarsus of fourth

leg; colour a rich brown on the broad lateral bands; the sub-

marginal yellow bands narrow, with both edges laciniate, the outer

edge bordered with black spots; surface covered with golden yellow

hairs on the light bands, but on the dark bands black hairs pre-

dominate ; median reddish yellow band almost parallel-sided, being

only slightly wider in the middle than towards the ends, the

cephalic portion flanked on each side by a parallel, narrow, yellow

line which is suddenly bent at right angles at posterior end to join

the median band. Anterior row of eyes lightly procurved, nar-

rower than the second row by +4 of a posterior median eye’s

diameter on each side, the anterior median eyes large, much larger

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than the laterals and only about 4 their own diameter from the

posterior medians; posterior median eyes about 4 a diameter

apart. -

Abdomen covered with golden and yellow hairs intermixed, the

anterior half with a pair of golden yellow bands united in front

and diverging posteriorly, the cuneate area enclosed between them

with black at the sides; posterior half of abdomen with a median

series of faint, transversely triangular markings; sides of abdomen

pale yellowish below, with fine black dots ; under side black. Vulva

(pl. vii., fig. 12) longer than broad, subtriangular in outline, the

median bar placed far behind, short, with a small fovea on each

side ; posterior outer corners of plate with a dark mark bearing a

convexity.

Chelicere with yellow hairs in front; the apex with 3 subequal

inferior teeth.

Legs pale ochraceous, the femora with some faint infuscate

marks, the fourth tibia only faintly darkened at apex below;

anterior tibiz and posterior metatarsi scopulate distally ; basal

spines on anterior metatarsus long, reaching base of mesial spines ;

-coxe strongly infuscated.

Sternum broadly blackened along the middle, ochraceous laterally.

Total length 114 mm.

4, LiycosA BIMACULATA N. Sp.

Specimens.—(a) Type: 1 ad.?(No. 9852) from East London,

Cape Colony (J. Wood, 1901).

2 Carapace clothed with whitish and pale yellowish hairs; its

length slightly exceeding that of the tibia and metatarsus of first leg

and subequal to that of the metatarsus and 4 of the tarsus of fourth

leg; the median ochraceous band strongly constricted in the middle

and expanded before and behind the constriction to form a pair of

equally large rotund areas of which the anterior one is bimaculate,

the band narrowed again posteriorly and anteriorly, the narrow

anterior part (between the eyes) separated from the anterior rotun-

date area by a smaller constriction ; lateral margins yellow; the two

brown bands black at posterior end. Anterior row of eyes slightly

narrower than the second row and slightly procurved, the median

eyes very distinctly larger than the laterals and distant about their

own diameter from the posterior medians; posterior median eyes

large, their distance apart scarcely exceeding 4 their diameter.

Chelicere with pallid hairs in front and 3 inferior teeth at apex,

the distal tooth being smallest.

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Abdomen (in spirits) blackened at the sides above, with fine

whitish dots, the anterior half with a fusiform, brownish, median

mark which is bordered laterally with some black and flanked on

each side by a broad pale fulvous band uniting anteriorly, the

posterior half of the dorsal surface with a double series of some-

what confluent, obliquely transverse, large, pale fulvous marks (some

containing a black dot) separated by a median series of black, trans-

verse, angular marks or bars; anterior surface with a pair of large

intensely black marks; the sides whitish below, with some black

spots; under surface black, with 2 white spots posteriorly, the

lung-opercula pallid. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 13) somewhat like that of

promontorii Poe., but much longer than wide, with a large deep

excavation behind containing a 4-shaped elevation, of which the

median bar is broad at the anterior end but narrow behind and the

cross bar thick with rounded ends; the outline of the large excava-

tion emarginate in front in the median line and also near the middle

of each side.

Legs ochraceous, the femora with dark bands on the sides, the

posterior tibie darkened at the apex below; posterior metatarsi and

anterior tibiz scopulate.

Sternum broadly blackened along the middle, ochraceous at the

sides.

Total length 134 mm.

(b) 1 @ (No. 12698) from the Kentani District, Transkei, collected

by Mr. H. P. Abernethy. All the tibiz black at apex.

Alexandria Division, collected by Mr. I. L. Drége in October, 1899.

Under side of abdomen (except on the lung-opercula) almost wholly

blackened and without the 2 white spots, the pale submarginal

bands of carapace and the bands on the legs indistinct. In the ¢

the colouration is altogether much darker, the abdomen is almost

uniformly mouse-brown above, and the carapace is slightly shorter

than the tibia and metatarsus of first leg. In the 3 the carapace is

as long as the tibia and 4 the metatarsus of first leg but considerably

shorter than the fourth metatarsus.

Total length of 9 124, g¢ 10 mm.

Apparently closely allied to algoensis Poc. (= bessiana Poc.).

5. LycosA UMTALICA 0. sp.

Types.—2 2 2 (No. 12005) collected by Mr. D. L. Patrick in

November, 1901, on the Commonage at Umtali, Mashonaland.

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Closely allied to the foregoing, especially to var. (c).

? 2. Carapace as long as the tibia and metatarsus of first leg

and as the metatarsus and + of the tarsus of fourth leg; thoracic

portion of median band with the dilated portion smaller than in

var. (c) of bomaculata n. sp., and in one specimen narrower than

the cephalic portion, in which the black dots are obsolete; lateral

edges blackened; hairs, even those on the paler bands, mostly

black. Anterior row of eyes slightly narrower than the second

row, the lower margins in a straight or only very slightly pro-

curved line, the median eyes considerably larger than the laterals

and less than their own diameter from the posterior median eyes ;

the latter a little more than 4 their own diameter apart.

Chelicere with yellowish hairs in front, the 3 teeth on inferior

margin equal or the proximal one smaller.

Abdomen with the pattern on the dorsal surface similar to that in

bmaculata n. sp., except that the fulvous marks are much smaller,

each pair occupying only about 4 of the width of the abdomen;

sides thickly spotted with black; under surface very pale, with or

without a pair of dark longitudinal lines and spots converging

posteriorly from each side of the vulva. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 14)

very like that of promontori Poc., about as long as broad, the

median bar strongly dilated and emarginate in the middle anteriorly,

narrow posteriorly, the transverse bar only a little wider than the

anterior dilation and rounded at each end; the somewhat horseshoe-

shaped border of the plate with a large dark oval mark near each end

posteriorly.

Legs coloured as in bimaculata n. sp., but the posterior tibize not

darkened at apex below; tibizw of anterior legs without scopula ;

metatarsus of fourth leg with the scopula practically absent.

Sternum and coxe@ pale yellowish.

Total length 123 mm.

6. Licosa O’NEILI 0, sp.

Specimens.—(a) 2 9 @ (No. 8382) and 1 g (No. 5254) found at

Dunbrody, on the Sundays River, Uitenhage Division, by the Rey.

Ji, Ay OANewk

Closely allied to Z. promontorti Poc., having the head low and

broad in front, the width of the head across the posterior row of eyes

being more than twice the width of the second row of eyes.

9 2. Carapace only a little longer than the fourth metatarsus

but a little shorter than the first tibia and metatarsus together ;

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colour pale yellowish or reddish yellow, the surface for the most

part clothed with black hairs; the darker lateral bands very lightly

infuscated; the dark marginal and light submarginal stripes well

developed ; cephalic portion of median band broad, parallel-sided and

containing 2 longitudinal, infuscate, parallel stripes, the posterior end

strongly and suddenly constricted, the thoracic portion of the band

narrow, almost parallel-sided, constricted posteriorly just behind the

median stria. Eyes of the second row about % of a diameter apart

or less; the anterior row of eyes as wide as the second row, with the

lower margins in a straight line, the median eyes much larger than

the laterals.

Abdomen pale yellowish; the dorsal surface lightly or deeply in-

fuscated, with a paler, yellowish median band, which is broad

anteriorly (enclosing here a spindle-shaped black-bordered area

outlining the heart) but narrow and often divided by transverse

lines into sections, each bearing 2 black dots, posteriorly ; anterior

surface not more deeply blackened; sides of abdomen with some

infuscate marks; under surface without bands. Vulva (pl. vii,

fig. 15) with the median bar stout, widening anteriorly; the trans-

verse bar with slightly convex posterior edge, about as long as the

median bar.

Legs long, reddish yellow, some with faint infuscate marks, the

distal segments long and slender and more reddish ; anterior tibiz

scopulate distally below; metatarsus I with the basal spines not

reaching to the mesial spines.

Chelicere with the 8 inferior teeth subequal or the distal one

smaller. Sternwm and core pale yellowish.

Total length 94-12 mm.

$. Carapace shorter than the metatarsus of fourth leg and as

long as the metatarsus and + the tarsus of first leg.

This species has much longer legs than the other 3 species of the

group (promontorw and spencert Poc., rumicola Pure.).

(b) 1 2 (No. 12651) from the Hot Baths near Montagu (W. F. P.).

Carapace very faintly infuscated, almost unicolorous, the lateral

yellow stripes represented by a few small spots and the median

stripe very narrow and without cephalic branches; carapace as

long as the tibia and metatarsus of first leg and a little less than

the metatarsus and half the tarsus of fourth leg.

(d) 1 2 (No. 9747) from Port St. Johns, Pondoland (Guy Short-

ridge). Legs shorter even than in the preceding specimen.

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7. Lcosa NIVOSA n. sp.

Specimens.—(a) Types: 1 ? and 3 ¢ g (Nos. 5854, 5837) from

Retreat Flats, Cape Peninsula (£. Tvreleaven).

3 2. Carapace as long as the metatarsus and 2 of the tarsus of

fourth leg and as the tibia, metatarsus, and 1-4 of the tarsus of first

leg in both sexes; margins finely blackened; surface without well-

marked longitudinal bands but covered with yellowish and snow-

white hairs, the latter forming conspicuous patches or spots (visible:

when dry); head broad and obtuse in front as in promontorit Poc.,

&c., its width across the posterior row of eyes exceeding twice the

width of the second row. Eyes of the second row rather small, less

than their own diameter apart; the anterior row of eyes as wide as

the second row, the lower margin in a nearly straight or slightly

procurved line, the median eyes a little larger than the laterals.

Abdomen (in spirits) pale yellowish below or at least paler, the

sides and dorsal surface black, the latter with a median yellowish

mark on anterior half flanked by yellow spots on each side, some-

times almost the whole dorsal surface broadly yellowish; sides and

dorsal surface covered with golden-olivaceous and white hairs, the

latter forming a number of snow-white spots and patches.

Legs pale ochraceous, strongly banded with black on nearly all the

segments and provided with rings of snow-white hairs; tibia I with

only 2 inner inferior spines (the basal spine being absent) and 1-2

outer inferior spines; spines on metatarsus I small.

Sternum reddish yellow, with black margins.

Chelicere with the 2 distal inferior teeth subequal and larger than

the minute proximal one, the middle tooth also placed closer to the

proximal than to the distal tooth.

Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 16) of @ forming a rounded plate containing 2

large, shallow, oval depressions, separated by a median bar, the

depressions converging anteriorly and containing each a deep

fovea posteriorly; the foveee with well-marked curved anterior

rim and flanked on the outer side by a small round dark dot.

Total length @ 74, 3 53-64 mm.

(b) 32 2 and 39 4 (Nos. 3953, 3960) from the river-bed at

Laingsburg, Prince Albert Division (September, 1896, W. F. P.).

Abdomen in ? ? pale olivaceous yellow to nearly black, in the g ¢

dark olive with broad, yellow dorsal area.

Prince Albert and the railway station (found near water in Sep-

tember, 1896, by myself).

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(d) 1 @ (No. 9432) from Hanover, Cape Colony (S. C. Cronwright

Schreiner, 1901). Abdomen black above, with narrow median yellow

stripe anteriorly.

(e) 14 9 2,4 9 d,and 1 young (No. 8383) from Dunbrody, on the

Sundays River, Uitenhage Division (1898, Rev. J. A. O'Neil). Dark-

coloured specimens.

8. LycosA LIGHTFOOTI N. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 8 2 2 and 3 3 f (types; No. 12170, &c.) from

the Cape Peninsula (Retreat, Bergvliet and Maitland Flats, Kalk

Bay and Table Mountains).

@ g¢. Closely resembling L. nivosa n. sp., but differing in the

form of the vulva and the number of the spines on the legs.

Abdomen black, the under surface yellowish (often black in 3), the

dorsal surface generally with paler, median anterior stripe and 3

yellow spots on each side of it, often followed by some transverse

yellow bars posteriorly. Vulva with the 2 shallow depressions not

converging but rather slightly diverging anteriorly.

Tibia of first Jeg generally with 3 inner inferior spines (the small

basal spine being rarely absent).

Sternum dark brown or black.

Total length 9 ? 5-7, fg 5 mm.

(b) 2 2 2 (No. 12384-5) from the Waterfall Mountains, Tulbagh

Division (FR. M. Lightfoot).

9, LYCOSA CRETATA N. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 2 3 g (December) and 8 2? ? (November, De-

cember) (No. 6065, &c.), several with cocoons, from the Cape

Peninsula.

Allied to Z. brunneipes Pure.

2 2. Carapace about as long as the metatarsus of fourth leg or

the tibia together with from over 4 to nearly 2 of the metatarsus of

first leg; dark lateral bands very broad; the marginal dark stripe

often broader than the submarginal yellowish stripe, which is con-

tinued to anterior end of head; head with a second, short yellow

stripe on each side just below the posterior eyes; thoracic portion of

median yellow band narrow, almost parallel-sided throughout or

dilated at hind end, the cephalic portion very broad, containing a

black median stripe, the ()-shaped black stripes in the band only

slightly curved, very well marked, extending up to the ocular area,

their anterior and posterior ends generally united with the dark

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lateral bands. Eyes of the second row their own diameter or

slightly less apart; the anterior row slightly procurved, as wide

as the second row, the median eyes scarcely larger than the

laterals,

Abdomen in lighter coloured specimens yellowish, the upper sur-

face with a broad, median yellow band shaped like that in brunneipes

and broadly bordered with black on each side, the area above the

heart covered with snow-white hairs and bordered with black; lateral

parts of dorsal surface and the sides brownish yellow, with black

dots ; under surface yellow with obscure median patch or black band.

In darker coloured specimens the whole abdomen may be blackish or

brown, excepting a broad yellow band on each side of the median

stripe on ventral surface and the yellow, white-haired, dorsal stripe

above the heart, the large median band being paler brownish or even

absent. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 17) like that of brunneipes ; the median

lobe small, not larger than the lateral lobes.

Legs as in brunneipes in the lighter specimens but strongly infus-

cated and marked with yellow in the dark specimens.

Sternum pale yellowish, or strongly infuscated and with a fine,

median yellow line. Coxe pale yellowish, sometimes faintly infus-

cated in places.

Chelicere with 3 subequal inferior teeth.

3S. Smaller; carapace shorter than the fourth metatarsus ;

tarsus of pedipalps small, shorter than the long, slender, curved

tibia.

Total length ¢ ? 6-8, g g¢ 64 mm.

(b) 1 9 (No. 12650) from the Hot Baths near Montagu

Aas EA, UPS):

10. LycosA DREGEI n. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 4 9 2 and 2 young (No. 5374) and 1 ? with

cocoon (No. 8450), all collected at Van Stadens River, Uitenhage

Division, by Mr. I. L. Drége in January of 1899 and 1900.

Allied to brwnneipes Pure. in colouration and structure.

2? 2. Carapace a little shorter or longer than the fourth meta-

tarsus and as long as the tibia and from over 4 to 2 of the metatarsus

of first leg; colour reddish yellow, with broad, darkly infuscated

bands and strongly blackened lateral margins ; the ()-shaped (often

‘W-shaped) marks in the cephalic portion of the median band united

with the dark lateral bands anteriorly and sometimes also with one

another in the median line to form a W; thoracic portion of median

band oval anteriorly, strongly constricted near hind end of stria;

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pale submarginal stripe narrow, developed only in the posterior part

of the thorax, obsolete on the head. Anterior row of eyes about as

wide as the second row, the anterior margin in a slightly procurved

line, the median eyes a little larger than the laterals.

Abdomen (in spirits) black above (in one specimen merely pale

fulvous yellow and darkened only anteriorly), the posterior half

without any band, the anterior half with a narrow, pale yellowish

median band and with or without a short branch or separate parallel

stripe on each side of the median one; sides wholly darkened, or

pale yellowish with black spots or wholly pale yellowish ; under side

pale yellowish, sometimes with faint, median dark stripe. Vulva

(pl. viil., fig. 18) much as in brunneipes but with the posterior emargi-

nations more conspicuous and the dark lateral spots slightly further

from the posterior margin and less black; the median lobe large,

much wider than the lateral lobes.

Legs more or less banded, with infuscate markings, or these mark-

ings obsolete ; otherwise as in brunneipes.

Sternum lightly or darkly infuscated, with pale yellowish median

line, at least anteriorly.

Chelicere with the distal inferior tooth smaller than or subequal to

the other two.

Total length 104 mm.

(b) 1 2 collected by Dr. H. Brauns at Willowmore, Cape Colony,

in 1901.

(d) 1 2 andl § (No. 8387) from Dunbrody, Uitenhage Division

(lS98) ew. J. A. O’ Neil). Legs of g longer than in the 9, the

carapace as long as the tibia and + of the metatarsus or the meta-

tarsus and } of the tarsus of first leg (fourth legs absent); pedipalps

with the tibia curved and a little longer than the tarsus.

11. Lycosa TENUISSIMA n. sp.

Type.—1 ? (No. 5688) from Doornnek, in the Zuurbergen, Alex-

andria Division (I. L. Drége, October, 1899).

Allied to brunneipes Pure.

?. Carapace considerably shorter than the metatarsus and only’

a little longer than the tibia of fourth leg and about as long as the

metatarsus and 4 the tarsus of first leg; colour and markings much

as in dreged n. sp., the ()-shaped markings on the head united with

the dark lateral bands anteriorly, the thoracic portion of the median

band narrower than in dregei. Lower margin of anterior row of eyes

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almost straight, scarcely procurved, the median eyes considerably

larger than the laterals.

Abdomen coloured as in the darkest specimens of dregez, but the

under side without a distinct median stripe. Vulva much as in

cretata n. sp., the median lobe of hind margin narrower than the

well-developed, rounded lateral lobes; the 2 dark spots large

and oval.

Chelicere with 3 subequal inferior teeth.

Legs remarkably long and slender, especially the reddish distal

segments ; femora banded; basal spines on metatarsus I not reach-

ing to the mesial spines.

Sternum and core pale ochraceous, the former darker round the

edges.

Total length 154 mm.

This species is larger and has longer legs than any of the others of

the group of forms related to brunnetpes Pure.

12. LycosA BIAMPLIATA N. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 12 2 ? and4 g ¢ (types; Nos. 9312, 12305, &c.)

found on the top of the mountains at Kalk Bay and Muizenberg, in

the Cape Peninsula, by Mr. R. M. Lightfoot and myself. Also a

number of other specimens from the tops of Simonstown and Table

Mountains, and a few from Plumstead, St. James, and Hout Bay.

The home of this species is moist sandy places on the summits of

mountains.

Related to brunneipes Pure.

2 2. Carapace as long as the metatarsus and 4-4 of the tarsus

or as the tibia and 4-2 of the metatarsus of fourth leg, subequalling

the tibia and metatarsus of first leg, but much longer than the

metatarsus and tarsus; the surface more or less strongly blackened,

the yellow submarginal stripe absent or represented only posteriorly ;

pale median band more or less yellow or reddish yellow (rarely, in

very dark specimens, almost obliterated), the cephalic portion broad

and rotund, strongly constricted posteriorly, often containing a pair

of dark marks and followed by the similar, equally broad and rotund

or narrower and oval middle thoracic portion, both these ampliations

covered with white hairs; posterior part of median band nearly

naked. Eyes of the second row more than their own diameter

apart; the anterior row rather strongly procurved and a little

narrower than the second row, the eyes subequal, small.

Abdomen black above, with a series of transverse black markings

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down the middle, the second (situated in the middle of the abdomen)

and following marks distinctly W-shaped and furnished with a

round white spot on each side; the spaces between the black

markings as well as the large area in front of the anterior mark

sometimes dark but generally more or less yellowish and covered

with white hairs, the anterior area often bordered by a pair of

yellow lines which slightly diverge posteriorly; sides of abdomen

mottled with black and white; under side pale yellowish, without

stripes. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 19) of the same type as in brunneipes ;

the median lobe equalling or slightly broader than the lateral

lobes.

Legs yellowish, not browned distally, all the segments from the

femur to the metatarsus strongly banded with black; scopula of

anterior tarsi broadly divided by a double row of minute spines ;

basal spines of anterior metatarsi long.

Sternwm black, sometimes with a yellow line in the middle.

Chelicere pale yellowish at base, darkened distally; the distal

inferior tooth nearly always smaller than the other two.

$$. Differ markedly in the colouration of the abdomen and

legs from the ? 2.

Abdomen with the anterior pair of yellow lines well marked,

diverging, often very strongly, posteriorly, and followed by a broad,

median yellow band, the latter bordered by black lines and generally

also by a row of round white spots on each side; the W-shaped

black marks obliterated along the median line.

Legs blackened proximally but pale yellowish distally, only faintly

or scarcely at all banded ; the patella, tibia, and metatarsus of the

first pair covered with silvery white hairs.

Pedipalps long, the tibia curved, slightly longer than the small

tarsus.

Length ? ? 6-94, ¢ dg 54-65 mm.

The pattern on the carapace and abdomen is remarkably variable.

In the specimens from Hout Bay and Table Mountain the lateral

part of the dorsal surface is frequently brown or greyish. Sometimes

the abdomen of the adult g is coloured like that of a typical ?,

and vice versa, and occasionally the femora of the g are strongly

banded.

(b) 1 ¢ (No. 12377) from Ceres (H. Hermann).

Bridge, Worcester Division (H. Hermann).

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Gen. TRABAA E. Sim.

1. TRABHA LINEATA DN. sp.

Specimens.—(a) An adult and a subadult ? (No. 6266) found at

Kogmans Kloof, near Ashton, Robertson Division, in August, 1900,

by my wife and myself.

? (Type). Carapace subequal to the fourth metatarsus in length

but a little shorter than the first tibia and metatarsus; the surface

with 6 well-marked, longitudinal bands; the median band pale

ochraceous, broad, its cephalic portion slightly ampliated, the

posterior half of the thoracic portion narrower than the anterior

half ; black lateral bands as wide as the middle part of the median

band ; submarginal stripes pale yellow, broad, very sharply marked

and parallel-sided; black marginal stripes also well marked.

Anterior row of eyes strongly procurved, the medians situated some

little distance above the line joining the upper margins of the lateral

eyes ; distance between the eyes of the second row distinctly exceed-

ing their diameter; posterior quadrangle of eyes distinctly broader

behind than in front, much broader than long, its lateral length less

than its anterior width, the posterior eyes much smaller than those

of the second row.

Sternum broadly oval, longer than broad, pale yellowish along the

middle, infuscate laterally.

Abdomen with pale yellowish median band or stripe above, and on

each side of the band a row of dark spots, each bordered externally

by a tuft of white hairs; anteriorly on each side is a broad black

band; sides of abdomen densely spotted with yellow and black, or

the black predominating; under surface pallid, finely spotted with

black and provided with 3 black stripes (entirely black, with small

white spots, in the subadult ¢). Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 20) resembling

that of Lycosa brunneipes Pure., &., and consisting of a simple plate

with a 3-lobed posterior margin, the median lobe about as wide as

the lateral ones and provided with 2 small brown convexities at the

base, the lateral black spots on the plate remote from the hind

margin.

Chelicere pale yellowish in front, with a large oval ring of black ;

the 3 inferior teeth subequal.

Legs black, with pale yellowish stripes, the distal ends also more

or less pale yellowish. All the tarsi with a long scopula on each

side below, the scopula almost as well developed in the fourth as in

the first leg. All the metatarsi with thin distal scopula on each side.

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Spines on first tibia very long, the longer ones exceeding half the

tibia in length.

Total length 74 mm.

(b) 1 ¢ (No. 12388) from the Waterfall Mountains, Tulbagh

Division (Rk. M. Lightfoot, November, 1902). Legs lighter; oval

marks on cheliceree C-shaped ; abdomen not banded below.

November, 1899). Much lighter in colour, the legs yellowish, the

abdomen without median band below, the chelicerzee with a small

basal and middle spot in front.

2. TRABHA VARIA 0. sp.

Specimens.—1 @ (No. 5865) from the Cedarbergen (between

Clanwilliam and Pakhuis) and 1 g (No. 5888) from Clanwilliam,

both collected by Mr. R. M. Lightfoot in November, 1899.

2? (Type). Carapace broad behind, much shorter than the fourth

metatarsus and than the first tibia and metatarsus; colour pale

yellowish, with a pair of broad, lightly infuscated lateral bands and

narrowly infuscated lateral margins ; submarginal stripes submonili-

form, composed of 3 large, pale yellowish, partly confluent spots ;

head yellow, with a black patch at each eye. Anterior row of eyes

less procurved, the median eyes placed slightly above the line joining

the superior margins of the laterals, the eyes subequal; dorsal eye-

area almost forming a square, being only very slightly wider behind

than in front, and its lateral length only slightly less than its anterior

width, the eyes of the second row very large and convex, their

distance apart scarcely greater than their diameter, the posterior

eyes also large.

Sternum pale yellowish, rotundate.

Abdomen pale yellowish, the upper and lateral surfaces with

infuseate lines and markings. Vulva as in the preceding form.

Chelicere pale ochraceous, with infuscate ring in front and 3 sub-

equal inferior teeth.

Legs pale yellowish, strongly banded, except on the tarsi; tarsi

T and II with thin, weak lateral scopula, tarsi III and IV and all the

metatarsi apparently without any scopular hairs; spines on tibia I

long but less than 4 the tibia in length.

$. Carapace (including the sides of the head) more darkly

infuscated laterally, the submarginal yellow stripe narrow.

Abdomen black, with short, pale yellow median stripe in front.

Legs only faintly banded, pale yellowish, with some faint bands

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on the femora; tibia I long and slender, thinner than the tibia of

the pedipalps and clothed with a very few fine hairs.

Pedipalps with the femur infuscated, the patella and tibia pale

yellowish ; tibia slightly curved, much more than twice as long as

thick, clothed with fine white hairs, its length a little exceeding that

of the patella and only very slightly less than that of the tarsus ;

tarsus yellowish brown, the bulb + tarsus (seen from the side)

slender, only a little thicker than the tibia.

Total length 9 53, g 44 mm.

3. TRABHA UNICOLOR 0. sp.

Type—l1 3g (No. 3984) from French Hoek (W. fF’. P., October, 1898)

g. Whole spider unicolorous, pale yellowish; the head with a

black patch at each eye; the spines and some of the hairs black.

Carapace shaped as in varia n. sp. Anterior row of eyes very

strongly procurved ; eyes of the second row smaller and less convex

than in varia n. sp., their distance apart much greater than their

diameter ; posterior eyes rather small; dorsal eye-area parallel-sided

but a little wider than long.

Sternum very broad, nearly rotund.

Legs.—Tibia I stout and rather short, stouter than the tibia of the

pedipalps, thickly clothed with short black hairs above and longer

ones below.

Pedipalps.—Tibia short and stout, not twice as long as thick,

subequalling the patella in length but considerably shorter than the

tarsus, and clothed with black hairs. Tarsus + bulb of palpal organ

(seen from the side) small, not thicker than the tibia, the apical part

of tarsus whitish.

Total length 3} mm.

4, TRABHA NIGRICEPS Na. sp.

Type—1 $8 (No. 5706) from Doornnek, in the Zuurbergen,

Alexandria Division (J. L. Drége, October, 1899).

3. Carapace broad, with a single, very wide, infuscate median

band; this band as wide as the ocular area, black in the ocular region

but paler behind, parallel-sided, becoming narrower only quite pos-

teriorly, its hind end with a yellow emargination ; lateral parts of

carapace very broadly pale yellowish, the margins with fine black

lines and some submarginal spots. Head rather high in front, the

distance of the eyes of the second row from the anterior margin, if

anything, slightly greater than the diameter of these eyes, which is

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also less than their distance apart ; anterior row of eyes very strongly

procurved ; dorsal eye-area distinctly wider behind than in front and

distinctly transverse, the anterior width distinctly exceeding the

lateral length.

Sternum longer than broad, nearly rotundate, pale yellowish, with

a black submarginal band on each side and a median black spot

behind.

Abdomen black; under side pale yellowish, with a median row of

black marks.

Chelicere pale yellowish, with C-shaped black mark in front, the

basal inferior tooth smaller than the other two.

Legs pale yellow, with small black spots and narrow bands,

especially on the femora, the coxe with a black spot each in the

middle below. Tibia I with ordinary pallid hairs, slightly slenderer

than the tibia of the pedipalps.

Pedipalps pale yellowish; femur with some black spots; tibia

blackened on the outer and especially on the inner surfaces, the

blackened surfaces with long black hairs; seen from the side the

tibia appears slightly curved, nearly twice as long as thick, subequal

to the patella in length but a little shorter than the black tarsus ;

tarsus + bulb of palpal organ (seen from the side) stout, much

stouter than the tibia.

Total length 44 mm.

Gen. ARTORIA Thor.

ARTORIA FASCICULARIS Nn. sp.

Specimens.—2 g gf and 1 subadult ? from Maitland Flats and

Hout Bay, in the Cape Division (Nos. 6089 and 12201), collected by

my wife and myself.

3 g (Types). Carapace dark brown, high in front, flattened above,

the flattened part thickly covered with closely appressed white hairs

forming a broad parallel-sided median band ; the lateral parts covered

with olive-brownish hairs and the margins with whitish hairs.

Dorsal eye-area subquadrate, slightly wider behind than in front, its

lateral length equal to its anterior width; eyes of the middle row

rather large, about 14 times their diameter apart; eyes of the

anterior row subequal, the laterals situated below the centre of the

eyes of the second row and about midway between these and

the anterior margin of carapace, the median eyes with their lower

margins a little below the level of the superior margins of the lateral

eyes.

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Abdomen with a very broad, almost parallel-sided median band of

closely appressed, white or pale brownish yellow hairs, almost cover-

ing the dorsal surface, this band provided with scattered long black

sete and on each side posteriorly a series of fascicles of long white

ones; sides of abdomen black, with brownish hairs, the lower parts

with white hairs intermixed; ventral surface black.

Sternum black. Chelicere with 2 inferior teeth.

Legs testaceous, clothed with white hairs, the femora partly

infuscated or banded ; anterior tarsi and at least the distal part of

anterior metatarsi thinly scopulate at the sides; first tibia with 3

outer and 3 inner long spines in addition to a small apical pair.

Pedipalps brown, the tibia slightly longer than the patella, the two

segments together much longer than the tarsus; palpal organ not

prominent, provided with a sharp spur at outer edge near the middle

and a smaller point both in front of and behind the spur, in addition

to the curved apical process.

Total length g g 54-54 mm.

Gen. PARDOSA C. Koch.

1. PARDOSA LYCOSINA 0. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 2 2 2 (No. 4234) from Dunbrody, on the Sundays

River, Uitenhage Division (fev. J. A. O'Neil).

2 @. Carapace brownish black, with reddish yellow median and

submarginal bands, all with zig-zag edges, the submarginal bands

with white hairs. Anterior median eyes considerably larger than the

laterals and much nearer to them than to one another, the lower

margins of these eyes in a straight line.

Sternum brownish black, with short median yellow stripe anteriorly ;

in one specimen merely lightly infuscated.

Abdomen blackened, the dorsal surface with a median and 2 lateral

yellowish stripes anteriorly, followed by paired yellowish transverse

spots which are often confluent in pairs in the median line and pro-

vided each with one or more small black dots; ventral surface pale

yellowish. Vulva (pl. viii, fig. 21) large, with large 3-lobed fovea

behind containing a narrow median bar which is broadly dilated

posteriorly, the ends of the cross bar themselves strongly curving

forwards.

Legs dark, with alternate yellow and black bands; all the tarsi

and the first 3 pairs of metatarsi scopulate, the posterior ones at the

sides only; fourth metatarsus equal to or shorter than the tibia and

patella.

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Chelicere with 3 inferior teeth, the proximal one smallest.

Length 53-8 mm.

(b) 1 2 (No. 4272) from Clanwilliam (f. MW. Lightfoot).

2. PARDOSA UMTALICA 0. sp.

Specimens.—3 ¢ ? and 1 juy. (No. 12002) from Umtali, Mashona-

land (on Baviaanskopje, 3 miles east of the town); also 1 3

apparently belonging to this species captured at the same time and

place by Mr. D. Livingstone Patrick in June, 1902.

2 2 (Types). Carapace with broad black lateral bands, the yellow

median band narrower, its cephalic portion 3-pronged or almost

obliterated ; the submarginal yellow stripes very broad, furnished

with 3 black markings laterally; the lateral borders narrowly

blackened. Eyes much as in lycosina n. sp., but the anterior row

with the lower margin in a straight or slightly procurved line.

Sternum pale yellowish. Chelicere with 2 inferior teeth, the

proximal one being smallest (rarely with a small third distal tooth).

Abdomen black, the dorsal yellow markings as in lycosina n. sp.,

or almost obliterated ; ventral surface pale yellowish. Vulva (pl. vill.,

fig. 22) with longitudinal fovea, which widens posteriorly and contains

a median keel, also dilated posteriorly.

Legs pale yellowish or more or less darkly infuscated, with black

rings; fourth metatarsus equal to or longer than the tibia and

patella ; anterior legs weakly scopulate ; inferior spines on anterior

tibia and metatarsus long.

$. Carapace blackened ; median yellowish band present but the

submarginal ones obsolete.

Legs very slender, the femora blackened, the more distal segments

pale yellowish, lightly infuscated in parts, not distinctly banded.

Pedipalps black ; the tarsus pale yellowish distally, terminating in

a strong black claw, the outer edge deeply sinuate below, the bulb

not large, occupying nearly two-thirds of the length of the tarsus,

which is slightly less than that of the tibia and patella together.

Length 9 9? 4-44, ¢ 3+ mm.

3. PARDOSA FOVEOLATA N.. Sp.

Specimens.—(a) 1 2 and 4 g g (No. 9803) from Port St. Johns,

Pondoland (Guy Shortridge).

2 (Type). Carapace broadly yellow in the middle, black at the

sides. Anterior row of eyes lightly procurved, the medians larger

than the laterals and much nearer to these than to each other,

136 Annals of the South African Musewm.

Sternum black, with median yellow line. Chelicere with the

inferior middle tooth larger than the proximal and distal teeth.

Abdomen black, with yellow spots, the under side pale yellowish.

Vulva (pl. viil., fig. 23) very large, containing a large, longitudinal,

black-rimmed fovea, which is dilated behind.

Legs blackened, more yellowish distally, the third and fourth

metatarsi blackened at apex; spines on anterior tibia and metatarsus

long; fourth metatarsus subequal to the tibia and patella.

3S. Carapace as in ° or entirely black.

Abdomen almost entirely black, also below. Sternwm black.

Legs with the femora blackened, the distal segments and the apex

of the femora pale yellowish, but the distal two-thirds of the third

metatarsus deep black.

Pedipalps black, the bulb not large, only about 4 the tarsus in

length and provided at base below with a short sharp process directed

forwards and outwards, the distal part of the tarsus longish, eylin-

drical in appearance, when seen from the side, and covered above

with a dark grey scopula; the tarsus longer than the tibia and

patella together, the distal claw inconspicuous.

Length ¢ 43, ¢ g§ 44 mm.

(b) 2 2 2 from Kentani, Transkei (Rev. Ff. C. Kolbe). Anterior

row of eyes scarcely or not at all procurved.

Anterior row of eyes not procurved ; legs and sternum yellowish in

one specimen and black or at least very dark in the other.

(d) 1 2 from Pocaltsdorp, George Division (Miss L. Leipoldt).

(e) 1 g from Umtali, Mashonaland (D. LZ. Patrick, November,

1901). Somewhat lighter in colour than the g g of the typical form.

4, PARDOSA LEIPOLDTI Nn. sp.

Specimens.—(a@) 1 9 (No. 3562) from Clanwilliam (C. LZ. Leipoldt,

October, 1897) and 1 g from the same locality (Rk. M. Lightfoot,

November, 1899).

2 (Type). Carapace with infuscate lateral bands, the median

band narrow, pale yellowish, 3-pronged on the head, the submarginal

stripes broad, pale yellowish, becoming slightly obscured towards the

finely blackened lateral margins. Anterior row of eyes straight, the

median eyes slightly larger than the laterals and nearer to them than

to one another.

Sternun pale yellow, with 3 black marginal dots on each side and a

large oval infuscate mark with yellow centre nearer the middle.

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Abdomen black above, with the usual yellow pattern (much as in

lycosina n. sp.). The sides and under surface pale yellowish.

Vulva (pl. viil., fig. 24) with long narrow fovea extending from anterior

end and tranversely widened posteriorly and containing a L-shaped

keel, the cross bar of the keel with the ends bent forwards.

Legs pale yellow, with dark hairs but without rings and marked

with black only at the junction of the femora with the trochanters ;

scopular hairs on anterior legs very scanty ; spines on anterior tibia

and metatarsus very long; fourth metatarsus equal to the tibia and

patella.

Chelicere pallid, the proximal inferior tooth small, the middle

tooth large, larger than the distal tooth.

3. Carapace with the submarginal yellow stripe on each side

much narrower than in the ?.

Abdomen with median yellow band above reaching to hind end.

Sternum blackened, with narrow yellow median line anteriorly.

Pedipalps pale yellowish; the tibia somewhat thickened distally,

densely covered with deep black hairs; tarsus very slightly shorter

than the tibia, its outer side with mesial sinus below, its free distal

portion short and conical, forming only about 4 of the entire length,

the bulb not large, rounded below.

Length @ 54, g 4+ mm.

(b) 1 ¢ from Ramskop, Clanwilliam Division (C. L. Leipoldt).

Umtali, Mashonaland (D. L. Patrick). Carapace with the median

band transversely dilated behind on the head, the thoracic portion

also strongly dilated anteriorly; sides with a row of black spots in

the broad yellow submarginal stripe. Stermwm without infuscate

marks, except a few black lines at the edges. Legs strongly banded

with black (except on the tarsi), the first and fourth tibia especially

being more black than yellow.

5. PARDOSA CLAVIPALPIS N. sp.

Specimens.—(a) 15 9 2, 2 gg, and 3 juv. (Nos. 6130, 12182,

&c.) from various parts of the Cape Peninsula (Bergvliet, Retreat,

Capetown), collected by Mr. R. M. Lightfoot, who first found the

species, and myself.

29 (Types). Carapace infuseated, the median yellow band

narrow, generally dilated behind on the head, the submarginal

yellow stripe narrow, distinct or somewhat obscured, abbreviated

anteriorly, covered with white hairs, Anterior row of eyes straight,

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the median eyes larger than the laterals and nearer to them than to

one another.

Sternum dark brown or black, sometimes with median yellow line

in front.

Abdomen with the dorsal surface and the sides blackened, the

dorsal surface with the usual yellow pattern; ventral surface pale

yellowish. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 25) allied to that of lecpoldti n. sp.,

but differing in having the anterior part of the median groove and

keel strongly widened.

Chelicere with small proximal inferior tooth, large middle tooth,

and large or small distal tooth.

Legs with alternate pale yellowish and infuscate bands.

3S. Carapace and abdomen blacker, the submarginal yellow

stripe of the former obsolete, the abdomen with a median infuscate

stripe below.

Legs pale yellowish, not transversely banded, the femora marked

longitudinally and often also obliquely with black above, that of

first leg broadly blackened in basal half in front and behind or in

front only.

Pedipalps black, with some yellow on the patella; tibia slightly

thickened distally and densely covered, like the basal half of the

tarsus, with deep black hairs; tarsus slightly shorter than the tibia

and patella, the free distal portion short, forming less than half of

the whole length and provided above with the usual scopula; bulb

not enlarged.

Length @ 9 54-61, d g 4-43 mm.

(b) 1 ? from Worcester (f. MW. Lightfoot).

Legs of ¢ without the black dorsal stripe.

(d) 1 ? from Kimberley (P. L. Sclater).

6. PARDOSA CRASSIPALPIS Nn. sp.

Specimens.—(a@) 13 2 2 with cocoons, 5 g 3, and several young

(Nos. 12613 and 12652) from the river-bed at the Hot Baths near

Montagu, collected by my wife and myself in November, 1902.

2 2 (Lypes). Carapace with black lateral bands, the median

yellow band broad, dilated behind on the head; submarginal yellowish

bands broad, with a row of black spots laterally, the margin itself

marked with a series of black lines, Anterior row of eyes straight or

slightly procurved, the median eyes larger than the laterals and

nearer to them than to one another,

New South African Spiders. 139

Sternum pale yellowish. _Chelicere with 3 inferior teeth, the

proximal and generally also the distal tooth small, the middle

tooth large.

Abdomen black at the sides above, the usual median pattern more

or less fused to a single broad yellow area extending to hind end ;

lateral and ventral surfaces pale yellowish, the lateral surface with

black spots. Vulva (pl. viii., fig. 26) with large, somewhat trian-

gular fovea, which has wavy margins and is narrow in front,

the broad posterior part containing a pair of black sublunate

convexities,

Legs pale yellowish, spotted and banded with black, except

on the tarsi; inferior spines on tibia and metatarsus of first leg

very long.

3 3. Resembling the ? in colour, except that the more distal

segments of the legs are not banded and the first femur is more or

less broadly blackened at base in front.

Pedipalps yellowish and infuscated, or more or less blackened,

resembling those of clavipalpis n. sp., but with the tarsus very

much enlarged and longer than the tibia and patella together,

the free distal portion very short, forming scarcely + of the

whole length.

Length ¢ 9 44-541, g g 4-44 mm.

(b) 7 2 2 with cocoons and 1 g from Prince Albert (W. £. P.,

September, 1896).

Uitenhage Division (fev. J. A. O'Neil).

(d) 1 ? from Van Stadens River, Uitenhage Division (J. L. Drege,

January, 1899).

(e) 4 2 2 from Doornnek, in the Zuurbergen, Alexandria Division

(J. L. Drége, October, 1899).

(f) 3 @ @ from Hanover and Vlagkop (5-6 miles N. of Hanover)

(S.C. Cronwright Schreiner).

(g) 2 2 2 from Kentani, Transkei (ev. F. C. Kolbe).

All these specimens are very similar in their colouration, The

males are easily recognised by their remarkable pedipalps.

7. PARDOSA SCHREINERI 0. sp.

Specimens.—4 2 2 with cocoons and 3 gg (No. 10052) from

Hartebeeste Hoek, 9-10 miles S.E. of De Aar, Hanover Division

(S. C. Cronwright Schreier, January, 1902).

2 2 (Types). Carapace with the median yellow band moderately

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wide, broadly dilated behind on the head, the submarginal yellow

stripes very broad, with or without a row of black marks laterally,

the lateral margins finely blackened. Anterior row of eyes straight,

the median eyes larger than the laterals and nearer to them than to

one another.

Sternum pale yellowish, with 2-3 black marginal dots on

each side.

Abdomen black at the sides above, with the usual series of yellow

dorsal markings ; ventral surface and the sides pale yellowish, the

sides more or less spotted with black. Vulva (pl. vili., fig. 27) with

a deep triangular incision behind containing a brown cordate plate

with a pair of longitudinal convexities and a median groove on its

surface.

Chelicere with the middle inferior tooth larger than the other two.

Legs pale yellowish, with faint or strong infuscate or black bands,

at least on the more proximal segments ; inferior spines on first tibia

and metatarsus long.

3 3. Carapace entirely blackened, except along the median

band. Ventral surface of abdomen pale yellowish or more or less

blackened. Sternum black. Legs pale yellowish, the anterior

femora blackened at base in front, the other legs with the femora

and some of the other segments often partly blackened.

Pedipalps black, resembling those of crassipalpis n. sp. in ap-

pearance, but not so large, the tarsus being slightly shorter than the

tibia and patella together, the free distal part of the tarsus very

short, forming only about + of the whole length and terminating in a

strong, conspicuous, curved black claw.

Length 9 @ 44-43, g g 4-44 mm.

The males of the South African species of Pardosa known to me

may be distinguished as follows :—

a. Tibia of pedipalps not much more densely hairy than the more proximal

segments.

a'. Tarsus of pedipalps with the free distal part which projects beyond the bulb

short, forming only about 4 of the whole length, appearing conical when

seen from the side and terminating with a conspicuous curved claw.

Mashonaland JO CONC Candee CCM. arden etry) come en Onnaniternial, yn);

b'. Tarsus of pedipalps with the free distal part long, appearing more cylindrical

when seen from the side, the terminal claw inconspicuous.

a°. Palpal organ very large. Cape Colony... .. .. PP. manubriata Sim.

b*, Palpal organ of moderate size. Pondoland, Mashonaland

P. foveolata n. sp.

New South African Spiders. 141

b. Tibia of pedipalps thickly covered with stiff black hairs, especially below, and

much more hairy than the more proximal seements.

a. Tarsus of pedipalps much enlarged, longer than the tibia and_ patella

together. Montagu, Pr. Albert and Uitenhage Divisions

P. crassipalpis n. sp.

b3, Tarsus of pedipalps smaller, not longer than the tibia and patella together.

a4, Tarsus of pedipalps with the free distal portion forming about + of the

U4,

whole length and ending with a very conspicuous, strong curyed claw.

lslemmower IDIVISIOMs, co oc oo op oa eo oo Js SON CINEH Te So

Tarsus of pedipalps with the free distal portion longer, forming about 4

of the whole length and without conspicuous claw.

(

5, Pedipalps pale yellowish. Clanwilliam .. .. P. leipoldtin. sp.

>, Pedipalps blackened. Cape and Montagu Districts

P. clavipalpis n. sp.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII.

FIG.

Anomalomma schreineri n. sp. Vulva.

2. bs bisinuata n. sp. Do.

3. Proevippa lightfootin. sp. Do.

4. Pterartoria subcrucifera n. sp. Do.

5. 50 caldaria n, sp. Do.

6. , sag@n. sp. Do.

ie jlavolimbata n. sp. Do.

8. 0 Ar 33 Palpal organ.

9: polysticta n. sp. Vulva.

10. 3 Jissivittata n. sp. Do.

ll. Lycosa patricki n. sp. Do.

12. » auratan. sp. Do.

By » bimaculata n. sp. Do.

14. »» umtalican. sp. Do.

15. | 6O neil miasp= Do:

16. + nivosan. sp. Do.

Ff » .cretatan.sp. De.

18. » dregein.sp. Do.

ie », biampliata n. spe) Dos

20. Trabea lineata n. sp. Do.

21. Pardosa lycosina n. sp. Do.

22 untalica n. sp. Do,

23 Joveolata n. sp. Do.

24, ks leipoldti n. sp. Do.

25. 5 clavipalpis n. sp. Do.

26. is crassipalpis n. sp. Do.

27 schreineri n. sp. Do.

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West, Newman lith.

‘ New South African Opiders. &C.

(143 )

VI.—Descriptions of some New Species, and Characters of Three

New Genera, of Araneidea from South Africa—By the Rev.

Octavius PIcKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.S., &c.

(With Plates IX., X., XI., XIL)

THE spiders included in the following pages can only be considered

a very scanty representation of the order Araneidea in the locality

whence they hail. They are, however, of much interest in being,

most of them if not all, good species, and not, I think, before

described. Mr. W. F. Purcell, of the South African Museum, Cape

Town, to whom I am indebted for these examples, tells me that

he intends to take up this order seriously, and I will only say in

addition to a strong commendation of this praiseworthy resolution,

that I sincerely hope he will add copious illustrations to the descrip-

tions and diagnoses he may give to the scientific world.

THERAPHOSIDE.

Sus-Famity MIGINZA.

Gen. Nov. CAZDMON.*

Moggridgea, Cambr.: ad partem. M. abraham, Cambr.

Migas, L. Koch-Sim. ad partem.

Closely allied to Moggridgea, but differs in the position of the

eyes. These in Cedmon are (like those of Moggridgea) in two

transverse rows, but the anterior row is very nearly straight, the

slight curve, if any, having its convexity directed either forward or

backward; the two rows are thus almost parallel, while in Mog-

gridgea the convexity of the anterior row is very strongly directed

backwards, the lateral eyes on either side (of the two rows) being

in that genus also very widely separated. The laterals of the anterior

row are larger than the central, and the type of Moggridgea is

M. dyert, Cambr., that of Cedmon is M. abrahamii, Cambr. Of

neither species, so far as I know, has the male been described.

M. Simon considered that M. abraham belonged to the genus

* Nom. propr.

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Migas, L. Koch, but though its eye-position accords fairly well there

is a strong and important difference in the form of the cephalo-

thorax. This in M. abrahamii is as broad as long (or at any rate

only slightly longer than broad) and well rounded on the sides,

while in Migas it is considerably longer than broad, and its sides are

getting on towards parallel.

The height of the clypeus is equal to half that of the facial space.

The central eyes of the anterior row are rather larger than the

laterals. The under sides of the metatarsi and tibie of the first

and second pairs of legs are furnished with powerful spines. The

tarsi of those pairs are very short, of an oval form in the males,

tapering in the females. The superior terminal tarsal claws are

armed either with 2 inferior teeth (gf) or a geminated tooth (¢ ),

springing from a short but distinct claw-joint.

CDMON ABRAHAMII Cambr.

Moggridgea abrahanui Cambr.

Pe ins: 1680, p. 4, Pl iL: figs.

Hab. Natal, South Africa.

CaDMON THORACICA, sp. n. (PI. IX., fig. 1.)

Adult male, length very nearly 44 lines; length of cephalothorax

9 lines, breadth ditto.

Cephalothorax equal in length and breadth, rather flattened, and

almost circular; close in front of the thoracic indentation (which

is curved, the convexity directed forwards) is a strongish rounded

eminence. The surface of the cephalothorax is coarsely granulose ;

its colour is deep brown, and the height of the clypeus equals half

that of the facial space.

Eyes of anterior row equally separated by a space rather exceeding

the diameter of one of the centrals. The fore-laterals are largest of

the eight. The convexity of the curve of this row, looked at ver-

tically from above and behind, is very slightly directed forwards.

Eyes of the posterior row form a curve in same direction, but rather

stronger than that of the anterior. The two eyes at each end of the

posterior row are very near to each other but not quite contiguous.

Each lateral eye of the posterior row is very little more than its own

diameter’s distance from the anterior lateral on the same side. In

front of and between the fore-central eyes is a vertical spine with

a much smaller one on each side of it.

New Species of Araneidea. 145

Legs not greatly different in length—4, 1, 2, 3, tolerably strong.

Colour deep brown, especially the femora and tibiz, which are nearly

black. Tarsi very short, oval, and of a yellow-brown hue. Spines

strong beneath the tibiz and metatarsi of the first and second pairs,

abruptly bent or somewhat hooked at their extremities. They do

not appear to be quite regular or symmetrical. Metatarsi of the first

pair have 2 rows of spines ; tvbi@ 3 rows varying in number in each

row, 2-7. The spines beneath the tibie of the second pair are

neither so numerous nor so strong as on those of the first pair.

The genue of the first and second pairs have 4 spines at their fore

end. It is impossible to say, in absence of a series, whether the

number and position of the above spines may or may not eventually

afford a good specific distinguishing character.

Palpt long; radial joint almost double the length of the cubital,

very tumid along the under side, but pinched in or compressed

there rather abruptly near its fore extremity, beneath which it is

furnished with long bristly hairs. Digital joint small, cleft at

its anterior extremity; palpal bulb rather large, somewhat flat-

tened-globular, drawn out from near the middle into a tapering

black spur as long as the greatest width of the palpal bulb. The

colour of the bulb is pale yellow-brown, encircled with a broad

dark yellow-brown zonal band margined on each side with black.

Mazxille rather long, cylindrical, slightly tapering, double as long

as broad, divergent.

Labium rather broader than long at base, narrowing to the apex,

which is rounded. Near the apex are 4-5 short tapering not very

strong bristles, with some rather longer and shorter hairs.

Sternum much longer than broad, narrowing gradually to the

fore extremity, which is the same width as the base of the labium,

furnished with a few slender, tapering, bristly hairs.

Abdomen oval; broadest behind, of a dark purplish brown colour,

clothed pretty thickly with short, slightly curved, obtuse spiniform

bristles.

Hab. Under stones.

Loc. Simon’s Town (Cape Peninsula), Cape of Good Hope.

CDMON AFFINIS, sp.n. (PI. IX., fig. 2.)

Adult male, length, 5 lines; length of cephalothorax 2 lines ;

breadth 1% lines.

This spider is very nearly allied to C. thoracica; its cephalothorax,

however, is longer than broad, and is thus of a more oblong and less

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circular form, and there is scarcely any elevation in front of the

thoracic indentation. The profile line of the cephalothorax forms

an almost even curve in front of the thoracic indentation; the

eyes occupy a rather broader transverse area, but their general

position and relative size are very similar to those of C. thoracica.

The legs are not quite so strong; the metatarsi of the two

anterior pairs are longer, the tarsi narrower and more cylindrical:

those of C. thoracica being broader and of an oval form, and the

metatarsi and tibia equal in length, while in the present species

the metatarsi are longer than the tibiae. In the present species

also the colour of the tarsi and metatarsi of the first two pairs

is a clear yellow, and the spines beneath the tibia and meta-

tarsi differ a little in number and strength. The vertical spine in

front of the fore-central eyes is closer to them than in C. thoracica,

and the spine-like bristles on the abdomen are tapering in form and

less coarse. The bristles at the apex of the labium are several of

them dentiform.

Hab. Lion’s Hill. “ Dug out of a deep tubular hole in the ground

with a trap-door cover.”

CADMON CONGENER, sp.n. (PI. IX. fig. 3.)

Adult male, length 34 lines.

It is possible that this spider may be only a small example of the

last species, C. affinis. It agrees with that spider in the cephalo-

thorax being longer than broad, and it has no elevation in front

of the thoracic indentation. The eye-area, however, appears to be

shorter in its transverse measurement and broader from back to

front, and the surface granulations, from the eye area to the hinder

extremity, are almost obsolete along a broad tapering central band ;

and the space between the lateral pair of eyes on each side is much

larger than in either of the foregoing species. The colour of the legs

is a uniform dull yellow-brown, excepting the femora, which are of a

darker hue. At the apex of the labium are some longer tapering

bristly hairs, and behind them several small short dentiform spines.

The armature of the two first pairs of legs is very like that of

the other species, the tarsi are more like those of C. thoracica, and

the form and structure of the palpi do not appear to present any

reliable difference. The abdomen is covered pretty thickly with

short curved strongish mostly slightly tapering spine-like hairs.

T have thought it best, at any rate for the present, to record this

as a distinct species, though a longer series of the group can alone

determine whether it may not belong to a species in which there is a

New Species of Araneidea. a

considerable variety in the details of some portions of structure in

different individuals.

A single example under stones. ‘ Lion’s Hill,’’ near Cape Town.

8 p p

CmpMON DuBIA, ?sp.n. (PI. IX., fig. 4.)

Adult female, length 6 lines.

Length of cephalothorax 24 lines; breadth 2 lines.

Allowing for some obvious sexual difference, this example might

be the female of either of the three foregoing spiders. The eye-area

is most similar to that of C. congener, and the cephalothorax in its

general form (longer than broad) agrees with both that and C. affinis.

There is scarcely any elevation in front of the thoracic indentation.

Its surface is devoid of granulations, and the hairs on the abdomen

ace all finer and more tapering. The broad but strongly tapering

form of the tibial, metatarsal, and tarsal joints of the first two pairs

of legs, with their armature, is certainly only a sexual character.

The maxilla and labium are pretty thickly covered with short

dentiform spines, which is also probably a sexual character. The

sternum has two roundish bare spots in a transverse line across the

middle.

The general colour is a uniform yellow-brown, that of the abdomen

being dull purplish brown, closely mottled (in spirit of wine), with a

pale hue.

A single example. Muizenberg (Cape Peninsula).

Another example of the female sex, from ‘ Lion’s Hill,” under

stones, length 44 lines, is either a small, or immature, female of

C. dubia.

A nest of some spider of this group from under a stone, Muizen-

berg, accompanied the above spiders. Its length is 94 lines, of an

almost cylindrical bag-form, rounded at the bottom. Greatest width

41 lines. Closed at the top with a nearly round, thin, wafer-form,

hinged lid a little over 3 lines in diameter, covered with granula-

tions of dark sand-grains, &e.

Faminty ZODARIIDE-E.

Genus DIORKES, Sim.

DIORES SIMONII, sp.n. (PI. IX., fig. 5.)

Adult male, length 1? lines (84 mm,).

Adult female, 2 lines,

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Cephalothorax oval, slightly rounded before, moderately convex

above, profile line forming a slight, even curve; lateral marginal

compression at caput slight. Colour yellow, with the oblique

indentation on each side of the caput suffused with dusky brown.

The height of the clypeus is about half that of the facial space.

Hiyes in two transverse curved rows of which the convexity of

the curves is directed backwards (the curve of the posterior row

strongest). The fore-centrals are largest, the rest much smaller and

about equal in size. The quadrilateral figure formed by the four

central eyes is very nearly quadrate, being a little wider than long.

The interval between the fore-centrals is equal to a diameter, that

between the hind-centrals is equal to two diameters, and the interval

between each of the hind-centrals and the hind-lateral next to it is

a diameter. The eyes of each lateral pair are separated by a dis-

tinct, but narrow, interval.

Legs rather long, slender—4, 1, 2, 3. Colour yellow, like that of

the cephalothorax, in some examples (probably) slightly suffused

with dusky brownish; furnished with a few small, inconspicuous

spines.

Palpi short, similar to the legs in colour. Cubital and radial

joints very short, about equal in length, the former bent and clavate,

the latter with a short obtuse prominence, near the outer side of the

under part furnished with a few bristly hairs; the outer side is pro-

duced into a long, bifid, dark brown apophysis, the two portions of

which are parallel, of equal length, tapering and sharp-pointed. The

digital joint is large, oval, pointed in front, with a terminal, simple,

slightly curved claw. Palpal organs well developed, with corneous

processes and spines.

Falces moderately long, strong, straight, vertical, and conical ;

similar to the cephalothorax in colour; falx very small.

Maxille moderate in length and strength, rounded at their

extremity, with an oblique indentation in front and inclined a good

deal towards the labium.

Labium broader than high, rounded at the apex.

Sternum broad, shield-shape, the hinder extremity with a small,

abrupt terminating point. This part, with the maxille and labium,

is similar to the legs in colour.

Abdomen oval, blackish above, yellow underneath and on the

sides, tolerably convex above; the larger part of the upper side

forwards covered with a coriaceous plate of a dark shining brown

hue. Inferior spinners large, superior very small and incon-

spicuous,

New Species of Araneidea. 149

The female resembles the male in colours and general appearance,

but the abdomen wants the coriaceous covering on the upper side.

The genital aperture is large and of very characteristic form. The

palpi have some spines on the inner side of the radial and digital

joints, and the latter ends with a longish, simple, slightly curved

claw.

Hab. Cape Peninsula.

DIoRES co@nata, sp.n. (PI. IX., fig. 6.)

In size, colours, and general characters this species resembles the

foregoing, but the relative position of the eyes of the hinder row is

different, as also is the form and structure of the palpi.

The eyes of the hind-central pair are not much further apart than

each is from the hind-lateral next to it; the fore side of the central

quadrangle is a little shorter than the hinder side, and the difference

in the form of the radial apophysis, as well as of the structure of the

palpal organs, though quite distinct, can only be satisfactorily con-

veyed by drawings from a similar point of view.

Hab. Cape Peninsula.

This species is very nearly allied to D. simonii, and was contained

among the examples received of that species as though identical.

Famity THERIDIIDA.

Genus ENOPLOGNATHA, Sim.

ENOPLOGNATHA MOLESTA, sp.n. (PI. X., fig. 1.)

From a careful examination and comparison of nine males and

twenty females sent to me by Mr. Purcell from five different

localities at the Cape of Good Hope, I have concluded that they are

all of one species, the individuals of which vary exceedingly in size,

and in some points also of structure. Taking as the type of the

following description a male example in which the characters are

shown in the most highly developed form, I shall subsequently

remark upon the variations in other examples.

Adult male (typical example), length 3 lines; adult female, length

4 lines. (With regard to mere size, I may note here that the

variation in this respect is from a maximum in the male of 3 lines

to a minimum of 14, and in the female of from 4 lines to 2.)

The colour of the cephalothorax and legs is a pale brownish

yellow, with a slight tinge of darker brown at the joints, The legs

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are 1, 4, 2, 3, furnished with hairs only, excepting the metatarsi of

the first and second pairs, along the under sides of which are some

short, obtuse spines mostly ending with a short, fine bristle.

The eyes are small and subequal in size; they are in two

transverse rows. The interval between those of the hind-central

pair is slightly over a diameter, or about half that between each

and the hind-lateral eye next to it. The four central eyes form

very nearly a square. Those of each lateral pair are contiguous to

each other, and placed obliquely on a small tubercle. The fore-

central pair are seated on a small, transverse, tubercular prominence.

The height of the clypeus is half that of the facial space.

The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, slender, furnished with

hairs only. The cubital joint is curved, slightly claviform, the radial

enlarges slightly and gradually to its anterior extremity and is

nearly double the length of the cubital. The digital joint is small

oval; the palpal organs are compact and not very complex in

structure,

The falces are yellow-brown, very strong, divergent, equal in

length to the cephalothorax, directed forwards, of a somewhat

tapering form, largest near the middle and rather prominent on the

upper side, which is furnished with minute denticles each ending

with a small bristle; a group of the same also occupy a space

beneath the base of each falx. About the middle of the under side

of the falx is a very strong, but tapering, sharp-pointed tooth

directed forwards, its point being level with the articulation of the

fang. In front of this large tooth are two others very much smaller,

nearly but not quite in a straight longitudinal line; the anterior is

the strongest, nearly triangular, and not far from the articulation

of the fang, the other smaller and of a somewhat bent form, like

that of the large one before mentioned. Towards the base, in front,

of the large tooth is a minute denticle. The fang is long, strong,

and curved; when at rest it is directed backwards in the same line

as the falx; it is a little protuberant from near the base to about the

middle.

The maxilla, labium, and sternum are suffused with a darker, dull,

yellow-brown hue.

Abdomen oval, of a dull chalky-white colour, the whole upper side

occupied by a leaf-shaped marking outlined by a more or less

continuous black angulated line; the hinder extremity of the marking

truncated in an incurved form. Along the middle of this marking is

a longitudinal black central line crossed anteriorly by another. The

spinners are on a black patch, above which on each side are some

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short broken black lines. The under side of the abdomen is whitish,

divided longitudinally along the middle with a black line.

- Found under stones.

The female resembles the male in colours and markings. Her

falees are much shorter and smaller, though still powerful, nearly

perpendicular and not divergent; their colour is a rich dark red-

dish brown, and their anterior side is pretty thickly granulose,

or furnished with small denticles. In the female the legs generally

show traces of a faint dull brownish annulation, and the colours are

generally darker than those of the male, with often a more or less

considerable diffusion and obliteration of the pattern on the abdomen.

The genital aperture, though characteristic, is not apparently so

regular and symmetrical in its form as in numbers of other spiders,

and a considerable similarity will probably be found in different

species of this genus.

The chief variations, besides those of size, which I have noted are

in the male. These occur in the relative position of the eyes; in

some examples the hind-centrals are nearer together than in others.

There is also a difference in the length and strength of the falces

and of their armature. The relative length also of the cubital

and radial joints of the palpi differ; in some examples the radial is

nearly double the length of the cubital, in others it only slightly

exceeds it. The short blunt spines also beneath the metatarsi of the

first pair of legs vary in number and strength.

The examples received were from the Cape Peninsula, Nieuwoudt-

ville, Bokkeveld Mountains, Calvinia Division, Ceres Village, and

Clanwilliam Village, Cape Colony.

ENOPLOGNATHA INORNATA, sp. n. (PI. X., fig. 2.)

Adult female length rather over land $line. The whole of the fore

part (the maxille, labium, and sternum being of a darker yellow-

brown hue) is a pale dull yellow-brown, and the abdomen is pale

dull whitish, with a cruciform dull blackish longitudinal central

stripe on the fore-half of the upper side, and a curved bordering

stripe at the fore extremity, followed on each side towards the hinder

end by slightly oblique similarly coloured stripes ; in some examples

these oblique stripes are represented by an almost isolated spot

at the extremity of the stripe; in such examples the characteristic

leaf-like pattern on the abdomen of the foregoing species, and others

known to me, is very visible. The eyes in this species differ from

those of EL. molesta in those of the hinder row being much more nearly

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equally separated from each other, the intervals being scarcely more

than a diameter interval apart, and the length of the line formed

py the fore-central pair of eyes being rather less than that of the

hind-central pair. The genital aperture differs a little in form from

that of HE. molesta, but bears a general resemblance to it.

Examples received from ‘Ceres Village” and Clanwilliam Village,

Cape Town.

Genus LATRODECTUS.

LaTRODECTUS CONCINNUS, sp.n. (PI. X., fig. 4 gf ; Pl. X., fig.3 2.)

This spider is in its markings very much like L. geometricus,

C. L. Koch, but on comparing typical specimens (in my possession)

of that species figured and described, from Minas Geraes. S. Amer.),

by the late Count Keyserling, in ‘“‘Spinnen Amerikas,’” p. 148,

pl. vil. fig. 92, it appears to be quite distinct. It is very much

larger, and the palpi of the male as well as the genital aperture

of the female are different.

Adult male length rather over 14 lines; adult female from 4 to

5 lines,

(The measurements of LZ. geometricus, C. L. Koch-Keys., are

g 14 lines; 9 from 2 to 3 lines.)

In the male the colour of the cephalothorax is yellow-brown with

a rather diffused central longitudinal and lateral marginal stripes on

each side of a darker hue ; the legs are pale yellowish with a brown

tinge at the fore-extremities of the joints.

The abdomen is oval, of a dark brownish grey colour, along the

central line are three round-oval, white spots margined with black,

the hinder spot produced backwards into a stripe which reaches the

spinners; on each side of the central stripe and spots is a longi-

tudinal row of four round, black spots, each of which is included in

and close to the beginning of a long, nearly vertical lateral tapering

white stripe edged with black; these oblique stripes are parallel to

each other and end at the margin of the under side of the abdomen.

This last is black or blackish, and has a large dicebox-shaped white

central marking, and the spinners are encircled by several white

spots.

The palpi are short, the radial joint very short, spreading on its

outer side, and with a marginal row of bristly hairs ; the digital joint

is oval, rather large, the palpal organs have a long, closely coiled

filiform black spine at their extremity, and one large separated

coil running completely round the base of the digital joint and palpal

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organs, one or two small prominent sinuous processes near their

outer extremity issuing from behind the coiled spine.

The eyes of the hinder row in the male form a very nearly straight

line (its curve, if any, has its convexity directed forwards), and are

equally separated by an eye’s diameter. The anterior row is curved,

the convexity of the curve also directed forwards. The four central

eyes form a large square ; the interval between those of each lateral

pair is less than an eye’s diameter, and there is no more than half

that space between the hind and fore-central pairs of eyes. This last

pair are seated on a strong tubercular transverse oval prominence.

The sternum is dark brown, bisected longitudinally by a pale

brownish yellow line.

The female has the cephalothorax unicolorous, the curve of the

hinder row of eyes is also stronger than in the male, as also is that

of the anterior row. The eyes of the central pair are nearer to each

other than each is to the hind-lateral on its side, and the interval

between those of each lateral pair is less than that between the fore

and hind-central pairs. The abdomen is very large, subglobular-

oval. The markings on it are similar to those in the male, excepting

that the round form of the white spots is sometimes subangular, and

the colours of the spots and stripes interchange with the ground

colour, thus the white markings with black edging becomes dark,

sometimes black, with white edges, and sometimes the ground is

grey-white, with black edges to the white markings. The genital

aperture is of characteristic form, though bearing a_ general

resemblance to some other species of the genus.

It is to be noted that in this species, as well as in the South

American examples above mentioned as typical of L. geometricus, the

two rows of eyes are not divergent as given in the characterisation

of this genus by authors, and in males this is more marked than in

females, and so the interval between the eyes of each lateral pair

is not greater or even as great as that between the fore- and hind-

central eyes. Whether this might not justify the species in which

this occurs being separated into another genus would depend on how

far this difference from the usual generic character might show

sufficient and uniform persistence.

Females of the above were received from Cape Town, where it

appears to be very common, and males from Devil’s Mountain (Cape

Town Slope).*

* Since writing the above I have been able to refer to a paper lately published

on the genus Latrodectus, P.Z.S., 1902, p. 247. The author there gives as a

locality of L. geometricus, C. L. Koch, Cape Colony and Table Mountain, Whether

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LATRODECTUS INDISTINCTUS, sp.n. (Pl. XI, fig. 1.)

Adult female length 5 to 54 lines.

The whole of the forepart of this spider is of a dark dull yellow-

brown, the cephalothorax with some scratchy converging darker

lines; the abdomen has a dull, sooty-brown hue with indistinct dull

whitish markings on the upper side, but with no distinct pattern

traceable. The under side of the abdomen is marked by two in-

distinct transverse whitish stripes, and between and at the base of

the inferior pair of spinners is a distinct colulus, pointed-oval at its

extremity. The genital aperture bears a general resemblance to that

of others of this genus, but is still of a characteristic form. The

hairs on the abdomen are of a short coarse stubby nature.

The eyes of the hind-central pair are much nearer together than

to the hind-laterals. The posterior row has its curve directed

forwards, while that of the anterior row is directed very slightly

backwards, the interval between the eyes of each lateral pair being

distinctly greater than that between the fore- and hind-central pairs ;

and the anterior side of the central square is rather shorter than the

rest. The lateral eyes are seated on strong, prominent, and divergent

tubercles.

Hab. Mamre Mission Station, Malmesbury Division, Cape

Peninsula.

TEUTANA LEPIDA, sp.n. (PI. XI, fig. 2.)

Adult male, length 2 to 34 lines.

Adult female, length 3 to nearly 5 lines.

Adult Male.—Cephalothorax elongate-oval, broadest in the middle,

rather pointed at each end, slightly produced behind in a rounded

cylindrical form. Colour deep rich blackish red-brown, the surface

thickly and coarsely granulose, the caput isa little elevated before and

the ocular area prominent, the thoracic area also is a little gibbous

close behind the normal indentation. Hyes subequal, tolerably

closely grouped together, those of the posterior row form a straight

transverse line; the interval between the hind-central pair being

the spiders thus allocated are identical or not with Koch’s species from South

America I cannot of course say. One would hesitate to pronounce as identical,

spiders from these two widely distant and distinct regions, without being able to

compare types or typical examples of each. I cannot say whether the spiders

referred to l.c. supra are or are not identical with those I have described here as

a new species, but seeing that Keyserling’s examples in my possession, described

by him as L. yeometricus, C. Li. Koch, are South American, and are certainly distinct

from the very common Cape Town species, though undoubtedly resembling it closely

in pattern and variety of colouring, one may well suspect that the Cape Colony

species alluded to may not be L. geometricus, C, L,

New Species of Araneidea. 155

slightly less than that which separates each from the hind-lateral

eye next to it. The anterior row is curved, the convexity of the

curve directed backwards. The fore-central eyes are smaller than

the fore-laterals, and the height of the clypeus which has its lower

margin prominent exceeds half that of the facial space.

Legs long, 1, 4, 2, 3 furnished with fine short hairs only, colour

brownish yellow, the genuze and the extremities of the whiz and

femora strongly suffused with dark brown.

Palpi similar to the legs in colour, moderately long ; cubital and

radial joints of equal length, the former bent, the latter gradually

enlarged to the extremity ; digital joint rather large, oval, as long as

the cubital and radial together, palpal organs complex, compact,

with a strong prominent somewhat twisted corneous process near

their extremity on the outer side, and close by is also a pale

prominent process.

Sternwm similar in colour to the cephalothorax. Covered thickly

with coarse granulations.

Abdomen oval; at its fore extremity is a socket with a corneous

rim against which the produced hinder extremity of the cephala-

thorax works. The colour of the abdomen is black or black-brown,

marked by white lines at the fore-end on the upper side with a large,

somewhat exaggerated T-shaped marking, followed by a central

quadrate figure formed by four white spots, the posterior extremity

of the square being shorter than the anterior ; between this and the

spinners there are one or two other small white spots or markings

more or less visible, and one or two lateral white vertical lines, the

most conspicuous being one which runs from within the central

quadrate figure nearly to the under side of the abdomen. On the

under side is a central reddish and one or two other white spots. The

spiracular plates are included in a large continuous, rather prominent

coriaceous, or rather corneous-looking plate of a somewhat shining

reddish brown colour.

In the female the colours do not appear to be so vivid nor the

markings on the abdomen so distinct as those in the male; in some

cases they would probably be almost obsolete. Mr. Purcell remarks

that in all examples the markings (3g, ?) are white except a red

patch on the under side of the abdomen. This patch is large in

some cases in the female, but seems to vary much. The form

of the genital aperture is distinct and characteristic.

An abundant species, known as the “ knoppies spider,’’ and its

bite is dreaded by the natives.

Hab. Cape Peninsula, “ under stones every where,”’

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TEUTANA CONNEXA, sp.n. (PI. XL, fig. 3.)

Adult female, length 5 lines.

Among examples of 7. lepida there was a female of a nearly

allied but quite distinet species. In general colouring and appear-

ance the two seem much alike, but the markings on the upper side

of the abdomen in the present species consist only of a curved

whitish stripe around the anterior portion, followed, towards the

middle, by two whitish spots in the median line, the fore one of

which is the largest and of a subtriangular form. The lower part

of the sides is marked by two largish suffused white patches, and the

middle of the under side has a small central pale spot, which in life

may possibly be red. The form of the genital aperture differs from

that of ZT’. lepida.

This spider appears to be nearly allied to Tewtana grossa, C. L.

Koch, of Europe.

Cape Peninsula, under stones.

Faminy THERIDIIDAE.

Gren. Nov. MOERO.

Cephalothorax short, broad-oval, truncate in front, a little longer

than broad ; lateral marginal impressions at caput slight, tolerably

convex above; profile line forms an even curve, sloping downwards

from its highest point to and with the ocular region.

Hyes much as in Theridion, but occupying the whole of the width

of the caput; of moderate size; sub-equal; the central quadrangle *

longer than broad; the fore-centrals have their visual axis directed

pretty straight forwards ; all pearly white excepting the fore-centrals ;

the anterior row has its curve directed forwards, the posterior back-

wards.

Legs short, slender, furnished with hairs and bristles; a long,

slender spine on the femoral joint and two on the tibie of the first

and second pairs ; relative length 1, 4, 2, 3.

Palpi (female) devoid of terminal claw.

Maaxille strong at base, moderately long, tapering at their ex-

tremities and greatly inclined over the labium.

Labium broader than high; somewhat subtriangular and pointed

at the apex.

* In the male the anterior side appears to be slightly shorter than the posterior,

while in the female it is slightly longer ; and in the male the length of the quad-

rangie seems to be slightly shorter than in the female.

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Sternum large, broader than long, very broadly truncate at its

hinder extremity in an incurved line.

Abdomen large; globular and much projected over the thorax ;

spinners in a short circular sheath-like prominence.

MOERO QUADKIMACULATA, sp.n. (PI. XI, fig. 4.)

Adult male, length rather less than 1 line.

Female adult, 1 line.

Adult’ male Cephalothorax orange-yellow; height of eclypeus a

little more than half that of the facial space.

Central eyes of posterior row divided by a diameter’s interval and

nearer to each other than to the hind laterals; fore-centrals on a

strong prominence; those also of each of the lateral pairs are con-

tiguous on a prominence.

Legs yellow-brown except the femora, which are orange-yellow.

Palpi (8) short, radial and cubital joints very short; equal in

length, the former a little obtusely produced in front; digital joint

large, short, oblong-oval, with a strong, somewhat quadrate pro-

minence on the outer side.

Palpal organs highly developed, complex, compact, encircled with

a closely fitting black filiform spine.

Falces rather long ; moderate in length and strength, and a little

divergent at their extremities; some small teeth along the inner

margin, one being much longer than the rest ; colour orange-yellow,

slightly suffused with yellow-brown.

Maxille orange-yellow. Labiwm yellow-brown, sternum orange-

yellow, convex and slightly granulose or roughened, and furnished

with a few prominent bristly hairs.

Abdomen pale, whitish yellow, covered very thickly with coarse

erect bristly hairs, and marked towards the hinder part of the upper

side with four conspicuous black spots in a large square.

The female resembles the male in general characters, colours, and

markings; the genital aperture is of a very characteristic and dis-

tinctive form.

Hab. Platteklip Ravine, on the slopes of Table Mountain near

Cape Town.

THERIDION DELICATUM, sp.n. (PI. XL, fig. 5.)

Adult female, length 12 lines.

Cephalothorax pale yellowish white, with converging yellow-brown

stripes, those on the thorax not reaching the margins.

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Eyes in normal position, very nearly equal; all pearly white, on

black spots ; the convexity of the slight curve of the posterior row

directed outwards, that of the anterior forwards. Those of the

posterior row equally separated by more than a diameter; the

central quadrangle forms a square; a few longish bristles on

the caput directed forwards; of these the two longest are in a

transverse line at the middle of the central quadrangle. The height

of the clypeus is two-thirds of the facial space.

Legs moderately long, 1, 4, 2, 3 slender, furnished with hairs and

slender bristles, a very few almost spiniform; colour like that of the

cephalothorax, the femora and tibize of the fourth pair suffused with

dull brown, as also less strongly those of the other legs.

Falces moderately long and strong, normal; these with the

Macxille, Labium, and Sternum (which last is broadly and somewhat

roundly truncated at its hinder extremity) are pale yellow.

Abdomen large, almost globular; projecting much over the

cephalothorax ; of a dull orange-yellow colour, marked faintly with

a white longitudinal central line from which two or three slightly

oblique lateral ones issue on each side; the sides also have two or

three similar oblique lines, and one encircles the fore extremity on

the upper side. The genital aperture is of very characteristic form.

The lines on the abdomen are formed by minute white spots. It is

possible that other examples, when found, will exhibit some modifica-

tion in colours and markings. In that case the form of the genital

aperture will become all important.

Hab. Constantia Flats, Cape Peninsula.

THERIDION DEDUX, sp. n. (Pl. XII, fig. 1.)

Adult male, length 1} lines.

Adult female, 14 to 14 lines.

Cephalothorax pale yellow, marked rather diffusely and indistinctly

with yellow-brown along the converging lines of the normal indenta-

tions and the fore part of the caput. The height of the clypeus is

nearly two-thirds of the facial space.

Eyes normal; sub-equal, fore-centrals smallest; all pearly-greyish

white ; the slight curve of the posterior row directed backwards, that

of the anterior row forwards. The two rows are very nearly of equal

length, anterior slightly shortest. The interval between the hind-

centrals a little larger than that between each and the hind-lateral

next to it. The fore-centrals are smallest. The central quadrangle

is a square with its fore side rather the shortest. The prominence

New Species of Araneidea. 159

bearing the fore-central eyes is moderately strong, those of the

lateral pairs are strong.

Legs tolerably long, 1, 4, 2, 3 furnished with hairs and bristles, of

which there is a patch, more thickly furnished than elsewhere, inside

the fore-extremity of the femora of the third pair; colour dull yellow-

brown.

Palpi short ; similar in colour to the cephalothorax ; cubital and

radial joints very short ; the former strongly claviform and furnished

with several long, strong bristles, the latter shortest and produced

obtusely at its extremity on the outer side and furnished with long

bristles. Digital joint large, oval; palpal organs well developed, but

simple, divided transversely into two large lobes, anterior and

posterior, with a short, pointed spiny process beneath and from

within their fore-extremity, but not projecting beyond the point

of the digital joint.

Falces moderate in length and strength; colour like that of the

cephalothorax, tinged with yellow-brown.

Maxille and labium yellow, slightly suffused with pale yellow-

brown.

Sternum convex, yellow, broadly and squarely truncate at the

hinder extremity, and furnished with a few long bristly hairs.

Abdomen oval, pale whitish, thinly covered with long bristles.

There was no pattern visible above, but two or three very indistinct

oblique dusky lines on the sides.

The female has the legs and palpi of a darker dusky yellow-brown

than the male. The abdomen is large, globular, and of a dull mouse-

brown colour with some indistinct oblique yellow-brownish lines.

The genital aperture and process are large, prominent, and very

distinctively characteristic. Probably a series of examples would

show some variation in colour, and perhaps some other markings

on the abdomen in both sexes.

Hab. Durban, Natal, South Africa.

THERIDION PURCELLH, sp. un. (Pl. XIL., fig. 2.)

Adult male, length 14 lines.

Adult female, very nearly 2 lines.

Excepting its much larger size, this pretty species is in general

appearance, colours, and markings, very like the Hnglish species

Theridion familiare'Cambr. The structure of the palpi is, however,

very different.

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Adult male—Cephalothorax yellow, with a thin, central longitudinal

brown line, sometimes enlarged behind the eyes.

Hyes small, subequal, those of the posterior row nearly equally

separated, the centrals rather nearer to each other than to the laterals,

the curve of the row very slight, and its convexity directed back-

wards. The central quadrangle is nearly square, its fore-side a little

the longest ; the height of the clypeus exceeds half that of the facial

space. The fore-central eyes are largest, and seated on a promi-

nence. A few spiniform tapering bristles on the caput are directed

forwards, the longest being exactly in the middle of the central

quadrangle of eyes.

Leas moderately long, 1, 4, 2, 3 furnished with longish bristly

hairs of varied strength. Colour yellow, faintly annulated with

brownish.

Palpi short, radial joint excessively so, similar in colour to the legs;

cubital joint with several long curved bristles in front ; digital joint

very large, oblong-oval, and the palpal organs rather simple, with an

obtuse prominence at their extremity on the outer side—a strong,

black, tapering spine encircles the hinder portion, and another

is also curved in a circular form beneath the fore extremity.

Mazille, labium, and sternum yellow, tinged with brown.

Abdomen subglobular, furnished thinly with bristly hairs. Ground

colour dull luteous yellowish, with a longitudinal central strongly

and sharply dentated band, obtuse in front, enlarging to near the

middle and thence tapering to the spinners, this band is more or

less marked with white spots, and the dentations are formed on each

side by a distinct white lateral line more or less strongly margined

outside by a black stripe; the sides are marked obliquely, but not

very regularly, with black and white. The under side has the fore-

part (including the plates of the spiracles) prominent, of a deep

black-brown, with a central white patch, and the spinners are on

a large blackish area; nearly in front of the spinners is a con-

spicuous long transverse curved fold in the epidermis, in which

probably are concealed entrances to spiracular organs.

The female resembles the male in colour and markings, but the

abdomen is more globular, and its central dentated band better

and more sharply defined, though with less black on its edges. A

series of examples would, however, probably show variations in

these respects.

Hab. Salt River Flats, near Cape Town.

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LinypuHia, Latr.

LINYPHIA INTERPOLIS, sp. n. (Pl. XII., fig. 3.)

Adult male, length 2 lines.

Adult female, length 14 to rather over 2 lines.

Male.—Cephalothorax vather narrow, oblong-oval, rounded in

front, lateral marginal construction at the caput slight. Profile line

very slightly curved, with a slight dip at the hinder margin of caput.

Clypeus half the height of the facial space, and its lower margin

prominent. Colour, yellow-brown.

Hyes on tubercular prominences ; those of the posterior row are

about equally separated, and form a curved line whose convexity is

directed forwards. The two centrals of this row are apparently

largest of the eight, and are apparently one diameter and a half

from each other. The anterior row, slightly shortest, is very nearly

straight, its convexity, if any, directed backwards, and its eyes are

of nearly equal size, separated by a diameter’s interval, or slightly

over, from each other, but by more than double that interval from

the fore-laterals. The four central eyes form a square, whose

anterior side is the shortest.

Legs long, slender, 1, 4, 2, 3 yellow-brown, rather paler than

the cephalothorax and tinged with greenish olive. The femora in

one example striped longitudinally, but not conspicuously, with dark

brown. Spines normal.

Falces long, moderately strong, divergent, directed backwards ;

similar in colour to the cephalothorax.

Palpi short, similar to the legs in colour, cubital and radial joints

short, the former shortest, both clavate; the digital joint rather

large, long-oval; palpal organs complex, with a long, slender,

filiform spine on their outer side, forming a very large, prominent

circle.

Abdomen elongate, strongly compressed transversely past the

middle on the upper side and obtuse at the hinder extremity.

Colour black, with a conspicuous white spot on each side close to

the fore extremity.

The female resembles the male in general colours and markings,

but the abdomen has a lateral marginal line of white lines and spots,

and others along the median line, but probably often either obsolete

or variable. The abdomen is also wanting in the constriction

characteristic of the male. The genital aperture is small, in-

conspicuous, but characteristic.

This spider is nearly allied to Linyphia pusilla, Sand, (of Eurepe)

162 Annals of the South African Musewmn.

resembling it closely in the long spine connected with the palpal

organs.

Hab. Ramskop (Clanwilliam Division), Cape Colony.

Sup-FAMILY ERIGONINI.

Gren. LUCRINUS.

Cephalothorax longer than broad, obtuse before, broad and some-

what excavate behind in profile line, considerably elevated at the

junction of caput and thorax, lateral marginal impressions at the

caput well marked; height of clypeus rather exceeds half the facial

space.

Eyes rather closely grouped together, those of the posterior row are

in a straight transverse line, equally separated. The convexity of the

curve of the anterior line directed forwards. The fore-centrals are

much smallest, the rest subequal, the fore-laterals perhaps the

largest. The central quadrangle nearly a square, but narrowest in

front.

Legs moderately long, slender, subequal in length, 4, 1, 2, 3

furnished with hairs only.

Falces normal.

Mazille short, and inclined towards the labium.

Labium apparently very short, broader than high, and rounded at

the apex.

Sternum about equal in length and breadth, convex, rather round,

obtuse at the posterior extremity.

LUCRINUS PUTUS, sp.n. (Pl. XII, fig. 4.)

Adult female, length three-fourths of a line.

Cephalothoraz, falces, maxiile, labium, and sternum dark yellow-

brown ; legs and palpi paler ; abdomen black.

This little spider appears to be nearly allied to Gongylidiellum and

other European forms, but I cannot fit it in satisfactorily to any of

our genera, and have therefore, though with some hesitation, based a

new genus upon it.

Hab, Village of Clanwilliam, Cape Colony.

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LIST OF SPIDERS DESCRIBED.

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EXPLANATION OF PLATES.

Puate IX.

Cedmon thoracica, la, spider in profile; 1b, eyes from above and behind;

le and 1d, palpus in two positions.

C@dmon ajjinis, spider in profile; 2a, eyes from above and behind; 2b, 2c,

palpus in two positions.

Cedmon congener, spider in profile; 3a, eyes from above and behind; 8b, 3c,

palpus in two positions.

C@dmon dubia, 4a, spider in profile ; 4b, eyes from above and behind.

Diores Simonii, 5a, spider in profile ; 5b, eyes from above and behind; 5c, 5d,

palpus in two positions.

Diores cognata, eyes of spider from above and behind; 6a, 6b, 6c, palpus in

three positions.

PratE X.

Enoplognatha molesta, 1a, spider in profile ; 1b, eyes from above and behind ;

lc, one of the falces in profile; 1d, palpus; le, portion of palpus showing

palpal organs.

Enoplognatha inornata, 2a, profile; 2b, eyes from above and behind; 2c,

genital aperture.

Latrodectus concinnus 2? , 3a, profile ; 3b, underside of abdomen; 3c, eyes from

above and behind.

Latrodectus concinnus g , 4a, profile ; 4b, eyes from above and behind ; 4c, 4d,

palpus in two positions.

Prate XI.

Latrodectus indistinctus, la, profile; 1b, eyes from above and behind; 1c,

genital aperture.

Teutana lepida g, 2a, profile; 2b, eyes from above and behind; 2c, 2d,

palpus in two positions.

Teutana connexa, 3a, eyes from above and behind; 3b, genital aperture.

Moero quadrimaculata 3, 4a, profile; 4b, eyes from above and behind; 4c,

maxille, labium, and sternum; 4d, 4e, palpus in two positions; 4/,

genital aperture of ¢.

Theridion delicatum, 5a, profile; 5b, eyes from aboye and behind ; 5c, genital

aperture,

Hxplanation of Plates. 165

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Theridion dedux g, 1a, profile; 1b, eyes from above and behind; 1c, 1d,

palpus in two positions; le, genital aperture ¢ .

Theridion Purcellii 3, 2a, profile; 2b, eyes from above and behind; 2c, 2d,

palpus in two positions ; 2e, genital aperture ?.

Linyphia interpolis ¢ , 3a, profile; 3b, eyes from above and behind; 3c, 3d.

palpus in two positions ; 3e, abdomen ?, upper side.

Lucrinus putus, cephalo-thorax, 4a, profile ; 4b, eyes from above and behind ;

4c, hinder part of sternum ; 4d, genital aperture.

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VII.—Sixth Contribution to the South African Coleopterous Fauna

By L. Psrinevey, Asszstant Director.*

DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA IN THE COLLECTION

OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. (Plate XIII.)

Famiry CICINDELID.

Gen. TETRACHA, Hope.

TETRACHA (STYPHLODERMA) DODSI, nN. sp.

Bronze-black on the upper side; elytra opaque and having in

both sexes two sub-basal and two supra-apical, flavescent, elongated

patches ; the seven apical joints of the antenne are sub-flavescent,

the others fuscous, palpi flavescent, labrum with a flavous basal

margin in the male, entirely black in the female ; anterior and inter-

mediate femora flavescent, but fuscous on one side only, hind ones

entirely fuscous, tibiew flavescent but infuscate on one side; head

broad, impunctate, impressed on each side of the eyes, the impres-

sion longitudinally plicate; prothorax with the normally raised,

impunctate central part of the disk, and the anterior and posterior

constricted parts closely and somewhat strongly granulose, the

lateral keel is prolonged in both sexes as far as the basal margin and

nearly coalesces with it without being either sharp or dentate ; elytra

very elongato-ovate, hardly wider at a very short distance from the

apex than they are at the base in the male, less acuminate laterally

behind in the female, and only very slightly sinuate laterally at

some distance from the shoulders, not convex, yet not depressed in

the male, slightly convex in the female, covered with appressed,

triangular granules separated from each other by an interval equal

* The first four Contributions were published in the Transactions of the South

African Philosophical Society, 1885-1892; the fifth in the Annals of the South

African Museum, vol. i. p. 240.

168 Annals of the South African Museum.

to their greater width; they are opaque, nearly black, but metallic

along the base, and dark blue for a short distance along the outer

margin, the epipleural fold is often flavescent; the first elongated

flavescent dorsal patch is about median, and nearly equi-distant

from the base and the median part, the second is slanting and supra-

marginal, and set closer to the apex than to the median part;

abdomen black ; pectus with a faint greenish sheen.

Length 21-23 mm.; width 7-9 mm.

Although agreeing with Dr. W. Horn that 7. (Styph.) swb-opacum,

Fairm., is at most a sub-species of 7. asperatuwm, Waterh., if not the

same species, I do not consider 7’. dodsi to be a sub-species of the

latter ; it is smaller than any of the two species mentioned, the elytra

of the male are more acuminate towards the apex, and although not

convex they are certainly not depressed, the female is also more

convex, and more regularly attenuate behind, and the sculpture of

both is very different from that of 7. asperatum and T. sub-opacum,

the granules being much smaller and narrower, with their basal part

separated from each other by a wide interval, whereas in the two

above-named species they almost coalesce with each other at their

base. I have seen two male and three female examples of this

species.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

Famiry CARABID/.

Tre HEXAGONINI.

Gen. HEXAGONIA, Kirb.

HEXAGONIA VENUSTA, 0. sp.

Black, with the elytra for two-thirds of the length, the femora

with the exception of the apical part, the metasternum and the two

or three basal joints of the abdomen testaceous-red; head very

deeply and closely punctate all over and without any smooth area;

prothorax of the normal shape, but a little less broadly cordiform in

the anterior part than in the other South African species, deeply

grooved longitudinally, and deeply and equally punctate except along

the outer margins, which are slightly plicate; elytra depressed, deeply

punctato-striate, with the intervals not quite plane and tectiform on

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 169

the sides, the posterior black part extends from side to side for

about one-third of the length, and its inner margin is arcuate on

each side.

Length 104 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

HEXAGONIA UMTALINA, N. Sp.

Head and prothorax black, but oftener fuscous or fuscous-brown,

mandibles and basal joints of antenne rufescent, legs brick-red, not

infuseate at the knees; elytra brick-red with the posterior part

black, the black patch beginning in the centre at about four-fifths of

the length, but prolonged along the sides to about two-thirds ;

abdomen and metasternum brick-red; head finely and very closely

punctate all over; prothorax strongly ampliated in the anterior

part, deeply grooved longitudinally, closely punctate all over the

disk except along the outer margin, where there is a fairly wide

impunctate band; elytra as in the preceding species, but with the

dorsal intervals a little more plane, the apical black part is nearly as

broad as in H. venusta, and also reaches from side to side, but it

varies in length. It differs from H. terminalis, Gemm., in the

greater ampliation of the prothorax and the finer and closer punctu-

lation of the discoidal part, and also of the head.

Length 83-10 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

I have seen an example of this species in which the prothorax is

red.

Hab, Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

HEXAGONIA ANGUSTULA, Nl. Sp.

Head and prothorax testaceous-red, the former darker than the

latter, elytra and legs testaceous-yellow, somewhat flavescent ; head

more elongated behind the eyes than in the other South African

species, deeply punctate all over, the punctures fairly large and not

very closely set ; prothorax narrow, long in proportion to its width,

only very slightly amplated laterally a little in front of the median

part, and gradually narrowed towards the base, grooved longi-

tudinally in the median part of the disk, which is covered with

moderately closely set, deep punctures; elytra narrow, with the

shoulders strongly sloping, deeply punctato-striate and with the

dorsal intervals plane. :

Length 8 mm.; width 13-2 mm.

This species is easily distinguished by its narrow width; the

170 Annals of the South African Museum.

prothorax is less ampliated in front than in the other species known

to me.

Had. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Tre HEKELLUONINI.

Gren. MACROCHILUS, Hope.

MACROCHILUS LONGICOLLIS, N. sp.

Brick-red ; elytra fuscous black, and having on each side a longi-

tudinal humeral brick-red band reaching from the base to a short

distance from the median part, and extending from the second stria

to near the edge of the outer margin, and a sub-transverse, compara-

tively narrow one of the same colour at the apex; antennz with the

six apical joints dilated, the upper and lower surfaces are briefly

pubescent ; the head and prothorax are sub-foveolate-punctate, and

the punctures not closely set; the prothorax is unusually narrow and

elongated, being one-third longer than wide at its broadest part

which is at the apex, only slightly sinuate in the posterior part, the

sides of the base are strongly slanting towards the outer angle;

elytra parallel, deeply striate, each interval, except the supra-mar-

ginal one, with one row of deep foveate punctures ; legs pubescent.

Allied to M. proximus, which it greatly resembles in colour and

sculpture, but easily recognised by the narrow, elongated prothorax.

Length 12 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

MACROCHILUS SPECTANDUS, Ni. sp.

Testaceous-red, with the 2-4 antennal joints and the abdomen

infuscate, the elytra are black and have on each side a sub-quadrate-

yellowish patch situated slightly before the median part and extend-

ing from the third to the sixth interval, and an apical smaller one

extending from the first to the fourth stria and abutting nearly on

the apical outer margin; it is clothed above and below and also on

the legs with a short flavescent pubescence ; the head and prothorax

are closely foveolato-punctate, the prothorax is as_ broad as long,

cordate, with the outer sides of the base incised transversely, thus

making the median part appear as if slightly produced behind; the

elytra are parallel, deeply sttiate, with the intervals carinate in the

anterior part, convex in the posterior, and haying each two series of

foveolate punctures. Allied to MW. biplagiatus, Boh., but the antennze

South African Coleopterous Fauna. sly!

are longer, the prothorax more closely foveolato-punctate, the juxta-

median yellowish patches on the elytra are smaller, and there is an

apical one which is not at all indicated in M. biplagiatus.

Length 19 mm. ; width 54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

MACROCHILUS VARIANS, N. Sp.

Head and elytra, abdomen and metasternum black, shiny, labrum,

prothorax, and legs testaceous-red ; antenne, with the exception of

the second and third basal joints, which are deeply infuscate, brick-

red; head very broad, covered with closely set, sub-contiguous

round punctures ; prothorax very short, broader than long, truncate

in front, rounded and ampliated laterally, strongly constricted and

sinuated above the hind angle which is very sharp, median part of

the base plainly produced behind, covered with closely set foveate

punctures, clothed like the head with a very short, greyish pubes-

cence, and having on each side of the posterior part a deep impres-

sion which makes the outer angle appear as if it were reflexed, it is

not as wide as the head and eyes; elytra nearly parallel, but slightly

ampliated laterally towards the posterior part, narrowly striate, with

the striz punctate and the intervals convex in the anterior part,

plane in the posterior, and covered with numerous very closely set,

fine yet deep punctures.

I have seen two examples only of this species; in the one the

elytra are concolorous, in the other there is a yellowish-red band

beginning near the base and extending on the fourth and fifth intervals

to a short distance from the median part of the disk. This species

is easily identified by the very short prothorax, which is strongly

constricted behind, but not, however, quite as much incised there

as in M. viduatus, Péring.

Length 84-10 mm. ; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

frse BRACHININI,

Gren. BRACHINUS, Weber.

BRACHINUS MACTUS, N. sp.

Head, prothorax, pectus, and legs testaceous-yellow, antenna

black, with the basal joint and part of the second yellowish ; elytra

black, with three dorsal yellowish patches and the outer margin

172 Annals of the South African Museum.

yellow, abdomen fuscous-black ; head and prothorax of the normal

shape and sculpture, the latter is somewhat elongated; the elytra

are ob-ovate with the shoulders much rounded and _ sloping,

shagreened, very briefly pubescent, plainly costulate, there is a

yellowish triangular patch in the scutellary region, an elongated

patch or band beginning at a short distance from the base and

running on the fourth and sixth intervals, including the costa, and

not reaching quite the median part, a quadrate or elongato-quadrate

one extending on the first, second, and third costules, and a similar

one set on the outer angle of the posterior edge and coalescing with

the narrow yellowish margin, which is slightly dilated; towards the

median part these markings are not always very plain, but they are

never completely obliterated.

It is a near ally of B. obliterus, Péring., in which, however, the

elytra are more quadrate at the base owing to the shoulders not

being strongly sloping, and the prothorax shorter.

Length 54-74 mm. ; width 24-34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

BRACHINUS UMVOTIANUOS, N. Sp.

Black, opaque; antennz fuscous-black, joints thick; femora

yellowish-red but infuscate at the knees; head covered with deep

punctures more closely set on the posterior than on the anterior

part, and clothed with a long, very dense, erect, black pubescence ;

prothorax elongated, sinuated laterally from the third part of the

length, and with the anterior not very cordiform, deeply grooved

longitudinally in the centre, covered with very closely set, nearly

contiguous deep punctures, and clothed with the same erect black

pubescence as the head; elytra with the humeral part strongly

rounded, and therefore very little prominent, gradually amphated

thence to the posterior part, very plainly costate, the cost tectiform

and sharp, the intervals are shagreened and both intervals and costie

are clothed with a sub-erect, very dense fuscous pubescence, the

epipleural fold is punctate, the punctures setigerous ; under side and

legs closely punctate and pubescent.

Length 11 mm.; width 5 mm.

Allied to B. tibialis, Péring., but the humeral angles are not quite as

obliterated, the antennal joints are thicker, the punctures of the head

and prothorax are deeper and more closely set, and the pubescence

there is longer and denser.

Hab. Natal (Umvoti). <A. Fry.

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 173

Gren. STYPHROMERUS, Chaud.

STYPHROMERUS PLAUSIBILIS, 0. sp.

Testaceous-red, abdomen black ; elytra parallel, black with a basal,

narrow, elongated flavescent patch extending from the sixth interval

to the outer margin and rounding the shoulder, and a supra-apical,.

sub-quadrangular patch of the same colour extending from the fourth

to the seventh intervals and situated at a short distance from the

apex, the outer margin has a narrow yellowish-red band continued

as a mere line along the apical part and along the suture to about

the middle, they are plainly costate, finely shagreened, and clothed

with a sub-flavescent appressed pubescence.

Length 94 mm; width 34 mm.

Kasily distinguished from the other species by the parallel elytra,

the much more raised and tectiform elytral costa, and the narrow

elytral yellow markings.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

Tre LEBIINI.

Gren. CALLIDA, Dej.

CALLIDA NIGRIPES, 0. sp.

Head, prothorax, and the two basal joints of the elytra darkish

red; elytra greenish-blue, pygidium fuscous; legs, abdomen, and

meta- and mesosternum black; head impunctate ; prothorax cordate,

as broad at its widest part as long, moderately narrow in the posterior

part, and not strongly sinuate there, there are no traces of punctures,

and only a very faint transverse plication laterally ; elytra punctato-

striate, with the intervals plane on the dorsal part, somewhat

carinate laterally, and having an irregular series of very faint

punctures.

This species is easily distinguished from all the other South

African species by the colouration of the legs and under side, as well

as by the impunctate prothorax.

Length 9-94 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Natal, Zululand. Dr. H. Martin.

CALLIDA FERVIDA, 0. sp.

Head black, with the neck red; prothorax and whole under side

red; palpi infuscate, antennie black, with the three basal joints and

174 Annals of the South African Musewm.

the basal part of the fourth reddish; legs reddish with the knees

black or dark fuscous; elytra green with a bluish tinge ; head closely

punctate except on a small post-median smooth area, prothorax a little

longer than broad, moderately narrowed laterally, and not strongly

sinuate there, somewhat closely punctate, the punctures on the side

are deeper and more rugose than on the disk; elytra punctato-striate

with the intervals raised and strongly tectiform on the sides, the

punctures very plain; pygidium red.

Allied to C. affinis. The shape and sculpture of the head and

prothorax are similar in the two species, but in C. affinis the head is

not infuscate, and the intervals of the elytra are more plane.

Length 103-102 mm. ; width 33-32 mm.

Hab. Natal (Verulam). C.N. Barker; Dr. H. Martin.

Gen. HYSTRICHOPUS, Bohem.

HYSTRICHOPUS VELOX, 0. sp.

Black, elytra fuscous, opaque, femora, with the exception of the

knees, flavescent ; head impunctate ; prothorax elongated, one-fifth

longer than broad, widest at a short distance from the apex and very

slightly rounded there, straight thence to the base, which is narrower

than the apex by one-fifth, the outer margins are plainly raised, and

the discoidal surface very faintly plicate transversely ; elytra gradu-

ally ampliated from the base to a short distance from the apex,

where they are twice as wide as at the base, plane, costate, the coste

convex, highly raised but not sharply tectiform, the fine punctures

on the third costa very plain ; legs long, slender.

Length 174 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Allied to H. gracilis, Péring., the elytra of which, however, are

much more parallel and much narrower, but the shape of the pro-

thorax is nearly the same, although slightly wider at a short distance

from the apex.

Hab. Cape Colony (Umtata). Rev. F. C. Kolbe.

Gen. METAXYMORPHUS, Chaud.

METAXYMORPHUS ROBUSTUS, N. Sp.

Light testaceous, with the greatest part of the disk of the pro-

thorax and the median dorsal part infuscate, glabrous, shining ; head

and under side black ; antennal joints not quite as slender as in the

other species of the genus ; labrum sub-rufescent, head impunctate ;

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 175

prothorax as long as broad, anterior part arcuate, sides slightly

rounded laterally, narrower across the base than across the apex

and with the margins reflexed, deeply sulcate longitudinally in the

middle and haying a diagonal suleus reaching from the base to about

the median part; elytra oblongo-ovate with the base strongly bi-

sinuate and the angles sharp, finely yet deeply striate, striae and

intervals impunctate, third stria, however, with a deep puncture in

the anterior and another in the posterior parts, depressed on the

dorsal part as far as the fifth stria and with the sixth interval

slightly raised, especially in the anterior part.

A distinct species.

Length 7 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Barker.

Gren. COPTOPTERA, Chaud.

CopToPpTERA INDOTATA, Ni. sp.

Head and prothorax very pale testaceous, elytra almost straw

colour ; head very little narrowed behind the eyes, closely strigillate

along them but having a median longitudinal smooth space ; pro-

thorax with the sides straight, narrower at the base than across the

anterior part, faintly plicate transversely and with the median longi-

tudinal sulcus quite plain; elytra quite parallel, concolorous,

narrowly yet deeply stiiate, strize filled with small, very closely set

punctures, intervals raised and somewhat tectiform ; antennz not

very elongated.

This species is as parallel as C. tenella, Boh., but it is longer, the

elytra are more highly costulate, and the strigillate sides of the

frontal part distinguish it from all the other South African species.

Length 6 mm.; width 1} mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

Gren. KLEPSIPHRUS, Péring.

KLEPSIPHRUS ANGUSTICOLLIS, N. Sp.

Head and prothorax piceous-brown, very shining, elytra very dark

brown with the outer margins and the legs much lighter, antenne,

labrum, and palpi rusty red; head very elongated, shiny and im-

punctate; prothorax very narrow, twice as long as broad, quite

parallel, very faintly strigillate transversely, very shiny and with the

median, narrow longitudinal sulcus quite plain; elytra twice as

176 Annals of the South African Museum.

broad as the very narrow prothorax, and with the humeral angles.

rounded off, parallel from a short distance from the humeral part to:

about the same distance from the apical, plane with the margins

strongly reflexed, narrowly yet deeply striate, the striz impunctate,

yet having faint and remote transverse impressions, intervals raised,

somewhat sharp in the anterior part.

Hasily distinguished from the other two South African species by

the very narrow prothorax and sub-parallel elytra.

Length 74 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Natal (Zululand). Dr. H. Martin.

Gren. XENITENUS, Péring.

XENITENUS NATALICUS, ND. sp.

Head, prothorax, and pectus testaceous-red, elytra black, antenne

with the three basal joints reddish, the others fulvescent, palpi

reddish ; head impunctate; prothorax as broad as long, straight

laterally, slightly narrower at the base than across the apex, and

with the outer margins slightly reflexed, very faintly plicate ; elytra

with the shoulders moderately rounded, sub-parallel, strongly

sinuate behind and with the inner apical part being accordingly

sharper, they are plainly striate, the striz are impunctate, and the

intervals are moderately convex; legs piceous-brown or red,

abdomen black.

Not unlike in general appearance X. dilucidus, Péring., but the

prothorax is more parallel, and as the margins are reflexed, there

seems to be a somewhat broad lateral sulcus; the elytral apical

margin in X. dilucidus is not deeply sinuate, nor the inner angular

part acuminate as in X. natalicus.

Length 64 mm.; width 2+ mm.

Hab. Natal. Dr. H. Martin.

Gren. LIONYCHUS, Wism.

LIONYCHUS LAETULUS, 0. sp.

Bronze black, with a brassy sheen on the upper side, antenne

black with the three basal joints rufescent ; elytra with a very broad

yellowish-white band on each side of the dorsal part ; head broad,

impunctate ; prothorax of the normal shape, very shiny and

metallic; elytra sub-elongate-quadrate with the humeral and posterior

parts equally rounded, black but narrowly fuscous alongside the

South African Coleopterous Fauna, 177

whitish-yellow dorsal bands which are each about one-third of the

width of each elytron from near the apex to three-fourths of the

length, and invade there the basal and anterior marginal parts, but

not the sutural ; legs and underside black.

Very distinct from the other two South African species.

Length 3 mm.; width 1} mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore). Dr. H. Brauns.

Gen. PHL@AOZETUS, Peyr.

PHLGOZETUS CRIBRICOLLIS, n. sp.

Testaceous-red all over, elytra occasionally paler than the pro-

thorax ; head plainly but not closely punctulate ; prothorax broader

than long, rounded laterally in the anterior part, sinuate above the

sharp, reflexed basal angle, plainly impressed longitudinally and

having a narrow line in the median impression, covered with deep

and moderately closely set punctures ; elytra oblong, deeply striate,

with the intervals raised and tectiform.

Not unlike P. umbraculatus, Boh., but much shorter, and conco-

lorous. Easily recognised from the other South African species by

the deeply punctured prothorax.

Length 42-54 mm. ; width 24—-2% mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

PHL&OZETUS UMTALINUS, n. sp.

Testaceous, with the head and the discoidal part of the prothorax

darker; antennz somewhat rusty red with the three basal joints

paler ; elytra with a bi-sinuate, fuscous, broad posterior patch ; head

somewhat punctato-plicate, coriaceous ; prothorax rounded laterally

in the anterior part, and straight from the median part to the sharp

basal angle, the surface is strongly wrinkly, coriaceous ; elytra four

times as long as the prothorax, oblong, punctato-striate, with the

intervals tectiform, the infuscate patch extends from the inner side

of the outer margin to the other, and varies in shape from a broadly

truncate cone to a triangle the point of which reaches about to the

median part, while the base is straight and situated at a short

distance from the apex.

This species closely resembles P. wmbraculatus, Boh., and might

easily be mistaken for it. The difference between the two is in the

shape of the lateral posterior part of the prothorax, which in P.

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umbraculatus is very plainly sinuate, with the angle projecting

accordingly, whereas in the present species, of which I have seen

twelve examples, there is no sinuation whatever.

Length 63-74 mm. ; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Gren. LEBIA, Latr.

LEBIA PHANTASMA, N. sp.

Head, prothorax, and antennz testaceous-red, elytra testaceous-

yellow; head aciculate in the anterior frontal part, and plainly

plicate longitudinally along the eyes; prothorax cordate, very

shghtly broader than long, sparingly punctulate in the median dis-

coidal part, and more densely laterally ; elytra with the shoulders

rounded, sinuate laterally at about one-fourth of the length, and

gradually ampliated thence to a short distance from the apical part,

deeply striate with the intervals convex, plainly although not very

sharply tectiform and with the sides somewhat deeply but not closely

punctate, each puncture bearing a very fine, short seta-like hair, in

the basal part there is a transverse, quadrangular fuscous patch

reaching the third stria on each side, continued as a narrow band

along the suture and developing above the apical part into a shorter

quadrate patch reaching the second interval, the apical part of the

fifth interval is somewhat infuscate, and it is probable that in some

examples this infuscate band is connected with the posterior sutural

quadrate patch; under side and legs very pale testaceous-yellow,

apical tarsal joint strongly bi-lobate.

Length 8 mm.; width 34 mm.

A distinct species.

Hab. (? Natal). G. A. K. Marshall.

LEBIA SIMULATORIA, N. sp.

Head and prothorax pale testaceous-red, elytra, legs, and under

side almost straw-colour; head closely aciculate in the anterior part,

and plicate along the orbits, hind part and neck impunctate; pro-

thorax cordate, a little broader than long, finely punctulate laterally

but very sparsely in the median discoidal part; elytra gradually

ampliated from the lateral sinus towards the posterior part, plainly

costate, the cost tectiform, moderately sharp at tip, and with the

sides deeply but not closely punctate close to the stria, and the

punctures very briefly setigerous, they have a transverse, basal black

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patch extending as far as the third stria, continued as a sutural

band as far as the median part, and triangularly dilated thence into

a transverse posterior black band reaching the six stria and with

both the anterior and posterior margins bi-sinuate; apical tarsal

joints deeply bi-lobate.

The nearest ally of this species is L. vaciva, Péring., in which

the intervals of the elytra are quite plane and impunctate, but the

markings are the same.

Length 6-63 mm. ; width 23-3 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Barker.

LEBIA UMTALINA, DN. Sp.

Head and prothorax fuscous-red, clypeus black ; elytra flavescent

with a basal transverse black patch extending on each side as far as

the fourth stria, and a supra apical bi-sinuate one reaching the outer

margin and connected with the basal one by a narrow black band

along the suture; antennz rufescent and with the fourth, fifth, and

sixth joints deeply infuscate ; head aciculate and plicate ; prothorax

nearly twice as broad as long, ampliate and rounded laterally in the

anterior part and faintly aciculate; elytra gradually ampliated

laterally from the base to a short distance from the apex, finely

striate and with the intervals plane and smooth; basal apical tarsal

joint strongly bi-lobate.

Length 64 mm.; width 3 mm.

Closely allied to L. fortuita, Péring.; it is, however, easily dis-

tinguished by the colour of the intermediate antennal joints.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

LEBIA INEDITA, 0. sp.

Head infuscate with the hind part and the prothorax testaceous-

red, and the elytra flavescent and concolorous ; head aciculate and

faintly plicate longitudinally, posterior part smooth, antenne and

legs pale flavescent; prothorax rounded laterally in the anterior

part, straight thence to the basal reflexed angle, slightly more than

twice as broad as long, plainly aciculate ; elytra slightly wider than

the prothorax at the base, and very little ampliated laterally in the

posterior part, deeply striate, the intervals plainly convex but not

distinctly tectiform, and impunctate ; posterior abdominal segments

fuscous ; apical tarsal joints short, incised.

Allied to L. inconspicua, the shape of the prothorax is the same,

but the elytra have no posterior black band as in L. inconspicua,

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and the fourth joint of the anterior tarsi is less dilated in

L. inedita.

Length 54 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab, Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

LEBIA EVICTA, 0. sp.

Head and abdomen black; antenne fuscous, but with the three

basal joints flavescent ; prothorax and legs testaceous-red ; elytra

testaceous-red but having a very large black patch invading the

whole of the posterior part for more than half the area, and pro-

longed as a narrow, long triangle along the suture almost to the apex

of the scutellum; prothorax twice as broad as long, rounded laterally

in front, slightly sinuate above the sharp basal angle, finely aciculate-

plicate; elytra oblong, rounded at the shoulders, very highly costate;

apical tarsal joint of fore legs, short, deeply incised.

A close ally of LZ. modesta, Bohem., in which, however, the head is

brick-red, the prothorax not quite as long, and the elytra black with

an elongated yellowish patch extending on the 4-6 cost from the

base to the median part, and the abdomen is red instead of black

as in L. evicta.

Length 7 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

(Umtali.) A. Bodong.

Gen. METALLICA, Chaud.

UmGeEnia, Péring.

METALLICA MASHUNENSIS, N. sp.

Brownish-red, moderately shining, and with faint traces of a

greenish sheen in the median dorsal part of the elytra, antennze with

the exception of the basal joint which is reddish, and tarsi black ;

head strongly striate along the eyes, wrinklea longitudinally on the

vertex, and with a few scattered punctures on the neck; prothorax

rounded and slightly amphated laterally, moderately deeply sinuate

above the reflexed basal part, very faintly plicate transversely, and

having a very slight median longitudinal line; elytra sub-parallel,

but plainly sinuate laterally, punctato-striate with the intervals

convex and tectiform in the anterior median dorsal part, and plainly

punctulate, there are three punctures on the third, two posterior

ones on the fifth, and numerous ones on the seventh interval.

Doubtless allied to M. purpuripennis, Chd. (known to me from

the description only), which is brown, the elytra metallic purple with

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green outer margins, and the antenne and legs reddish, whereas

in M. mashunensis, the antenne, with the exception of the basal

joint, and also the tarsi are black and the whole body brownish-red.

Length 9 mm.; width 3$ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

Gen. PENTAGONICA, Schm.-Goeb.

PENTAGONICA DISPAR, N. sp.

Head more or less deeply infuscate, prothorax brick-red, antenne

flavescent with the three basal joints fuscous or black ; elytra black

with the suture and a narrow lateral margin rufescent; legs rufes-

cent, occasionally partly infuscate; head very finely and closely

aciculate ; prothorax more than twice as broad across the median

part as long, very faintly aciculate, and with the median longitudinal

impressed line very distinct; elytra broad, not more than twice

longer than the width, deeply striate with the intervals raised, some-

what tectiform and very finely aciculate, the striae have faint traces

of punctures ; under side either wholly or partly fuscous.

Length 4 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Barker.

Easily identified by its colouration and the somewhat short and

quadrate elytra.

GEN. LEBISTINA, Motsch.

LEBISTINA SPECTABILIS, N. sp.

Head, prothorax, and under side brick-red, elytra flavescent with a

faint sub-basal fuscous patch on each side, antenne, knees, and tarsi

black; head deeply and closely punctate; prothorax one-third

broader than long, obliquely ampliated laterally in the anterior part,

straight or hardly sinuate in the posterior, very rugose, scutellum

rugose ; elytra with the humeral part strongly rounded, gradually

ampliated laterally towards the posterior part, depressed, striate

with the intervals plane and filled with irregularly disposed elongated

punctures separated by smooth, raised, also irregular intervals ; the

fuscous patch is transverse, and extends on each side from the first to

the fourth interval, and is situated at a short distance from the base.

Length 14 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg).

Allied to L. holubi, Péring., and differs mainly by the almost con-

colorous elytra, the two small infuscate patches being very faint.

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Gen. THYREOPTERUS, Dej.

THYREOPTERUS ANGUSTICOLLIS, 0. sp.

Black on the upperside, with the elytra opaque, the antenne and

palpi ferruginous, and the legs and under side piceous-red; head

very elongate, impunctate; prothorax sub-parallel, slightly wider

across the anterior than across the basal part, half again as

long as broad, with the margins narrow and very little reflexed,

it is shiny, like the head, narrowly impressed longitudinally in

the centre, and plainly plicate, on each side of the base there

is a fairly deep lateral impression; elytra broader at the base

than the base of the prothorax, rounded at the shoulders, hardly

ampliated thence to the posterior rounded angle, strongly sinuate in

the posterior margin and with the sutural angle strongly and sharply

prolonged, they are plainly punctato-striate with the intervals plane,

faintly aciculate and quite opaque; the last abdominal segment is

deeply grooved longitudinally in the middle of the ventral surface,

the groove being deeper at the apex, and having a deep depression

on each side.

I have seen one example only of this interesting species, which

differs from the other South African species in not having the

prothoracic lateral margins strongly reflexed, the prothorax is also

very much narrower, somewhat in the manner of a Dromud.

Length 9 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kentani, Transkei). Rev. F. C. Kolbe.

THYREOPTERUS LUGUBRINUS, N. sp.

Black, with the narrow margin of the prothorax, the palpi, the

antenne with the exception of the first, second, and third joints

which are completely black, the coxe, the median part of the

abdomen and metasternum and the tarsi rufescent; on the elytra

there is a narrow, transverse yellowish patch hardly zigzagged, reach-

ing from the fourth to the sixth intervals, and a very faint yellowish

supra-apical dot situated on the first interval; the prothorax is

slightly narrower in the posterior than in the anterior part, plicate

on the sides of the disk and with the normal longitudinal impressed

line.

This species is slightly more elongated than 7. flavo-signatus,

the shape o. the prothorax differs also slightly, and the yellow

patches are considerably reduced in size; on the other hand the

examples of Thyreopterus flavo-signatus occurring in the neighbour-

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hood of Salisbury have the prothorax shaped as in the present

species, and the legs, except the tarsi, are wholly black, but the

partly infuscate antennal joints and the yellow markings of the

elytra are quite the same as in the typical flavo-signatus. It is this

varietal form which Chaudoir noticed in Rey. and Mag. d. Zool.,

1878, p. 145, as coming from Mombassa, adding, however, that he

could not bring himself to separate specifically the example he saw

from J’. flavo-signatus, from Senegal, ‘‘ which with shght modifica-

tions in the shape of the prothorax and the colour of the tarsi seems

to have a wide range in Africa;’’ he mentions also the Cape and

Natal in this area of distribution. I have seen one example only of

T. lugubrinus, but I do not think that it is a melanic form of T.

flavo-signatus.

Length 11 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Tre GRAPHIPTERINI.

Gen. GRAPHIPTERUS, Latr.

GRAPHIPTERUS SHEBANUS, Nl. Sp.

Black with the three basal joints of antennz piceous-red ; head,

prothorax, and elytra covered with dense, appressed flavescent hairs,

but each elytron has a broad black band on each side; the head is

massive, the prothorax short and broad but not angular in the

anterior part, both head and prothorax are very closely scabrose-

punctate, but the prothorax is not denuded in the centre, and the

colour of the hairs is uniform; elytra sub-elongate-quadrate, dis-

tinctly rounded laterally only near the shoulder, sub-striate, hairs

concolorous, the band on each side is about half the width of each

dorsal area, situated at a short distance from the suture, and begins

at a short distance from the base, but does not reach quite the apical

margin; legs and under side glabrous, shining.

This species belongs to the group of G. macrocephalus and G.

chaudoiri. It is distinguished from the latter by its larger size, the

more quadrate elytra, and the disposition of the discoidal bands

which are broader in proportion and reach nearer to the base and

apex.

Length 15-16 mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Barberton).

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Peeler, AN EN

Gen. POLYHIRMA, Chaud.

PoLYHIRMA COMMISTA, N. sp.

Black, moderately shining; head with a greenish-white pubescence

continued as a median band along the neck, the median part of the

prothorax and the scutellary region, and having also an apical median

patch on the elytra, the sides of the sternum are moderately densely

hairy; prothorax cordiform very closely and somewhat roughly

punctate ; elytra elongated and having on each side in addition to

the supra-marginal carinule seven very sharp keels, the sixth of

which begins only at about three-fourths of the length, these keels

reach from the base to a short distance from the apex in both sexes,

and the intervals are very deeply alveolate, the bottom of the alveole

is black, the basal part is not alveolate for about one-eighth of the

length, and the median hairy whitish band reaches only as far as

that.

This species is closely allied to P. macilenta, and differs only in

the background of the alveole not being fulvous. It might be con-

sidered as a mere variety of the former, which, however, it replaces

in Southern Rhodesia north of Buluwayo and in Damaraland and

Ovampoland, and it is therefore entitled to be considered as a valid

species.

Length 20-224 mm. ; width 53-65 mm.

Hab. North-West Damaraland; Ovampoland; Southern Rhodesia.

Sihsrasioy (Cle U byadds OBA

Gen. CHLAINIUS, Bon.

CHLZNIUS DITULUS, N. sp.

Head and prothorax bronze green, shining, elytra bluish-green

with an elongated rufescent band extending from the third to

the eighth stria, beginning slightly past the median part and

reaching the apex, antenne fuscous with the three basal joints

reddish, legs and tarsi red; head aciculate with the median part

smooth ; prothorax very elongato-ovate, as broad at the apex as at

the base, covered with deep, nearly contiguous and moderately

broad punctures; elytra narrow, elongated, the humeral part

strongly rounded, intervals very deeply and closely punctured,

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the pubescence is slightly fulvous; pectus and abdomen almost

black, the latter iridescent, the former foveolate.

This species is, with the exception of C. (Vertagus) hacquardt,

the most slender of the South African species; the shape of the

prothorax resembles that of C. bohemani, but it is a little narrower ;

the shoulders are also more rounded.

Length 104 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

CHLENIUS PRONUS, 0. sp.

Dark bronze-green with the head brighter green, and the outer

margins of the prothorax and elytra greenish-blue, the latter have

a narrow, apical, marginal flavescent narrow band, the legs are

light flavescent, and so are the three basal, antennal joints; head

deeply and closely punctate, the punctures separated by an interval

narrower than their own diameter; prothorax as broad as long, sub-

parallel, very slightly broader laterally towards the median than in

the anterior part, and only very slightly sinuate in the posterior

above the outer apical angle which is fairly sharp, it is covered

with punctures as closely set as on the head, but slightly deeper,

the median longitudinal line is fine, and the lateral impressions

normal, scutellum impunctate; elytra not wider than the base of

the prothorax at the base, but slightly ampliated for a very short

distance near the humeral part, oblong, narrowly punctato-striate

with the intervals almost plane, but costulate towards the apex, and

covered with deep, nearly contiguous punctures, the apical flavescent

band is confined to the marginal part, and the very short pubescence

is flavescent.

In general appearance it is not unlike C. cwpreocinctus, Reich., but

it is much smaller, and the prothorax is much more parallel.

Length 10-104 mm.; width 5-51 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Gen. ZELOTICUS, Péring.

ZELOTICUS UMTALIANUS, N. sp.

Black, with the edges of the prothorax faintly bluish-bronze,

under side and legs very dark cyaneous and iridescent ; elytra black,

opaque, with four dorsal yellowish white patches, and a supra-mar-

ginal narrow band of the same colour; head scrobiculate-punctate

in the posterior part, and with a nearly smooth median elongate-

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quadrate patch; prothorax as broad as long, ovate not wider at the

base than across the anterior part, scrobiculate, the scrobes divided

by a very thin wall, the two posterior basal impressions deep, but

somewhat short, the median line deep; elytra elongate-ovate, but

somewhat ampliated in the posterior part (?), highly costate, each

costa with two rows of punctures bearing stiff, upright, fairly long

bristle-like hairs curving backwards at tip, the first dorsal patch

consists of three elongated bands extending from the third to the

sixth stria, these bands coalesce in the interstices, and the first one

is longer than the other two, the posterior supra-apical one is in

the shape of a narrow transverse band reaching from the first to the

seventh stria, the ninth or outer costa is yellowish-white from the

base to the apex, and the apical part of the eighth and in a lesser

degree of the seventh is also suffused with the same colour.

Differs from Z. tristis, Péring., by the less elongated and very

closely scrobiculate prothorax which is almost roughly shagreened

instead of the punctures being separated by smooth intervals as in

Z. tristis ; the elytra are more ampliated, more highly costate, and

the disposition of the yellowish-white markings is different.

Length 16 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Gren. CALLISTOMIMUS, Chaud.

CALLISTOMIMUS PLACENS, Nn. sp.

Testaceous-red, with the basal joints of the elytra and the legs

more flavescent; elytra testaceous but having cloudy greenish longi-

tudinal markings along the first seven intervals, these greenish

lines, which are somewhat interrupted, reach on the third and fourth

intervals from near the base to slightly past the median part, they

are shorter on the fifth and sixth, while on the first and second they

begin at some distance from the base and reach further behind

where they meet a transverse, somewhat zigzagged, evanescent band

of the same colour; the head and prothorax are covered with nearly

contiguous deep punctures separated by a slightly raised wall, the

intervals of the deeply striate elytra are shagreened and _ briefly

pubescent, and the pubescence is pale yellow.

The nearest South African ally of this species is CU. inswetus, but

the elytra are much less strongly shagreened, and the pattern of the

elytra is different.

Length 64 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

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Tring PANAGAXINI.

Gren. CRASPEDOPHORUS, Hope.

CRASPEDOPHORUS LATICOLLIS, n. Sp.

Black, covered on the upper side with a sub-fulvescent, dense

pubescence; head very rugose; prothorax three times as wide as

the head, broadly dilated from the anterior angle, gradually amphated

and rounded to about three-fourths of the length, where it is deeply

notched, straight thence, and notched again above the basal angle

which does not project beyond the top part of the incision, the outer

margins are strongly reflexed, the base is slightly wider than the

apex, it is covered with almost contiguous foveate punctures sepa-

rated by slightly raised walls, and the two basal impressions appear

very deep owing to the strongly reflexed outer margins; elytra only

slightly broader at the base than the prothorax at its widest part,

sub-parallel, punctato-striate with the intervals moderately convex

but sub-tectiform in the anterior part, and having on each side two

pale-yellow patches, the first one consists of four very short bands

set on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth intervals, the two outer —

ones are slightly longer than the two inner, and their base is on a

level with the anterior part of the latter, the posterior patch consists

of five coalescing bands extending from the third to the eighth stria,

the median band projecting for half its length beyond the anterior

margin of the patch and being proportionally shorter in the pos-

terior; epipleural fold and abdomen punctate, pectus foveate-punctate,

the whole under side pubescent, ventral segments not crenulated on

their front margin.

This species will be easily recognised by the extremely broad

prothorax.

Length 16 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

CRASPEDOPHORUS MERUS, Nn. Sp.

Black, shining; head rugose; prothorax twice as broad as the

head, dilated from the rounded anterior angle, gradually ampliated

and rounded to nearly three-fourths of the length where it is

broadest, deeply sinuate there but not notched, nearly straight

thence and slightly notched at the base the angle of which projects

visibly, it is strongly scrobiculate, the outer margins are strongly

reflexed, and the base is slightly wider than the apex; elytra oblong,

punctate-striate with the intervals convex, tectiform, very closely

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punctured, and having on each side three short ante-median pale

yellow bands situated on the third, fifth, and seventh intervals, the

outer band being one-third longer than the other two, and a supra-

apical patch consisting of five coalescent, also short bands extending

from the third to the eighth, the second and third bands project

beyond the base of the others and are proportionately shorter

anteriorly, the third and fifth bands are of nearly the same length,

the first one is the shortest ; sculpture and vestiture of the under side

normal ; abdominal segments not crenulated on their front margin.

Length 174-184 mm.; width 7-8 mm.

The shape of the prothorax is not unlike that of C. (Hpiscomus)

pretiosus, Chaud., but it is more ampliated in the anterior part, and

the outer margins are more strongly reflexed; the patches of the

elytra are quite different from those of C, pretiosus.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Tre STOMINI.

Gren. DISPHAIRICUS, Waterh.

DIsPH#RICUS RHODESIANUS, N. sp.

Black, shining, glabrous; ultimate antennal joints, somewhat

rusty brown; palpi brown; head and prothorax impunctate, the

former with the two frontal sulci very deep, the latter ampliate

ovate with the median longitudinal impressed line very plain and

as deep as the supra-lateral one; elytra ovate, very convex, deeply

striate, the striz closely but not deeply punctate, and the intervals

strongly convex, sub-tectiform, and smooth.

Very closely allied to D. sulcostriatus, Fairm., which it closely

resembles, but in the latter, which is also larger, the median

longitudinal impressed line on the prothorax is hardly distinct,

whereas in D. rhodesianus it is as deep as the supra-lateral one

and quite conspicuous.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 23-3 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Tre PLATYSMATINI.

GreN. ABACETUS, De}.

A?. Prothorax, elytra, and legs glabrous ; striz of elytra impunctate.

B?. Inner spur of anterior tibie bi- or tri-cuspid.

Tarsi pluri-sulcate.

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 189

A. duspicatus ; A. vevator.

B'. Inner spur of anterior tibiz simple.

a+, Tarsi pluri-sulcate.

b?, Fifth joint of hind tarsi glabrous underneath.

A. emeritus; A, diversus; A. lautus; A. dilucidus; A. mimus; A. gucundulus ;

A. servitulus.

«3, 'Tarsi suleate on each side only.

b?. Fifth joint of hind tarsi glabrous underneath.

A. malvernensis.

«a, Tarsi suleate outwardly only.

b?. Fifth joint of hind tarsi glabrous underneath.

A, vertagus.

bt. Fifth joint of hind tarsi setulose underneath.

A. optimus ; A. clarus.

«?. Tarsi not suleate.

b?. Fifth joint of hind tarsi not setulose underneath.

A. discrepans ; A. evulsus; A. shilouvanus ; A. inopinus ; A. effulgens.

At. Prothorax, elytra, and legs villose; striew of elytra punctate.

a’, Tarsi not suleate.

A. jubatulus ; A. pilosulus.

ABACETUS AUSPICATUS, 0. Sp.

Black, shining, the base of the four first joints of antennz nar-

rowly rufescent at the base, palpi piceous or piceous-red ; frontal

impressions deep; prothorax regularly arcuate laterally from the

anterior angle to two-thirds of the length, and slanting thence to

the posterior angle which projects as a minute tooth, the outer

margin is narrowly reflexed from apex to base, the juxta-marginal

sulcus is fairly deep, but slightly narrower as it approaches the

outer angle of the base which is plainly narrower than the apex

and narrowly grooved along the margin, the two basal impressions

are long and deep, the median basal part between these two impres-

sions is plainly punctulate, the well-marked median longitudinal line

is plainly deepened in the basal part, the disk, which is broadest

across the median part, is very little convex in the anterior, and the

sides of the posterior are not reflexed; elytra oblong, twice as long

as the prothorax, with the shoulders slightly curving and aculeate,

deeply striate with the intervals raised but not tectiform, the third

with the setigerous puncture about median ; pro- and metasternum

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smooth, metasternal episterna narrow and very long; inner spur

of anterior tibize bifid, but with a slight spine underneath, posterior

tibia deeply tri-suleate; hind tarsi also tri-sulcate, fifth joint not

setulose underneath in the male, which has also a single setigerous

puncture on each side of the last abdominal segment.

This species is allied to A. mgrinus, Boh., in which the inner spur

of the anterior tibizee are also bifid, but it is larger and somewhat

more massive, and in the two male examples which I have seen the

intervals of the elytra are plainly more convex than in A. nigrinus,

where they are plane, and the curve of the humeral part is more

elongated in the last-named species.

Length 11-12 mm.; width 44-44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). Natal (Durban).

ABACETUS VEXATOR, N. Sp.

Black, shiny, antenne black with the three basal joints piceous ;

frontal impressions deep, somewhat broad, the sulcus arcuate ;

prothorax ampliato-arcuate for two-thirds of the length, and

widest across the median part, narrowed in the third posterior

part, but not sinuate, although the sharp basal angle projects,

the outer margin is finely reflexed, the lateral sulcus is narrow,

but deep, and reaches close to the posterior pore, and is con-

tinued thence along the base so as to meet the basal sulcus

which is situated nearer to the outer margin than to the median

longitudinal part, the basal space between the two sulci bears

a few nearly obliterated punctures, the sides of the posterior part

are not depressed ; elytra oblong, as broad slightly past the humeral

part as the prothorax at its widest point, the impunctate striw are

deep, the intervals convex, and the setigerous pore on the third

interval is median; last abdominal segments with two setigerous

punctures (¢ ), metasternum and episterna faintly aciculate, meta-

sternal episterna longer than broad; inner spur of anterior tibiz

thick, somewhat blunt and slightly cuspid on each side at the base ;

hind tarsi plurisulcate.

Length 9 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Upper Limpopo). A. W. Eriksson.

ABACETUS EMERITUS, Péring.,

Ann. §. Afr. Phil. Soc., 1898, p. 359.

Black, shiny, palpi sub-rufescent ; the three basal antennal joints

and the tarsi piceous; frontal impressions somewhat broad and

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reaching the anterior setigerous pore; prothorax as broad as

long, arcuate laterally from apex to base, but broader in the

anterior than in the posterior part where it is not sinuate, but

the basal angle is sharp, and projects, the outer margin is reflexed,

the lateral sulcus is narrow and reaches from the anterior angle

to the basal pore and is not continued along the basal margin to the

basal longitudinal sulcus, the space along the base between the sulci

and the median longitudinal line is impunctate, the anterior part of

the disk which is broadest across the median part is slightly convex

and the sides of the posterior are not depressed or reflexed laterally;

elytra oblong, narrower than the base of the prothorax but with the

humeral part slanting, the impunctate strize are deep and the inter-

vals plane, the puncture on the third interval is about median; the

under side is smooth ; the episterna only slightly longer than broad,

the last abdominal segment has four setigerous punctures (2); the

hind tibiz are tri-suleate, and so are the hind and intermediate tarsi.

Not unlike some species of Melanodes.

Length 9 mm.; width 4 mm.

My previous description of this species was somewhat faulty.

ABACETUS DIVERSUS, N. sp.

Black, very shiny, the two basal antennal joints, the palpi, the

extreme edge of the lateral marginal fold and the legs more or less

deeply piceous-red ; frontal impressions somewhat slender, arcuate ;

prothorax longer than broad, moderately attenuated laterally from

the anterior setigerous puncture to the sharp anterior angle, sub-

parallel from the setigerous puncture to the outer basal angle, yet

slightly sinuate at about two-thirds of the length, the posterior angle

is sharp but does not project, the marginal fold is reflexed, the

sulcus is not deep and disappears almost in the posterior part at

about two-thirds of the length, then starts again near the posterior

setigerous puncture and runs along the straight base, which is wider

than the apex, as far as the somewhat long, narrow, slightly arcuate

basal sulci, the space between them and the median longitudinal

impressed line is impunctate, and the sides of the hind part is plane;

it is very little convex in front, and its greatest width is across the

middle, which is, however, hardly wider than the base; elytra

oblong, hardly sloping behind the sharp humeral angle, the impunc-

tate strize are deep, and the intervals quite plane; the puncture on

the third interval is situated slightly past the median part; they are

slightly narrower at the base than the prothorax at its widest part ;

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under side impunctate, episterna not narrow, and only slightly

longer than the anterior edge; last abdominal segment with two

setigerous punctures in the male, four in the female ; posterior tibiz

strongly tri-suleate; hind and intermediate tarsi also pluri-sulcate,

fifth joint of hind ones not selutose.

Length 10} mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

This species is not unlike A. lucidulus, Boh., but the prothorax

is broader and the marginal sulcus not so deep.

ABACETUS LAUTUS, 0. sp.

Black, very shiny, palpi rufescent, the three basal antennal joints

slightly piceous-red ; frontal impressions deep, plainly arcuate ; pro-

thorax longer than broad, arcuato-ampliate from the anterior angle

to two-thirds of the length, plainly narrowed thence and sinuated

above the sharp basal angle which projects slightly, the greatest

width is found at about one-third of the length, the outer margin is

narrowly reflexed, the supra-marginal sulcus is fairly wide, runs

from the anterior angle to the basal part, and continues alongside

of it as far as the long basal suleus which, owing to the narrowing

of the posterior part, is set nearer to the margin than to the median

longitudinal line, the space between the two is impunctate; elytra

oblong, with the shoulders hardly slanting and the humeral angle

sharp, narrower at the base than the widest point of the prothorax,

but equally wide slightly past the median part, the impunctate

stri are deep and the intervals plainly tectiform; metathoracic

episterna somewhat short, only slightly longer than the anterior

part; last abdominal segment with two setigerous pores (g\); hind

tibiz and tarsi pluri-suleate.

Length 10 mm.; width 33 mm.

This species is easily recognised by the elongated, sub-cordiform

shape of the prothorax.

Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

ABACETUS DILUCIDUS, N. sp.

Black, shiny; palpi, legs, and the basal antennal joints rufescent

or red, the other antennal joints slightly infuscate, outer margin of

prothorax rufescent; frontal impressions slightly oblique ; prothorax

as broad as long, regularly but not broadly arcuate laterally, its

greatest width is slightly in front of the median part, the outer

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margin is sharp and slightly reflexed, the lateral sulcus wide and

reaches from the apex, the angle of which is sharp but not pro-

jecting, to the somewhat indistinct hind pore, and is connected

along the margin by a narrow line with the basal sulcus, which

is situated slightly nearer to the outer margin than to the median

longitudinal line, the interval between the basal sulcus and the

median line is impunctate, and the sides of the posterior part

of the disk are not depressed; elytra oblong, slightly wider than the

base of the prothorax, and as broad slightly past the humeral part

as the widest point of the prothorax, striae impunctate, deep,

intervals convex, the puncture on the third interval median; last

abdominal segment with two or four setigerous punctures according

to the sex; metasternal episterna much longer than the anterior

edge ; hind tarsi pluri-suleate.

Allied to A. pavoninus, but smaller, and the prothorax is less

amphated laterally.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 34-32 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

ABACETUS MIMUS, 0. Sp.

The description of A. dilucidus suits the present species, except

that the sides of the prothorax are depressed in the basal part

between the basal sulcus and the outer angle, which is sharp, but

does not project, the basal sulcus is equi-distant from the outer

margin and from the median longitudinal line, and the space

between the two is finely and very closely punctulate (¢), the

prothorax is also shghtly wider at the base.

Length 8 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia. (Umtali). A. Bodong.

ABACETUS JUCUNDULUS, N. Sp.

Intermediate in shape and in the sculpture of the prothorax

between A. dilucidus and A. mimus; from the former it differs

by the colour, which is plainly iridescent, especially the elytra, the

shape of the prothorax is the same, but the space between the

median longitudinal line and the basal sulcus is sparsely punctulate,

the punctures being denser along the sulcus, whereas in 4. dilucidus

this space is plainly impunctate; from A. mimus it differs in the

prothorax being slightly narrower towards the base, and in the basal

space between the longitudinal line and the basal sulcus being

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sparsely instead of closely punctate, and in not having the sides

of the posterior part depressed (9 ).

Length 8 mm.; width 31 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

ABACETUS SERVITULUS, Ni. Sp.

Black, with the three basal joints of the antenne reddish, the

joints are infuscate, the anterior legs are more reddish than the

intermediate and posterior ones, which are piceous; the elytra

have a slight iridescent sheen; frontal impressions somewhat

short, arcuate; prothorax as long as broad, widest at about the

median part, arcuate-ampliate laterally from the anterior angle to

two-thirds of the length, and sloping thence without sinuation to the

outer basal angle, which is sharp, but not projecting, the outer

margin is slightly piceous-red, plainly reflexed, the lateral sulcus

runs from the apical to the basal angle, and is continued as an

occasionally faint, impressed line reaching the basal sulcus the base

of which is situated nearer the outer margin than to the median

impressed line, the supra-basal space between the two is closely

punctulate, the posterior part of the sides is not depressed; elytra

oblong, intervals convex with the striz impunctate, the setigerous

puncture of the third interval median; last abdominal segment bi-

or quadri-setigerous according to sexes; the sides of the segments,

the metasternum and the metasternal episterna are plainly punctate,

the latter are longer externally than the anterior border; posterior

tarsi plurisuleate; fifth jomt glabrous underneath.

The general facies is not unlike that of A. clarus, which belongs

to another group of the genus, but the posterior part of the prothorax

is straighter, and not sinuate.

Length 74-8 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

ABACETUS MALVERNENSIS, n. Sp.

Black, very shiny with the palpi, the legs and the three basal

antennal joints red, the other antennal joints are rufescent; head

with the frontal impressions short, narrow but deep, and arcuate ;

prothorax longer than broad, slightly arcuate laterally from the

anterior angle to nearly the median part, sub-diagonally attenuated

thence to the base, the sharp angle of which projects slightly, making

the part of the outer margin adjoining it appear as if slightly sinuated

immediately above it, the lateral margin is sharp, slightly reflexed,

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the sulcus is narrow and reaches from the anterior angle to the hind

pore and is not continued along the base, the space between the

median part and the basal sulcus is much broader than between the

sulcus and the outer margin, and is finely and closely punctate, the

interspace between the two basal sulciis plane, whereas that between

the outer margin and the basal sulcus follows the slight convexity of

the disk which is broadest slightly before the median part; elytra

oblong, with the shoulders not much sloping, slightly wider below

the shoulders than the prothorax, the impunctate striz are deep, and

the intervals very plainly convex, the puncture on the side of the

third interval is almost median; last abdominal segment with the

two normal punctures (gf); metasternum and episterna punctulate,

metasternal episterna long; the three basal joints of the hind tarsi

are sulcate on each side, and the basal one has a few very short setie

on each side in the male.

Length 8 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Barker.

Not unlike A. natalensis, which however belongs to a different

group, but with the prothorax less ampliated laterally and straighter

in the posterior part. This species is probably very closely allied to

if not identical with A. rufipalpis, Chaud., which I know from the

description only, but the median basal part of the prothorax is finely

punctate, and de Chaudoir does not mention this character.

ABACETUS OPTIMUS, 0. sp.

Black, shining iridescent, antenne, palpi and legs reddish ; frontal

sulci arcuate ; prothorax broader than long, and widest across past

one-third of the length, strongly arcuate laterally for two-thirds of

the length, narrowed thence but not sinuated above the hind angle

which is sharply angular, the reflexed margin is sharp, the lateral

sulcus deep, reaching the hind setigerous puncture and continued

along the base as a deep line reaching the basal suleus which is

separated from the median longitudinal line by an impunctate space

slightly wider than that separating it from the outer margin, the

sides of the posterior part are not depressed; elytra oblong, as wide

behind the sloping shoulders as the prothorax, the impunctate striz

are deep, the intervals moderately convex, the setigerous pore on the

third interval is situated past the median part; metasternal episterna

long; the hind tibiz are not suleate inwardly, and only the first joint

of the hind tarsi is sulcate outwardly, the fifth joint is slightly setulose

underneath.

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This species is not unlike 4. natalensis, but differs by the colour of

the legs, and the wider prothorax which is also less cordiform. In

A. natalensis the hind tibie are plainly grooved inwardly.

Length 7 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury), G. A. K. Marshall. Natal

(Isipingo), C. N. Barker.

ABACETUS CLARUS, 0. sp.

Black, very shiny, slightly iridescent; palpi and legs reddish,

antennee rufescent with the three basal joints plainly reddish ; frontal

impressions narrow, but deep and arcuate; prothorax as broad at its

widest part as long, arcuately ampliated laterally from the anterior

angle to two-thirds of the length, attenuated obliquely thence to the

sharp, very little projecting basal angle which is covered by the

setigerous pore, the outer margin is sharp and slightly reflexed, the

sulcus is very plain, and of equal width from the apex to close to

the hind pore, and is not continued along the base only as a very

faint impressed line, the basal sulci are normal and set nearer to the

outer margin than to the median longitudinal line, and the space

between the two is clearly impunctate, the anterior part of the disk

which is at its widest in front of the median part is slightly convex

and the sides of the posterior are neither depressed nor reflexed ;

elytra oblong with the humeral part very little sloping, as broad

slightly below the shoulders as the prothorax at its widest part, the

impunctate striz are well defined, the intervals are slightly raised,

and the puncture on the third interval is nearly median; last

abdominal segment with the normal four setigerous punctures (? );

hind tibize not grooved inwardly, posterior tarsi with the three basal

joints grooved outwardly ; apical joint finely setulose underneath ;

metasternal episterna nearly one-third longer than the anterior edge.

This species is very closely allied to dA. severini, Tsch., a species

from the Congo Free State (Boma), of which I have two types and

in which the hind tarsi have the three basal joints grooved outwardly,

but the posterior part of the prothorax is more constricted laterally

and therefore more cordiform, and the episterna are slightly longer.

Length 74 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab, Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). Rev. H. Junod.

ABACETUS VERTAGUS, Nn. Sp.

Black with the elytra iridescent, the palpi, the three basal joints

of antenne and also the basal part of the fourth are rufo-flavescent,

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the others black, and the antenne are long and somewhat slender,

the femora are slightly fuscous, the tibiz and tarsi flavescent ; the

frontal impressions are not deep, and the short sulcus is arcuate ;

prothorax as broad as long, arcuate laterally from the angle of the

anterior part which is nearly straight to about four-fifths of the length

where it is slightly narrowed but not sinuate, its greatest width being

across the median part, the basal outer angle is sharp, the outer

margin slightly reflexed, the lateral sulcus narrow and continued at

the base as far as the basal suleus which is set close to the outer

margin, the space between the two basal sulci is numerously punc-

tulate, but the number of punctures vary in some examples, there is

no impressed arcuate line in the anterior part of the disk and the

sides of the posterior part are not depressed nor reflexed ; elytra

oblong with the shoulders slightly rounded and broader than the

prothorax at its widest part, the impunctate strie are moderately

deep, the intervals plane, the puncture on the side of the third

interval is median, and the edge of the outer margin and also the

epipleural fold are flavescent as in some species of Stenolophus ;

under side impunctate, metasternal episterna narrow, much longer

than broad ; posterior tibiz not deeply suleate inwardly, first and

second joints of hind tarsi suleate outwardly, fifth joint glabrous

underneath.

I know of no South African species with which this species can

be compared.

Length 44-63 mm. ; width 22 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira). P. A. Sheppard.

ABACETUS DISCREPANS, ni. sp.

Black, shiny, the elytra have a faint bronze tinge, the three basal

joints of the antenne are reddish, but the third one is somewhat

infuscate, the other joints are deeply fuscate, the femora also, the

tibiz are lighter than the femora, and the tarsi, especially the anterior

ones, are flavescent ; frontal sulci moderately long, arcuate ; pro-

thorax a little narrower at the base than at the apex, not much

ampliated laterally, but regularly arcuate for two-thirds of the length,

and oblique thence as far as the basal angle which projects, the

lateral sulcus is connected along the base with the deep basal sulcus

which is situated nearer to the outer angle than to the median

longitudinal line, and the space between these two basal sulci is

sparsely punctate, the sides of the posterior part are not depressed ;

elytra oblong, broader slightly past the not much rounded shoulders

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than the prothorax at its widest part, the impunctate striae are deep,

the intervals moderately convex, the puncture on the side of the

third interval is situated slightly in front of the median part, under-

side impunctate, metasternal episterna longer than broad ; the sulci

of the hind tibize are plain, without being very deep, the hind tarsi

are not sulcate, and the fifth joint is glabrous underneath; last

abdominal segment with two or four setigerous punctures according

to the sex.

This species resembles A. pygm@us, Bohem., which is, however,

metallic green with the legs red, but the prothorax is not so much

narrowed behind, nor is it sinuate above the basal angle.

Length 42 mm. ; width 1-2 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

ABACETUS EVULSUS, N. sp.

Bronze-green, slightly less green on the elytra than on the pro-

thorax ; femora infuscate, tibize flavescent except at apex and base,

antenne black with the three basal joints red; frontal sulci as in the

preceding species ; prothorax cordate, ampliated laterally, constricted

and slightly sinuate in the posterior part, but with the base very

little narrower than the apex, the lateral sulcus is narrow and con-

nected with the basal one by a still narrower impressed line, but is

otherwise as in A. discrepans ; the elytra are oblong, the intervals

plane, the puncture on the side of the third interval is ante-median ;

the under side and legs are as in A. discrepans.

The nearest ally of this species is 4. pygmaeus, Boh., but the

prothorax is more ampliated laterally, the intervals of the elytra are

quite plane, and the puncture on the third interval is situated only

slightly past the first third of the length, instead of being about

median as in dA. pygmaeus.

Length 5-53 mm.; width 2-24 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira). P. A. Sheppard.

ABACETUS SHILOUVANUS, Nn. sp.

Blackish-bronze with the three basal joints of the antennz red,

the other joints are deep fuscous; the femora almost black, the tibiz

and tarsi flavescent; the head and prothorax are as in A. evulsus,

but the elytra are more elongated, the humeral part is less rounded,

and not wider past the shoulder than the prothorax at its widest

point, they are also slightly sinuate laterally, the striz are deep, the

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intervals quite plane and the third one bears no puncture; under

side and tarsi as in the two preceding species.

Length 64 mm. ; width 24 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg). Rev. H. A. Junod.

ABACETUS INOPINUS, N. Sp.

Black, shiny, slightly iridescent, antenne and legs rufescent,

posterior part of elytra also rufescent; frontal sulci not deep,

arcuate ; prothorax as broad as long, gradually arcuate laterally

from the slightly rounded anterior angle to two-thirds of the length,

obliquely narrowed thence to the sharp, projecting posterior angle,

the lateral sulcus abuts almost on to the basal one which is set close

to the outer angle, and the basal space between the two sulci is

deeply punctate, the sides of the posterior part are not depressed ;

elytra oblong with the humeral part rounded, as wide at the shoulders

as the prothorax at its widest point, the impunctate striz are deep,

the intervals moderately raised, the puncture on the third interval is

slightly ante-median, and the posterior part of the convexity is

rufescent; the hind tibiz are very weakly grooved, the hind tarsi

are not sulcate, the last joint is glabrous; the under side is smooth

and the metasternal episterna longer than broad.

Length 6 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

ABACETUS EFFULGENS, Nn. sp.

Light bronze, shiny on the upper part, bronze-black on the under-

side; antenne black with the basal joint red and the two following

fuscous-red, femora fuscous-red, tibiee red; frontal sulcus somewhat

long, oblique ; prothorax as broad as long, ampliated and rounded

laterally for two-thirds of the length, and slightly sub-obliquely

narrowed and sinuate in the posterior part the outer angle of which

‘is sharp and slightly projecting, the base itself is slightly wider than

the anterior margin, the lateral sulcus is deep and connected along

the base with the basal one which is set somewhat close to the

outer angle, the space between the two basal sulci is very closely

punctate ; elytra oblong, very little rounded at the shoulders, not

wider than the prothorax at its broadest point, the impunctate strie

are moderately deep, the intervals plane, the strong puncture on the

third interval is about median, and there is a slight longitudinal

median impression on the two first intervals; the under side is

impunctate, the metasternal episterna are longer than broad; the

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hind tibizw are hardly sulcate laterally, the hind tarsi are not sulcate,

and the fifth joint is glabrous.

A distinct species.

Length 62 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

ABACETUS JUBATULUS, N. sp.

Ferruginous, with the antennz sub-rufescent, and the legs

flavescent, the former are long; the frontal impressions are long

and the sulcus not arcuate, the sides of the head are punctulate ;

the prothorax and elytra are depressed, the former is rounded

laterally but not ampliated from the sharp anterior angle to two-

thirds of the length and gradually narrowed thence to the very

sharp and strongly projecting basal angle, the base is narrower than

the apex, the outer margin is finely reflexed, the lateral sulcus is deep

and has a series of closely set punctures bearing each a long seta,

but is not connected with the basal suleus which is very lateral, the

median marginal part of the base is finely grooved, and the basal

space between the two sulci bears a few deep punctures; elytra

oblong, depressed, slightly wider at the base than the prothorax at

its broadest part, the striz are finely punctate and the intervals

raised, the setigerous puncture on the third interval is situated past

the median part, and the outer margin of the elytra has a fringe of

closely set, flavous hairs; the whole under side is closely punctate,

the punctures on the abdominal segment are fine and closely set,

and each one is strictly setigerous, those on the pectus are broader,

deeper and not setigerous, the metathoracic punctulate episterna are

longer than broad; the legs and tarsi are pubescent, the hind tibixw

not sulcate inwardly, the hind tarsi are not visibly sulcate, and the

fifth joint is setulose underneath ; the last abdominal segment bears

two or four setigerous punctures according to the sex.

Length 43 mm,; width 13 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

ABACETUS PILOSULUS, N. sp.

Ferruginous brown, antenne and legs sub-flavescent ; frontal sulci

long, sides of the head finely punctate ; prothorax very little arcuate

in front, moderately ampliate laterally for about two-thirds of the

length, obliquely narrowed thence, but without any sinuation, to the

outer basal angle which is very sharp and projects conspicuously,

the lateral sulcus bears a series of closely set punctures bearing each

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along seta and is similar in shape and sculpture to A. jubatulus ;

the elytra, however, are not depressed as in the latter species and the

convexity in the posterior part is very well marked, the strie are

slightly more finely punctulate and the intervals a little more sharply

convex, the puncture on the third interval which in 4. jwhatulus is

situated at about two-thirds of the length is set at a short distance

only of the median part in 4. pilosulus, but the fringe of hairs along

the margin and the pubescence of the under side and legs are the

same in both species.

I have seen only one female example of this species, which differs

also from A. pilosulus in having slightly shorter and thicker antenna.

Length 44 mm.; width 13 mm.

Hab. Natal (Lower Unkomas). C. N. Barker.

Tre PLATYNINI.

GEN. PLATYNUS, Bon.

PuatyNus (MEGALONYCHUS) UMTALIANUS, n. sp.

Black with the head shiny but the prothorax and elytra sub-

opaque, palpi, basal joint of antennz and femora pale flavescent,

tibiz slightly infuscate; head impunctate; prothorax equally am-

pliated laterally in the anterior and posterior parts, very slightly

angular in the middle, this angle is slightly sharper in the male than

in the female, the margin is strongly reflexed all round, the sides of

the posterior part are somewhat depressed, the median longitudinal

impression is very well defined, and the whole surface is very closely

shagreened ; elytra oblong for three-fourths of the length, and sub-

acuminate thence towards the apex which is strongly sinuate, they

are punctato-striate with the intervals slightly convex in the male,

planer in the female, and closely aciculate, the three punctures on

the third interval are well defined, and the sutural angle is very

‘sharp.

Not unlike P. latipennis, Boh., but the prothorax is not so broadly

ampliated, and the surface is more plainly shagreened.

Length 133-14 mm.: width 5-51 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

PLATYNUS (ANCHOMENUS) INSUETUS, 0. Sp.

Black, shiny, labrum, palpi, antenns, outer margin of prothorax

and legs flavescent ; head impunctate ; prothorax ampliated laterally

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in the middle which is slightly angular, the posterior part is slightly

more oblique than the anterior, and the very strongly recurved

margin seems more highly raised in the posterior part owing to the

ereat depression of the sides, the median part of the disk is smooth,

but the sides are broadly and deeply punctured, the base has also a

broad band of punctures, but the anterior part is only slightly punc-

tulate, and the posterior angles are not very sharp; elytra oblong,

with the sutural angle sharp, deeply punctato-striate with the

intervals convex, the third has one anterior and one median punc-

ture ; the two basal joints of the anterior tarsi of the male are slightly

suleate outwardly.

This species is very closely allied to P. crenato-striatus ; the

general facies is the same, but all the joints of the antenne are

flavescent, and the punctures in the striz are not so deep, nor are

the intervals quite so much raised.

Length 10-114 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). C.N. Barker.

PruatyNnus (ANCHOMENUS) EMERITUS, N. sp.

Black, very shiny, especially the elytra; palpi, the basal joint of

antenne, the legs and the extreme edge of the prothorax and of the

elytra flavescent; head impunctate; prothorax shaped as in

P. insuetus and P. crenato-striatus, that is to say slightly narrower

laterally in the posterior than in the anterior part and with the

posterior angles not very sharp; the sides and base are also broadly

punctured with the median part of the disk smooth, but these

punctures are somewhat more closely set; the elytra are oblong

with the sutural angle moderately sharp, punctato-striate, and the

intervals quite plane, the third interval has one anterior and one

median puncture; the two basal joints of the anterior tarsi of the

male are not sulcate laterally.

This species is also very closely allied to P. crenato-striatus, from

which it is distinguished by the plane intervals of the elytra, and the

non-suleate joints of the anterior tarsi in the male.

Length 94 mm. ; width 32 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). C.'N. Barker.

PuLatyNus (ANCHOMENUS) INSOLITUS.

3lack, very shiny; palpi and antenne reddish, with the basal

joint redder, legs flavescent; head impunctate; prothorax shaped as.

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in the two preceding species, that is to say, it is ampliated laterally,

angular in the median part with the posterior part slightly more

narrowed than the anterior, the punctures cover a broader space

along the sides and the base, thus restricting the smooth area, and

the anterior part is nearly as widely punctured as the base, and

these punctures are deeper and wider than in P. emeritus or

P. crenato-striatus ; the elytra are oblong, but somewhat acuminate

from the third posterior part, the sutural angle being only moderately

sharp; they are closely and deeply striato-punctate, the intervals are

sharply tectiform, and the eighth interval as well as the marginal

one are very closely and somewhat roughly punctate, the third

interval has one anterior and one median puncture ; the basal joint

only of the anterior tarsi of the male is sulcate laterally; the episterna

and the sides of the metasternum are deeply punctate; both sexes

are alike.

Length 11 mm.; width 44+ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

PLATYNUS (ANCHOMENUS) OBSEQUIOSUS, N. sp.

Palpi, labrum and legs, extreme edge of prothorax and of elytra

flavescent; antennz with the basal and the five ultimate joints

flavescent, the intermediate ones fuscous; head impunctate ; pro-

thorax ampliate laterally in the middle with the posterior part

shghtly narrower than the anterior, and the median part hardly

angular, the anterior, posterior and lateral parts are broadly covered

with very closely set aciculate punctures, the median part of the

disk is impunctate; the elytra are very shining and have a faint

metallic tinge; they are oblong, not sub-acuminate in the posterior

part, hardly broader across the humeral angles than the prothorax

at its widest part, and with the shoulders not much sloping, strongly

sinuate behind and with the sutural angle distinct, but not sharp,

deeply punctulato-striate, with the intervals moderately convex, but

sub-tectiform in the anterior part, and the third interval bears three

punctures, an anterior one impinging on the third stria, a median,

and a posterior one situated at about two-thirds of the length.

My example isa female. It is not unlike P. crenato-striatus, but

the intervals of the elytra are not so costate, and as the shoulders

are not so sloping, the prothorax looks broader, and the third interval

bears three punctures instead of two.

Length 93 mm.; width 4 mm,

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

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Puatynus (ANCHOMENUS) LATIUSCULUS, 0. sp.

Black, elytra with an olivaceous-green metallic sheen, legs piceous-

red with the tibie black, totally piceous-red, or entirely black, tarsi,.

palpi and the three basal joints of antenne rufescent, the other

antennal joints more or less deeply fuscous ; prothorax sub-cordate,

that is to say rounded and ampliated from the anterior part to the

median, and strongly sinuate thence to the posterior angle, posterior

part of the disk very deeply depressed on each side of the base, the

two posterior depressions and the sides are closely aciculato-punc-

tate, the anterior discoidal part is impunctate ; it is wider than long,

and the outer margins which are slightly rufescent are strongly

reflexed, especially in the posterior part; elytra broader than the

prothorax at the base and with the shoulders not much rounded,

parallel for half the length, then slightly ampliated, and only

moderately attenuated in the posterior part, with the sutural angle

somewhat blunt, the intervals are plane and the striz finely

punctate, the third interval bears in the anterior part a puncture

situated almost on the third stria, and a post median one impinging

on the second stria; the abdomen and median part of the meta-

sternum are ferruginous and impunctate, the lateral part of the latter

and the episterna are closely punctate; the two sexes are alike, and

the anterior tarsal joints are not suleate in the male.

Resembles P. natalensis, Boh., but has a still broader facies.

Length 9-10} mm; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali, Salisbury). A. Bodong ;

G. A. K. Marshall.

GAZANUS, n. gen.

Mentum with a sharp median tooth, ligula very long, narrow,

gradually widening towards the truncated apex, carinate longitu-

dinally, paraglosse not disunited from it, but longer, palpigers very

long, inner lobe of maxille strongly faleate, densely bristly inwardly;

palpi very long, last joint sub-fusiform, not acuminate at the tip >

mandibles long, arcuate, plainly projecting beyond the labium;

head elongated and with a long neck, lateral sete of Platynini ;

antenne long and with the joints 4th—11th compressed and broadly

dilated somewhat in the manner of Piezia in the Graphipterini ;

prothorax strongly cordiform with the posterior angles sharply

reflexed; elytra narrow, oblong, sub-pedunculate at the base,

moderately sinuate behind, striate, the intervals with a series of

equi-distant punctures; underside and legs as in Anchomenus.

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GAZANUS ELEGANS, N. sp.

Bronze black, very shiny; the palpi, the three basal joints of

antennze and the legs are pale flavescent, but the anterior part of

the femora and the tarsi are infuscate; head deeply impressed

longitudinally along the antennal ridge, impunctate on the centre

and neck; prothorax strongly cordate with the outer margins plainly

reflexed, especially the part forming the basal angle which is very

acute, the median part of the disk is somewhat convex and hardly

punctate, but the depressed lateral, anterior and posterior parts are

sub-foveolato punctate, the basal part is especially rugose ; scutellum

punctate; elytra oblong, moderately sinuate in the posterior part,

narrowly striate, the striz extremely closely punctate, intervals

plane and having each a row of elongated punctures separated from

each other by a space nearly equal to their own diameter, and

bearing each a somewhat long, erect black hair; underside glabrous

like the head and prothorax; the three basal joints of the anterior

tarsi are not grooved laterally, but the posterior ones are.

Length 9-94 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Famiry PAUSSID.

Gren. HYLOTORUS, Dalm.

HYLOTORUS SEBAKUANUS, 0. sp.

Reddish-brown, moderately shining ; head as broad as long, highly

convex in the anterior part, and having there a deep triangular

impression continued into a longitudinal sulcus reaching to beyond

the raised part behind the ocelli, which are very minute, the head is

plainly angular laterally and the eyes have a very prominent keel

underneath, the antennz are strongly cultriform and as long as the

head which is not narrowed behind the eyes; prothorax only

slightly longer than the head, very deeply constricted laterally,

being really bi-partite, and deeply, although narrowly, excavated, the

anterior part is sub-cylindrical, and very much more raised than the

posterior, which is excavated in the manner of many species of

Paussus and faintly tuberculate laterally ; elytra sub-parallel, slightly

wider at the truncate apex than across the base, faintly aciculate and

glabrous ; femora swollen, tibix broadly dilated.

Length 4 mm.; width 14 mm.

This species is at once distinguished from H. hottentotus, Westw.,

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and H. blanchardi, Raffr., of which I have co-types, and also from

H. bucephalus, Gyllh., as figured by Westwood, by the smaller size,

the much longer antennze, which resemble very closely those of

Paussus granulatus, Westw., and especially by the bi-partite

prothorax.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

Famity STAPHYLINIDZ.

Tre ALKOCHARINI.

Gren. MYRMEDONIA, Erichs.

A’. Antennal joints strongly compressed laterally.

Group of M. retcHerti, Brauns.

termitobia ; termitophila ; compransor; simplex ; gravidula.

At, Antennal joints not strongly compressed laterally.

B?. Second abdominal segment of male armed with two spines

Group of M. pispar, Boh.

uncinata ; procax ; puncticollis.

Bt. Second abdominal segment of male simple.

C*. Prothorax plainly impressed laterally along the outer margin.

Group of M. tonetcornis, Boh.

mima ; capicola; illotula ; jucunda; gentilis ; hirtella.

Ct. Prothorax not impressed laterally.

conifera; constritata ; anthracina ; gracilicornis.

MyRMEDONIA TERMITOBIA, N. Sp.

Testaceous-red, with the head black, and the lateral posterior part

of the elytra fuscous, clypeus, palpi, legs, and antennx testaceous-

red; last joint of labial maxillary palpi very densely pubescent ;

frontal part bi-impressed, sparsely granular, and with a few

scattered, short flavescent hairs; antennz long, first joint flail-like,

not compressed, second obconieal, all the others except the apical one

are of the same length, being nearly twice as long as broad, slightly

narrower at the base than at the apex, flatly compressed longi-

tudinally on each side for two-thirds of their length but dilated at the

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apex, the compressed part is divided into two by a slight ridge, and if

seen laterally it looks exactly like a sharp wedge, the last joint is

one-third longer than the penultimate, compressed at both ends, but

bulging in the centre, roundly elongated at the tip, all the joints are

very briefly pubescent and bristly ; prothorax sub-quadrate, narrower

behind than in front, truncate in the anterior part, somewhat

arcuate along the base and with both angles rounded, depressed

laterally along the outer margins, plane in the disk, and having a

distinct median longitudinal impressed line culminating in a trans-

verse one in the median part of the base, the surface is extremely

finely aciculate and covered with equi-distant, minute, very briefly

setigerous granules, divided by an interval slightly wider than their

own diameter; scutellum short, triangular; elytra broader and a

little longer than the prothorax, and also granular, clothed with a

flavescent, dense appressed pubescence; abdomen shiny, the four

basal segments impunctate, and the second inermous in the male, the

fifth segment is briefly pubescent on the apical part, and the last one

somewhat roughly punctate and densely pubescent in the male,

equally pubescent but less roughly punctate in the female, under side

and legs closely punctate, densely pubescent; basal joint of hind

tarsi very little longer than the second.

Length 81-9 mm. ; width 24 mm.

Found in a Termite’s nest.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Most of the species in which the intermediate antennal joints are

shaped as in the present species have been met with in Termites’

nests.

MyYRMEDONIA TERMITOPHILA, N. sp.

Testaceous-red, with the head and clypeus, the elytra, with the

exception of the base, and the dorsal part of the three penultimate

abdominal segments fuscous, the three basal joints of the antenne

are rufescent, the others clothed with a chestnut-brown pubescence ;

head quadrate, sparsely punctulate, each puncture bearing a very

minute hair, there is a very conspicuous tubercle between the two

antennal basal joints, which are very long and swollen at tip, the

second is short, the third long, slender at the base, triangularly

dilated at the tip, the fourth to tenth are sharply conical, longer

than broad at apex, except the two penultimate ones, and the last is

as long as the two preceding taken together, oblong, but moderately

acuminate at the tip, all these joints are compressed in the manner

of M. termitobia but less strongly, and more angular outwardly at

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tip than inwardly, they are equally bristly; prothorax sloping

slightly on each side in the anterior part, narrower across the

straight base than across the apex, with the sides straight and the

fore and hind angles rounded, the upper sides are not much

depressed, the median impressed line is distinct in the posterior part

only of the disk, which is sparsely punctulate and pubescent;

scutellum triangular, well developed ; elytra wider at the base than

the prothorax at its broadest part, more densely punctate and with

the flavescent pubescence somewhat longer than on the prothorax ;

abdominal segments impunctate and glabrous on the upper side

except the last segment, which is pubescent, in the male the second

one is broadly laminate and is produced as two parallel spines, each

equi-distant from the sides and from the middle and reaching only

the median part of the length of the third segment, in the female (?)

this lamina is equally developed, but straight and simple, and in the

male the penultimate segment has a median, not much raised longitu-

dinal keel ; under side and legs pubescent ; the two apical abdominal

segments are infuscate, and the basal joint of the hind tarsi much

longer than the second.

Length 7 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Found in a Termite’s nest.

MYRMEDONIA COMPRANSOR, N. Sp.

Male: Labrum, prothorax, antenne, the three basal segments of

the abdomen rufescent, head black, elytra deep fuscous, with the

suture and a broad triangular humeral patch reddish, legs flavo-

rufescent; frontal part with a conspicuous longitudinal, very highly

raised keel, the head is very short behind the eyes and sparingly

punctulate and pubescent, the long antennz could reach the apex of

the prothorax, they are shaped as in I. termitobia, but the com-

pressed joints are not as elongated or as narrowed at the base, and

are thus more regularly triangular, they are also not quite so com-

pressed, but equally pubescent and with long bristles at apex ; pro-

thorax nearly as broad as long, sinuate laterally in the posterior

part, the angles are rounded, the base is slightly more arcuate than *

the anterior margin, the sides of the discoidal part are very little

depressed, the disk very slightly convex, the median line plain in the

hind part, and it is minutely punctured and very briefly pubescent ;

elytra broader at the shoulders than the prothorax, slightly ampliated

laterally behind, more deeply punctured than the prothorax, and

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with the pubescence longer ; upper side of abdomen glabrous, except

the last segment, shiny, impunctate, the second segment bears two:

short spines on the edge of the straight lamina, each one equi-dis-

tant from the outer side and the median part, on the third segment

there is a lateral, small tubercle, and four small, and granule-like, set

two by two, in the middle of the sixth, the last one is pubescent and

has at the apex a broad and deep cupuliform impression.

This species is easily distinguished from all the South African

ones by the extraordinary longitudinal keel, or laminate tubercle of

the frontal part, and the cupuliform impression of the last segment.

of the male.

Length 9 mm. ; width 24 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshail.

MyRMEDONIA SIMPLEX, 0. Sp.

Head black, with the labrum piceous, prothorax red; elytra black,.

with the basal part narrowly rufescent, abdomen black, with the two

basal abdominal segments rufescent, legs flavescent, antenne chest-

nut-brown, with the three basal joints flavescent and of the normal

shape, 4-9 sharply conical, compressed at the base, slightly longer

than broad, 9-10 of equal width and length, 11 hardly longer than 9

and 10 taken together, slightly narrower and oblong, frontal part

with an anterior, strongly convex protuberance, punctulate and

briefly pubescent; prothorax longer than broad, slightly sinuate

laterally, narrower at base than apex with both angles rounded, the

sides are not depressed, the discoidal part is slightly convex, the

very briefly pubescent punctures are not very closely set, the median

longitudinal line is obliterated, and there is a small, round impres-

sion in the centre of the base; upper part of abdominal segments

glabrous, shiny, except the last one which is pubescent, the three

penultimate ones have a marginal row of five setigerous punctures,

and the second segment is simple.

Length 64 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Natal (Neweastle). HE. Hunt.

MyrMEDONIA UNCINATA (Fauy. in litt.), n. sp.

Male: Testaceous-red, or occasionally pale testaceous, fifth and

sixth abdominal segments fuscous, frontal part of head black, and

with a conspicuous compressed tubercle in the anterior part, vertex

finely punctulate and briefly pubescent; antennze long, reaching to

about the median part of the elytra, first joint long, flail-like, second

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shorter than the third, which is slender at the base and triangularly

dilated at the apex, fourth to tenth obconical, the fourth and

fifth are slightly more triangular than the others, but all are slightly

broader than long, and not closely set, eleventh slightly longer than

the two preceding taken together, slightly narrower, sub-oblong, and

slightly tapering from the base to the rounded apex; prothorax

slightly sloping on each side towards the rounded anterior angle, the

sides are plainly sinuate, the basal part, the angles of which are also

rounded, is nearly straight, the disk is hardly convex, but the sides

are depressed along the outer margins, the median impressed longi-

tudinal line is distinct, the punctuation is very close, and the pubes-

cence very short; elytra wider than the prothorax at the shoulders,

a little ampliated in the posterior part, the punctures are deeper

than those on the prothorax, and the pubescence seemingly denser,

abdominal segments glabrous and impunctate, the second one is

produced into a lamina, the apical edge of which is straight, and the

angles produced into two sharp parallel spines varying in length

and reaching either the apical margin of the third or of the fourth

segment, on the penultimate segment are a few faint, minute

tubercles, the apical one is not tuberculate, and it is shghtly emargi-

nate in the centre, with the angles sharp.

Differs from IM. dispar, Boh., by the obconical instead of trans-

verse intermediate antennal joints, the impunctate abdomen, and

the shape and sculpture of the two ultimate abdominal segments.

Length 6 mm.; width 1$ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna). lL. Péringuey.

MyRMEDONIA PROCAX, 0. Sp.

Male: Testaceous-yellow, with the head and the fourth and fifth

abdominal segments black, antenne, with the exception of the three

basal joints, chestnut-brown ; head with a broad transverse depres-

sion, sub-carinate on the vertex, and having a conspicuous round

sub-rufescent prominence between the antenn, moderately produced

behind the large eyes, sparingly punctulate and briefly pubescent ;

antenne hardly longer than the head and prothorax taken together,

the joints 3-9 are strongly transverse, being twice as broad as long,

not closely set, briefly pubescent and setulose, the last one is not

quite as long as the three preceding taken together ; prothorax as

long as broad, with the anterior and posterior angles moderately

rounded, hardly sinuate laterally, deeply but not closely punctured,

sparingly pubescent, not impressed laterally along the base, but

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haying a fairly distinct median longitudinal impressed line ; elytra as

deeply punctured as the prothorax, but the punctures are more

closely set and the pubescence is denser; upper side of abdominal

segments glabrous, very closely and deeply punctate, the apical

margin of the second segment is laminate with the angles produced

into an arcuate spine reaching the apical margin of the third

segment, the ultimate one bears four small tubercles.

This species differs from M. wncinata in the still shorter antenne,

the intermediate joints of which are also more transverse, the pro-

thorax nearly straight laterally, and the deeply punctate surface of

the upper side of the abdominal segments.

Length 6 mm. ; width 14 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Malvern). Rev. J. A. O'Neil.

This species is not unlike M. terminata, Boh., but more massive.

the intermediate antennal joints are wider in proportion to their

length and not set so close to each other as in M. terminata, the

second abdominal segment of which is simple in the male.

MyRMEDONIA PUNCTICOLLIS, n. sp.

Male: Testaceous-red, with the upper side of the abdomen some-

what ferruginous, head fuscous, elytra with a sutural,; broadly trian-

gular, light fuscous patch, antenne ferruginous, with the exception

of the three basal joints which are rufescent, frontal part convex in

the anterior part, very plainly impressed in the vertex, very little

prolonged behind the eyes; antenne reaching to about the median

part of the prothorax, the three basal joints are normal, fourth and

fifth obconical, sixth to tenth transverse, sub-moniliform, set some-

what close to each other, eleventh equal in length to the two pre-

ceding taken together, slightly tapering but not acuminate at the

tip, those joints are densely pubescent and setulose; prothorax

plainly narrower in the posterior than in the anterior part, with the

outer angles rounded, the hind ones more broadly than the anterior,

sides slightly sinuate laterally towards the posterior angle, somewhat

convex in the centre not depressed laterally, glabrous, extremely

finely aciculate but also punctulate, the punctures fine and some-

what broadly separated, and in addition to these there are on

each side two conspicuous setigerous pores, the sub-median is

situated nearer the outer margin than the centre of the disk, the

other is situated slightly past the centre, but nearer to it: than to

the outer margin; elytra broader than the prothorax, sparingly

punctulate as in the prothorax, very sparsely pubescent, and

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having each two rows of four puncture-like pores, one along the

suture, the other close to the declivous part of the sides, and

two or three scattered punctures on the disk, these punctures are

somewhat indistinct ; scutellum very small; upper side of abdomen

glabrous, very finely aciculate, and having on each segment two

transverse rows of five broad setigerous punctures, the second

segment is not sinuate at apex, and is provided with two sharp

incurved spines reaching only the median part of the third segment,

the apical segment has two series of elongated tubercles.

Length 7 mm.; width 14 mm.

Hab. ? Southern Rhodesia.

This species is easily distinguished by the setigerous pores on the

prothorax and on the upper side of the abdomen.

MyYRMEDONIA MIMA, 0. sp.

Male: Straw-colour, shiny, very briefly pubescent, head darker,

frontal part bulging in the anterior part and having a very broad,

round depression on the vertex, sparingly punctulate and briefly

pubescent; antenne reaching the apical part of the elytra, second

joint two-thirds the length of the third, fourth to tenth nearly as long

as broad but in the shape of a broadly truncate cone, and fitting

closely to each other, eleventh almost as long as the two taken

together, they are briefly pubescent but not setulose at the tip; pro-

thorax slightly broader than long, with the anterior and posterior

angles rounded, slightly narrower at the base than at the apex,

nearly straight laterally, deeply depressed obliquely along the outer

margin, narrowly transversely along the base and having also a

broad central impression on the disk, this latter, however, may be

accidental, and moderately closely punctulate ; elytra slightly broader

than the prothorax at the base, truncate at the apex, the punc-

tures are similar to those of the prothorax, and the pubescence is

alike ; the first four abdominal segments are glabrous and impunc-

tate, and the second simple, the fifth is punctulate laterally and also

along the apical margin, and has on each side a longitudinal groove

edged by a keel, the last one is pubescent and has an apical impression.

This species is closely allied to M. longicornis, Boh., described

from a female example ; the main difference consists in the shape of

the antennal joints, which are much shorter, broader, and closely

set; they resemble more those of MW. prolixa, Boh., which is, how-

ever, a different species.

Length 5 mm. ; width 14 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

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MyYRMEDONIA CAPICOLA, Nn. sp.

Male: Frontal part, elytra and antennze with the exception of the

three basal joints black, prothorax and legs reddish-brown ; in some

examples, however, the elytra and the intermediate antennal joints

are lighter, the frontal part only is black, and the abdominal seg-

ments deeply infuscate; frontal part not depressed or impressed ;

antennz long and somewhat robust, but not reaching quite the apex

of the elytra, the second joint is almost as long as the third, the

others are conical, as broad at the apex as long, the ultimate one is

only moderately acuminate and not as long as the two preceding

ones taken together; prothorax transverse and with the base only

slightly wider than the apex, the anterior angle is not much rounded,

and the posterior is quite plain, there is a moderately deep longitudinal

supra-marginal lateral impression on the posterior part, a narrow

transverse one along the base, and an impunctate median longi-

tudinal line with a small, faint, round impression on each side in the

median part, the rest of the surface is not closely punctulate and

is slightly pubescent; elytra slightly broader at the shoulders than the

prothorax, more closely punctate and much more densely pubescent ;

upper part of the abdominal segments shiny, but punctulate along

the apical margin and sides, each puncture bearing a grey appressed

hair, the second segment is simple, but the penultimate one has a

supra-lateral deep groove on each side.

Length 4-5 mm. ; width 14-14 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). LL. Péringuey.

MYRMEDONIA GENTILIS, n. sp.

Male: Head very shiny, sparsely pubescent, elytra and abdomen,

with the exception of the two basal segments, black, antenne,

thorax, legs, and the two basal abdominal segments flavo-rufes-

cent; frontal part with a strong prominence in the anterior part

and a deep, round occipital pit, indistinctly punctate, the punc-

tures scattered and bearing a long, appressed greyish hair; antenne

reaching almost the apical angle of the elytra, second joint as long

as the third, fourth to ninth slightly conical and almost as long as

broad, tenth transverse, eleventh somewhat short, being only twice

as long as the penultimate, all these joints are not set close to each

other, they are finely pubescent and briefly setulose at apex; pro-

thorax broader than long, and plainly narrower at the base than at

the apex, the anterior angles are normally rounded, but the posterior

ones are distinctly acuminate and dentiform and the base arcuate,

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the outer sides are sinuate behind, the lateral part of the disk is

depressed, there is a broad basal impression with a median im-

pressed line above the base, and the surface is finely and remotely

punctulate, each puncture bearing a long greyish hair; elytra punc-

tulate like the prothorax but the pubescence is longer; abdominal

segments shiny, glabrous, except the last one, which is pubescent,

second one simple.

Length 3+ mm. ; width 1 mm.

Hab. Natal (Frere). G. A. K. Marshall.

MyYRMEDONIA JUCUNDA, 0. Sp.

Reddish, with the frontal part, a broadly triangular patch extend-

ing from the shoulders of the elytra to the apex of the suture, and

the four alternate abdominal segments black, it is clothed all over

with a dense greyish pubescence ; frontal part simple in both sexes,

deeply but not very closely punctate ; antennze reaching beyond the

humeral part of the elytra, second joint shorter by one-third than

the third, all the others are obconical and increase gradually in

width, the two penultimate ones being transverse, and the last one

not as long as these two taken together, the intermediate joints from

the fourth to the tenth inclusive are ferruginous, but the apical one

is as reddish as the three basal ones; prothorax broader than long,

broadly rounded laterally in front, slightly smuate in the posterior

part, the outer angles of which are plainly sharp, the disk is

impressed obliquely laterally, and deeply so in the centre of the base

which is arcuate, this impression is continued as a longitudinal im-

pressed line, which disappears however in front, the surface is very

deeply and closely punctate ; elytra plainly broader at the shoulders

than the prothorax at its widest part, covered with deep, somewhat

scabrose punctures, which are slightly denser in the sutural dorsal

part than on the sides ; all the abdominal segments are very closely

and deeply punctate and briefly pubescent, the second segment is

simple in the male, but the last one is broadly excavated at the apex.

Length 5 mm.: width 14 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Dunbrody, Enon). Rev. J. A. O'Neil.

MyYRMEDONIA GRAVIDULA, 0. sp.

Testaceous-yellow, with the head infuscate, clothed on the head,

prothorax and elytra with a short, dense, appressed flavescent

pubescence, head with a conical elevation in the anterior part of the

frontal part which is punctulaté, and the pubescence is not quite

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so dense in the occipital part as on the prothorax; antenne

long, first joint flail-like, second and third long, conical, fourth

to tenth short, obconical, as broad across the apex as long,

ultimate joint a little longer than the two together, oblong, and

compressed, all the joints are densely and very briefly pubescent,

and without bristly hairs; prothorax broader than long with

both the anterior and posterior angles rounded, and the sides

slightly ampliated, more deeply arcuate along the base than in

the anterior part, depressed along the outer discoidal part, especially

behind, moderately plane on the disk, and with only a faint im-

pressed, median longitudinal line, and without any distinct transverse

impression above the base; scutellum triangular, short; elytra

slightly narrower at the base than the prothorax at its widest part,

and longer with the shoulders more rounded than the outer apical

margin, closely punctulate ; abdominal segments sparingly punctu-

late and sparsely pubescent, but having a series of distinct

setigerous punctures along the apical margin, ultimate one simple,

truncate ; under side and legs densely pubescent ; hind tarsi very

long, basal joint nearly twice as long as the second.

Length 8 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

MyYRMEDONIA ILLOTULA, 0. sp.

Testaceous-yellow, with the frontal part and the five penultimate

abdominal segments black, antennal joints with the exception of the

three basal ones, sub-ferruginous ; elytra with a broad but some-

what faint apical fuscous patch ; frontal part simple, space between

the antennx very slightly raised, punctuation and pubescence very

scattered ; antenne reaching almost to the apex of the elytra,

somewhat robust, the intermediate joints are broadly conical, short,

being slightly wider at the tip than long, and set moderately close,

the ultimate one is not longer than the two preceding taken

together ; prothorax broader than long, with the sides sinuate and

the posterior angle not rounded, the anterior one being only slightly

so, the base is narrower than the apex and more arcuate, there is a

juxta marginal longitudinal impression on each side of the posterior

part, and a small transverse impression along the base, the posterior

part of the lateral margins seems reflexed owing to the adjoining

lateral impression, and the surface is briefly but densely pubescent ;

the elytra are deeply and closely punctate and densely pubescent ;

the surface of the upper part of the abdominal segments is almost

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glabrous and sparingly punctulate except the last one which is

densely hairy, and the second segment is simple.

This species is not unlike in general appearance a minute example

of M. gravidula, but the shape of the prothorax is quite different.

Length 4 mm.; width 14 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

MyYRMEDONIA HIRTELLA, N. sp.

Straw-colour, with the antenne and the frontal part more darkly

flavescent; frontal part with a transverse impression in front of

the antenne, and a broadly triangular tubercle between them, the

eyes are very large, the surface is very sparsely punctulate and

pubescent ; antennz very long and massive considering the size of

the insect, second joint one-fourth shorter than the third, fourth to

ninth in the shape of a broadly truncate cone, slightly wider at

apex than at base, set close to each other, eleventh as long as the

two preceding ones taken together, these joints are very briefly

pubescent, but not setulose at the apex; prothorax broader than

long, and with the anterior and posterior paits conspicuously

broadly rounded, there is a deep, broad depression extending along

the outer sides and continued along the base, and on the surface are

scattered long, bristle-like sete; elytra broader than the prothorax

at the base, and much more so at the apex where they are some-

what arcuately truncate, on the surface are scattered a few punctures

bearing a long, partly decumbent whitish bristle; the basal five

segments of the abdomen are sparsely punctulate, each puncture

bearing a minute hair and on the sides are long black upright bristles

which are also found on the lateral part of the abdomen, these

bristles are more numerous on the sixth segment, and they are

whitish and more setuliform on the last one.

A very distinct species.

Length 34 mm.; width 1} mm.

Hab. ? Natal.

MYRMEDONIA CONIFERA (Fauy. iv litt.), n. sp.

Male: Frontal part black, labrum, the three basal antennal joints

and the legs rufo-flavescent, prothorax rufescent, elytra reddish-

brown, abdomen testaceous with the three penultimate segments

black, antennal joints other than the three basal rusty-brown, but

the apical part of the last is flavescent; frontal part with a large

tubercle above the epistoma, but with the occipital part not im-

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pressed, it is very finely aciculate, sparingly punctulate, and bears

afew short hairs; antennae reaching to about the median part of

the elytra ; second joint half the length of the third, fourth to tenth

subquadrate being slightly wider than long, well separated from each

other, not increasing much in width, eleventh oblong-acuminate, as

long as the two preceding taken together, briefly pubescent, and only

moderately setulose at -tip; prothorax as broad as long, slightly

sinuate laterally, with the posterior angles rounded, but less broadly

than the anterior, very faintly impressed laterally but not along the

base, and having a plain median longitudinal line, the surface is

very finely aciculate, and bears somewhat remote briefly setigerous

punctures ; elytra plainly wider at apex than at base where they are

slightly wider than the prothorax at its widest part, very finely

aciculate and having also setigerous punctures divided from each

other by an interval equal to twice their diameter; abdominal

segments shiny and glabrous on the upper side except the last one

which is punctulate and pubescent, the fourth and fifth segments

have, however, a double row of four setigerous punctures.

Length 4-44 mm.; width 14 mm.

In colour this species resembles M. simpler, but it is smaller,

and the shape of the antennal joints differs greatly.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

MyYRMEDONIA CONSTRITATA, 1. Sp.

Female ? Completely fuscous-black with the exception of the

palpi, labrum, the three basal antennal joints and the legs, the other

joints of the antennze are rusty-brown, but the apical joint is

flavescent at tip; and the prothorax has a faint tinge of piceous-red ;

longer than the preceding species, but differing in colour only; the

shape of the antennal joints is identical, the frontal part has also

an anterior tubercle, the sculpture of the prothorax and elytra is

the same.

This may prove to be the female of J/. conifera.

Length 7 mm.; width 13 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. Ik. Marshall.

MYRMEDONIA ANTHRACINA, (Fauy. i litt.), n. sp.

Black with the antenne and the tarsi dark rusty-brown, almost

fuscous, head, prothorax and elytra clothed with a plainly visible

greyish pubescence; frontal part simple, head deeply punctate,

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and greatly produced behind the eyes; antenne reaching beyond

the humeral part of the elytra and somewhat massive, the second

joint is only slightly shorter than the third, the fourth quadrate, the

fifth to ninth almost quadrate, transverse, the tenth is more trans-

verse than the preceding ones, all of them are well separated from

each other, and the last one is not equal in length to the two

penultimate taken together; the prothorax is longer than broad,

slightly sinuate laterally in the posterior part, the base is arcuate

and narrower than the apex, the posterior angles are not as rounded

as the anterior, the posterior lateral margin is not impressed, there

is a basal transverse impression, and the surface is very deeply and

closely punctate, the punctures being divided by a space equal to

their diameter; elytra more closely punctured than the prothorax,

and more densely pubescent; upper part of abdominal segments

glabrous, except for a marginal series of remote setigerous punctures,

and shiny, except the last one which is scabrose punctate in the

male and somewhat pubescent ; third segment of male simple.

Length 56 mm.; width 14 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). L. Péringuey.

MyYRMEDONIA GRACILICORNIS, 0. sp.

Head and prothorax testaceous-red, elytra testaceous-red or

partly infuscate, abdomen ferruginous with the two abdominal

segments black, antenne light ferruginous with the three basal joints

and the legs flavescent ; frontal part of male slightly depressed in

. the anterior part of the vertex, the impression edged by a slight

transverse keel between the point of insert:on of the antenne,

simple in the female, deeply but not closely punctate on the occipital

part, but not in the anterior, and somewhat densely pubescent ;

antenne long, reaching nearly the apex of the elytra, second joint

one-third shorter than the third, fourth to fifth elongate, slender,

sixth to eighth conical, ninth sub-quadrate, tenth transverse, broader

than ninth, eleventh sub-pyriform, sharply acuminate, slightly

longer than the two preceding ones taken together, the five ultimate

joints are not set close to each other, and they are all setulose at

apex, the setee being long; prothorax as long as broad, narrower at

the base than at the apex, plainly sinuate laterally in the posterior

part the angles of which are as broadly rounded as the anterior, the

outer sides are not depressed, but there is a transverse impression

above the base, and the surface is deeply but not closely punctate,

and pubescent; elytra broader than the prothorax at the base,

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slightly ampliated at apex and with the punctures similar to those

of the prothorax, but deeper and with the pubescence longer ;

abdominal segments impressed transversely along the base and

punctulate there, the penultimate one is not so impressed but is

punctulate along the base and on the sides, and the last one is

punctulate and pubescent all over. This species differs from the

other South African ones known to me by the slenderer four inter-

mediate antennal joints.

Length 5-51 mm.; width 1} mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Dunbrody). Rev. J. A. O'Neil.

Famiry SCARABAAIDE.

Trt COPRINI.

Gren. ONTHOPHAGUS, Latr.

ONTHOPHAGUS PLACENS, n. sp.

Male: Black, very shiny, glabrous on the upper side, but with

the epipleural fold punctulate and with a few fulvous hairs, pro-

sternum hairy, legs sparingly hairy, clypeus semicircular but broadly

although not deeply emarginate in front, strongly plicate trans-

versely, separated from the frontal part by a transverse, not much

raised keel extending from one gena to another, far in front of the

eyes, frontal part produced into a long, sharp horn sloping back-

wards, triangularly laminate for half the length, slender and acute

thence ; gene wide, upper part of the eyes very narrow ; prothorax

with a marginal fold all round, quite rounded laterally behind,

impunctate and with the median part depressed from the anterior

margin to two-thirds of the length ; elytra shorter than the prothorax,

punctate-striate with the intervals plane and impunctate; pygidium

much broader than long, faintly punctulate, glabrous; sides of the

metasternum and episterna with scattered piligerous punctures ;

abdomen punctulate laterally along the edge of the segments,

femora with only a few setigerous punctures; anterior femora tri-

dentate outwardly and not distinctly serrate above the teeth, inner

spur of anterior tibiz strongly bent inwardly at tip.

Length 10 mm.; width 64 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A, Bodong.

This species is very distinct,

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ONTHOPHAGUS PRAHETORTUS, N. Sp.

Dark coppery-bronze, very little shiny, antenne dark bronze

with the club black; clypeus semi-circular, but slightly obtuse in

front and with the margin very slightly reflexed, deeply punctate

with the punctures coalescing along the margin, deeply depressed in

the central part in front of a highly raised transverse clypeal lamina

which is slightly arcuate but produced on each side into a sharp,

projecting angular process, and situated between the median part of

the eyes, there is no frontal carinule; prothorax deeply sinuate

laterally behind and with the posterior angles distinct, highly

convex, retuse in front, biimpressed in the middle of the anterior

part, the two impressions surmounted by a small but very distinct

tubercle, and having in the centre a very deeply emarginate, almost

bi-tuberculate ridge, it is covered with very closely set scabrose

punctures in the median part of the disk, and with granules on the

other parts of the surface, and clothed with a very short, silky,

whitish pubescence, the base is plainly grooved, and the edge of the

margin has a series of punctures; elytra not wider than the prothorax

at its broadest part, striae narrow and shallow, intervals plane,

closely punctured and pubescent ; pygidium nearly as broad as long,

covered with broad, deep, nearly equi-distant punctures, and clothed

with a dense greyish-white silky pubescence ; under side moderately

pubescent; inner spur of anterior tibiz long, the basal part is

directed inwardly almost at right angles with the apex of the tibia,

and then curves strongly outwards.

Allied to O. dispar, but different in colour and sculpture ; the shape

of the inner spur of the anterior tibize of the male is very singular,

and unlike that of any other species of Onthophagus known to me.

Length 7-94 mm. ; width 44-54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

ONTHOPHAGUS DECEDENS, Ni. sp.

Head and prothorax light bronze, moderately shiny, the latter

with a flavescent lateral patch, broad in the anterior part, narrower

behind and not reaching the posterior angle, the elytra are light

testaceous with the strie fuscous, pygidium and pectus bronze, the

legs sub-testaceous, and the abdomen darker than the pectus ; it is

covered with a short, very dense greyish pubescence longer in the

posterior part of the elytra, and very long and silky on the pvgidium ;

clypeus slightly elongated, rounded in front with the anterior margin

reflexed, covered with deep, transverse setigerous punctures separated

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by raised, irregular folds, in the male the scabrose-punctate frontal part

is produced from the raised frontal suture into a triangular lamina

dividing at the tip into two divaricating sharp horns, and having a

short triangular tooth in the centre, the two teeth barely reach the

height of the anterior part of the prothorax, the median anterior part

of which is sub-vertical and impunctate along the base and also on

each side of the declivity, but otherwise covered all over with very

closely set granules denser and smaller on the centre of the disk than

on the sides, the upper part of the anterior declivity is simple, in

shape the prothorax is slightly broader than long, finely carinate

along the base and the posterior angles are rounded ; in the female the

clypeus is less semicircular, the clypeal suture is arcuate and sharply

earinate, the frontal part closely granular, and there is a slightly

arcuate lamina-like ridge with sharp outer angles situated between

the eyes but stopping at some distance from them; the anterior part

of the prothorax is not as highiy raised as in the male and is therefore

proportionately less declivous, but it is plainly bituberculate ; the

intervals of the elytra are plane and very closely punctured; the

closely punctate pygidium is nearly as broad as long in both sexes ;

in the male the inner spur of the anterior tibie is nearly straight, but

it is shghtly inflexed inwardly at tip in the female.

Mons. d’Orbigny informs me that this species is moderately closely

allied to O. pictipodex, D’Orb., but that the armature of the head is

very different; he thinks, however, that his O. pictipodexr was

described from female examples.

Length 83-94 mm.; width 5-51 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

ONTHOPHAGUS SERENUS, 0. sp.

Black, shiny, with extremely minute hairs in the punctures of the

head and prothorax, hardly pubescent underneath, club of antenne

black; clypeus deeply incised in front, and with the angles very

sharp and reflexed, gene triangular, projecting, there is no distinct

clypeal suture or keel, but a slight carinulate elevation reaching the

two genx, the frontal part is simple, but there is a distinct, oblique

supra-ocular ridge (g ); the prothorax is broader than long, rounded

laterally, the outer margins are not highly carinate and the base has

no distinct fold, the surface is covered with sub-contiguous cicatricose

punctures, coarser on the sides than on the disk ; elytra longer than

the prothorax with the striz distinct and the plane intervals finely

granulose ; pygidium broader than long, very closely punctulate, and

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glabrous; inner spur of anterior tibize curved inwards at apex, in

both sexes, but that of the male is thicker.

This species is allied to O. lacustris, Har., and O. discretus, Pér.,

but it differs in the incised clypeus, and also in having the intervals

on the elytra normally granulose instead of being longitudinally

shagreened as in the former, or sub-scabrose-punctate as in the last

named species.

Length 74 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe; Enkeldoorn). D. Dods;

J. F. ffolliiot Darling.

ONTHOPHAGUS RHYNCHOPHORUS, nN. Sp.

Male: Black, moderately shiny, with extremely minute hairs in the

punctures of the head, prothorax and elytra; antennal club reddish-

brown; clypeus parabolic but produced in the centre into a sub-

quadrate, strongly reflexed laminate process projecting far beyond

the margin, the gene are rounded, there are no traces of clypeal

suture, but in the frontal part there is a very slightly raised, short,

transverse fold interrupted in the centre, and situate midway between

the eyes, and ending far from them, the greater part of the clypeal

area is transversely folded, and the rest of the surface, as also of the

frontal part, is deeply and closely punctate ; prothorax broader than

long, simple, without any basal fold, covered with moderately deep

punctures, slightly elongated and divided on the median discoidal

part by intervals about equal to their diameter, but larger and more

cicatricose on the sides; elytra longer than the prothorax, finely

striate with the intervals plane, and having each three or two series

of fine punctures; pygidium closely punctulate, glabrous, broader

than long, and with a basal marginal fold; imner spur of anterior

tibiz nearly straight, with the point slightly slanting inwards, but

not hooked.

Length 8 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

Mons. d’Orbigny informs me that this species is somewhat allied

to O. rostratus, Orb., which differs, however, by the shape of the

prothorax, as well as by the sculpture.

Gren. MILICHUS, Péring.

MILICHUS RHODESIANUS, 0. sp.

Male: Light bronze, briefly pubescent, not much shiny, maculated

irregularly with darker bronze on the prothorax which has in addition

three bright shiny patches in the anterior part at the top of the

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declivity ; the elytra are occasionally testaceous, irregularly tessellated

with bronze, antennal club flavescent; clypeus produced diagonally

laterally, deeply and broadly emarginate in front, with the angles of

the emargination distinct, but not sharply reflexed, the first clypeal

carina is triangular, sharply raised, and the median longitudinal keel

is very short and does not connect the first clypeal one with the

highly raised, sub-arcuate second clypeal carina which overhangs

slightly the clypeus, and reaches on each side the inner angle of the

gene the anterior margin of which is also carinate, but not as highly,

and along the base of the frontal part there is an interrupted slightly

raised line with occasionally a minute tubercle in the centre above

it; prothorax declivous in front in the male, not carinate above the

declivity but having on each side of it a depression edged by a short,

transverse ridge set above the shiny space, it is not much ampliated

laterally, although it is broader than long, the hind angles are rounded,

the basal margin has no fold, it is covered in the median discoidal

part by deep, round punctures, the slightly raised intervals of which

are very harrow, these punctures are slightly wider on the sides than

on the disk; elytra longer than the prothorax and about equally

broad, plainly striate with the intervals nearly plane and filled with

closely set granules; pygidium nearly as broad as long, deeply and

closely punctate, the intervals separating the punctures forming a

sort of reticulation near the basal part; metasternum very closely

punctate ; Inner spur of anterior tibiwe nearly straight.

This species differs from IM. apicalis, Fahr., chiefly by the more

highly raised and retuse prothorax.

Length 6-7 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

Mons. d’Orbigny (Annal. Soc. Ent. France, 1902, p. 20) does not

consider that the genus Milichus should be retained, even as a sub-

genus, although admitting that the two species then known should

form a small group of the Onthophagus, near Caccobius. 1 cannot

agree with him, however reluctantly, because the presence of a cly-

peal carina running parallel to the margin in addition to the normal

clypeal keel, a character unknown in the endless number of species

of the genus Onthophagus, is certainly more important than the fact

of the anterior tibiz being truncate at the apex, turning an Onthophagus

into a Caccobius, or if the body is entirely glabrous into a Cacconemus,

&e. The presence of additional clypeal carine has proved of great

value in the classification of the Sericine and Melolonthine, and has,

according to my views, too much importance not to be taken into

account,

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Gren. DIASTELLOPALPUS, Lansb.

DIASTELLOPALPUS ORBIGNYI, Nl. Sp.

Male: Black, shiny, almost glabrous on the upper side, pectus,

legs and under side of prothorax clothed with fulvous hairs, pygidium

and abdominal segments with shorter sub-flavescent ones; antenne

yellow with the exception of the three basal joints which are piceous-

red; clypeus broadly arcuate in front with the margin entire and

reflexed, gene hardly prominent, in the centre, in a line with the

suture at the junction of the gen there is a high, laminate, sharply

and broadly triangular keel the moderately rounded basal angles of

which are continued towards the frontal part as a sloping ridge set

at right angles with the clypeal carina and partly enclosing two deep

impressions the separating wall of which is continued as a short

median ridge reaching almost a transverse high laminate ridge set

on the vertex, truncate at both ends, reaching the median part of the

eyes and longer therefore than the clypeal which is widely separated

from the genx; the surface of the clypeus is strongly transversely

plicate, the frontal part and the gene roughly punctate ; the prothorax

is broader than long, almost vertical in front, and with the anterior

angles much produced, deeply excavated on each side, Copris-like,

while the central part of the apex projects as a broadly triangular

ridge the outer angles of which are continued vertically also as a sharp

ridge strongly dentate towards its median part, the lateral anterior

excavation has a sharp, short tooth on the outer part, close to the

lateral smooth impression ; the two lateral anterior excavations, and

also the median space edged by the two vertical ridges are sparingly

and not deeply punctate, on the upper part the anterior projection is

granular, the sides scabrose, the posterior median part is not closely

punctate, and the long, hind depression along the sides and part of

the carinate base is faintly punctate, there is no median smooth longi-

tudinal line ; elytra shorter than the prothorax and equally broad at

their widest part, plainly striate, intervals deeply and closely punctate,

each puncture bearing a very minute black hair, alternate intervals

wider than the others; pygidium longer than broad, covered with

punctures similar to those on the elytra, but bearing each a much

longer and fulvous hair,

Mons. d’Orbigny informs me that this species comes very near

D. tridepressus, Orb., but differs by the more shiny upper side, the

very short setose hairs on the elytra, the clypeal carina curving

behind at each end, and the frontal part with a depression on each

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side of the angle thus produced, the prothorax with the anterior

upper ledge angular in the centre, and the two vertical carine

separating the three excavations of the anterior part dentate in the

middle,

Length 23 mm.; width 15 mm.

Hab, Southern Rhodesia (Gasaland and Umtali). G. A. K.

Marshall; A. Bodong.

Famiry PTINIDA.

Gen. PTINUS, Linn.

PTINUS ELEGANS, N. sp.

Black, with the legs, the under side, the head, and the sides of the

prothorax covered with a cretaceous squamose indumentum which

on the elytra form three transverse bands bi-sinuate on each side, a

sub-basal, a post-median and an apical one, extending from side to

side, the two former unite sometimes in the median dorsal part, and

the inner part of the antennze is sprinkled with similar scales ; head

impunctate and having a fine longitudinal median sulcus; antenne

robust, briefly setulose, basal joint somewhat thick, a little obliquely

truncate outwardly at tip, second set in the obliquely truncate part,

and a little smaller than the following which are gradually lengthen-

ing, the ninth however not being much longer than the third; the

two apical ones are missing in my example; prothorax short, trans-

versely impressed in the anterior part, with the anterior margin

raised and the transverse impression deeply and irregularly pitted ;

in the centre are two very high longitudinal ridges sloping in front,

truncate behind and reaching past the middle, the broad, smooth

sulcus walled by the vertical ridges is continued as a triangular

smooth space reaching the base, and edged on each side by two

slightly reddish carunculate tubercles, this basal part is constricted,

and the outer angle is sharp and projects outwardly ; the outer part

of the two ridges which are very briefly and sparingly setulose is

smooth, and the sides in front of the lateral tubercles have a few

granules; scutellum squamose; elytra elongate, nearly parallel,

rounded behind and with the humeral angles very distinctly raised,

they have deep striz filled with almost foveolate punctures divided

by tectiform very briefly setulose intervals.

Length 34 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Natal (Isipongo). C, N, Barker,

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Famiry TENEBRIONID.

Tre ADESMIINI.

Gen. ADESMIA, Fish.

ADESMIA (MACROPODA) KHOIKOINA, N. sp.

Black, shining, sub-spherical, elytra abruptly dehiscent and

acuminate behind; head closely punctate in the anterior part and

much less closely on the vertex; prothorax twice as broad as long,

impunctate on the discoidal part, but with a few punctures on the

sides, the flavous fringe of hairs in the anterior part is extremely

short; elytra globose from the base to two-thirds of the length,

almost declivous there and aculeate behind, the median anterior

part of the disk is smooth, but it is sparsely dotted thence with

round tubercles with smooth intervals, the sub-serrate outer margin:

has close to it a row of similar tubercles not in the least connected

with the serration, epipleura with very faint traces of obsoletely

tuberculated impressions; legs moderately long, rugose, basal

abdominal segments and part of the pectus strongly plicate

longitudinally.

Shape of 4. ovata, Oliv. its closer ally, and of A. goryi, Sol. which

is, however, less convex in the anterior part of the elytra, but distin-

guished from both by the entirely smooth and impunctate intervals

separating the sparsely dotted tubercles of the elytra.

Length 134-154 mm. ; width 8-114 mm.

Hab, Great Namaqualand. (Stockholm Museum.)

ADESMIA (MAcCROPODA) DAMARA, Ni. Sp.

Black, sub-opaque ; head coarsely scrobiculate and having three

very deep and broad longitudinal grooves; prothorax almost twice

as broad as long, straight laterally and with the anterior angles pro-

jecting conspicuously beyond the straight anterior margin, plane and

very coarsely scrobiculate ; elytra very broadly ampliato-ovate, very

little convex in the posterior part except at the declivity which is

abrupt, covered with broad, deep scrobiculate foveee equal in width

in the dorsal part and separated by somewhat sharp yet finely granu-

lose walls, these granules are more conspicuous in the declivous part

where the fover are shallower; under side and legs roughly scro-

biculato-punctate.

Allied to A. (Macrop.) scrobipennis, Haag. but larger, the head in

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the latter has not the three conspicuous longitudinal furrows, the

prothorax is rounded laterally, and the anterior angles are not con-

spicuously projecting as in 4. damara ; the scrobiculate fovee are

of nearly the same pattern, but they are more regular in A. damara

and the dividing walls are granulose, which is not the case in

A, scrobinennis.

Length 20 mm. ; width 11 mm.

Hab. Damaraland. (Stockholm Museum.)

ADESMIA (ONYMACHRYS) LASKERI, 0. sp.

Black, shining, anterior margin of prothorax with a conspicuous

band of yellowish-white hairs; body elongato-ovate, one-third wider

in the female than in the male, legs piceous-red; head punctulate ;

prothorax one-third wider than long, straight laterally, but wider at

the base than at apex in the female, and sparingly aciculate ; elytra

elongato-ovate, and in the female ampliato-ovate, half wider across

the median part than across the base in the male, and once and a

half in the female, convex in the anterior part, dehiscent from the

middle to the apex where they are acuminate, briefly granular and

with three granular costules obliterated, however, in the posterior

declivity, the granules or minute tubercles are not coalescing ; under

side with the normal plication ; legs very long, very slender.

This species is very different from any of its South African con-

geners. It is more slender, in spite of the ampliation of the elytra

across the median part; the sculpture of the latter part is similar to

that of A. (Onym.) tenuegranata, Fairm.; this latter species is, how-

ever, much more globose.

I propose to name this species after its captor, the late Dr. Lasker,

who lost his life by drowning near the very place where he dis-

covered it.

Length 9-12 mm.; width 5-7 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Angra Pequena).

STENOCARA JURGATRIX, N. sp.

Female: Black, shining, prothorax with a very narrow fringe of

silky white pubescence, head with an impression on each side near

the antennal crest, and a central and deeper frontal one, covered

with deep, elongated punctures ; prothorax narrowed in the anterior

part and much broader in the posterior, with the sides hardly

ampliated, nearly equal in length to the width across the apical,

but much shorter than across the basal part, sparsely punctulate ;

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elytra strongly ampliated and dilated in the centre, moderately con-

vex in the anterior part, strongly dehiscent from past the median

and quite declivous at the apex, on each side are three rows of

sharp, conical, closely set tubercles, including the juxta-marginal

one, and three alternate rows of smaller yet equally sharp ones the

first of which is between the suture and the first dorsal row, the

suture is also sharply tuberculate from the median part to the apex

and the outer margin very strongly serrate, the epipleural fold is

foveolate and the intervals between all the dorsal rows are sprinkled

with sharp granules; legs long, slender; under side as in all the

other species of Stenocara.

The nearest ally of S. jurgatrix is S. longipes, but the elytra are

much more broadly ampliated and more depressed than in that

species, the tubercles of the three higher dorsal rows as well as of

those of the intervening ones are much sharper, much more closely

set, and therefore much more numerous.

Length 15 mm. ; width 94 mm.

Hab. Namaqualand (Ograbies). R. Trimen.

Tring ASIDINI.

HAIMUS, n. gen.

Mentum long, one-third longer than broad, slightly rounded

laterally at apex, emarginate, deeply impressed on each side, labial

palpi inserted on the inner face, but the two apical joints project

beyond the edge of the mentum, the last joint is sub-fusiform,

broadly truncate ; the two lobes of the maxillw are stiffly bristly,

last joint of the long maxillary palpi cup-shaped, broadly truncate ;

left mandible trifid; antennze reaching the base of the prothorax,

bristly except the four last apical joints which are briefly pubescent,

joints third to seventh elongated, fourth as long as fifth and sixth taken

together, seventh a little shorter than the preceding, eighth sub-conical,

ninth and tenth transverse, eleventh sub-turbinate, closely fitting

against the tenth; labrum transverse, emarginate, epistoma incised in

front, genve strongly projecting beyond the very narrow transverse

eyes; prothorax deeply incised laterally beyond the median part which

is therefore strongly angular, straight along the base, with the angles

sharp; no scutellum ; elytra oblongo-ovate, not much convex, epi-

pleural fold broad; legs somewhat short, not very strong, anterior

tibiz obliquely truncate outwardly, neither angular, dentate or

dilated outwardly at apex, slightly emarginate inwardly towards the

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apex in the male, not in the female, all the apical spurs very small,

especially the posterior ; tarsi bristly above and beneath, sub-cordate,

basal one longer in the male than in the female.

Differs from Machla and Asida in the very elongated shape of the

mentum and the much longer labial palpi which project consider-

ably beyond the mentum, in the shape of the antennal joints, and in

the absence of an outer apical tooth in the anterior tibix.

Haus CARINATIPENNIS, Nl. Sp.

Black, but covered all over with an earthy coating and short,

densely set, thick, bristle-like hairs, springing from each of the some-

what deep punctures; head broader than long; prothorax with the

anterior angles sharp, projecting, diagonally ampliated laterally from

the apex to the median part, straight thence for a short distance,

deeply incised there, thus forming a sharp angle, and with the

posterior part straight, base also straight, discoidal part very little

convex, outer sides slightly deplanated; no scutellum; elytra

oblong-ovate, somewhat plane in the anterior part, dehiscent

behind, very rugose, but the background is hidden by the earthy

coating, except along the epipleural fold, the suture is broad, raised,

and on each side are three costa, the first and third of which reach

the posterior dehiscence, but the first one is slightly longer, at some

distance from the outer costa there is a small tubercle nearly equi-

distant from the apex and from the terminal part of the costa, the

second costa is a little shorter than the other two; the under side

and legs are clothed with very dense, short appressed hairs, finer

than those covering the upper side.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). G. A. K. Marshall.

Tre SCAURINI.

Gen. HERPISCIUS, Sol.

HERPISCIUS DAMARINUS, N. sp.

Head, prothorax, antenne, and legs chestnut-brown, elytra

piceous, glabrous, moderately shining; head finely striolate from

the transverse basal impression to the anterior one, and deeply

punctured laterally, epistoma closely and finely punctulate ; pro-

thorax orbicular, convex but not gibbose, truncate in front and also

behind, and covered with very closely set, much elongated punctures

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the walls of which form a very fine longitudinal striation ; scutellum

very small; elytra somewhat plane in the anterior part, but strongly

declivous laterally and behind, and having on each side nine highly

raised, sharp carine, the intervals of which have a row of shallow

punctures ; under side and legs closely punctulate, anterior femora

not dentate inwardly at middle; posterior ones not denticulate

underneath.

Length 6-74 mm. ; width 24-3 mm.

This species differs from H. sommeri, Sci., ia the less gibbose

prothorax and the much finer striole of that part of the body; the

anterior femora are not dentate, nor the hind ones denticulate

beneath as in H. gracilis, Gerst., with which H. velor, Fahr., might

prove to be identical.

Hab. Northern Damaraland. <A. W. Eriksson.

Tre MOLURINI.

Gren. PSAMMODHES, Kirb.

PSAMMODES DISCREPANS, N. Sp.

Black, only moderately shining, palpi, tarsi, and basal joints of

antenne piceous-red ; head covered with equi-distant not closely set

punctures ; prothorax slightly broader than long, very little ampliated

laterally before the median part, and nearly straight from there to

the posterior angles which are only slightly rounded, the base is

moderately arcuate and marginate; the outer margin is sharply

carinate, the anterior part is moderately convex, and the posterior

one depressed, especially towards the base; the median part. is

covered with equi-distant, not closely set and not deep punctures,

but the sides are strongly scrobiculate, the scrobiculation extending

on each side to about one-sixth of the width; scutellum punctate

laterally ; elytra two and a half as long as the prothorax, sub-

oblong-ovate, and with the shoulders very sloping, convex and

gradually declivous behind, covered with closely set granules equi-

distant but smaller in the posterior part than on the sides, and

leaving a moderately broad, smooth, longitudinal space along the

suture from the base to the posterior declivous part ; legs strongly

scrobiculate, especially the femora, tibizw very briefly pubescent,

tarsi clothed with fulvous, bristly short hairs; prosternum produced

at apex into two strong, slightly divaricating spines; pectus scrobicu-

late ; abdomen deeply punctured, except the basal segment which

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is somewhat serobiculate ; male with a conspicuous, fulvous median

patch extending on the three basal segments.

Herr Clements Muller, to whom I submitted this species to com-

pare it with Rutenberg’s type of P. spinisus, writes that although

the shape of the prosternum is similar, it is not P. spinisus, but it is

closely related, and that in the latter the prothorax is much shorter,

broader and less strongly sculptured, the elytra are a little narrower,

and the whole surface is shining.

Length 29 mm.; width 15 mm.

Hab. Namaqualand. Garwood Alston.

PSAMMODES DAMARINUS, 0. sp.

Black, quite opaque; head with the same sculpture as P. dis-

crepans ; the prothorax is nearly of the same shape and width, but

the lateral slight ampliation is more median, the lateral scrobicula-

tion is wider, the punctures in the median dorsal part are much

deeper, and the posterior angles are more rounded ; the elytra are

suddenly inflated at a very short distance from the oblique shoulders

and gradually attenuated from there towards the apex, the dorsal

part is convex from near the base, and slopes down towards the

apex from about the median part, but the lateral part is almost

vertical above the depressed outer margin; the median part of the

disk is broadly smooth from the base to two-thirds of the length, and

the sides are covered with small, round, not closely set tubercles

extending to about half the length and turning into granules in the

posterior part, the whole of the declivous part being also strewn with

granules of similar size; the prosternum and sculpture of the under

side and legs are similar to those of P. discrepans. Ido not know

the male of this species; in this sex the elytra are perhaps a little

more elongate, and not so vertical laterally. Although allied to

P. discrepans, P. damarinus is distinguishable by the much more

deeply punctured median part of the prothorax, and the much finer

and more scattered granules and tubercles on the elytra.

Length 30 mm.; width 154 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (no exact locality).

_PSAMMODES ZOUTPANSBERGIANUS, Ni. Sp.

Plate XIII., fig. 14.

Male: Black, with every puncture on the prothorax having in the

centre a minute greyish hair, the elytra are clothed with similar but

very dense hairs, leaving, however, the suture and the costex

denuded ; head covered on the anterior part with somewhat deep,

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round punctures, separated by an interval equal to their diameter,

labrum impunctate, densely fringed with fulvous hairs; prothorax

moderately ampliated and rounded laterally slightly before the

anterior part, one-third broader there than long, and a little more

narrowed thence towards the posterior angle which is moderately

rounded, deeply sinuate along the base, anterior angles not sharp ;

the whole surface is covered with deep round punctures with narrow

wavy intervals slightly raised in the median part of the disk, and

much more irregular and more sharply raised on the sides ; scutellar

part scabroso-granulate; elytra elongated, twice and a half the

length of the prothorax, sloping sub-diagonally laterally at the

humeral part, which is not wider than the base of the prothorax,

plainly sinuate, very little ampliated towards the median part where

it is only one-fourth wider across than the prothorax at its widest

part, and very little narrowed towards the posterior part, moderately

convex in the anterior, very sloping behind, and having on each side

four plain, sub-granulose denuded cost gradually diminishing in

length, the juxta-marginal one being the longest, and the two juxta-

sutural coalescing near the top of the posterior declivity, the outer

margin is very sharp, and the intervals are filled with irregular

granules; under side and legs roughly punctured, the latter with a

very short, sub-fulvous hair in each puncture; the three basal

abdominal segments have a broad, sub-quadrate patch of fulvous

tomentum.

Length 34 mm. ; width 143 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg). <A. G. P. Janse.

PSAMMODES FARTUS, Nn. Sp.

Piceous, with the suture slightly rufescent; antenne and legs

clothed with a very short, fulvescent pubescence ; epistoma broadly

but not deeply punctate in the anterior part only, frontal part with

moderately closely set minute punctures; prothorax broadly and

roundly ampliated, one-third broader than long across its widest

part, which is not quite in the middle, moderately convex, and finely

and not closely punctulate; elytra slightly convex, ampliato-ovate,

strongly declivous behind without costz in the anterior part, but

with four longitudinal, shallow broad sulci the four intervals of

which are clothed with long, densely set, greyish flavescent hairs,

the three dorsal rows of hairs are shorter, the fourth ascends from

near the apex to about half the length of the elytra, and between

this supra-lateral row and the outer margin there are also some

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more scattered but equally long hairs, the anterior discoidal part is

finely and not closely punctulate and the sides are covered with

very small scattered granules, the setigerous ones being larger than

the others; the three basal abdominal segments are covered with

nearly coalescing rough punctures and are not plicate, the punctures

on the apical segments are rounder.

This species is allied to P. bates:, Haag., which I take to be

identical with P. ponderosus, Fahr.; it is intermediate in shape

between this species and P. ventricosus, Fahy., the elytra are not,

however, as deeply sulcate laterally in the anterior part, and the

vestiture is quite different.

Length 364 mm.; width 214 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg). A. J. T. Janse.

PSAMMODES ILLOTUS, Nn. sp.

Fuscous black, with a tinge of brownish-red on the centre of the

prothorax, and occasionally on the anterior part, and also a narrow

reddish line along the suture, elongate-ovate ; elytra briefly pubes-

cent in the posterior part; head and prothorax shaped as in P. pon-

derosus, P. ventricosus, &c., the former is part obsoletely punctate, the

latter quite impunctate ; elytra elongated, twice as broad at their

widest part than across the humeral, convex but not abruptly dehis-

cent behind, and somewhat acuminate laterally towards the apex,

the anterior part of the disk is not even aciculate, but the dehiscent

part is very closely and minutely granulose, the granulation ascend-

ing obliquely along the sides to about two-thirds of the length, and

some of these granules being setigerous, there is a short, greyish,

flavescent, nearly appressed pubescence, as well as a faint trace of

depressed furrows in the posterior part; under side and legs as in

P. fartus, from which it differs in the more elongated, more acumi-

nate and less abruptly declivous elytra.

Length 314-35 mm. ; width 164-194 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg). A. J.T. Janse.

Gren. TRACHYNOTIDEUS, Péring.

TRACHYNOTIDEUS DAMARINUS, N. sp.

Fusco-ferruginous, sub-opaque, elytra with four fuscous bands on

each side, head and prothorax having a minute hair in the punctures

or interstices ; antennz and legs briefly hairy ; head granulose from

the anterior parts of the epistoma to the post ocular part, neck closely

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punctate ; prothorax sub-hexagonal, but the ampliated lateral part is

not sharply aculeate and is nearer to the apex than to the base, it is

closely granular and has a plain longitudinal median smooth line

reaching from the apex to long past the median part, and a much

shorter one on each side of it, it is nearly as broad at the apex as it

is at the base, the latter is very slightly arcuate, and the angles do

not project; elytra with the shoulders very little sloping, sinuate

behind the humeral angle, thence elongated, very little ampliated in

the median part, sharply acuminate behind, somewhat depressed in

the dorsal part, which bears on each side a very highly raised keel

reaching from the base to a short distance from the apex, the suture

is only slightly raised, not carinate, and the outer margin is very

sharp; the surface is granular, but the granules are not closely set,

there are two fuscous longitudinal bands between the suture and the

dorsal costa, and two more between the costa and the outer margin ;

legs long, slender, the three basal abdominal segments with a median

not very dense fulyous pubescent patch.

This species is not unlike Trachynotideus (Psammodes) angulicollis,

Haag., but the prothorax is neither so much ampliated nor so much

acuminate laterally, being only slightly wider there than long; the

elytra are equally acuminate, but the suture is not carinate.

Length 24 mm. ; width 8} mm.

Hab. Damaraland. The type is in the Stockholm Museum.

Gen. TRACHYNOTUS, Latr.

TRACHYNOTUS RESOLUTUS, Nn. sp.

Black, moderately shining, head covered on the sides with whitish

appressed scales, and having on the upper side scattered, short,

bristle-like hairs, it is finely scrobiculate on the vertex, the impres-

sion above the epistome is very deep, there is a very plain antennal

crest, the eyes are very bulging, not reniform, and have a distinct

crest; the prothorax is as long as broad, sharply spinose laterally,

convex, strongly shagreened, and having in each interstice a short,

thick, bristle-like hair; elytra not broader at the base than the base

of the prothorax, elongato-ovate, acuminate behind and having on

the dorsal part a sharp keel reaching from the base to slightly past

the median part, the outer margin is sharply carinate, both carinz

being very briefly hairy, and the intervals are filled with rows of

short, bristle-like hairs, which are greyish-flavescent and not closely

set, they are not much convex in the anterior part, and they slope

gradually from about the median to the apex, the epipleural fold is

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 235

aciculate ; the abdomen and legs are clothed with minute appressed

greyish hairs, and the legs are slightly rufescent.

The eyes in this very distinct species are rounder and more bulging

than in the other species known to me.

Length 12 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg District). Pretoria Museum.

Gen. AMIANTUS, Fahr.

AMIANTUS PUSILLUS, N. sp.

Dark-brown, covered with an earthy substance, head very roughly

punctate ; prothorax highly convex in the discoidal part, almost

gibbose, somewhat compressed laterally and along the base, with

the sides amplated and rounded in the middle, scrobiculate, with a

very short hair in each scrobicule, without a median raised line, but

having on each side a deep longitudinal impression edged laterally

by a short, carinate wall; elytra ampliate, and having on each side

four sharply carinate, yet slightly flexuose coste, the inner one, set

close to the suture, barely reaches the top of the strong posterior

declivity, while the other three reach a little further down, the outer

margin which is as sharply carinate as the dorsal cost, does not

reach beyond them, and is almost dentate at apex, the faintly punc-

tate intervals have undulating transverse lines more distinct along

the sides of the costz than in the centre, and forming there

alveolets; abdomen finely, but somewhat deeply punctate, punctures

not closely set and bearing each a minute grey hair; sternum

foveate-punctate ; legs very briefly and densely pubescent.

Length 10-11 mm.; width 6-64 mm.

The shape of the prothorax closely resembles that of A. haroldi,

but it has no traces of the conspicuous median raised line of the

former, and the discoidal supra-lateral tubercles are more in the

shape of a ridge; the elytral costz are not strongly flexuose as in

A. haroldt.

Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). A.J.T.Janse; Rev. H. Junod.

Gren. PHLIGRA, Casteln.

PHLIGRA HAMATICOLLIS, Nn. sp.

Black, densely, but very briefly pubescent and clothed with an

earthy covering often hiding the teguments; head very deeply

impressed transversely between the highly raised antennal keels;

prothorax as long as broad, sharply angular laterally slightly before

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the median part, straight thence to the basal angle, the discoidal

part is raised and bears on each side a double row of high spines

somewhat blunt at tip, the anterior margin, and also the base have

each two spines in the middle; elytra not wider at the base than the

base of the prothorax, expanding obliquely at the shoulders, ovate

thence, the discoidal part is very much raised and the sides and

posterior part abruptly sloping, the raised part has on each side two

sharp, serrulate costz, and the suture is also raised, the first costa

does not reach beyond the median part, the second, which is edging

laterally the raised discoidal part, reaches the top of the declivity, is

strongly developed in the anterior part, and ends sharply in the

posterior, these two cost are united with the suture by four trans-

verse raised lines, forming thus six deep, quadrate impressions on

each side, the sloping part between the outer dorsal costa and the

sharp carinate outer margin is divided into two by a very faint

costule, and has very faint traces of quadrate impressions similar to

the plainly visible ones of the discoidal part; under side and legs

densely and very briefly pubescent.

This species is very distinct from P. cristata, Deg.

Length 54-52 mm.; width 3-3} mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town). lL. Péringuey.

PHLIGRA MINUTA, 0. sp.

Black, covered with dense, greyish, very short, bristle-like hairs ;

head closely punctate, eyes bulging, and with a strongly cristate

ridge, antennal keel strong; prothorax with the discoidal part some-

what raised, the outer margin is serrulate, not angular in the middle,

the anterior one is very highly carinate in the anterior part, in the

middle of the disk is a short, plain bifid tubercle, and there is

a broad, transverse impression between this tubercle and the base

which looks therefore as if it were raised, and a similar but more

diagonal impression reaching the outer sides between this median

tubercle and the anterior margin ; elytra broader than the base of

the prothorax but with the shoulders slanting and the humeral

angle sharply tuberculate, elongate-ovate, acuminate behind, convex

in the anterior part, and gradually dehiscent thence towards the

apex, the suture is moderately raised and on each side are two rows

of rounded, pubescent tubercles, the first one consists of three, the

second of five or six the last of which is situated at a short distance

from the apex, and the outer margin has a row of seven or eight, the

humeral tubercle included.

Length 43 mm.; width 2+ mm.

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 237

This species is not unlike Hc/inotus in general appearance, but is

a true Phligra.

Hab. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn), D. W. F. Purcell,

Trt PEDININI.

Gen. ANCHOPHTHALMUS, Gerst.

ANCHOPHTHALMUS INDIGUS, n. sp.

Black, not shining; head closely punctulate; prothorax equally

rounded laterally from the anterior to the posterior angle, not much

ampliated, one-third shorter in the greatest length than the width at

the median part, posterior angles strong, curved slightly inwards,

outer sides moderately deplanate with the margin not much raised,

closely aciculate-punctate; scutellum punctate ; elytra sub-parallel

for two-thirds of the length, accuminated thence and moderately

dehiscent, plane in the anterior part, finely striate with the striz

faintly punctulate in the dorsal part, but with the three lateral striz

much more plainly punctate especially in the anterior part, and with

the intervals moderately convex there, with the exception of the

seventh which is very highly raised in both sexes for half the length,

while they are quite plane in the dorsal part, the surface is very finely

aciculate, and there is a plain row of punctures along the carinate

epipleural fold, from the base to about the median part; under side

striolate, legs finely and closely punctulate. In the male the elytra

are slightly more parallel than in the female.

Not unlike A. dentipes, Gerst., the elytra are, however, more

acuminate than in the same sex of A. dentipes, and more sloping

behind, the striz are finer, and the intervals are quite plane on the

dorsal part, much less raised, and without any traces of transverse

punctures on the outer ; but laterally the punctures, especially in the

male, impinge slightly on the sides of the intervals. It is easily

recognised by the seventh interval of each elytra being highly raised

from the base to the median part only.

Length 17-18 mm. ; width 74-8 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Manica). F. C. Selous.

ANCHOPHTHALMUS ALGOENSIS, Nn. sp.

Female: Black, somewhat shining; head closely and somewhat

roughly punctulate; prothorax rounded laterally, but straighter in

the posterior than in the anterior part, convex in the middle with the

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sides broadly depressed and the outer margin reflexed, narrowly and

somewhat finely scrobiculate-punctate ; scutellum deeply punctate ;

elytra slightly sinuate laterally behind the humeral angle, somewhat

amphate, short, convex at about the median part, strongly dehiscent

thence, highly costate with the third, fifth, and seventh cost more

raised than the others, the first and second are broader and sub-

tectiform, the others very sharp, and the intervals are filled with

deep, transverse foveewe impinging on the whole side of the cost

but not on the sharp, carinate part; under side striolate.

Differs from the other South African species by its shorter appear-

ance due to the greater convexity of the elytra. It is probably

closely allied to A. clathratus, Gerst., which I know from the

description only. The intervals between the sharply carinate elytral

costz are wide, and filled with transverse foveze even broader than

in Oxythorax clathratus, Fahy. Oxythorax being identical with

Anchophthalmus, I propose to change the specific name clathratus

into falrat.

Length 16-17 mm. ; width 9-10 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Algoa Bay). J. de Coster.

ANCHOPHTHALMUS PLICIPENNIS, N. sp.

Female: Black, opaque, covered on the upper side with most

minute greyish hairs; head deeply and closely punctate ; prothorax

nearly equally rounded laterally, the sides are not very broadly

ampliate, but the margin is well raised, the discoidal part is only

slightly convex and bears two faint, median impressions, it is

covered with somewhat small, moderately deep punctures separated

by a very narrow, irregular, only slightly raised wall; scutellum

deeply punctate; elytra, slightly ampliate past the median part

where they are one-fifth wider than across the base, accuminate in

the posterior part, almost plane from the base to the posterior

declivity, slightly convex there, and slanting thence to the apex,

finely striate, but the striz are shallow, the three first intervals are

plane, the fifth and sixth are raised, the whole surface is deeply

punctate and covered with irregular, wrinkle-like transverse foveate

punctures, shallow in the dorsal part, deeper and more seriate on

the sides, these folds are produced by the raised walls of these

fovew, and the two raised supra-lateral intervals are very plainly

wavy and wider than the intervening one; under side glabrous ;

legs minutely hairy.

Length 134-17 mm.; width 64-85 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

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Tript OPATRINI.

ANOMALIPUS MASHUNUS, N. sp.

Plate XIII., fig. 10.

Black, somewhat opaque; head and prothorax covered with round

punctures separated by very narrow, plane interstices, head deeply

incised above the labrum, prothorax very broadly ampliated laterally

in both sexes, nearly straight close to the base in the male, not so

much in the female, and with the basal angle sharp but not project-

ing in either sex, very little convex on the disk and with the outer

sides depressed, there is no smooth patch or impression on the

discoidal part; elytra not wider at the shoulders than the basal part

of the prothorax, slightly oblique at the humeral part in the male,

nearly parallel thence to the posterior, plane above as far as the

posterior declivity which is a little more convex and also less abrupt

in the female than in the male, having on each side three plain,

although not much raised, granular costules with four indistinct

intermediate ones in the male, whereas in the female these inter-

mediate costules are as much raised as the others, and the intervals

are finely granulose; in both sexes the two basal abdominal

segments are strongly striate longitudinally, and the apical one

punctate ; anterior tibiz of the male, broadly dilated inwardly at

apex, the dilated part being deeply incised in the centre, intermediate

slightly arcuate but otherwise simple, and not dentate outwardly,

posterior ones simple; in the female the anterior ones are simple

but more sharply dentate outwardly, and the intermediate ones have

a very distinct, bifid tooth on the upper median part.

Length 19-194 mm.; width 94-10 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

A distinct species.

ANOMALIPUS GASANUS.

Plate XTIT.,, fig: 9.

Male: Black with all the interstices on the upper side filled with

an earthy covering ; head normally incised in front and with a fairly

distinct, although not deep, transverse median impression, punctures

nearly contiguous laterally but divided by a sharp edge, less closely

set, and with smooth intervals in the median part; prothorax

gradually ampliated laterally till the median part where it is rounded,

and slightly more narrowed thence to the sharply aculeate but not

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projecting basal angle than in the anterior part, and one-fourth wider

at its broadest part than the median length, not much convex,

covered with moderately deep, round punctures separated by very

narrow intervals slightly raised all over, at about the median part

there is on each side a round supra-marginal, distinct round

impression and two elongate ones diagonally disposed on each side

of the posterior part, and also a faint line-like longitudinal impression

in the median part of the disk ; elytra parallel and a little narrower

at the base, owing to the shoulders being slightly rounded, than the

non-projecting basal angle of the prothorax, one-fifth longer than

broad at the posterior declivous part which is convex and plainly

drawn inwards towards the apex, depressed on the dorsal and

having three very much raised and sharp costz on each side of the

equally raised suture, the intervals are without traces of intermediate

costules, and are finely granulose; under side and legs normally

striolate and deeply punctured ; anterior tibiz bi-dentate outwardly,

much thickened inwardly, narrowly and sub-transversely incised

under the inner angle which is obtuse and rounded, the under side

is deeply and diagonally excavated, and the inner angle produced

into a conspicuous, quadrate process, intermediate tibiz also deeply

excavated at apex and with the inner angles projecting ; posterior

ones slightly arcuate.

Length 27 mm.; width 124 mm.

Much more elongated than Anomalipus podagricus, Pér., and with-

out any traces of discoidal impressions on the prothorax ; the elytra

are much more sharply costate and have no traces of intermediate

costules, the anterior tibiz are somewhat similarly excavated under-

neath, but they are gradually ampliated inwardly from the simple

median part, the inner angle of the excavation underneath is also:

more quadrate.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Gazaland). G. A. K. Marshall.

ANOMALIPUS BARBERTONIENSIS, N. sp.

Black, opaque; head of the normal shape, deeply punctate ;

prothorax broadly ampliate laterally, straight at a short distance

from the base, with the hind angles sharp, moderately convex,

covered with foveolate punctures separated by a very narrow,

smooth interval; the disk with two irregular, smooth aerolets ;

elytra slightly ampliated from about the median part, very convex in

the posterior, plainly and regularly shagreened, and having on each

side six very slightly raised costules separated by a moderately

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broad interval; in the male the anterior tibize are slightly bent

inwardly and have there a row of conspicuous, nearly equi-distant

spines, and the apical inner part is elongated into a sub-horizontal

blunt process pubescent at the tip, set almost at right angles with

the long outer apical tooth, and not produced into a vertical spine

underneath ; the anterior and posterior tibizw are simple, the inter-

mediate ones have the usual median spine on the upper margin.

In general appearance this species is not unlike A. dentipes, but it

is easily recognised by the faint, equally high costules of the

elytra, the pubescent inner projection of the apex of the anterior

tibie, as well as by the shape of the genital armature which is

quite different from that of any other species of the genus. Female

unknown.

Length 21 mm.; width 12 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Barberton). F. Bottomley.

ANOMALIPUS PAUXILLUS, Nn. Sp.

Black, with the intervals of the elytra and the punctures filled

with an earthy matter ; prothorax broadly ampliate, sinuate near the

basal angle, covered with nearly contiguous round punctures and

having in the centre of the disk two round impressions, and also an

arcuate one on each side equi-distant between the outer margin and

the discoidal impression; elytra very little ampliated laterally,

plainly convex in the posterior part, with the suture highly raised

and on each side three sharp costz with faint traces of alternate

ones, the surface is granular; the anterior tibizw are not spinose

inwardly in the male, and the apical inner angle is slightly project-

ing and produced into a sub-vertical triangular tooth beneath the

two inner spurs; intermediate and posterior tibie simple.

This species looks also like a diminutive specimen of A. dentipes,

but the shape of the anterior tibize is different.

Length 15 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hav. Transvaal (Johannesburg). A. Ross.

ANOMALIPUS HYPOCRITA, Nn. Sp.

Male: Black, with a terrenous indumentum on the elytra; head

normally incised in front, very indistinctly impressed on each side of

the median part ; prothorax broadly ampliated laterally slightly past

the median part where it is twice as broad as long, much more

abruptly narrowed in the posterior than in the anterior part, and

with the basal angles sharp but not projecting, covered with equally

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wide, round punctures separated by a narrow, slightly wavy interval,

not impressed on the disk or sides, very little convex, and with the

sides plainly depressed; elytra short, not twice as long as the

prothorax, strongly declivous behind, not drawn inwardly at the

apex, shoulders moderately sharp and projecting slightly beyond the

acute straight basal angle, only very slightly wider towards the

declivous part than across the base, and having on each side eight

sub-tectiform granulose cost which are more raised than the suture,

the second, fourth, and sixth are somewhat more raised than the

intervening ones, the intervals are also finely granulose; under side

strongly striated longitudinally; legs sub-scabrose-punctate ; anterior

tibize bi-dentate outwardly, simple inwardly, intermediate ones with

a sub-median angular tooth on each side of the upper groove.

Length 18 mm.; width 10 mm.

A close ally of A. turpis, Pér., and A. plebewus, Pér., but easily

distinguished from both these species by the simple anterior tibiz ;

in A. turpis the intermediate ones are simple but arcuate, whereas

in A. hypocrita, they are simple also but not plainly arcuate, and

lastly the genital armature of the male differs from that of the two

species above mentioned.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

Tre COSSYPHINI.

Gren. ENDUSTOMUS, Brém.

ENDUSTOMUS RHODESIANUS, 0. Sp.

Light brown with the dilated parts paler and spotted with

numerous dark dots; prothorax truncate in the centre in front,

and sloping obliquely thence towards the sides, which are quite

parallel, slightly narrower at the base than across the anterior part,

sharply carinate longitudinally in the centre, having an arcuate

impression on each «side of the convex part, and two or three

diagonal sulci on each side of the anterior, the whole surface is very

closely pitted ; elytra projecting at the base beyond the angles of

the prothorax, straight thence for three-fourths of the length, deeply

notched on each side at apex, and plainly sinuate at the base, the

suture is very sharp, and there is a sharp median dorsal keel

reaching from the base to three-fourths of the length, and on each

side of it a series of small asymetric tubercles some of which

coalesce, the inner series reaches as far as the reflexed posterior

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part, the outer one is shorter than the dorsal keel, and the whole

surface is as closely and deeply pitted as the prothorax; the under

side of the prothorax and elytra is more plainly spotted with dark

spots.

Length 104 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Somewhat similar in general shape to H. grandicollis, Gerst.,

which occurs also in the same locality, but the latter is much

broader and has no keel on the elytra.

Tre HETHEROTARSINI.

Gren. LYPROPS, Hope.

LYPROPS MOSAMBICUS, n. sp.

Black, with the elytra very dark chestnut-brown, clothed on the

upper side with a very dense, short but erect greyish, flavescent

pubescence; head with the transverse impression above the epistoma

broad and deep, covered, except the labrum which is punctulate,

with round deep punctures more closely set in the anterior than in

the posterior part, the latter is very little produced behind the ridge

of the very large eyes ; prothorax roundly ampliated laterally in the

anterior part and narrowed thence to the base, one-third broader

than long, very little convex, and covered with round punctures

separated by an interval slightly narrower than their diameter;

seutellum closely punctulate; elytra slightly ampliated laterally

behind, a little depressed in the anterior part, and covered with

round deep punctures separated by an interval about equal to their

diameter ; legs and under side fuscous, pubescent.

Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Allied to L. pilosus, Miill., but less densely pubescent, and much

less coarsely punctured on the head and prothorax.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira). P. A. Sheppard.

LyPROPS NAMAQUENSIS, N. sp.

Ferruginous-red, antenne also ferruginous; it is clothed on the

upper side with long greyish, upright hairs; head roughly foveolate,

slightly elongated behind the eyes, joints 7-10, slightly longer than

or as long as wide, presumably according to the sex ; prothorax as

wide as long, not ampliated and rounded laterally in front if seen

from above, but gradually narrowed towards the base, roughly

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foveolate-punctate and having a slight median longitudinal depres-

sion; scutellum closely punctate; elytra elongated, very slightly

sinuated laterally, and not appreciably ampliated behind, covered

with deep, round punctures separated by an interval, not quite equal

in width to their own diameter; abdomen and pectus deeply

punctate, the punctures setigerous.

This species differs from L. pilosus and L. mosambicus by the

more parallel elytra, and from L. badius, Miill., in which the elytra

are equally parallel, by the long pubescence and the much deeper

and not seriate punctures of the elytra, the prothorax is also much

more broadly and more coarsely punctate.

Length 6-74 mm.; width 24-23 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). R. M. Lightfoot; L.

Péringuey.

Gren. DICHASTOPS, Gerst.

DICHASTOPS MASHUNUS, N. sp.

Black with a metallic sheen, elytra ferruginous-brown, faintly

metallic, clothed on the upper part with a short, not dense greyish

pubescence ; head with a deep, transverse impression extending

from one antennal crest to the other, deeply but not roughly,

although irregularly, punctate ; eyes almost divided into two; basal

joints of antennz shiny, the four ultimate ones opaque, the three

penultimate cylindrical, as broad as long, the last one acuminate at

the tip; prothorax twice as broad as long, straight laterally, but

narrower in the posterior than in the anterior part owing to the

outer sides being rounded off towards the base, the central part of

the disk is covered with foveate, sub-contiguous punctures separated

by somewhat irregular, raised intervals, the sides are plainly

scrobiculate, on each side of the median part there is a somewhat

ill-defined impression, each puncture, like those on the head, is

setigerous ; scutellum only moderately hairy, punctulate; elytra

elongated, slightly sinuate laterally before the median part, slightly

ampliated beyond it, only moderately convex in the posterior, not

costulate, covered in the dorsal part with moderately deep punctures

separated by a raised, smooth interval narrower than their own

diameter, and disposed in transverse, short, not much raised folds

on the sides, each puncture is setigerous ; under side and legs some-

what densely pubescent.

Length 10-114 mm.; width 43-54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 245

Tre HELOPININI.

Gren. MICRANTEREUS, Sol.

MIcRANTEREUS CAPICOLA, nN. sp.

Black, opaque, elytra covered with a greyish-brown, extremely

short pubescence, but with the granules and tubercles glabrous and

shining; the head is clothed with very short, appressed whitish-

grey hairs and is of the usual shape; the prothorax, which is also

clothed with an appressed pubescence similar to that on the head, is

very closely and finely punctulate except on two small discoidal

denuded patches equi-distant from the outer margin and from a

fine, median longitudinal line, it is almost equally ampliated and

rounded laterally in both sexes in proportion to the size ; the female’s

being wider than the male’s ; the elytra of the former are elongate-

ovate and have on each side two dorsal rows of non-coalescing

conspicuous tubercles and an outer one the tubercles of which do

not, however, assume a costal appearance, the intervals are filled

with scattered tubercles which are more numerous in the anterior

than in the posterior part, and the suture is carinate ; in the female

the elytra are broadly ovate, and the tubercles in the intervals some-

what more numerous; the abdomen and pectus have a faint bluish-

black tinge, and are very shiny; the legs are very closely foveolate-

punctate, and the basal joint of the anterior tarsi of the male is not

much dilated.

Undoubtedly closely allied to M. longipes, Fahr.; the two sexes

are, however, more ovate, the tubercles on the two dorsal rows are

not so closely set and do not coalesce in the posterior declivity so as

to form more or less sharply carinate coste.

Length 164 mm. ; width 10-11 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay; Cradock). Dr. H. Martin.

MICRANTEREUS PROCURSUS, N. Sp.,

Plate XIII., figs. 1, 2.

Closely allied to M. vicarius, differs from it merely by the broader

elytra which are also more obliquely ampliated laterally behind the

shoulders, the costz on the elytra are much more raised, the first

dorsal one is plainly divaricating towards the base, whereas they are

straight in M. vicarius, and the second and third intervals are much

more conspicuously tuberculate; the female resembles that of

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M. vicarius, and the granules on the intervals are nearly similar,

but the three cost are much more raised, the minute sub-flavescent

hairs are also denser. The description of the female of P. vicarius

applies also to that of M. procursus, but the coste on the elytra are

very much sharper.

Length 18-21 mm. ; width 11 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Melsetter, Gazaland). G. A. K.

Marshall.

MIcRANTEREUS ZOUTPANSBERGIANUS, N. sp.,

Plate XIII., fig. 8.

Male: Black, opaque; head and prothorax finely aciculate ; the

latter part is rounded and slightly ampliated laterally in the middle,

it is one-third broader than long, and has on the disk two somewhat

faint impressions; elytra one-fourth broader across the median part

than at the base and slightly narrower across the declivous part

which begins close past the middle and is very sloping, the anterior

part from the base to the middle is nearly flat, the suture is raised

from the median part to the apex and there are three somewhat

sharp costules on each side, the juxta-sutural one being obliterated

from the base to the top of the declivity, the intervals between the

suture and the second dorsal coste are very roughly coriaceous but

also somewhat granular along the second costa, the third interval is

filled with closely set granular tubercles, the sides are nearly

smooth except for a row of granules edging the base of the carinate

costa.

Female: More robust than the male; prothorax much wider but

not longer, more deeply aciculate and having two conspicuous im-

pressions on the disk; elytra a little more parallel laterally, one-

third broader across the median part than at the base, strongly

convex, and very abruptly declivous from nearly the median part,

tri-costate on each side with the juxta-sutural costa beginning only

at the top of the declivity, the second costa is bluntly tuberculate

and stops at a distance from the base, but the third one is entire, the

intervals between the suture and the second costa are more coriaceous

than granulose, but the third one is moderately filled with granules,

the whole surface is covered with most minute, not densely set sub-

flavescent hairs.

Length 16-17 mm.; width 9-10 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). Rev. H. A. Junod; A. J. T.

Janse.

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The male is not unlike in shape J. pronus, Pér., but the elytra

are more ampliated laterally ; the female is very different from that

of M. pronus.

MICRANTEREUS LYDENBURGIENSIS, N. Sp.,

Plate MITM., fig. 7.

Male: Black, with the elytra reddish-brown ; head and prothorax

plainly aciculate and extremely finely pubescent; prothorax a little

more amphated laterally than usual, and on that account only one-

fourth narrower than long, and bearing a faint longitudinal median

impressed line; elytra glabrous, sub-acuminate-ovate, twice as broad

across the median part as at the base, strongly sloping, but hardly

declivous from two-thirds of the length, very little convex and

covered with closely set acuminate tubercles which are less well

defined in the anterior median part of the disk, and are disposed in

two indistinct series, often quite obliterated on the hind slope,

sides irregularly punctured; legs very long and slender, first joint

of the anterior tarsi conspicuously dilated.

Length 114 mm.; width 7 mm.

Female: Covered all over with an appressed greyish pubescence ;

prothorax broader, slightly shorter and more ampliate laterally, the

longitudinal median line slightly more distinct; elytra more ampliated

than in the male, but also somewhat elongate-ovate, but only one-

third broader across the median part than at the base, convex and

much more declivous behind than in the male, granulate laterally

along the outer costa, and having only a few scattered, small tubercles

in the posterior part of the elytra where these tubercles are slightly

seriate at a short distance from the suture, which is not raised.

Length 11 mm. ; width 8 mm,

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). Pretoria Museum.

This species has no close ally, but the female resembles somewhat

that of M. devexus, Pér.

MICRANTEREUS GASANUS, 0. sp.,

Plate XIIL., figs. 5, 6.

Male: Black, with the background of the elytra terrenous ; head

and prothorax finely aciculate, the latter part is of the usual shape

obtaining in the South African species, ¢.e., one-third broader than

long, and with the median part of the sides rounded and slightly

ampliated ; elytra rounded at the shoulders, twice as broad across

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the median part as at the base, strongly declivous behind at a

short distance from the middle, covered with sub-aculeate, closely

set, yet somewhat irregular, moderately shining tubercles the larger

of which are disposed in two seriate dorsal rows on each side, the

supra-lateral row being much more distinct, although granular, the

sides are deeply seriato-punctate. -

Length 16 mm.; width 94 mm.

Female: Also opaque black, but with very fine, appressed flaves-

cent hairs on the elytra ; prothorax broader and a little shorter than

in the male; elytra more ampliated nearer the base and not much

wider across the median part than at a short distance from the

shoulders, more convex than the male in the anterior part, and

looking therefore still more declivous behind, the first and second

seriate rows of tubercles are only feebly indicated, and the tubercles

in the intervals are more scattered and less well defined, but the

strong granules along the lateral costa are nearly as numerous as in

the male.

Length 153 mm.; width 10 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Melseter, Gazaland). G. A. K.

Marshall.

The nearest ally of this species is M. spurius, the elytra of which

are, however, more ampliated laterally in the middle, and the costate

rows of tubercles are distinctly more seriate than in W. gazanus.

The female also closely resembles that of MW. gazanus, but is likewise

plainly more costate.

MICRANTEREUS HIRSUTUS, N. sp.,

Plate XITI., fig. 4.

Female : Black, but with the elytra covered by a terrenous coating;

head and prothorax extremely finely aciculate, opaque ; prothorax

short, twice as broad as long, rounded laterally, slightly wider at the

base than at the apex; elytra strongly ampliated from the humeral

angle which is somewhat wider than the base of the prothorax, very

convex, and with a conspicuously rounded declivity behind, one-

third narrower at the base than across the median part where the

posterior declivity begins, and one-third less in width at their widest

part than long, the suture is raised and sub-tuberculate, and on each

side are three series of small tubercles not greatly developed in the

anterior part, much more so in the posterior, where they are some-

what aculeate, the intervals are irregularly granulose and dotted

with dense, long, erect grey sub-flavescent hairs, but the declivous.

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 249°

sides which are very shining are bare and only slightly punctulate ;

under side shining, glabrous; legs short, slender, simple, and like

the tarsi clothed with a flavescent pubescence ; antenne very briefly

pubescent.

Length 16 mm.; width 11 mm.

This species is distinguished from all the others by the long, erect

hairs on the elytra.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). Pretoria Museum.

MICRANTEREUS VICARIUS, N. Sp.,

Plate XIII, fig. 3.

Male: Black, sub-opaque on the elytra; head and prothorax finely

punctate, the aciculate punctures slightly finer on the head than on

the prothorax, where they are separated by a smooth interval equal

in width to their own diameter ; prothorax of the normal shape, that

is to say, about one-fifth broader than long, very slightly attenuate

laterally in front and behind, with the two angles sharp but not pro-

jecting, very little convex behind, and sloping slightly in the anterior

part; scutellum very short, narrow, but fairly wide; elytra not

convex in the dorsal part, fitting against the base of the prothorax,

but with the shoulders rounded, oblong-ovate but sub-acuminate

towards the posterior part, very slightly narrower across the decli-

vous part than across the median, where they are double the width

of the base, sharply tri-costate on each side, with the suture slightly

raised, the interval between the two juxta-sutural costs are strongly

coriaceous, and the two other intervals filled with large granules

which are larger, more tubercle-like, and also more numerous

throughout the whole of its length than on the second, the anterior

part of which is more sub-scrobiculate than tuberculate; sides

irregularly punctate and coriaceous ; tooth of the anterior femora

distinct but not sharp, all the tibize sinuate inwardly in the usual

manner.

Female: Head and prothorax finely aciculate as in the male;

prothorax shorter, one-third broader than long; scutellum very

rudimentary ; elytra strongly convex and very declivous behind,

two-fifths wider across the median part than across the base, and

only one-sixth narrower at the top of the declivous part, sharply

tri-costate on each side, and with the three intervals filled with

somewhat remote tubercles neither so closely set nor so distinct as

in the male, but better defined in the anterior part of the first

interval,

250 Annals of the South African Museum.

Length 174-20 mm.; width 10-11 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Mount Shirinda, Gazaland). G. A. K.

Marshall.

A close ally of M. ambiguus, Pér., but the male differs by the

plainly punctulate thorax, which is only very faintly aciculate in

M. ambiguus, the two basal joints of the anterior tarsi are more

broadly dilated in M. ambiguus, the female of which is not

known.

MIcRANTEREUS SPISSUS, Pér.,

Annies. Atr. Mus., yols2., 1899, p. 306.

Female: Black, and more shiny than the male, shorter and much

more strongly declivous behind; the prothorax is only one-third

broader than long, and as equally finely punctured as in the male,

the two dorsal costules on the elytra are as much obliterated as in

the male, the whole dorsal part as well as the declivous part is

smooth, but along the lateral costa there is a somewhat narrow band

of very plain granules beginning at a short distance from the

humeral part and reaching to the very apex; legs and under side as

usual,

Length 17 mm.; width 11 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). Pretoria Museum.

Tre PYCNOCERINI.

CATAMERUS MANICANUS, N. sp.

Plate XIII., fig. 11.

Very dark blue, almost black on the upper side, shining, glabrous ;

head deeply punctured, the punctures more closely set in the

anterior than in the posterior part; prothorax rounded laterally, but

somewhat wider across the base than across the anterior part,

plainly convex on the disk which bears in the anterior part, but at a

short distance from the middle, two small, round impressions, very

sparingly punctulate on the sides and almost impunctate in the

centre in the male, but in the female the round punctures are deeper,

more closely set, and spread over the whole surface, the outer

margin is slightly and irregularly wavy, and the emargination above

the basal angle is shallow, but plain; scutellum small, convex,

nearly impunctate ; elytra with the shoulders very sloping in the

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male, much less so in the female, sub-parallel, strongly declivous

behind, very little convex in the dorsal part, strongly costate, the

coste sub-tectiform with the intervals bluntly striate-punctate, these

punctures, however, are broad, deep, and impinge transversely on

the posterior part of the sixth and eighth coste. In the female

the prothorax is less broad, more evenly rounded laterally, and the

elytra are wider at the base.

Allied to C. transvaalensis, Pér., but more robust; the cost of

the elytra are much more tectiform, and the seriate punctures are

much less plainly defined. In my female example of C. trans-

vaalensis the punctures on the prothorax are much more closely set

than in the same sex of C. manicanus. C. intermedius, Gah., seems

to me to be still more closely allied to the preceding species, and the

two might prove to be one. The description is unfortunately so

short that no comparison is possible. The species in the Collec-

tion which I identify as Mr. Gahan’s species are, however, either

brassy-green or have violaceous elytra, and the punctures on the

prothorax of the male are numerous in the median part of the

disk.

Length 20-21 mm. ; width 8-9 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Manica), F. C. Selous; (Umtali), A.

Bodong.

CATAMERUS GASANUS, 0. sp.,

Plate XITI., fig. 12.

Very dark blue, like the preceding species, but not so dark on the

upper side, and shorter; the head is very roughly punctured ; the

prothorax, which in the female is not so small as in the same sex of

C. manicanus, is more crenulate laterally, and the emargination

above the basal angle is more deeply incised, especially in the male,

the disk bears two broad impressions equi-distant from the median

and the basal parts, and is deeply and closely punctured in both

sexes, the punctures being coarser than in C. manicanus ; the elytra

are also wider and shorter in proportion to the width, the much-

raised coste are very sharply tectiform, and the much deeper striate

punctures of the intervals impinge greatly on the sides of each, the

sixth, and especially the eighth costs being interrupted by trans-

verse impressions in the posterior part.

Length 20 mm. ; width 91-10 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Gazaland). G. A. K. Marshall.

LED Annals of the South African Museum.

Tre TENEBRIONINI.

Gen. APHROTUS, Péring.

XeENus (olim).

APHROTUS OBORTUS, 0. Sp.

Male : Black, glabrous, moderately shining ; apical part of antenne

and tarsi piceous-red ; head deeply excavate in the anterior part and

with the antennal ridge produced into a long horn strongly curving

forward and rounded at apex, the anterior part of the epistomal

cavity is also produced into a somewhat broad, lamellate process,

bifurcate at the apex, sub-vertical at the base with the furcate part

curving slightly backwards, the surface of the head is covered with

elongated punctures; prothorax regularly rounded laterally from

apex to base, moderately convex on the median part, and more so on

the sides, covered with moderately deep, round, punctures separated

by an interval shorter than their diameter, and having a fine, longi-

tudinal smooth line in the centre only ; scutellum very short, trans-

verse ; elytra oblong-ovate, plainly acuminate at the apex, covered

with rows of somewhat closely set punctures as plain in the intervals

as in the nearly obliterated striz ; whole under side roughly and

deeply punctured.

Differs considerably from A. tricorniger, Péring., in the shape of

the cephalic horns, which are, however, produced in the same

manner ; the prothorax is more evenly rounded laterally, and the

punctures are smaller.

Length 102 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Great Namaqualand. Stockholm Museum.

I had proposed for A. tricorniger the generic name of Xenus (Ann.

S. Afr. Mus., vol. i., 1899, p. 255), but as there is already a genus of

birds to which this name has been given, as well as Xenos, a genus

-of the Strepsicera, I propose to change it into Aphrotus.

Tris MERACANTHINI.

Gren. ACANTHOMERA, Latr.

ACANTHOMERA CURSOR, N. sp.

Bronze, glabrous, shining, the six apical joints of antenne are

slightly rufescent ; head deeply and very closely punctate, distinctly

impressed semicircularly between the ocular canthuses which are

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strongly defined; prothorax a little attenuate laterally from the

apical angle to about the median part, and nearly straight from

there to the basal, with the posterior angle a little rounded;

marginate all round, the anterior part is distinctly arcuate, the base

nearly straight, it is moderately convex and covered with fine, yet

deep and very closely set punctures; scutellum very short but

broadly triangular; elytra elongate-ovate but acuminate in the

posterior part, and slightly more ampliate in the female than in the

male, moderately convex but very sloping in the posterior part ; they

are covered with numerous closely set seriate punctures, and have

on each side six rows of sharp, depressed tubercles directed back-

wards, these rows of tubercles begin at a short distance from the

base, and occasionally there are a few smaller ones along the suture;

under side and legs very deeply and closely punctured ; anterior

femora with a very large inner swelling ending in a very distinct

sharp spine in both sexes, but with the outer part of the swelling

distinctly angular in the male.

Length 9-94 mm.; width 44-5$ mm.

This species is very different in general appearance from the

typical Acanthomera dentipes, Fab., A. gratilla, Herbst., &e., but it is

closely allied in general facies to A. helopioides, Guér., from which it

is easily distinguished by the sculpture of the elytra.

Hab. Cape Colony (Bredasdorp). H. Fry.

Gren. VUTSIMUS, Péring.

VUTSIMUS PROPINQUUS, nN. sp.

Male: Bronze-black, with the elytra lighter, moderately shining ;

head and prothorax deeply punctate, the punctures separated by a

smooth interval narrower than their diameter; prothorax ampliated

and rounded laterally, but more attenuate in the anterior than in the

posterior part, not much convex, but dehiscent in front, and having

a very narrow longitudinal median line extending from the apex to

near the centre of the disk ; scutellum broadly triangular, punctate ;

elytra very strongly ampliated, globose, ovate, sharply declivous in

the posterior part, acuminate at apex, convex from the median part

to the top of the abrupt declivity, and having three fairly distinct

non-striate rows of punctures reaching the declivity, with the in-

tervals separating these rows closely and irregularly punctate, the

remainder of the dorsal part is very roughly punctured, the punc-

tures changing into a coarse, irregular, verrucose granulation on the

sides and in the posterior declivous part; epipleural fold deeply

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punctate in the broad part; abdominal segments strongly plicate

longitudinally, except the apical one which is deeply punctate ;

sternum deeply and closely punctate, glabrous; legs very briefly

pubescent.

Length 16 mm.; width 10 mm.

Allied to V. coriaceipennis, Péring, but differs in the shape of the:

prothorax, which is more rounded laterally; the elytra are more

regularly ampliated towards the median part, and more abruptly

declivous behind, and the median discoidal part of the elytra is not.

shagreened.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). Pretoria Museum.

VUTSIMUS BYZACNOIDES, 0. sp.

Piceous, with the legs and antennz piceous-brown ; head closely

punctate ; prothorax not rounded laterally, sloping gradually out-

wardly from the short outer angle to long past the median part, and

thence inwardly towards the basal angles where it is wider than

across the anterior part, and a little less than across two-thirds of

the length, not much convex in the disk, the anterior part of which

is sloping, covered with deep, irregular punctures, somewhat rugate:

laterally, and having on each side above the basal angle a marginal

patch of flavous pubescence ; elytra sub-elongate-ovate, very slightly

convex from the base to the median part, from where they gradually

slope towards the acuminated apex, the suture is not raised, and on

each side of it are two deep but narrow striz reaching the apex, and

the intervals of which are rugose in the anterior part and irregularly

granose in the posterior, the other intervals right up to the margin

of the epipleural fold are filled with rows of large and small irregular

shining tubercles; abdomen strongly plicate longitudinally, except

the two apical segments which are punctate, and clothed on the

sides with flavescent appressed hairs; pectus with a similar pube-

scence ; legs briefly pubescent.

Length 124 mm.; width 7 mm.

The general appearance is that of V. pretorius, Pér., but the elytra

are sharply acuminate at apex, and the sculpture is very different.

Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). Rey. H. Junod.

Tre MEGACANTHINI.

Gen. HOPLONYX, Thoms.

A3. Eyes broadly separated on the vertex.

insignis ; granulipennis ; extraneus ; gratulus ; perforatus.

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A°. Eyes narrowly separated on the vertex.

refertus ; pudens ; spectandus ; amoenus.

A‘. Eyes almost contiguous on the vertex.

luscus ; probus.

HopLonyx INSIGNIS, n. sp.

Black, moderately shining on the upper side; head, prothorax,.

and elytra clothed with fine, erect, sub-fulvous hairs not very closely

set, legs villose ; antennz and palpi ferruginous; eyes divided by a

broad space, which is roughly punctured like the anterior part of the

head; prothorax one-fourth wider than long, plainly attenuated

laterally in front, rounded before the median part, slightly sinuate

above the sharp basal angle, moderately convex, but having in

the centre a faint longitudinal impression, carinate laterally, and

covered with not closely set, small, round, setigerous punctures ;

elytra broader than the prothorax, sub-parallel, strongly costate, the

cost tectiform and punctate, the striz deep and filled with rough

contiguous scabrose punctures, which impinge completely on the

costze in the posterior part; under side briefly pubescent.

Larger and more massive than H. afer, Fahr., and a distinct

species.

Length 20 mm.; width 9 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland. A. W. Eriksson.

Hopnonyx GRANULIPENNIS, N. sp.

Black, opaque, glabrous; antenne and palpi piceous; head very

deeply and somewhat roughly punctate, ocular crest very strong,

space between the eyes very broad, almost equal to the width of the

eyes ; prothorax plainly rounded and ampliated laterally at about

the median part, but slightly less attenuated towards the base than

towards the apex, carinate, one-fourth wider than long, somewhat

convex at about the median part of the disk, but sloping forward,

and covered with elongated contiguous punctures, the raised walls

of which form an irregular plication ; scutellum triangular; elytra

sub-parallel, but slightly ampliated at about three-fourths of the

length, costate, the coste tectiform and having each a series of

granules, the narrow and shallow intervals are provided with a

similar row of granules, instead of punctures ; the legs are very

deeply and closely punctate, and very briefly pubescent.

A very distinct species.

Length 15 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Calvinia District). E.G. Alston.

(op)

Annals of the South African Museum.

Hopionyx PERFORATUS, Nl. Sp.

Black, quite opaque on the upper side and also on the under side,

but the legs are shining; antenne piceous ; eyes very slanting in the

apical part, nearly transverse in the anterior, and therefore broadly

separated on the vertex, but much less so in the anterior part where

the intervening space is about one-third of their length, this space is

roughly punctate and has a plain, median, longitudinal groove, the

anterior part of the head is very slightly punctate ; prothorax slightly

attenuate laterally in front, from the very little rounded median part,

and also slightly sinuate in the posterior, not much broader than

long, faintly impressed longitudinally in the centre, and covered with

somewhat irregularly scattered, deep, round punctures, base deeply

bi-sinuate ; elytra wider at the base than the prothorax and with the

humeral angles slightly oblique, gradually accuminate thence to the

apex, deeply striate with the intervals tectiform from the base to

three-fifths of the length, and having on the sharp edge a row of fine,

remote granules, striz filled with deep, scabrose punctures deeper in

the anterior part.

Very closely allied to H. clypeatus, Fahr., which I have recorded

from the neighbourhood of the Zambesi River and also from

Ovampoland; the difference between the two consists in the

punctuation of the prothorax, which is extremely coarse and

scrobiculate in H. clypeatus, and comparatively shallow and with

smooth intervals in H. perforatus ; the elytral cost are also less

acute than in H. clypeatus.

Length 13 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg District). Pretoria Museum.

Hopiuonyx EXTRANEUS, N. Sp.

Black, opaque, glabrous, terminal joints of antennze and palpi sub-

ferruginous; head closely and somewhat finely punctate, space

between the apex of the eyes slighter broader than half their width,

antennal crest strong ; prothorax one-third wider than long, plainly

rounded laterally in the anterior part near the apex, parallel thence

and carinate, not much convex, and covered with closely set, but not

quite contiguous, somewhat fine punctures; scutellum triangular,

punctate; elytra nearly parallel from the base to the median part,

slightly ampliated past the middle, and acuminate in the posterior

part, striate, the strize shallow, and filled with small, round punctures

separated by an interval nearly equal to their own diameter, intervals

plane and filled with numerous, closely set punctures, replaced in

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the posterior sloping part by minute granules ; legs glabrous, closely

punctate.

In general appearance this species resembles more a Megacantha

than an Hoplonyx, but the four penultimate joints of the antennwe

are not moniliform as in Megacantha.

Length 18 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Matopo). R. Pillans.

HopLonyx GRATULUS, Nn. sp.

Black, head and prothorax opaque, elytra sub-opaque, and with a

faint metallic lustre; head covered with deep, sub-rugulose con-

tiguous punctures, eyes separated by a space equal to their own

width, supra-antennal crests strongly developed ; prothorax nearly

as long as broad, almost parallel, but slightly obliquely attenuated

laterally near the anterior angle, equally covered with deep, round

punctures separated by a very narrow raised wall, base without a

marginal groove; scutellum ogival, short, punctate; elytra sub-

parallel, but slightly sinuate laterally between the humeral and

median parts, closely and moderately deeply punctate-striate, inter-

vals plane, faintly aciculate, the punctures in the juxta-marginal

strize are broad and deep from the basal to the median part ; under

side closely punctate, sub-opaque.

Length 74 mm.; width 3} mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn), J. ffoliot Darling.

HOPLONYX REFERTUS, 0. sp.

Black, head and prothorax opaque, elytra shiny ; head punctate,

antennal crests oblique, very long, space between the eyes in the

middle of the vertex about equal to one-third of their width ;

prothorax twice as broad as long, very faintly punctate, roundly

attenuate laterally from the apex to near the median part, straight

thence, carinate, strongly bi-sinuate along the base which bears a

very fine and not always very distinct groove along the median part ;

scutellum triangular, punctate ; elytra not wider than the prothorax

at the base owing to the shoulders being very sloping, nearly parallel

for two-thirds of the length, attenuate thence to the apex, narrowly

and closely punctate-striate with the intervals plane in the anterior

part, faintly convex in the posterior, and having very faint traces of

a slight aciculation.

This species is easily distinguishable from the other South African

ones by the very broad prothorax, and the sloping shoulders of

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the elytra. It seems to have a wide range, and is a close ally of

H, vicinus, Péring.

Length 13-174 mm. ; width 6-72 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Tulbagh), L. Péringuey, R.

Lightfoot. Natal (Durban), C. N. Barker; (Frere) G. A. K. Marshall.

Transvaal (Lydenburg), E. J. Dunn.

Hopnonyx PUDENS, Nn. Sp.

Black, shining, except the prothorax which is opaque; antennal

crests longitudinal, eyes reaching nearly the arcuate frontal impres-

sion, divided there by a space about equal to one-fourth of their

width, anterior part of the head punctate, posterior impunctate ;

prothorax gradually attenuated laterally from the base to the apex

where it is only slightly more than half as wide, but the attenuation

is plainer near the apex, carinate, one-third broader at the base than

long, with a faint basal groove, and almost impunctate ; scutellum

short, triangular, only slightly punctate; elytra not wider at the

base than the base of the prothorax, but with the shoulders sloping

immediately behind the base, somewhat sharply acuminate laterally

towards the apex, and having such shallow striz that the punctures

they contain are often disconnected, and stand by themselves in

some male examples, the intervals are plane and impunctate.

Length 11-14 mm.; width 5-7 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban), E. N. Barker ; (Hshowe) A. Windham.

HOPLONYX SPECTANDUS, 0. sp.

Very closely allied to H. pudens ; the shape of the head and eyes

are the same, but the punctures on the vertex are deeper; the

prothorax is shining, plainly punctate, in the shape of a truncate

cone, half as broad again at the base as at the apex, and one-third

wider at the base than long, the sides are almost straight; the

bi-sinuate base has a very faint median groove, and in the central

part of the disk there is a fine, slightly impressed, longitudinal line

disappearing in the posterior part; elytra as in H. pudens, but more

deeply striate, and with all the punctures united.

Closely allied to H. (Hrycastus) navicularis, Fairm., but the

prothorax is much more narrowly attenuated from the base to the

anterior angle, and in the type of H. navicularis, kindly lent me by

Mons. Fairmaire, there are no traces of the median impressed line

on the anterior part.

Length 16 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). Dr. Spencer.

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HopPpLoNyx AMOENUS, 0. sp.

Dark bronze, with the elytra brighter than the prothorax ; antennez

piceous ; head deeply and somewhat roughly punctate especially on

the vertex between the eyes which are divided by a space equal to

one-third of their width, antennal crests strong, almost longitudinal ;

prothorax parallel, but obliquely narrowed near the apical angle,

slightly impressed on each side of the base which is not grooved,

covered with deep, closely set punctures, which are round on the

sides but plainly elongated on the greatest part of the disk and

divided there by smooth intervals ; scutellum sub-cordate and having

a few punctures; elytra only slightly wider at the base than the base

of the prothorax, and with the shoulders rounded, nearly straight for

one-third of the length, ampliated thence to two-thirds of the length,

and from there acuminate towards the apex, deeply punctate-striate

with the intervals plane and also deeply punctate, but the punctures

are much smaller than those on the striz; legs finely punctate.

In this species the elytra are more ampliated laterally past the

median part, and are therefore less parallel than in the other South

African species.

Length 94 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Natal. Dr. H. Martin.

HOPLONYX PROBUS, Ni. sp.

Piceous, very shining, antenne and tibiew piceous-red ; anterior

part of the head closely and roughly punctate ; eyes separated by a

narrow, raised line, antennal crests longitudinal; prothorax wider

than long by one-fourth, plainly attenuate laterally in the anterior

part, slightly rounded past the median, very slightly sinuate above

the basal angle, base plainly sinuate and impressed on each side

of the median part which is faintly grooved, the whole surface is

covered with fine punctures separated by smooth intervals equal in

width to the diameter of the punctures; scutellum sub-ogival, almost

impunctate ; elytra sub-parallel, slightly sinuate laterally before the

median part, not at all striate for the greatest part of the length,

but showing very faint traces of striate lines towards the apex,

covered with series of round punctures disposed longitudinally, these

punctures are nearly equal in width in the dorsal part, but laterally

the bi-alternate rows, which normally should be sunk into striz, are

wider than the others.

Length 164 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town). Albany Museum.

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HopPLonyx LUSCUS, Nn. sp.

Black, shining, glabrous, palpi, antennal joints and tarsi piceous,.

and anterior part of the head considerably narrower than the strongly

bulging eyes which are separated right to the vertex by a linear,

extremely narrow keel, the supra-antennal ridges are very sharp, and

the punctures are moderately deep and moderately closely set ;

prothorax sub-parallel, but slightly rounded and attenuated laterally

in the anterior part, and covered with equi-distant, moderately deep

punctures separated from each other by a space equal to their own

diameter, scutellum sub-ogival; elytra broader than the prothorax

and with the shoulders somewhat rounded, parallel, moderately

attenuate towards the apex, moderately convex on the upper side,

faintly striate, with the striz filled with deep, round punctures

divided from each other by a smooth space about equal to two-thirds

of their diameter, the interspaces are plane, and have each a double

row of fine punctures ; all the punctures either in the striz or in the

intervals are a little deeper in the anterior than in the posterior part ;

abdomen strigose ; pectus punctulate ; legs finely punctate ; tooth of

anterior femora strong and sharp.

Allied to O. longitarsis, Fahr., but the prothorax is not so deeply

and closely punctured, and the punctures are round; the elytra are

not so deeply striate, especially the three juxta-sutural ones, and the

intervals are plainer in the basal part.

Length 11-14 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Natal, Dr. H. Martin; (Eshowe) A. Windham.

Grn. ACASTUS, Péring.

ACASTUS SEBAKUENSIS, 0. Sp.

Chestnut-brown, somewhat shining, almost glabrous on the upper

side except the epistome, very briefly pubescent on the under side

and legs; prothorax slightly rounded laterally, sinuate above the

basal angle, covered with contiguous cicatricose foveate punctures,

the disk is plainly impressed longitudinally on each side with the

median part standing in relief, and the impressions are hedged

outwardly by a longitudinal, rounded, wall-like elevation plainly

tuberculate in the middle, the base is strongly bi-sinuate; elytra

parallel, very sharply costate, with the intervals filled by a series

of deep punctures separated by an interval equal to their own

diameter, and not impinging on the sides of the cost ; abdominal

segments punctulate, metasternum and legs somewhat roughly

punctured,

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Length 9-10 mm.; width 3}-4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods.

The nearest ally of this species is A. segnis, Péring.; but the shape

of the impressions on the prothorax is different.

Tre AMARYGMINI.

Gen. PARAMARYGMUS, Qued.

PARAMARYGMUS GRATULUS, N.. sp.

Light bronze on the upper side, bronze with a reddish sheen on

the under side, shining, glabrous ; antenne, palpi, legs rufescent ;

labrum also rufescent; head with a faint transverse impression

between the two antennal auriculate processes, minutely and closely

punctate; the four penultimate joints of the antennee are some-

what turbinate, and the apical one ovate; prothorax attenuate

laterally in the anterior part, but not in the posterior, and with

the apical and basal angles sharp, outer margins carinate, the dis-

coidal part is moderately convex, and the whole surface finely

aciculate ; scutellum triangular, punctate; elytra slightly wider at

the base than the prothorax but with the shoulders rounded, ovate,

strongly convex, and dehiscent behind, finely punctate-striate with

the intervals plane on the dorsal part, convex laterally, and plainly

punctulate, along the carinate epipleural fold is a series of somewhat

wide, elongated punctures ; abdomen longitudinally strigose.

Length 5-64 mm.; width 34-41 mm.

Hab, Natal (Durban). C. N. Barker.

PARAMARYGMUS AMOENUS, N. Sp.

A close ally of the preceding species, and coloured alike, but

although equally convex yet having a different facies owing to the

great convexity of the elytra being past the median part; the

punctate strie of the elytra are slightly more shallow, and the

intervals quite plane laterally, the punctures along the carinate

epipleural fold are quite distinct, but the intervals which are also

finely, although somewhat obsoletely, aciculate are wider than in

P. gratulus.

Length 8 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Natal (Frere). G. A. K. Marshall.

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PARAMARYGMUS GRATIOSUS, Nn. Sp.

Closely allied to the two preceding species, and also bright bronze,

the legs, however, are ferruginous, and the antenne, the five penul-

timate joints of which are turbinate and the last one ovoid, are

slightly rufescent, but the basal joints are infuscate; the prothorax

is very finely punctulate, the punctures are elongated, and the

intervals slightly strigillate laterally; the elytra instead of being

ovate are sub-parallel from the base to about two-thirds of the

length and acuminate thence to the apex, they are convex near

the base and slope thence to the posterior part, the intervals are

plane in the anterior part, but slightly convex in the posterior

lateral part, and there is a conspicuous series of elongated punc-

tures along the carinate epipleural fold, the intervals are finely

punctulate.

Length 52 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Natal. Dr. H. Martin.

Gren. NESOGENA, Makl.

NESOGENA CAFFRA, 0. sp.

Bronze, moderately shining on the head and prothorax, elytra

greenish-bronze with the striaz greener than the intervals ; head very

closely and somewhat deeply, although finely punctate, the frontal

part has a transverse impression, broader and deeper than the one

separating the forehead from the epistoma which is broadly arcuate

and simple, antennz black, joints 6-10 gradually ampliated, trans-

verse and compressed, last joint longer, but not broader than

the preceding; prothorax gradually ampliated laterally from the

apex to the base, only slightly sinuate near the anterior angle, and

covered all over with very closely set punctures ; scutellum rounded

at the apex ; elytra strongly gibbose in the anterior part and sharply

sloping from the median to the apex, strongly acuminate in the

posterior part, deeply, yet finely striate, and the striz closely punce-

tate, intervals plane in the anterior part but becoming gradually

convex in the declivous posterior one as they near the apex, they

are either quite impunctate or faintly aciculate; under side strigillate,

glabrous like the upper side.

Length 7-74 mm. ; width 5-5} mm.

I have seen two examples of this species collected by Wahlberg,

and labelled Caffraria.

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Tre STRONGYLIINI.

Gen. STRONGYLIUM, Kirby.

A3, Eyes separated by a space wider or as wide as their own surface.

Antenne reaching the base of the prothorax or further.

discrepans, algoense, wnitator, natalense, auspicatum, plausibile, letum,

celatum.

A’, Eyes separated by a space narrower than their own surface.

Space moderately narrow.

perturbator, indigens.

Space very narrow in the anterior part.

rhodesianum, ovampoense.

A’. Eyes almost contiguous.

lautwm.

STRONGYLIUM PERTURBATOR, Nl. Sp.

Bronze-black, the elytra with a more metallic sheen than the rest

of the body; anterior part of the head closely but roughly punctate,

posterior one with deeper and more scrobiculate punctures right to

the base, frontal arcuate sulcus distinct, but not deep; prothorax

slightly rounded laterally in the anterior part and only very slightly

sinuate in the posterior, somewhat plane on the disk, and convex

laterally, covered with nearly contiguous punctures separated by

rugose irregular intervals, lateral margin very slender, basal one

thick, rounded; scutellum with a few fine, scattered punctures ;

elytra cylindrical, deeply punctato-striate, intervals convex, smooth ;

abdomen finely yet deeply, but not closely punctate; legs and

sternum deeply punctured; antenne barely reaching the base of

the prothorax, fourth joint as long as the third and wider at the

top, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth bluntly triangular and as broad

at apex as the ninth, which is more transverse, tenth narrower than

the ninth by nearly one-half, but equally long; the eleventh joint

is missing in my example.

Length 17-21 mm.; width 54-7 mm.

Not unlike S. eratum, Makl, but the antennae ar2 not as long

and the joints are shorter and wider ; the colour is also much darker.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg), Pretoria Museum. E. J. Dunn.

STRONGYLIUM INDIGENS, N. Sp.

Black, with the head and prothorax nearly opaque, and the elytra

and under side shining, the latter faintly metallic; head somewhat

roughly punctured, especially on the vertex; eyes separated by a

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space equal to two-thirds of their width, and with a very plain, raised

orbit continued behind as a shallow groove, anterior groove strongly

arcuate ; antenne reaching only to the base of the prothorax, the

four basal joints are piceous-red, like the palpi, the six penultimate

joints are very strongly serrate inwardly, the last is longer than the

one preceding and is somewhat ampliated inwardly; prothorax

distinctly carinate laterally, slightly ampliated and rounded in the

centre, a little narrower in front than across the base, which is

deeply sulcate, covered on the disk with moderately closely set

punctures, which, however, disappear along the lateral keel;

scutellum impunctate; elytra wider than the prothorax, nearly

sub-parallel, costate, the coste tectiform with the intervals filled

with deep, but small, equally distant punctures; intermediate and

posterior femora clothed underneath with a dense fulvous pubes-

cence extending from the base to three-fourths of the length.

Length 19 mm.; width 7 mm.

A very distinct species.

Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg).

STRONGYLIUM RHODESIANUM, N. Sp.

Bluish-green on the upper side, legs and under side dark blue ;

belongs to the same group as the preceding species, that is to say,

the eyes are divided by a small interval only in the anterior part of

the forehead, and the joints of the antenne, especially the fourth,

fifth, and sixth are serrate inwardly, the antenne, however, reach

only slightly beyond the base of the prothorax ; the latter is some-

what narrow, and somewhat ampliate in the middle laterally, not

carinate there, and is covered with irregularly scattered, moderately

closely set, deep punctures separated by smooth intervals; the elytra

are somewhat broader in proportion to the width of the prothorax

than either in S. @ratuwm, S. castaneipenne, or S. ovampoense, and more:

sinuate laterally, they are sharply costate from base to apex, and the

narrow intervals are filled with regularly disposed, closely set, small

punctures.

Length 22 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn). J. ffoliot Darling.

STRONGYLIUM OVAMPOENSE, 0. Sp.

Chestnut-bronze on the upper side, dark blue on the under side,

and with the legs purplish; head closely punctate, the punctures

slightly finer and more closely set in front of the deep arcuate

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impression, eyes separated by a narrow interval in the anterior

part of the vertex, antennz reaching slightly beyond the humeral

part, and with the joints 4-9 produced angulariy at the tip, almost

serrate in the inner side, last joint not narrower than the penulti-

mate, sub-truncate at tip; prothorax very little broader than long,

not carinate laterally, slightly sinuate there above the base, and

strewn with round, irregularly spaced punctures separated by

smooth intervals; scutellum impunctate; elytra sub-parallel,

sharply costate, the coste tectiform from base to apex, and with

the deep but narrow intervals filled with closely set and regularly

disposed punctures.

The nearest ally of this species is S. eratwm, Makl., but S, ovam-

poense differs from it in having smooth intervals between the punctures

on the prothorax, and in having much sharper cost on the elytra.

Length 18 mm.; width 53 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland. W. A. Eriksson.

STRONGYLIUM LAUTUM, Nn. Sp.

Head, prothorax, and legs dark metallic blue, elytra purplish,

under side dark grey; anterior part of the head finely and closely

punctate, posterior more roughly and more deeply punctured, eyes

very large, almost contiguous, but having a slight keel-like orbit ;

antennz reaching the shoulders, fourth, fifth, sixth joints somewhat

angular inwardly ; prothorax plainly narrower in the anterior than

in the posterior part, not carinate laterally, slightly sinuate there

above the base, and covered with deep, almost contiguous, round,

slightly irregular punctures having irregularly raised intervals

scutellum elongated, plane, somewhat sharply triangular; elytra

sub-cylindrical, costate, the coste not tectiform, and separated by

deep, somewhat broad punctures growing finer and shallower

towards the posterior part.

This species will be easily identified from among the South

African ones by the nearly contiguous eyes.

Length 16 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). Pretoria Museum.

STRONGYLIUM DISCREPANS, N. sp.

Black, almost opaque, but with the elytra slightly shining; head

closely punctulate, except in the basal part, frontal impression very

deep, on each side of the head there is a deep longitudinal furrow

beginning at the upper anterior angle of the eye and stopping

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a little short of the anterior margin of the prothorax; antenne

reaching nearly the base of the prothorax, and with the six dilated

and pubescent apical joints very little longer, taken together,

than the five basal ones, the third of which is longer than the two

preceding; prothorax with the anterior and basal parts rounded

laterally, and having thus the appearance of being somewhat

ampliated, plane on the disk, but with a shallow, median, longi-

tudinal impression which is deeper in the posterior part, the lateral

margin is fine and not reflexed, the basal one has a deep sulcus

running parallel with it; scutellum impunctate; elytra cylindrical,

narrowed in the posterior part, deeply punctate-striate, the intervals

strongly convex and impunctate; abdomen closely punctulate, basal

part of the three abdominal segments strongly striolate longitudinally ;

legs closely punctulate; femora plainly thickening towards the

apex.

Length 194 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg District). Pretoria Museum.

STRONGYLIUM ALGOENSE, n. sp.

Very closely allied to S. discrepans ; it is also black and almost

opaque; the eyes are widely separated and the frontal furrow very

strongly arcuate ; the antenne are longer, the joints more elongated,

the dilated apical ones less closely set; the prothorax is slightly

more amplated and rounded laterally in the middle, there is a

faintly raised median line which is, however, slightly impressed

in the anterior part, and the punctuation which, both on the head

and prothorax is finer than in S. discrepans, is hidden by an opaque

tinge; the elytra are cylindrical, highly costate, the coste tectiform,

and deeply punctato-striate, the punctures impinge on either side

of the cost ; under side as in S. discrepans.

Length 15 mm.; width 5} mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla). Rev. H. Junod.

STRONGYLIUM IMITATOR, N. sp.

Bright metallic green; elytra testaceous-red, also metallic, an-

tenne black; head deeply and closely punctured in the anterior

part, more coarsely in the posterior, eyes broadly separated, arcuate

frontal impression deep; prothorax slightly attenuate laterally in

the anterior part for about one-third of the length, parallel thence

to the basal part, the angles of which are somewhat rounded, the

lateral margin is obliterated, the basal one is grooved and not sharp,

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and the whole surface is covered with round, deep, equi-distant punc-

tures, separated by a narrow smooth interval ; the hind part of both

the head and prothorax have occasionally fuscous, irregular patches ;

scutellum sharply triangular; narrow, and somewhat elongate ;

elytra sub-cylindrical, somewhat amplhated laterally towards the

posterior part, punctato-striate, but with the big punctures filling

the striae not connected longitudinally by an impressed line, the

intervals between the striz are very slightly raised, and covered

with closely set round punctures very much smaller than those in

the striae; under side and legs coarsely punctate ; antennez reaching

the base of the prothorax, fourth, fifth, and sixth joints triangular,

but not strongly angular inwardly, the apical ones sub-transverse,

not very closely set, apical one not longer than the penultimate, and

rounded at the tip.

Length 164 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla). Rev. H. Junod.

Not unlike S. castaneipenne, Mikl., but shorter, and with the

sculpture of prothorax and elytra quite different.

STRONGYLIUM NATALENSH, Ni. Sp.

Bronze, with the elytra bronze-green and darker than the under

side, legs purplish with the basal part of the femora rufescent ;

antenn reaching the base of the prothorax, joints 5-7 triangular,

the three following transverse, closely set, last one hardly longer

than the penultimate; head deeply punctured, the punctures round

and denser in the anterior part, and having above the transverse

frontal impression a more or less distinct longitudinal one, eyes very

broadly separated ; prothorax narrow, sub-linear, but slightly wider

at the base than at the apex in the male, rounded laterally in the

female, plainly carinate laterally, faintly impressed on each side of

the median part of the disk, and more distinctly so above the median

part of the base, covered with somewhat irregular and not closely

set punctures, and with the intervals smooth; scutellum with a

median impression ; elytra hardly sub-parallel, highly costate with

the interstices deeply but irregularly punctured, the cost are con-

nected transversely by raised walls forming a very irregular and

variable reticulation.

This species resembles S. bohemani, Mikl., and the sculpture of

the elytra is alike, but it is much narrower, the antenne are shorter,

and the sculpture of the prothorax is different; in S. bohemani it

consists of very deep, irregular punctures separated by highly raised,.

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irregular walls, whereas in S. natalense the punctures are round,

and the intervals smooth.

Length 10-124 mm.; width 3-4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). C. N. Baker.

STRONGYLIUM AUSPICATUM, N. Sp.

Very dark blue, with the elytra purplish; the antenne are also

cyaneous, but the five ultimate joints are not shining, they reach the

basal angle of the prothorax, and the three penultimate joints are

very broad, being slightly more than twice as broad as long; eyes

very broadly separated, surface of head very closely punctate ; pro-

thorax roundly attenuated laterally in the anterior part, slightly

sinuate in the posterior and carinate, covered with deep, round

punctures somewhat irregularly scattered in the discoidal part,

separated by smooth intervals, and more closely set on the sides;

scutellum triangular, impunctate; elytra sinuate laterally towards

the median part, plainly ampliate in the posterior; highly costate

with the intervals filled with coalescing fovee forming a con-

spicuous reticulation, the reticulate fovee of the fourth, fifth,

and sixth intervals are broader or more elongated than the

others.

Allied to S. natalense, the elytra are, however, more ampliated

laterally behind, but their sculpture is nearly identical; the apical

joints of the antenne are much wider.

Length 12 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Northern Damaraland. A. W. Eriksson.

STRONGYLIUM PLAUSIBILE, Nn. sp.

Dark blue, with the elytra greenish-bronze; antennz blue, the

five apical joints black, these apical joints are somewhat wide ;

eyes broadly separated, surface of head closely yet deeply aciculate ;

prothorax covered with round, almost contiguous, well-defined

punctures, nearly as much attenuated laterally behind as in front,

and carinate; elytra shaped as in S. auspicatum, and also plainly

arinate, but the intervals are filled with series of closely set,

deep, transverse punctures separated by narrow walls which do

not at all form a reticulation, and thus differ from those of S.

natalense and S. auspicatum.

Length 104 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland. A. W. Eriksson.

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STRONGYLIUM LTUM, 0. sp.

Purple, with the legs cyaneous, the six last joints of the antenni

have a distinct metallic sheen; eyes very broadly separated, head

deeply and closely punctured with the intervals smooth; antennz

reaching the base of the prothorax, joints 5 and 6 elongated, triangular,

the following ones broader, slightly shorter, sub-transverse, last

one not longer than the penultimate, rounded at the tip; pro-

thorax transverse, one-fourth wider than long, not carinate laterally,

slightly sinuate there above the basal part, anterior angles rounded,

posterior sharp, convex on the sides only, not on the median part,

and covered with deep, irregular, somewhat broad punctures sepa-

rated by slightly raised intervals which are more raised and more

irregular in the central part of the disk; scutellum impunctate ;

elytra sub-parallel, highly costate from the base to past the median

part with the intervals filled with deep and broad fovew the walls

of which unite the coste transversely, thus forming a regular

reticulation, in the posterior part the costw become plane, and

the strive are finely and regularly punctate. This species is easily

distinguished by the great depth of the fosse in the anterior half

of the elytra.

Length 13 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

STRONGYLIUM C#LATUM, 0. Sp.

Bronze-green, with the elytra purple, body moderately shining ;

antenne longer than the head and prothorax taken together,

penultimate joints sub-triangular, not serrate inwardly; eyes

widely removed, surface of head very roughly shagreened ; pro-

thorax plainly rounded laterally, one-third broader than long, sharply

carinate laterally, and roughly and equally shagreened ; scutellum

triangular, punctate; elytra sub-cylindrical, but slightly sinuate

laterally towards the median part, and covered with a network

of deep, much elongated fovex reaching from base to apex, but with

the foveze shorter there than on the dorsal part, the thick, tectiform

walls of the fovez are deeply punctulate.

Allied to S. bohemani, Mikl., and S. letwm, but differs from both

in the prothorax, being sharply carinate laterally ; the fovee of the

elytra are much more elongated than in S. letwm, and are not

disposed in three superposed series as in S. bohemani. It differs

also from S. natalense, which has a carinate prothorax, in the

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more robust body, much more rounded and differently sculptured

prothorax and more elongated fovez on the elytra.

Length 134 mm.; width 5} mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). G. F. Leigh.

Gren. PERICHILUS, Qued.

PERICHILUS DITISSIMUS, nh. sp.

Head and prothorax bronze-green variegated with purple patches,

and with the margins of the latter purplish; elytra with the base,

the second costa as far as the median patch, another patch extending

on the fourth, fifth, and sixth costa from the base to about one-third

of the length, and a median and a post-median transverse band

merging with the second costa, coppery purple ; legs cyaneous, under

side purple or violaceous ; head deeply punctate, the arcuate frontal

furrow very plain, eyes broadly separated ; antennz black, short,

not reaching beyond the median part of the prothorax, the first seven

joints short, not wider than long, of nearly equal length except the

third which is only slightly longer than the fourth, the eighth is a

little dilated but smaller than the ninth and tenth, the ultimate one

is not very much longer than the tenth and rounded at the tip;

prothorax nearly straight laterally, but rounded and attenuated in

the anterior part, lateral margin fine, basal one grooved, surface

covered with somewhat deep, round punctures somewhat irregularly

scattered but equi-distant, and with smooth intervals; scutellum

short, rounded at the tip, and punctate; elytra cylindrical, but

slightly sinuate laterally, and also slightly ampliate past the middle,

and having seriate rows of somewhat broad, deep punctures

separated by a very small interval, the first and second intervals on

each side of the suture are costulate for a short distance, sharply

raised from base to apex, the others are not highly costate, and even

in some examples are not raised in the median part; abdomen and

pectus deeply and coarsely punctured; legs also deeply and coarsely

punctured.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Natal (Eshowe). Transvaal (Lydenburg District). Pretoria

Museum.

Gren. NANNOCERUS, Fairm.

NANNOCERUS ANGUSTULUS, n. sp.

Obscurely cyaneous, the elytra with a coppery sheen; head

closely punctate, the punctures on the posterior part rounder and

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broader, the frontal suture quite arcuate and set considerably

forward; antennze reaching slightly beyond the median part of the

prothorax, the first five joints are reddish, shorter, taken together,

than the five ultimate ones, sixth and seventh joints a little less

broad than the three following which are sub-transverse, last joint

oblong, one-third longer than the penultimate ; prothorax one-third

longer than broad, parallel with the anterior angles rounded, but

with the lateral margin laminate and ending in a sharp basal angle,

moderately depressed on the disk, covered with round, slightly

irregularly disposed punctures separated by smooth intervals, and

having in the centre a longitudinal line somewhat evanescent

except in front, posterior margin slender, very little raised ; scutellum

very small, sparingly punctate; elytra cylindrical, costate, the coste

sub-tectiform and very finely aciculate, the intervals narrow, deep,

and filled with small, equally distant punctures united by an im-

pressed line; abdomen closely punctulate, and without any traces

of striolation; legs and sternum more finely punctulate than the

abdomen.

The shape of the body of this species, and also of the following one,

greatly resembles that of Chalcostylus perriert, Fairm., from Mada-

gascar. The shape of the antennal joints is, however, very distinct.

Length 11 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

NANNOCERUS BETRANUS, N. Sp.

The description of N. angustulus applies also to this species which

is dark-cyaneous, almost black, but with the elytra violaceous blue

tinged with purple, the five basal joints of the antennw are

black; the shape of the head and prothorax is the same, but the

intervals of the elytra are more deeply punctate, and the cost have

occasionally a few fine punctures; the general facies is more robust

than in S. angustulwn.

Length 12-14 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira). P. A. Sheppard.

DIESTESOMA, n. gen.

Mentum small, not impressed on each side of the outer face,

ligula short, last joint of labial palpi large, spherical, broadly trun-

cate at tip ; outer lobe of maxille long, widely dilated, elongate-ovate,

clothed with appressed bristle-like hairs, inner lobe narrow, slender,

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also very bristly, armed at apex with a sharp horizontal tooth, last

joint of maxillary palps obliquely truncate from side to side; labrum

rounded laterally, head with a strongly arcuate impressed line

reaching the apex of the genz which are short and do not form a

very high antennal crest; antenne slender, short, barely reaching

the base of the prothorax, the five basal joints are less pubescent

than the others, the third longer than the fourth, 7-10 sub-triangular,

the two penultimate ones more produced inwardly at the apex than

outwardly, the last one oblong ; prothorax parallel; scutellum short,

triangular at the apex; elytra broader than the prothorax at the

base, plainly ampliated in the posterior part, slightly convex, sloping

behind from two-thirds of the length ; epipleural fold continued from

the base to the apex; prosternum with a strong, elongated, hori-

zontal cuneiform process, mesosternum with a cavity with raised

edges for the reception of the prosternal process; legs somewhat

short but with the shape and vestiture of Strongyliwm, to which

genus the present one is allied.

The species for which this genus is proposed has a peculiar

facies, very different in shape and sculpture from those of the African

species of Strongylium.

DIESTESOMA PULCHROUM, N. Sp.

Greenish - bronze, moderately shining, clothed with short,

fulvescent hairs, antenne ferrugineous with a brassy tinge; head

deeply and moderately closely punctured, labrum short, rounded,

not in a horizontal line with the epistome, somewhat densely

pubescent; prothorax nearly parallel, and with the anterior and

posterior angles sharp, but not projecting, carinate all round, covered

with deep, round punctures separated on the disk by smooth intervals

equal in width to their own diameter, but raised and irregular on the

sides, it has a deep elongated basal median impression continued as

a narrow impressed line as far as the apex, and a deep, elongate-

quadrate impression on each side of the median part, the pubescence

is moderately dense ; scutellum very short, punctulate at the base ;

elytra plainly ampliated laterally from the median part, one-fourth

wider behind than across the base, moderately densely pubescent,

and having on each side five more or less regular series of very deep,

elongate fossw-like impressions, as well as regular series of mode-

rately deep but somewhat distant punctures continued, but less

distinct, through the fosse, in the declivous posterior part are

some rounded deeply rufescent tubercles also covered with hairs like

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the remainder of the elytra, except the impressions ; these tubercles

are transversely disposed at the top of the declivity, and are also

disposed in a row along the outer margin.

Length 12-153 mm. ; width 5-63 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). kh. M. Lightfoot.

Gen. XANTHOTHOPEIA, Makl.

XANTHOTHOPEIA DELAGOX, 0. Sp.

Head, prothorax, legs, and under side bronze; elytra chestnut-

red with a bronze sheen; allied to X. rwfipennis, Makl., but smaller ;

the shape and sculpture of the head and prothorax are the same, but

the elytra are much more shining, more deeply and broadly reticu-

late, and the space between each reticulation is filled with deeper

and rougher, irregular punctures.

Length 10 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourenco- Marques).

Gen. PRAOGENA, Cast.

PRAOGENA CYANEIPENNIS, Nn. Sp.

Head and prothorax black, sub-opaque, the latter with a very faint

cyaneous tinge, palpi and the six basal joints of antennz piceous-

red; head closely but irregularly and somewhat roughly punctate ;

prothorax roundly attenuate laterally in the anterior part, slightly

ampliated and rounded towards the median, sinuate towards the

base, plainly convex and dehiscent in the anterior part, only one-

sixth wider than long, and covered with deep, round punctures

which are more cicatricose laterally than on the median part, and

are separated by smooth intervals nearly equal in width to their own

diameter ; scutellum almost impunctate ; elytra of the normal shape,

v.c., sub-parallel for two-thirds of the length, but sinuate towards the

median part, and gradually acuminate towards the apex, with the

humeral callus strongly developed, deeply striate with the strie

closely and deeply punctate, the first five intervals are moderately

tectate-convex, the others are almost plane, and they are all

impunctate ; under side and legs blue-black, shining.

This species is distinguished from the South African ones by the

broader, more convex, and also more robust prothorax.

Length 16-18 mm. ; width 54-64 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland. <A. W. Eriksson.

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PRAOGENA DITISSIMA, nN. sp.

Black, with a metallic tinge, shining, elytra having on each side

two coppery bands, the first of which extends on the second and

third cost and the other on the eighth and ninth, and also on the

outer margin ; head very closely punctate ; prothorax nearly parallel,

but slightly attenuate laterally towards the anterior angles, covered

with very closely set, somewhat deep, round punctures, and haying

in the centre of the posterior part an elongated, narrow, smooth

space somewhat obsolete; elytra striate, striae deeply and very

closely punctate, intervals narrow, sharply costate from base to apex,

and with the punctures of the striz slightly impinging on the sides

of the coste.

Allied to P. splendens, Makl., but narrower, the coppery bands on

the elytra are differently disposed; the elytra are narrower; the

prothorax is also narrower and more parallel, and closely punctate

instead of being nearly smooth.

Length 14-154 mm. ; width 44-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley), L. Péringuey. Bechuanaland

(Ramoutsa), Miss Gould. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Waterberg),

Pretoria Museum.

PRAOGENA AFFINIS, 0. sp.

Black, with the elytra purplish and the outer margin greenish,

oftener than not they have a slight bluish tinge on the third to sixth

intervals ; head covered with deep, round punctures separated by an

interval about equal in width to their diameter; prothorax as broad

as long, plainly attenuate laterally in the anterior part and slightly

sinuate in the posterior, covered with very closely set, deep

punctures separated by a very narrow and very slightly raised

interval, and having a median longitudinal impressed line quite plain

in the posterior part but obliterated in the anterior; elytra deeply

and narrowly striate, the striz finely, yet deeply punctate, and the

intervals narrow, tectiform on the disk and sides, and very faintly

punctulate.

Allied to P. festiva, and nearly similar in shape and colour, but the

prothorax is more attenuate laterally towards the apex, much more

deeply and roughly punctured, and the intervals of the elytra are

more sharply costate.

Length 14-15 mm.; width 5-51 mm.

Hab. Natal (Frere), G..A. K. Marshall. Transvaal (Klerksdorp,

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E. G. Alston ; Pretoria, Miss Schunke ; Potchefstroom, T. Ayres).

Orange Colony (Vredefort), Capt. Barrett-Hamilton. Cape Colony

(Burghersdorp), Dr. D. T. Kannemeyer.

PRAOGENA NATALENSIS.

Colour, shape, and size of P. affinis ; the difference consists in the

absence of a median longitudinal impressed line on the prothorax,

the punctures of which are also deep but somewhat less closely set

in the discoidal anterior part; the elytra have also the bluish tinge

on the median dorsal cost, but the latter are more plane and more

distinetly punctulate especially in the female.

Length 15 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban), C. N. Barker; (Frere), A. E. Hunt; (Est-

court), E. Haviland.

PRAOGENA CAPICOLA, 0. sp.

Chestnut-brown, with the prothorax fuscous and the elytra dark

chestnut with a metallic tinge turning to purplish with a faint

greenish dorsal band; head irregularly punctate ; prothorax small,

rounded laterally in the anterior part and plainly sinuate above the

base, covered with closely set, round punctures, leaving a plain,

smooth, narrow longitudinal median line, slightly more obliterated

in the anterior than in the posterior part; elytra punctato-striate

with the intervals costate, tectiform, and punctulate.

Length 12-144 mm.; width 4-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester), J. Lycett, L. Péringuey; (Kei

River; Transkei, Kentani), Dr. Kolbe ; (Port Elizabeth), J. L. Drége.

PRAOGENA BECHUANA, 0. Sp.

Black, with the elytra alternately banded transversely with some-

what dull purple and green; the head is closely and irregularly

punctulate, the prothorax is sub-parallel laterally, but slightly sinuate

above the basal angle, very closely punctate with the punctures deep

and having in the centre an impressed line very plain in the posterior

part, and obliterated in the anterior; the cost of the elytra are

sharply tectiform and plainly punctate, and the purplish transverse

bands are narrower than the green ones on the dorsal part, but

broaden considerably towards the outer margin.

I have seen one example only of this easily recognisable species.

Length 12 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kuruman). Miss Herold.

Annals of the South African Museum.

PRAOGENA GLORIOSA, N. sp.

Piceous-red, with the femora red, elytra greenish-blue ; head punc-

tulate ; prothorax slightly rounded laterally, closely punctate with

the intervals smooth; elytra narrowly costate with the intervals

filled from the base to the median part with wide, almost foveate

punctures impinging on the much-reduced coste, from the median

part to the apex these punctures resume their usual shape, and the

coste are very sharp.

The sculpture of the elytra closely resembles that of Lamprobothris

fossulata, Mill.; the shape of the elytra is, however, that of

Praogena.

Length 10 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg). Pretoria Museum.

PRAOGENA TIMIDA, 0. sp.

Piceous, elytra and legs piceous-brown, the former without metallic

tinge, but very shining; antennz very long, chestnut-brown ; head

and prothorax closely punctulate, the latter is slightly ampliate and

rounded laterally, and more attenuate towards the basal part than

towards the anterior, there is a very faint, longitudinal impunctate

line in the centre of the disk, and a conspicuous round impression

on each side: elytra of the normal shape, sharply costate for two-

thirds of the length, and the striz very deeply punctate for the same

length, the intervals are impunctate.

Length 11 mm.; width 3$ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). J. L. Drége.

The shape of the antennal joints of this species are very much

like those of Dysgena.

Gren. DYSGENA, Makl.

DYSGENA DURBANIA, 0. sp.

Dark chestnut-brown, elytra with a metallic tinge, and covered on

the upper surface with a long greyish pubescence, which is shorter and

more appressed underneath, as well as on the legs ; head deeply and

contiguously punctured, eyes transverse; antennz slender, third

joint slightly longer than the fourth ; prothorax roundly ampliated

laterally and with the lateral marginal keel hardly visible, moderately

convex but plainly depressed longitudinally in the centre, and very

roughly shagreened ; scutellum triangular; elytra sinuate laterally,

only moderately acuminate behind, deeply striate with the punctures

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conspicuous from the base to two-thirds of the length and the in-

tervals plane on the back, tectiform on the sides and posterior part,

and sharply punctate-scabrate.

This species is more parallel and more slender than D. lugubris,

the elytra are more parallel, the pubescence is very much longer on

the upper side, the more tectiform cost of the elytra are plainly

more scabrose, and the prothorax has no traces of an outer marginal

keel.

Length 13-142 mm. ; width 44-5} mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). Col. J. H. Bowker.

DYSGENA DECIPIENS, nD. sp.

Fuscous-black, with the elytra dark chestnut-brown, the head and

prothorax are covered with a very short appressed greyish pubes-

cence, the same appressed pubescence is also found on the

elytra, but is denser there and almost hides the colour of the back-

ground; the slender antennz are ferruginous with the exception of

the basal joint which is fuscous ; closely allied to D. durbania, the

prothorax is similar in shape, but it is less coarsely shagreened, and

it has a very plain outer marginal keel; the intervals between the

punctate strie are much more plane even on the sides and the

posterior part, and more closely and finely scabrose.

Length 15 mm.; width 5+ mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). J. P. Cregoe.

DYSGENA PLEBEIA, Nn. Sp.

Chestnut-brown, not metallic; head and prothorax clothed with

greyish flavescent hairs, head roughly but not closely punctured in

the frontal part, but more closely in the anterior and on the neck;

prothorax a little dilated laterally and also more rounded in the

anterior than in the posterior part, sharply carinate laterally and

covered with irregular, deep punctures closely set and separated by

equally irregular, raised walls; scutellum closely punctate; elytra

sub-parallel with the striz plainly punctured for two-thirds of the

length, the intervals are plane, scabrose-punctate in the anterior

part, andscabrose behind, each one of these punctures bear a some-

what long hair; the pubescence on the legs is nearly as long as on

the elytra, and the third antennal joint is in one of my examples

very slightly shorter than the fourth, and longer in another.

Allied to D. decipiens, but the antenne are less slender, the pro-

thorax is not impressed longitudinally, is much more roughly and

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deeply punctured, and the intervals on the elytra are more deeply

and much less closely scabrose-punctate.

Length 14-18 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hab, Transvaal (Pietersburg). A. J. T. Janse.

DySGENA DELAGOANA, 0. sp.

Chestnut-brown, but as often as not rusty-red ; antenne and legs

lighter in colour than the upper side; head, prothorax, and elytra

pubescent, the pubescence flavescent and erect; head covered with

somewhat wide and deep irregular punctures; prothorax plainly

rounded and ampliated laterally in the anterior part, earinate on the

sides, not impressed longitudinally in the middle, strongly but evenly

shagreened; elytra sub-parallel, deeply punctate-striate from the

base to two-thirds of the length, with the intervals costate in the

anterior third part of the length, planer thence to the apex and

having one single series of setigerous scabrose punctures which are

much more transverse in the posterior part.

This species is closely allied to what I take to be D. pilosula,

Makl., variety, ‘ pronoto lateribus paulo magis rotundato-dilatatis.”

It differs, however, in the more deeply shagreened and more rounded

prothorax, which is also not impressed longitudinally above the

scutellum ; the fourth basal joint of antenne is slightly shorter than

the third.

Length 10-11 mm.; width 35 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo-Marques). J. de Coster.

DysGENA FOVEATICOLLIS, nh. sp.

Shape, colour, and size of D. delagoana, the vestiture is also

similar, but the prothorax, which has the same shape as D. delagoana,

is covered with round, nearly contiguous punctures without any

raised intervals, there is a plain longitudinal median impression,

deeper in the posterior than in the anterior part of the disk, and on

each side a distinct, impressed round median spot equi-distant

from the median impression and the outer keeled margin; the

sculpture of the elytra is almost similar to that of D. delagoana,

and the fourth antennal joint is also slightly shorter than the

third.

Length 11-134 mm.; width 34-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie). Transvaal (Johannesburg). J. P.

Cregoe.

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DyYSGENA CAPICOLA, n. Sp.

Testaceous-red, with the elytra slightly paler than the head and

prothorax ; head closely and moderately deeply punctate ; prothorax

very slightly rounded and ampliated laterally in the anterior part,

covered with somewhat broad, deep punctures, separated by slightly

raised intervals, above the scutellum there is a slightly depressed

space but no longitudinal impression, and there.is no visible pubes-

cence; elytra sub-parallel, slightly sinuate laterally before the

median part, deeply punctate-striate from the base to two-thirds of

the length, intervals convex and sub-tectiform in the anterior part,

less so in the posterior and closely scabrose, each granule bearing a

very minute flavescent hair; the pubescence on the legs and abdomen

is extremely short and fine, but very dense.

Length 11-124 mm; width 4-44 mm.

Easily distinguished from the other allied species, D. joveicollis

and D. delagoana, by the hairless prothorax and the extremely short

pubescence on the elytra, the scabrose granules on the intervals of

which are also more numerous.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). L. Péringuey.

DYSGENA LUCTUOSA, N. sp.

Entirely black, opaque; head roughly foveate-punctate; third

joint of antenne much longer than the fourth; prothorax plainly

amplhated and rounded laterally, sharply carinate all round, not

impressed longitudinally in the centre, covered with round, foveate

punctures divided by a narrow, sharp interval, from which spring

greyish, sub-appressed hairs; scutellum sparingly punctate; elytra

plainly sinuate laterally before the median part, very narrowly

striate, the punctures small but deeper in the anterior part, the

intervals plainly tectiform and covered with two or three somewhat

irregular rows of minute, sharp granules, bearing each a fairly long

greyish hair ; under side very briefly pubescent.

Length 133-17 mm.; width 51-53 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

DyYSGENA SERVILIS, 0. sp.

Entirely black, elytra moderately shining; it is larger than

D. luctuosa, but the shape is the same; it is also clothed with

greyish hairs; the prothorax, however, is rougher; the elytra are

much more deeply striate and the intervals more raised and more

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roughly transversely scabrose; the third joint of the antenne is

much longer than the fourth.

This species is probably closely allied to D. scabripennis, Gerst.,

recorded from the island of Zanzibar and from Bagamoyo, but the

third and fourth antennal joints are not sub-equal in length.

Length 174-21 mm.; width 64-8 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe), D. Dods. Nyasaland.

DORELOGENA, n. gen.

Mentum and buccal organs of Praogena, the mentum, however, is

carinate in the centre of the outer face but not grooved; the shape

of the head is nearly alike, the antennal crests being also very long:

the eyes are more transverse; the five basal joints of the antennz

are almost glabrous, the others briefly pubescent, and, with the

exception of the ultimate one, shorter, more massive, not projecting

inwardly more than outwardly at apex, the last joint is slightly

shorter than the two preceding taken together ; prothorax marginate

all round, wider than long, plane, bi-sinuate along the base;

scutellum short, triangular; elytra sub-parallel, slightly convex in

the posterior part, punctate-striate; prosternum with a sharply

mucronate vertical process close to the basal margin; legs and

abdomen as in Praogena.

The distinctive generic characters are the shorter and more robust

antennal joints, the third of which is longer than the fourth, and the

prosternal process. The facies and colouring differ much from

those of Praogena.

DORELOGENA CASTANEA, N. sp.

Chestnut-brown, shining, not metallic ; head closely punctulate,

supra-antennal crests longitudinal, very long; the five basal antennal

joints are almost glabrous; the others covered with a very short,

dense pubescence; prothorax roundly ampliated near the median

part, slightly diagonal from the median part to the outer basal angle

which is sharp, but not projecting, carinate all round, grooved along

the basal margin from a certain distance from the outer angle,

hardly convex, one-fourth broader than long, very closely punctu-

late with the intervals smooth and plane; scutellum short, not

distinctly punctate ; elytra sub-parallel, only very slightly sinuate

laterally, plane, slightly convex in the posterior declivity, narrowly

striate, the striz with small punctures, intervals somewhat convex

but not tectiform and very closely punctulate ; abdomen strigillate-

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punctulate, epimera deeply punctate ; pectus finely sirigillate ; legs

very closely punctulate.

Length 16 mm.; width 54-53 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe), D. Dods. Damaraland,

W. C. Palgrave.

DoRELOGENA ANGUSTA, 0. Sp.

Ferruginous-red, shining, the five apical joints of the antenne

black, the others ferruginous ; much more slender than the preceding

species, from which it differs by the slightly shorter joints of the

antenn which, on that account, seem more knobby, the prothorax

which is quite parallel and as broad as long, and the more tectiform

interval of the elytra; the punctuation on the prothorax is a little

deeper, and not so closely set.

Length 10 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe), D. Dods.

ASEMOGENA, n. gen.

Buccal organs of Dorelogena, but the ultimate joint of the maxillary

palps is much less broad, and a little less obliquely truncate ; the

antenne are slightly more slender, but the shape of the joints is the

same ; the prothorax is plainly ampliated and rounded laterally with

the anterior angles almost rounded, and the posterior sharp and

projecting.

These generic characters may seem slight, yet the whole group

Strongyline is so homogeneous that a difference in the shape of the

prothorax, which is really the main distinctive character from Dore-

logena, has some importance. -

ASEMOGENA SIMPLEX, nN. sp.

Chestnut-brown, moderately shining; head deeply and closely

punctate, the punctures are round and the intervals plane; pro-

thorax very plainly rounded and ampliated laterally, sinuate above

the base the angle of which is sharp and projecting, slightly convex

in the posterior part, sloping forwards, finely and closely punctate,

sharply marginate all round, and having a fine median longitudinal

impressed line, elytra sub-parallel, slightly sinuate laterally, deeply

punctato-striate from the base to the top of the posterior declivity,

and less deeply thence, the intervals are convex, tectiform for the

greatest part of the length, and finely yet deeply punctulate, abdomen

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and legs aciculate, the sides of sternum and episterna are deeply and

closely punctate.

Length 104-13 mm.; width 4-44 mm

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie), Dr. Becker ; (King William’s Town),

R. M. Lightfoot.

ASEMOGENA HUMILIS, N. sp.

Chestnut-brown, elytra chestnut-red; very closely allied to the

preceding species; the punctuation on the head and prothorax is

identical, but the prothorax is more equally rounded laterally in the

middle, and therefore less deeply sinuate above the basal angle,

which is also sharp, but less than in A. simplex ; the striz of the

elytra are less deeply punctate in the anterior part, and the intervals

less sharply tectiform and only slightly aciculate.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 33-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Montagu), W. Prosser.

Famry MYLABRIDZ.

Grn. MELOK, Lin.

MELO RHODESIANUS, N. sp.

Male: Dark blue, shining; head very sparsely punctate and

having a longitudinal impression with a fine line in the centre

reaching from the median frontal ‘part to the arcuate impression of

the epistome, the latter and also the labrum are somewhat more

closely punctured than the frontal part ; antennz long, with the fifth

to seventh joints dilated and sixth and seventh somewhat scooped

inwardly ; prothorax twice as long as broad, wider at a short dis-

tance from the apex than across the base, with the sides nearly

straight but slightly constricted behind the ampliated part, the

anterior part obliquely narrowed, base slightly arcuate and with two

moderately deep impressions above the median part, the disk is

sparingly punctate, the punctures are slightly more dense in the

anterior part, and there are very few of them in the centre of the

posterior part above the two basal impressions ; elytra not broader

than the prothorax at the base, gradually ampliated thence towards

the median part, nearly straight from there to the apex, strongly

divaricating behind, and covered with wavy, plainly raised, longi-

tudinal folds which are continuous from the base to near the apex,

except on the sides where they are more irregular; abdomen deeply

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and very closely punctured, each puncture bearing a short, black

hair; legs closely punctured and having a very short greyish

pubescence.

Length 15 mm.; width 55 mm.

Allied to M. hottentotus, Péring., which it very closely resembles,

but it differs in the head and prothorax being much less

numerously punctured, the punctures being broadly scattered

instead of closely set, and also more shallow; the wavy folds

of the elytra are more raised in M. hottentotus than in M.

rhodesianus.

Hab. Southern Bhodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong.

Gen. MYLABRIS, Fabric.

Mynasris (CEROCTIS) MOSAMBICA, N. sp.

Black, with the nine apical joints of the antenne red ; elytra with

two basal and one apical reddish-yellow patches, and two broad

transverse bands, the antemedian one of which is connected along

the suture with the basal patch; head clothed with long black hairs,

slightly flavescent on the vertex, deeply punctate and having a very

plain longitudinal median smooth line in the centre ; prothorax of the

normal shape, clothed partly with flavescent and partly with black

hairs, carinulate longitudinally from the base to the median impression,

the basal impression is well defined, and the surface is deeply and

closely punctate; scutellum finely punctate; elytra sub-cylindrical and

with three fine, longitudinal costules on each side, covered with nearly

contiguous, somewhat deep, but not broad punctures, clothed on the

black background with appressed black hairs and on the reddish-

yellow with flavescent ones; the first basal patch is arcuate and

extends for two-thirds of the width as far as the suture, which it

invades, and is there somewhat broadly connected with the wide

antemedian fascia, the second basal one extends under the shoulders

along the outer margin, but is not quite connected with the first

transverse band which is bi-sinuate, especially on the hind margin,

the latter reaching the median part of the disk, and extends from the

suture, which it invades completely, to the very edge of the outer

margin, the second transverse band is narrower than the first, bi-

sinuate, broader near the suture, which it does not invade quite

completely, the apical patch consists really of two amalgamated

ones, the upper part of the one being supra-apical, the lower part of

the other marginal; abdomen clothed with flavescent hairs, the

hairs on the pectus and on the legs are partly black and partly

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flavescent ; the eight penultimate antennal joints are very strongly

serrate, and in the male almost pectinate, even more so than in

M. serrata, Gerst.

A very distinct species. ;

Length 23-244 mm. ; width 83-9 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourenco-Marques), L. Péringuey ; (Rikatla),

Rev. H. Junod.

Gren. DECATOMA, Cast.

DECATOMA VEXATOR, 0. sp.

Black ; antennal joints black, strongly serrate; head and pro-

thorax clothed with a silky flavescent pubescence; elytra with three

transverse yellow bands extending from the suture to the outer

margin, and a round supra-apical patch throwing out a smail ramus

towards the outer margin, the basal band, the hind edge of which is

strongly bi-sinuate, coalesces with the antemedian band, which is

strongly tri-sinuate and emits, along the outer margin, a somewhat

long ramus which does not quite reach the post-median band, which

is also strongly tri-sinuate, the part along the outer margin is also

produced towards the posterior part; the sculpture is that of M.

aliena, Péring., but in the latter the transverse yellow bands on the

elytra are not so jagged, nor are they produced laterally along the

outer margin, and the supra-apical patch does not emit a ramus;

the disposition of these bands on the elytra are not unlike those of

M. lacerata, Péring., but the bands themselves are narrower, and

the sculpture is different. The lateral part of the bands and also

the apical patches are somewhat orange instead of pale yellow, as

on the disk.

Length 10 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg). A. J. T. Janse.

DECATOMA TRANSVAALICA, 0. Sp.

Black, with the head, prothorax, scutellum, abdomen, pectus, and

legs clothed with a very dense, silky, yellowish pubescence ; antenne

black with the exception of the third, fourth, and fifth joints, which

are red; head somewhat broadly and deeply punctate, and with a

faint, short, smooth line abutting on the transverse impression of

the epistome ; prothorax of the normal shape, covered with con-

tiguous, deep, not broad but slightly scrobiculate punctures, and

having a very slight median impression ; scutellum closely punctate ;

elytra sub-cylindrical, hardly wider across the posterior part than at

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the base, finely shagreened, bi-costulate on each side in the dorsal

part, clothed with an appressed, brief, slightly flavescent pubescence,

pale-, somewhat straw-coloured yellow with a redder or fulvous outer

margin, and having on each side a narrow humeral longitudinal

black band, two series of three equi-distant spots or patches disposed

diagonally from the suture to the outer margin, and a supra-apical

band diagonal patch consisting evidently of two agglomerated

patches the lower part of which reaches the outer margin and is

continued as a narrow band along the apical edge; in the two

diagonal rows of patches the one near the suture is the smallest, and

the third one near the margin the broadest, but both are equi-distant

from suture or outer margin.

Hasily recognised by the colour of the antenne. In general

colouring this species is not unlike WM. groendali, Billb., which is,

however, a Ceroctis.

Length 94-10 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg District), Pretoria Museum ; (Zout-

pansberg), A. J. T. Janse.

PARACTENODIA, n. gen.

Characters of Actenodia, Casteln., from which it differs in the

number of antennal joints, which is seven instead of eight.

PARACTENODIA PARVA, N. Sp.

Black, with the nine ultimate joints of the antennz and the tibize

red ; the elytra have in the anterior part an elongate yellowish-red

patch extending from the base to the median part, and enclosing a

longitudinal black band, and a transverse sinuate post-median band

of the same colour, it is covered with a very short, appressed, silky,

flavescent pubescence ; head deeply and closely punctate and with a

faint, smooth, longitudinal area in the middle of the frontal part ;

prothorax only moderately narrowed laterally in the anterior part,

as broad as long, scrobiculate-punctate with the punctures very

closely set, and plainly impressed longitudinally in the posterior

part ; scutellum black; elytra slightly sinuate laterally and slightly

aumpliate towards the posterior, coarsely shagreened, without any

costules, the anterior elongated patch is formed by a longitudinal

basal patch reaching the median bi-sinuate transverse band, which

is disconnected from the suture, but continued upwards into a some-

what broad band along the outer margin as far as the humeral part,

where it coalesces anew with the basal patch which has invaded all

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the base, this basal band reaches the suture in the anterior part

only, and the result of the amalgamation of this basal patch and

band gives to the elytra the appearance of being yellowish-red from

the base to the median part, except for a narrow strip along part of

the suture, and enclosing a humeral, narrow black band, the second

band is equi-distant from the first and from the apex, strongly

sinuate, is narrowly disconnected from the suture but not from the

outer margin; the antennze are unmistakably 7-jointed, the last

joint, which is nearly equal in length to the four preceding ones

taken together, is very thick, but arcuate as in Coryna.

Length 44-5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

Gen. LYTTA, Fabrice.

LytTA DAMARINA.

Head covered with nearly contiguous foveolate briefly setigerous.

punctures, black with a red spot above the emargination of the eye,

a frontal one, and a broad basal transverse band of the same colour ;

the labrum has an arcuate median emargination; antennz black

with the exception of the three basal joints, of which the first two

and the basal part of the third are rufescent; prothorax strongly

attenuate laterally in the anterior part, straight thence to the base

which is marginate, having a median impression in the anterior part

and a broader, deeper triangular one near the base, the whole surface

is covered with contiguous, deep, slightly scrobiculate punctures, is

very briefly pubescent, and has the two impressions filled with dense

greyish-white hairs; scutellum clothed with similar hairs; elytra

elongate, one-fourth broader than the prothorax at the base, parallel,

singly rounded at apex, moderately convex, very closely and finely

shagreened, clothed with a very brief, decumbent pubescence, and

having a narrow margin of greyish-white hairs edging the suture and

the outer margin, as well as a discoidal one which is very widely

disconnected from base or apex; under side clothed with dense

greyish-white hairs; legs shagreened, pubescent; apical spurs,

claws, and basal part of first joint of posterior tarsi rufescent.

Length 14-15 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Northern Damaraland. A. W. Eriksson.

LYTTA SPILOTELLA, N. sp.

Fuscous black, with the frontal part of the head, a broad discoidal

patch on the elytra, a large patch on the metasternum and the femora

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and tibie, with the exception of the apices which are infuscate,

reddish with a fleshy tinge, elytra testaceous and sprinkled all over

with irregular black spots; the whole body is covered with an

appressed, greyish-white pubescence; head foveate-punctate, the

palpi, labrum, and epistoma are black, and there is a frontal median

black stripe reaching to about half the length of the frontal part

showing a longitudinal raised area showing in relief; prothorax

strongly strangulate in the anterior part, narrowly yet deeply grooved

longitudinally in the median part, irregularly foveolate-punctate and

having a smooth, median areolet on each side of the longitudinal

groove, and another one somewhat less defined near the base ; elytra

elongated, sinuate laterally and slightly ampliated in the posterior

part, singly rounded at apex, and having in the dorsal part three

plain costules, and another less well-defined, running parallel with

the somewhat deplanate outer margin for the greater part of its

length, the suture is as much raised as the outer margin; they are

shagreened, but the appressed pubescence hides entirely the back-

ground, except the black spots, which are glabrous ; antenne black,

short, barely reaching the humeral part; both claws of all the tarsi

equally cleft.

Length 14 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg District), Pretoria Museum.

Famiry LAGRIIDZ.

Gren. LAGRIA, Fabric.

I. Species with the elytra moderately ampliated laterally in the posterior part, and

not greatly convex there in the female.

LAGRIA PROCERA, 0. sp.

Female: Head, prothorax, and legs zneous, elytra and under side

light chestnut-brown with a metallic tinge, antenne black, the five

basal joints metallic; head deeply punctured, the punctures sepa-

rated by moderately smooth, irregular, raised intervals, there is

a median impression in the anterior frontal part, and a sub-

parallel, ill-defined one along the eyes; antenne somewhat short,

the four penultimate joints are gradually increasing in width, and

are moderately closely set, the ultimate one is turbinate and half again

as long as the penultimate ; prothorax plainly ampliated and rounded

laterally, covered with round punctures separated by smooth inter-

vals on the discoidal part, and by irregular, raised ones on the sides,

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in the median part there is a nearly smooth longitudinal band reach-

ing from base to apex, and it is covered, like the head, with long,

but not dense, slightly flavescent hairs; scutellum densely pubes-

cent; elytra somewhat quadrate in the anterior part, moderately

ampliated in the posterior, and showing no traces of costules, covered

with irregular, transverse, smooth folds enclosing transverse series

of somewhat closely but irregularly set small punctures ; under side

briefly pubescent.

Allied to L. corrugata, Péring. ; the prothorax is, however, much

more roundly ampliated laterally, and the transverse folds on the

elytra are much less raised, and also much less rugose.

Length 15-153 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Manica). TF. C. Selous.

LAGRIA PREDITA, N. sp.

Female: Bronze-black, with the elytra testaceous-yellow and the

under side chestnut-brown, clothed on the upper side with an erect

flavous pubescence forming also on the central part of the prothorax

a distinct appressed band; head roughly punctate and having in the

anterior frontal part a faint triangular impression ; antennae some-

what short and with the five penultimate joints very broadly trans-

verse and closely set, last joint turbinate, short; prothorax only very

slightly ampliated laterally in the median part, deeply and closely

punctate with the intervals smooth, raised, and irregular, there is a

longitudinal median impunctate line; scutellum densely pubescent ;

elytra somewhat quadrate in the anterior part, only moderately

ampliated laterally behind, and covered, like L. procera, with a net-

work of transverse, smooth folds, enclosing more or less transversely

disposed, and deep, but not wide punctures; under side pubescent,

legs villose.

Not unlike LZ. procera, but differently coloured and shorter, the

prothorax is not ampliated and rounded in the middle, and the

transverse folds of the elytra are more raised.

Length 13 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla). Rev. H. Junod.

LAGRIA PUSTULOSA, n. sp.

Ferruginous-brown, metallic, clothed with a greyish flavescent

pubescence, dense and appressed in all the examples which I have

examined (six) ; head closely punctate, scrobiculate in the anterior

part ; antenne moderately long, but looking longer on account of

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the short prothorax, which is slightly broader than long in the

female, about equal in the male, not rounded laterally, deeply and

closely punctate and with a very faint, median longitudinal smooth

line, the sculpture, however, is hidden by the appressed pubescence ;

the five penultimate antennal joints are obconic rather than trans-

verse in both the sexes, and slightly less closely set in the male, the

ultimate one is turbinate in both, and hardly longer in the male than

in the female; scutellum densely pubescent; elytra somewhat

quadrate in the anterior part, ampliated laterally in the posterior

where they are one-fourth wider than across the base, closely punc-

tate and with a network of transverse, smooth folds, irregularly

interrupted and forming thus smooth raised, pustule-like spots.

This species is easily distinguished by its short appearance and

the pustule-like raised spots on the elytra.

Length 64-74 mm.; width 23-34 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira). P. A. Sheppard.

LAGRIA MASHUNA, 0. sp.

Male: Black, with a metallic tinge, elytra bronze-green, the five

basal antennal joints bronze-black, the others black, the whole sur-

face clothed with a very dense, appressed, greyish-flavescent pubes-

cence; head and prothorax foveolate-punctate ; antennx somewhat

short, with the joints sixth to eighth moniliform, ninth to tenth

much more broadly transverse than the preceding ; eleventh pyri-

form and nearly twice the length of the penultimate ; prothorax

one-third broader than long, slightly rounded laterally, a little

narrower at the base than across the apex, and faintly impressed

above the centre of the base ; elytra sub-parallel for half the length,

very little ampliated in the posterior part, deeply and closely punc-

tate, the punctures separated by narrow, raised, but smooth lines,

the costules quite indistinct ; under side and legs pubescent.

Length 74-94 mm.; width 34-44 mm.

The shape of this species is not unlike that of L. villosa, and it

evidently belongs to the same group, but the sculpture of the pro-

thorax is different, and the last antennal joints are more moniliform,

and consequently less broadly transverse in L. villosa.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall.

LAGRIA RHODESIANA, 0. Sp.

Bronze-green, brighter on the upper than on the under side, and

covered with a long, erect, yellow pubescence, more densely disposed

290 Annals of the South African Museum.

on the median part of the prothorax so as to form there a plain

longitudinal band ; head roughly punctulate on the vertex, scrobicu-

late in front; antenne long, the four basal joints only metallic in

the male, the joints five to ten are obconical, gradually increasing in

width, not closely set, and the last one is as long as the four pre-

ceding taken together, in the female these joints are much more

broadly transverse, more closely set, and the broad apical one is not

equal in length to the two preceding taken together; prothorax

slightly rounded laterally, and sinuate above the basal part, covered

with closely set round punctures which are somewhat large on the

sides and part of the disk, but very minute in the central part, espe-

cially towards the base, as these punctures are setiferous it follows

that the hairs are denser there and thus form a flavous band ;

scutellum densely hairy; elytra only moderately ampliated in the

posterior part in both sexes, covered with deep, irregular punctures

separated by raised, smooth, coalescing walls disposed transversely

in wavy folds.

More parallel than L. villosa, the antennz are much longer than

in either that species or in L. mashuna ; the sculpture of the head is

different from the former, and the shape of the antenne differentiates

it at once from the latter.

Length 10-13 mm.; width 44-5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury), G. A. K. Marshall.

LAGRIA IMITATRIX, N. Sp.

Bronze-green, elytra occasionally reddish-bronze, antenne dark

blue, almost black; it is covered on the upper side with a short,

sreyish-white pubescence ; head deeply and irregularly punctate and

having a triangular, raised area in the anterior part; antenne long

and of the usual shape in both sexes, but not broadly transverse in

‘the female, the apical joint is three times the length of the preceding

one in the male, and as long as the two preceding taken together in

the female; the prothorax is slightly longer than broad in both

sexes, very little rounded laterally and hardly sinuate above the

base, covered with irregular foveolate punctures, separated by

irregular raised walls, forming a sort of scrobiculation, and in the

centre of the disk there is a very faintly impressed longitudinal line,

which is much more pronounced in the female; scutellum finely

scrobiculate ; elytra narrow and sub-parallel in the male for two-

thirds of the length, and only slightly ampliated thence, but much

more ampliated there in the female, covered with somewhat small

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 291

punctures separated by narrow, smooth, raised walls, disposed

transversely in irregular, very wavy folds.

This species is also allied to S. villosa, but the elytra of the male

are much less ampliated behind, the triangular frontal patch is

similar, but the prothorax is longer in proportion to its width, the

antenne are longer, and the punctuation, especially that of the

elytra, is finer.

Length 81-11 mm.; width 34-5 mm.

In some examples the bronze-green of the elytra and occasionally

of the prothorax turns into a dull coppery hue.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

LAGRIA LYDENBURGIANA, Nn. Sp.

Dark cyaneous-blue, with the elytra bronze-green, clothed with a

somewhat dense greyish, erect pubescence ; antenne long in the

male, the five penultimate joints are closely set, strongly transverse,

being nearly twice as broad as long, and the ultimate joint is elon-

gated and as long as the five preceding joints taken together, in the

female these joints are not so strongly transverse nor so closely set,

and the apical one is not quite turbinate, and is as long as the two

preceding taken together ; head scrobiculate ; prothorax longer than

broad, sub-cylindrical, serobiculate-punctate, and without any traces

of median longitudinal line; scutellum short, deeply punctate ;

elytra slightly ampliated laterally in the posterior part in both sexes,

with the humeral angles plainly sloping in the female, not convex in

the posterior part, finely and closely punctate, with the network of

transverse folds quite plain, but not very much raised.

Allied to L. propinqua, Fahr., and L. eneipennis, Fahr., from

which the male is easily distinguished by the shape of the last

antennal joint, and the female by the less ampliated elytra.

Length 74-84 mm. ; width 3-34 mm.

Hab, Transvaal (Lydenburg). TT. Ayres.

II. Species moderately or strongly ampliated in the posterior part in the male,

greatly ampliated and very convex there in the female.

LAGRIA PROMONTORII, nl. Sp.

Head, prothorax, abdomen, and basal part of the femora light

chestnut-brown, antenne black, except the three basal joints which

are metallic and reddish-brown, legs infuscate, elytra light testaceous

with a faint metallic sheen, covered all over the upper side with a

very long, dense, light flavescent pubescence, partly appressed and

292 Annals of the South African Museum.

partly erect; head punctulate, with the arcuate transverse frontal

impression very conspicuous, having across the eyes another, also

arcuate impression ; antennzw very long in both sexes, joints five to

ten in the shape of an elongated truncate cone, nearly as broad as

long at apex, and with the apical one slightly longer than the two

preceding taken together and acuminate at the tip in the male; in

the female the fifth to tenth antennal joints are similarly shaped, but

shorter, and the ultimate one is not quite as long as the preceding two

taken together ; prothorax narrower in the male than in the female,

rounded and ampliated laterally in the anterior part, strongly con-

stricted above the basal, impunctate on the discoidal, and without

any traces of a median groove, while in the female there is a very

plain longitudinal one in the centre only of the disk; scutellum

small, punctulate; elytra sub-parallel in the male and only slightly

ampliated in the posterior part, broadly ampliated and much more

convex in the posterior part in the female, distinctly costulate, and

faintly striate, very closely punctate and with irregular, transverse,

very wavy raised folds; under side very briefly pubescent, the

pubescence appressed and greyish-white ; the two basal tarsal joints

very long, especially in the male.

The difference in the sculpture of the thorax of the two sexes seems

to be quite peculiar to this species.

Length 9-94 mm. ; width 4-43 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

LAGRIA VITTATIPENNIS, Nl. Sp.

Posterior part of the head fuscous black ; prothorax deeply infus-

cate except along the anterior and posterior margins, which are

testaceous, scutellum and elytra testaceous, the latter with two

fuscous bands, the first dorsal, the other supra-lateral, on each side,

legs fuscous with the basal part of the femora and the apical part of

the tibiz testaceous; clothed above with a moderately dense, upright

pubescence; antenne black, long, the four penultimate ones robust,

but not much transverse in the male, and with the apical one not

quite as long as the three preceding taken together, in the female

these joints, with the exception of the two penultimate, are some-

what elongated and slender, and the last one is not equal in length

to the two preceding ones also taken together; head scrobiculate

and haying a triangular somewhat smooth ridge in the anterior part;

prothorax longer than broad, cylindrical, scrobiculate-punctate ;

elytra slightly amphated in the posterior part in the male, strongly

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 293

so in the female where they are there twice as broad as across the

base and strongly convex, they are closely foveolate-punctate, and

the transverse folds are very little distinct on the discoidal part, and

not strong on the lateral; under side briefly pubescent, legs mode-

rately villose. In the male the intermediate and posterior tibia are

arcuate, and the inner angle of the intermediate ones is produced

into a small hook.

Length 74-84 mm.; width 23-4 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira). P. A. Sheppard.

LAGRIA CAPICOLA, N. sp.

Male: Head and prothorax bronze-green, under side and legs

reddish-bronze, elytra light testaceous-yellow, antenn black; it is

clothed with an upright, moderately dense, greyish-white pubescence ;

head with a plain, semicircular impression in the anterior part,

deeply scrobiculate there, less so laterally ; antenne long, the six

penultimate joints obconic, hardly transverse, last one not wider

than the penultimate and as long as the preceding three taken

together ; prothorax as long as broad, visibly constricted in front

and behind, roughly and irregularly punctate, scrobiculate on the

sides, the basal margin is narrowly flavescent ; scutellum bronze-

green, roughly punctate; elytra moderately ampliated laterally in

the posterior part, without any costule, and with the network of

transverse folds very plain; under side very shiny and very sparsely

pubescent, legs villose; all the tibiz are strongly incurved, the

posterior ones are strongly arcuate, and the inner angle of the

intermediate ones has an apical elongated process diagonally

truncate.

Length 8 mm.; width 3? mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). L. Péringuey.

LAGRIA ELIZABETH®, Nn. sp.

Black, with a faint metallic tinge, elytra dark cyaneous, upper and

under side clothed with a fine, short greyish pubescence ; antennze

long in the male, shorter in the female; head roughly punctate and

rugose, deeply impressed in the anterior part of the head; in the

male the four penultimate antennal joints are sub-triangular, very

broad at apex, almost serrate inwardly, and not set closely, the last

joint is very sharp at tip and as long as the three preceding taken

together, they are normal in the female; prothorax nearly cylin-

drical, slightly longer than broad in the male, shorter and slightly

294 Annals of the South African Museum.

narrowed laterally towards the base in the female, roughly punctate

and having a median longitudinal carinule more distinct in the male

than in the female; scutellum closely punctate ; elytra moderately

ampliate in the male, strongly so in the female, and also very convex

in the latter, roughly foveolate-punctate in the half of the dorsal

part and with the transverse folds less transverse than usual and

scrobiculate thence to the outer margin; anterior tibie of male

hardly arcuate, intermediate dilated but not dentate inwardly at the

apex, posterior bi-sinuate inwardly but not arcuate.

This species differs from L. distincta, Fahr., in the sculpture, the

elytra especially being much more roughly punctate ; the male is not

as elongated as in L. distincta.

Length 83-11 mm.; width 4-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Knysna).

LAGRIA PLUMBEA, 0. sp.

Black, elytra very dark or fuscous brown, the whole surface is

covered with a very short, appressed, greyish-white silky pubescence,

making it look lead colour; elytra strongly ampliated behind and

convex in both sexes, the male is hardly distinguishable from the

female except by the ultimate antennal joint, which is not as long as

the three preceding ones taken together ; antennz moderately long,

reaching beyond the humeral part ; head very closely punctate and

without traces of an anterior impression; prothorax short, wider

than broad, not rounded laterally, but occasionally slightly narrower

in the anterior part than in the posterior above the constricted basal

part (I have, however, seen examples in which the median part is

ampliated laterally), the sculpture is hidden by the pubescence but

there are two somewhat transverse impressions on the posterior part

of the disk, and what seems to be a fine longitudinal median line ;

elytra deeply and closely punctate, with the transverse folds plain

and somewhat closely set ; under side and legs pubescent.

Length 7-84 mm. ; width 34-44 mm.

Hab. Natal, Dr. H. Martin (Durban); C. N. Barker (Eshowe).

LAGRIA IMPRESSICOLLIS, 0. Sp.

Female: Colour and vestiture of L. plumbea, the elytra, however,

are more elongated, equally ampliated, but not quite so convex

behind in the only example which I have seen; the sculpture is also

identical, the difference, however, consists in the shape of the pro-

thorax, which is also short, but is strongly constricted laterally at

South African Coleopterous Fauna. 295

about the median part, the constriction being continued on the dis-

coidal part as two transverse impressions nearly coalescing in the

centre, and above these impressions there is another median trans-

verse one which is much shallower, and does not reach the sides.

Length 11 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). T. Ayres.

LAGRIA ANNECTENS, 0. sp.

Female: Black, but with the elytra and legs occasionally brownish,

clothed on the upper side with a short, appressed, greyish-white,

somewhat silky pubescence ; antennz long, somewhat slender, the

two penultimate joints transverse, the others obconic; elytra very

broadly ampliated behind and very convex there; head very closely

punctulate and without any raised lines or impressions in the

anterior part; prothorax plainly rounded laterally, not constricted

along the base, very closely punctulate, and without any traces of a

median longitudinal line or ridge, but having in the median discoidal

part two very faint round impressions; elytra closely and moderately

deeply punctured, the transverse folds moderately raised ; under

side not densely pubescent.

Length 83-9 mm.; width 44-5 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

This species will be easily distinguished from LZ. plumbea by the

rounded prothorax,

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CORRECTIONS.

CARABID.

Umgenia, Péring., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc., vol. x., 1898, p. 324 = Metallica,

Chaud., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1872, p. 175.

Abacetus capicola, Tschisch., Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., 1900, p. 284 = Abacetus pertur-

bator, Pér., Catal. Coleopt. S. Afric., Ist Suppt., 1898, p. 359.*

Lemosthenes naniscus, Péring., Descript. Catal. Coleopt. S. Afric., 1896, p. 572,

is a Platynus.

Extromus, Péring., Catal. Coleopt. S. Afric., 1896, p. 586 = Perigona, Cast.

Fxtromus pusillus, Péring., loc. cit., p. 587, greatly resembles, if it is not identical

with, Perigona nigriceps, De}.

I am indebted for the suggestion of this synonymy to Mons. A. Fauvel, who also

informs me that Perigona nigriceps is sub-cosmopolitan.

TENEBRIONIDAL.

Having been able to examine a number of Solier’s, Haag Rutenberg’s, and Fair-

maire’s types of this Family, and also all those of Fahreus, I am able to point out

and correct the following errors :—

Stenocara distincta, Péring., Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc., 1888, p. 120 = S. albicollis,

Haag Rut.

Cryptochile echinata, Péring., Ann. 8. Afric. Mus., i., 1898, p. 249 = C. echinata,

Fabr., teste Haag Rut., Mith. Miinch. Ent. Ver., ii., 1878, p. 81.

Machla echinodermata, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Eas ‘

Frane:, 1897, p. 112. Machla mendica, Faihy., Ofy. Vet.

Asida natalis, Péring., Ann. S. Afr. Mus., i., [ Akad. Férh., 1870, p. 255.

1879, p. 259.

Asida legitima, Péring., Ann, 8. Afr. Mus., i., 1898, p. 266 = Machleida nodulosa,

Fahr., loc. cit., p. 256.

Idricus, Fairm., Trans. 8. Afr. Phil, Soc., iv., 1888, p. 199 = Ametrocera, Fahr.,

loe. cit., p. 260.

Idricus pacijicus, Péeving., Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc., vi., 1892, p. 122 = Ametrocera

aurita, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 122.

* Thave seen a type of Tschischerine’s species ; several other South African species

published by this author will doubtless be found to be identical with some of mine.

Corrections. 297

Psammodes adventitus, Pering., Ann. 8S. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 278 = Psamimodes

volvulus, Haag Rut., Col. Heft. vili., 1871, p. 34.

Psammodes cinctipennis, Fairm., Bull. Soc. Vaud., xviii., p. 180 = P. valens,

Péring., Ann. S. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 276.

Psammodes exilis, Péring., Ann. S. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 280 = P. rugulosus, Sol.,

Mem. de Tor., 1844, p. 305.

Psammodes prostans, Péring., Ann. 8. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 282 = P. tricostatus,

Fahr., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Férh., 1870, p. 273.

Psammodes junodi, Fairm., Bull. Soc. Vaud., xviii., 1899, p. 179 = P. junodi

Péring., Ann. S. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 275.*

Trachynotus (Clinocramon) latemarginatus, Péring., Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soe., iii.,

1885, p. 116 = Trachynotus stali, Haag Rut., Col. Heft. xi., 1873, p. 18.

Trachynotus plicipennis, Pérving., Ann. §. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 300 = 1. silphoides,

Fahr., loc. cit., p. 274.

Trachynotus tantillus, Péring., Ann. S. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 301 = 7. pygmeus,

Fahr., loc. cit., p.

Trachynotidus manifestus, Péring., Ann. 8. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 297 = T. rufozo-

natus, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. Frane., 1888, p. 194.

Epairops levigata, Péring., Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc., vi., 1892, p.55 = Trachynotus

frontalis, Haag, Col. Heft. xi., 1873, p. 42.

Moluris mulleri, Péring., Ann. 8. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 269, is a Psammodes.

Anomalipus marshalli, Péring., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 170 = 4.

granatus, Fairm., Annal. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1894, p. 662.

Anomalipus notaticollis, Péring., Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc., iv., 1588, p. 129 = 4.

obscurus,+ Oliv., Entom., iii., No. 59, pl. 21.

Zophodes tristis, Fihr., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1870, p. 298 = Doryagus talpa, Pasc. ,

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xx., 1887, p. 12.

Xanthotopia fuscocyanescens, Fairm., Ann. Fr., 1897, p. 186 = Strongylium sulei-

penne, Makl., Act. Fenn., 1864, p. 302.

Ghaleca leta, Péring., Ann. 8. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 316 = Almyon prolatus, Pasc.,

Journ. Entomol., ii., 1866, p. 484.

CERAMBYCIDA.

Zamium rusticum, Péring., Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc., vi., 1892, p.77 = Z. incultum.

Pase., Journ. Entom., ii., 1866, p. 289.

Philematium capense, Péring. = Philematium (Callichroma) hottentotum, Bug. Gueér.,

Iconogr., iii., p. 221.

Cymatura mashuna, Péring., Ann. 8. Afr. Mus., i., 1899, p. 324 = C. spumans,

Guér., Rey. Zool., 1847, p. 8.

* The Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. were issued before the Bull. Soc. Vaud.

+ Iam not aware that the insect figured by Olivier, loc. cit., has been identified.

I think that there is, however, little doubt that it is the female of my dnomalipus

notaticollis.

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Abacetus auspicatus ........---- 189

2A GIAYUSH cheer ene ceeretene ae 196

= GUIONCWS ooonseacascoce 192

a diserepans: -.---------- 197

GNGSUS) ocococasaco coc 191

Glitnlleeas, 5460ccc00G9a0c 199

GUMAMNS Sonoedoogpooce 190

CVS caccccacacsocuc 198

ie WAGONS Soooogocbe soot 199

; jubatulus .......-....:.- 200

|, jJucundulus ...........- 193

ie IGMIRDES ococeccaodoacens 192

Se malvermiensis'..-)e0-- - 194

TMNOMNS casa oacacoo00c 193

optimus ......---++++- 195

pilosulus ......-..+-+-- 200

SIAM oo beso ooguuooS 194

an SHiil OMV ELIS eraser nee 198

aS Vertagus ..-..--s------ 196

6 THEEMIOIP sno ousscoa0l 908 190

Acastus sebakuensis ......------ 260

Acanthomera cursor ....--+++--- 252

Adesmia damara........--..---: 226

,, khoikhoina ........---- 226

i SRE Bo oesoesoncccoss 227

Amiantus pusillus .....------+-> 235

Anchomenus emeritus .....----- 201

+5 soln) Googneocas 202

latimsculuss err era 204

obsequiosus ....---- 203,

sts MmsoeOnioaseandccacs 201

Anchophthalmus algoensis ..-.-- 2310

“ indigus) <.--.--- 237

36 plicipennis.....- 238

Anomalipus barbertoniensis ...--. 240

gasanus ....--.++--- 239

hypocrita .....--- 241

TAINS Go cacaoosc 239

5 pauxillus..........-- 241

Asemogena humilis......-.++++++ 282

“fs Simp lexrtets elle yeleel-re toler 281

Aphrotus obortus....-..++++++++5 252

Brachinus mactus ....-.----+++-- ilgAl

es umvotianus ......-.-- 172

| Diestesoma pulchrum

| Disphericus rhodesianus

| Dolerogena angusta

CONTENTS.

Callida fervida

, nigripes

Callistomimus placens

Catamerus gasanus

x manicanus

Chlenius ditulus

5 pronus

Coptoptera indotata

Craspedophorus laticollis

5 merus

Diastellopalpus orbignyi

Dichastops mashunus

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Dysgena capicola......+++++++++>

| he decipiens ......---+----

5 delagoana ....-.+++++++

55 durbanlay secre ee =e

As foveaticollis ......---.--

nis IWONDGis ans cocpocosacoC

40 plebeia .....-------+---

79 RMAAAINS Sono scnoobadenoc

Endustomus rhodesianus ....----

Gazanus elegans ....--.--+++++5-

Graphipterus shebanus .......---

Hemus carinatipennis .....-----

Herpiscius damarinus ...----++-

Hexagonia angustula .........---

x HANOI, GooossGaoDGs

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an extrameuS ......----+:

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spectandus

sebakuanus

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Hylotorus

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Klepsiphrus angusticollis ........

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Lebistina spectabilis ............

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Lyprops namaquensis............

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Macyrochilus longicollis ..........

45 spectandus..........

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Megalonychus umtalinus ........

Meloé rhodesianus ....... aeikotiens

Metallica mashunensis ..........

Metaxymorphus robustus ........

Micrantereus capicola........... :

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35 PLOCHESUS Heer :

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46 zoutpansbergianus ..

Milichus rhodesianus............

Mylabris mosambica ........... ;

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Myrmedonia anthracina..........

a Capicolaierammiericceer.

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39 Comiferaves asa a.

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Myrmedonia termitophila ....... . 207

5 WaBIMILOIEH 55 G5 500000 206

_ IAAL) Goooooadvc 209

Nannocerus angustulus .......... 270

an peiranusie secre ee ee

INIESOOV GME Sossageaodccdooc 262

Onthophagus decedens .......... 220

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9 OLAS Soooongcds 220

ih rhynchophorus .... 222

39 SEKEMUGinetereretetnerents 221

Paractenodia parva..........-.-- 285

Paramarygmus amoenus ........ 261

5 AIWHMOSHS socoooc 262,

cratulus Seda d0.00 OC 261

Pentagonica dispar seeisterstol tec aterets 181

Perichilus ditissimus ........... . 270

Phligra hamaticollis ............ 235

PET MTINNLD LEGA eatred- recscevas okoto mien ceetee 236

Phloeozetus cribricollis .......... 177

Pe wari! Gooooooacd 177

Eolyhinmarcommistan yj.) i84

PON, BUSI, GogooaanonooadoC 274

53 bechwan arrears 275

0 CHYOKCOIE coodcccage dace 275

a cyaneipennis! .......... 273

35 Ginn 45 oa 0080004000 274

50 PATHOERY, Goagee unde occC 276

as MEWS caooosoacode . 275

WOES Se ono Oo oUbb On OO 276

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9 GIONS Sa oscoooar 230

45 AS: Goo oaGoe sooo 232

‘ MLS SeogoosucoouEs 233

95 zoutpansbergianus.... 231

tinsel egAanshaepeereliyeidercielerelerrere 225

Stenocara jurgatrix.............. 227

Strongylium algoense............ 266

30 auspicatum ....... . 268

3 Celatuminc eee 269

n0 discrepans....... .-. 265

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39 Ieyewinn, bnavoaandood 269

96 IEyuRNIY pooeoouos ere) 200

9 meen) s5oaoqno6e 267

Ae ovampoense ........ 264

30 perturbator ........ 263

rr) (EUEMON) saccooocce 268

rhodesianum........ 264

Styphromerus plausibilismetrlelle

Metrachard odsityyrrrterrerereacrrts 168

Thyreopterus angusticollis........ 182

lugubrinus ........ 182

Trachynotideus “damarinus ...... 233

Trachynotus resolutus ......... . 23

Vutsimus byzacnoides ..... cocoa es!

aa PLO PIN GUUS ieee 253

Xanthotopeia delagow......... --- 293

Xenitenus natalicus ......... soo Lee

Zeloticus umtalianus ............ 185

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1, 2. Micrantereus procursus, 3 ?.

3 As vicarius.

4, + hirsutus, ?.

eos de gasanus, o @.

Uc a lydenburgiensis.

8. os zoutpansbergianus.

9. Anomalipus gasanus, ¢.

10. fi mashunus, 3.

11. Catamerus manicanus, 3.

12. 3 gasanus, ¢.

13. Hemus carinatipennis.

14. Psammodes zoutpansbergianus.

15. discrepans.

16. Anchophthalmus salisburiensis.

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VIII.—Description of a New Fish of the Genus Paratilapia, from

the Upper Zambesi. By G. A. Boutrencsr, F.R.S.

(Plate XIV.)

On a recent visit to the Victoria Falls, Mr. W. L. Selater obtained

three fishes in the Zambesi, immediately above the falls, which he

has kindly sent to me for examination. One, known as the Tiger

Fish, is a Characinid, Hydrocyon lineatus, Blkr., widely distributed in

Africa (from the rivers of Guinea to the Congo in the West, from the

Blue and White Niles to the Limpopo in the East); the two others,

generally known as Bream, and prized as excellent table fish,

belong to distinct species of the Cichlid genus Paratilapia, Blkr.

One of these, originally described by Ginther as Hemichronvs

robustus, from Lake Nyassa, had previously been recorded by me

from the Upper Zambesi under the name of Henuchromis jalle, the

description being based on a young specimen, which was afterwards

identified by me with Giinther’s species as Paratilapia robusta.

The other, which is allied to the Nyassan species Paratilapia afra,

Gthr., and P. modesta, Gthr., represents a new species which I have

much pleasure in naming after Mrs. Sclater.

PARATILAPIA CARLOTTA.

Teeth small, in four series in both jaws, outer largest. Jaws

equal. Depth of body 24 times in total length, length of head

31 times. Snout with slightly concave upper profile, 14 as

long as the eye, which is 4} times in length of head and 13

in interorbital width; preorbital as long as eye; maxillary not

quite extending to below anterior border of eye ; four series of scales

on the cheek, the depth of which is greater than the diameter of the

eye; large scales on the operculum. Gill-rakers short, 12 on lower

part of anterior arch, the largest T-shaped. Dorsal xv 12; spines

increasing in length to the last, which measures nearly ? length of

head and 4 longest soft rays. Anal iii 10, pointed like the soft

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dorsal; third spine longest, a little shorter than longest dorsal.

Pectoral pointed, a little shorter than head, not reaching origin of

anal. Ventral reaching first soft ray of anal. Caudal rounded.

Caudal peduncle slightly deeper than long. Scales finely denticulate

on the border, 33,4;; lat. lime ?3. Colour, in formol, dark brown

above, white beneath; dorsal, anal, and caudal fins with round

black spots, most distinct and forming regular series between

the rays, on the anal and on the base of the dorsal; a black

opercular spot.

The single specimen measures 255 millimetres.

This new species differs principally from P. afra in the fin-

formula (D. xv 12; A. i 10, instead of D. xvii 8; A. ili 6-7),

from P. modesta in the shorter snout and the non-projecting

mandible.

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TX.—Check List of the Birds of South Africa, containing additions

and corrections since the issue of the successive volumes of the

Birds in the Fauna of South Africa Series —By W. L. Scuater,

M.A., F.Z.S, Director of South African Museum.

(1) INTRODUCTION.

THE following list is based on the three volumes of the Birds of

South Africa hitherto published, while the remaining names are

taken from the MSS. of the fourth volume now in the press.

Owing to various reasons the issue of the successive volumes of

this work have been somewhat protracted. It has therefore been

necessary to make a good many additions and alterations to the list

of South African birds, especially in the earlier volumes.

The total number of birds described in the four volumes is 813;

to this there are added twenty-two new species, including a certain

number previously included in the fauna but recently discriminated

and described under an old name now revived ; fourteen species not

previously found south of the Zambesi; two species known to be

introduced from Europe; and twenty subspecies or geographical

races ; while five species recognised in the first two volumes must be

erased. This is shown in the following table :—

Dpecies desembeduim the Wawmte 2... h5..5.s2-se0t.c 0-08. 814

INeWASe ClO Steph ct Be ote oie tect tninniga ge ee cbe aaa annse 22

SPECIES ME a UOM DOU UM AMIGA tras stich. oan g-Saeaecenssiesns 14

ilrtronuicediee cass rhe ens acted cies Shes ae ame tenes 3

Shall Os) Ofer Cal etc le nah esse Osea ao Oc Mae no Oe ai oe a a eee 20

873

bess speciessto; be’ elimimatiedss * cic hsce +: ozcaderesgucecebetes 5)

Total species and subspecies of birds in South Africa 868

304 Annals of the South African Museum.

In the following list the numbers exactly correspond to those in

the printed volumes. Additional species and subspecies have been

denoted by the addition of a letter to the number of the species most:

nearly corresponding.

Where an asterisk is prefixed to a number further information will

be found in the second part of the paper.

The distribution of each species in South Africa is approximately

indicated by the capital letters, where CC. = Cape Colony, with

N. north, §. south, W. west, and E. east, prefixed where necessary.

. = Natal, with sometimes U prefixed for Upper, as opposed to the:

Coastlands. Z.= Zululand. O.= Orange River Colony. Tv. =

Transvaal. B. = Bechuanaland Protectorate. Rh. = Southern

Rhodesia. G. = German South-West Africa. P. = Portuguese

East Africa south of the Zambesi, including the territories of Delagoa.

Bay and Beira.

The following is a list of the more important works and papers.

that have appeared since the publication of the first volume of the

Birds of South Africa in 1900 :—

1. SHettEy, G. E. The Birds of Africa. Vol. i., List, 1896.

Vol. ii., Passeres Families, Pittide, Philepittide, Nectariniide,

Promeropide, Zosteropide, Parisomide, Paride, Certhiide,

and Motacillide, pt., 1900. Vol. ii., Motacillide, Alaudide,.

and Fringillide, 1902. Vol. iv., pt. i., Ploceide in pt., 1905.

London, R. H. Porter, 8vo.

2. ReicHeNow, Ant. Die Vogel Afrikas. Vol. i, Struthionide-

Strigide, 1900-1901. Vol. ii., Psittacide-Sturnide, 1902-

1903. Vol. iii., pt. 1, Ploceidee-Pycnonotide, 1904 [not yet

completed]. Neudamm, J. Neuman, 8vo.

3. Woopwarp, R. B. and J. D, 8. Natal Birds. Pietermaritzburg,

1899, 8vo.

4, AnmxaNnDER, B. An Ornithological Expedition to the Zambesi

River. Ibis, 1899, pp. 549-683, pl. xi.; 1900, pp. 70-109,

pp. 424-458.

5. Marswatu, G. A. K. Notes on Mashonaland Birds. Ibis, 1900,

pp. 221-270.

6. SHARPE, R. B. Ona Collection of Birds obtained by Mr. H. S-

H. Cavendish in Mozambique. Ibis, 1900, pp. 109-115.

10.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

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. Woopwarp, R. B. and J. D. 8. On the Birds of St. Lucia

Lake in Zululand. Ibis, 1900, pp. 517-525.

. Haaaner, A. C. Birds’-nesting Notes from the Transvaal.

Ibis, 1901, pp. 15-18. Ornithological Notes from the Trans-

vaal. Ibis, 1901, pp. 190-194. More Ornithological Notes

from the Transvaal. Ibis, 1902, pp. 569-581.

. Ivy, R. H. Notes on the Nesting and other Habits of some

South African Birds. Ibis, 1901, pp. 18-28.

SHarpg, R. B. Remarks on Pitta longipennis Reichenow, and

Pitta reichenowt Madarasz. Ibis, 1903, pp. 91-93, pl. iv.

WHITEHEAD, C. H. T. An Annotated List of Birds observed on

the Orange River between Aliwal North and Odendaalstroom

from December 21, 1901, to June 21, 1902. Ibis, 1903,

pp. 222-238. :

SHarpe, R. B. On a Collection of Birds from the District of

Deelfontein, in Cape Colony. Part i., Ibis, 1904, pp. 1-29;

Part ii., Ibis, 1904, pp. 313-367, pl. viii.

ScuaterR, W. L. Saldanha Bay and its Bird Islands. Ibis,

1904, pp. 79-88.

SHortTRIDGE, G.C. On a Collection of Birds from the neigh-

bourhood of Port St. Johns, in Pondoland. Ibis, 1904,

pp. 173-208.

CnuARKE, Masor S. R. Field-notes on Birds obtained or observed

at Bloemfontein, O.R.C., and at Ingogo, Natal, in 1901 and

1902. Ibis, 1904, pp. 519-541.

Scnrater, W. L. An Ornithological Excursion to the Victoria

Falls of the Zambesi. Ibis, 1905, pp. 106-114.

Hetrimayr, ©. E. Ubersicht der von Dr. A. Penther in Siid-

afrika gesammelten Vogel. Journ. f. Ornith., 1902, pp. 210-

237.

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(2) CHECK LIST OF THE BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Orpver I.—PASSERES.

Famity I.—CORVID,

. CORVULTUR ALBICOLLIS (Lath.). White-necked Raven.

Distr.—Throughout, except Damaraland.

. Corvus scaPpuLAtus (Daud.), Pied Crow,

Distr.—Throughout,

. Corvus caPENsis (Licht,), Black Crow.

Distr.—Throughout, except Natal coastlands.

Faminy II.—STURNIDA.

. BuPHAGA AFRICANA (Linn,), Yellow-billed Oxpecker.

Distr—UON Zo ly. Bh, 5B. G;

BupHAGA ERYTHRORHYNCHA (Stanley), Led-billed Oxpecker.

Distr.— N. Z. P. Tv. Bh,

. CREATOPHORA CARUNCULATA (Gmel.), Wattled Starling.

Distr.—Throughout.

. AmyprRuS morio (Linn.), Red-winged Starling.

Distr.—CC. NO. tv Bh.

AMYDRUS CAFFER (Linn.), Pale-winged Starling.

Distr.—CC. O. G.

. SPREO BICOLOR (Gmel.), Pred Starling.

Disir-—CC. ©: UN. Sty, B:

LAMPROTORNIS MEVESI (Wahl.), Meve’s Glossy Starling.

Distr.—NG. Zambesi.

LAMPROTORNIS PURPUREUS (Boc.), Purple Long-tailed Starling.

_ Distr.—Ovampoland.

LAMPROCOLIUS AUSTRALIS (Smith), Burchell’s Glossy Starling.

Distr.—NCC. O. Tv. Rh. B. G.

LAMPROCOLIUS ACUTICAUDUS (Boc.), Sharp-tailed Glossy Star-

ling.

Distr.—Ovampoland.

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14. LAMPROCOLIUS PHG@NICOPTERUS (Swains.), Red-shouldered

Glossy Starling.

Distr-—HCC:

15. LAMPROCOLIUS PH@NICOPTERUS BISPECULARIS (Strickl.), Lesser

Red-shouldered Glossy Starling.

Distr.—N. Z. O. Tv. Bh. B. G.

16. LAMPROCOLIUS CHLOROPTERUS (Swains.), Green-winged Glossy

Starling.

Distr.—L. Zambesi.

17. Lamprocoxius sycosius (Licht.), Peters’ Glossy Starling.

Distr. —Tv. Bh. B. G.

18. LAMPROCOLIUS MELANOGASTER (Swains.), Black-bellicd Glossy

Starling.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z, ETv.

*19, CINNYRICINCLUS LEUCOGASTER VERREAUXI (Boc.), Verreawx’s

Glossy Starling.

Distr -—O NZ. Ivo Py Rh. Be G:

*19a. StuRNUS vuLGARIS (Linn.), English Starling.

Distr.—Cape Peninsula (introduced).

Famity III.—ORIOLIDA.

20. ORIOLUS GALBULA (Linn.), Golden Oriole.

Distr.-_SCC. N. Z. Tv.-G.

21. OrtoLUs NoTatus (Peters), Andersson's Oriole.

Distr.—Tv. Bh. P. B. G.

*21a, ORIOLUS AURATUS (Vieill.), African Golden Oriole.

Distr.—Zambesi Valley.

22. ORIOLUS LARVATUS (Licht.), Black-headed Oriole.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. Tv. Rh. P.

Famity ITV.—PLOCEIDA.

*23, HYPHANTORNIS NIGRICEPS (Layard), Black-headed Weaver Bird.

Disir.—NCC. N. Z. Tv. Rh. P. B.

24, HYPHANTORNIS CABANISI (Peters), Cabanis’ Weaver Bird.

Disir.—N. Z. ETv. P. Bh. B. G.

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. HypHANTORNIS VELATUS (Vieill.), Masked Weaver Bird.

Disir.—CC, 0. Ne Tye Rb:

. HyPHANTORNIS SPILONOTUS (Vig.), Spotted-backed Weaver Bird.

Disiz-—=HCCAN. iy ak. Bs:

HyYPHANTORNIS AURICAPILLUS (Swains.), Shelley's Weaver Bird.

Distr.—Tv. Bh. B. G. P.

HYPHANTORNIS SUBAUREUS (Smith), Yellow Weaver Bird.

Distr. —ECC. N. Z. ETv. P.

HyYPHANTORNIS JAMESONI (Sharpe), Jameson’s Weaver Bird.

Distr.—ETv. Rh.

SITAGRA OCULARIA (Smith), Smith’s Weaver Bird.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. ETv. P.

SITAGRA XANTHOPTERA (Finsch & Hartl.), Yellow-winged

Weaver Bird.

Distr.—LZambesi.

SITAGRA CAPENSIS (Linn.), Cape Weaver Bird.

Distr.—WCC.

SITAGRA CAPENSIS OLIVACEA (Hahn), Hastern Cape Weaver

Bird.

Distr—ECC. N. Z. ETv. P. Bh.

SYCOBROTUS GREGALIS (Licht.), Black-backed Weaver Bird:

Distr.—ECC. N. Z.

SycoBRoTUS sTICTIFRONS (Fischer & Reichw.), Spot-headed

Weaver Bird,

Distr.—P.

ANAPLECTES RUBRICEPS (Sundev.), Lted-headed Weaver Bird.

Distr.—P. ETv. Rh.

ANAPLECTES GURNEYI (Shelley), Gurney’s Weaver Bird.

Distr.—Ovampoland.

ANAPLECTES ANGOLENSIS (Boc.), Sharpe's Weaver Bird.

Distr.—Ovampoland.

TEXTOR NIGER (Smith), Buffalo Weaver Bird.

Distr.—P. Tv. Rh. B. G.

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40. AMBLYOSPIZA ALBIFRONS (Vig.), Thick-billed Weaver Bird.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. ETv. P.

41. PLocEIPASSER MAHALI (Smith), White-browed Weaver Bird.

Distr.—NCC. G. B. O. Tv. Rh.

42. PLOCEIPASSER RUFOSCAPULATUS (Buttik.), Red-backed Weaver

Bird.

Distr.—Ovampoland.

43. PLOCEIPASSER PECTORALIS (Peters), Stripe-chested Weaver

Bird.

Distr.—_Zambesi. P.

A4, SPOROPIPES SQUAMIFRONS (Smith), Scaly-feathered Weaver

Bird.

Distr.—NCC. G. O. Tv. B. Rh.

45, PYTELIA MELBA (Linn.), Southern Red-faced Weaver Finch.

Distr.—Throughout except CC. south of Orange River.

46, Pyrenia niTmipuna (Hartl.), Hartlaub’s Red-faced Weaver

Finch.

Distr.—N. Z. P.

47. LAaGonosTicra RuBRICATA (Licht.), South African Ruddy

Waxbill.

Disir.— ECC. N. Z. Tv.

48. LAGONOSTICTA JAMESONI (Shelley), Jameson’s Ruddy Waxbill.

Disir.—Tv. Bh.

*48a, LAGONOSTICTA RHODOPAREIA (Heugl.), Heuglin’s Ruddy

Waxbill.

Distr.—P.

*49, LAGONOSTICTA RENDALLI, Hartl., Little Ruddy Waxbill.

Distr.—N. Z. Tv. Bh. G.

50. LaGonosticTa NIVEOGUTTATA (Peters), Peters’ Ruddy Waxbill.

Distr.—P.

51. LaGonosTicTA MARGARITATA (Strickl.), Verreaux’s Ruddy

Wacbill.

Distr.—Cape Town.

*§1A, LAGONOSTICTA NITIDULA (Hartl.), Brown Wazxbill.

Distr.—Upper Zambesi.

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«52. ESTRILDA ASTRILDA (Linn.), Common Waxbill.

Distr.—CC. N. O. Tv.

*52a, ESPRILDA ASTRILDA CAVENDISH, Sharpe, Cavendish’s Waxbill-

Distr.—P.

*“52p, ESTRILDA ASTRILDA DAMARENSIS, Reichw., Damaraland

Wacxbill.

Distr.—G.

53. Esrrinpa ERyTHRONOTA (Vieill.), Black-faced Waabill.

Disi7:— Ly. B, Rh. G:

54. Esrriupa tycana (Sundey.), South African Grey Waabill.

Distr.—N. Z. P.

*55. ESTRILDA ANGOLENSIS (Linn.), Blue-breasted Waxbill.

Distr.—NCC. O. N. Z. Tv. P. Bh.

*55a. ESTRILDA ANGOLENSIS DAMARENSIS (Reichw.), Damaraland

Blue-breasted Waxbill.

Distr.—B. G.

56. EstRILDA GRANATINA (Linn.), Grenadine Waxbill.

Disir.—NCC. Tv. Rh. B. G.

*57. ESTRILDA CLARKEI (Shelley), Orange-breasted Waxbill.

Distr.—N. Tv.

58. EsTRILDA DUFRESNH (Vieill.), Dufresne’s Waxbill.

Distr —CC. N. Tv. Rh.

59. OrnTYGOsPIzZA PoLYZONA (Temm.), Bar-breasted Weaver Finch.

Distr.—ECC. O. N. Tv. Rh.

60. SPERMESTES FRINGILLOIDES (Lafr.), Pied Weaver Finch.

Disip— Nees.

61. SPERMESTES scuTATUS (Heuglin), Hooded Weaver Finch.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. Tv.

62. SPERMESTES NIGRICEPS (Cassin), Rufows-backed Weaver Finch.

Distr.—N. Z. P.

“63. PHiLmTERUS socius (Lath.), Social Weaver Bird.

Distr.—NCC. Tv. B. G.

64. AMADINA ERYTHROCEPHALA (Linn.), Red-headed Weaver Finch.

Distr.—NCC. O. Tv. Bh. B. G.

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*64a, AMADINA FASCIATA (Gmel.), Cut-throat Weaver Finch.

*65.

66.

Distr.—Rh.

QUELEA QUELEA (Linn.), Red-billed Weaver.

Distr.—NCC. O. Tv. B. Rh. G.

QUELEA QUELEA RUSSI (Finsch), Russ’ Weaver.

Distr.—N. ETv.

*66A. QUELEA CARDINALIS (Hartl.), Cardinal Weaver.

67.

Distr.—Zambesi.

PYROMELANA ORYX (Linn.), fed Bishop Bird.

Distr.—CC.

*67A. PYROMELANA ORYX SUNDEVALLI (Bp.), Northern Red Bishop

Bird.

Distr.—N. Ze Tv. Rh. B. G.

*67B. PyROMELANA FLAMMICEPS (Swains.), Zambesi Bishop Bird.

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Distr.—Zambesi.

PYROMELANA TAHA (Smith), Zaha Bishop Bird.

Distr.—N. O. Tv. Rh. B. G.

PYROMELANA CAPENSIS (Linn.), Black and Yellow Bishop Bird.

Distr.—WCC.

PYROMELANA CAPENSIS APPROXIMANS (Cab.), Smaller Black and

Yellow Bishop Bird.

Disty.— ECC. N. Z._O. Tv. Rh. P.

PYROMELANA CAPENSIS XANTHOMELZNA (Riipp.), Black-thighed

Bishop Bird.

Distr.—Rh.

UROBRACHYA AXILLARIS (Smith), Red-shouldered Widow Bird.

Distr.—HCC, N. Z. ETv. P.

Uropracuya Bocacit (Sharpe), Bocage’s Widow Bird.

Distr.—Ovampoland.

CoLIOPASSER ALBONOTATUS (Shelley), White-winged Widow

Bird.

Distr.—N. Z. P. ETv. Rh.

*744, COLIOPASSER MACRURUS (Gmel.).

Distr.—Zambesi.

312 Annals of the South African Musewm.

75, CoLIOPASSER PROCNE (Bodd.), Great-tailed Widow Bird.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. O. Tv. P.

76. COLIOPASSER ARDENS (Bodd.), Red-collared Widow Bird.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. Tv. P. Bh.

77. VIDUA PRINCIPALIS (Linn.), Pin-tailed Widow Bird.

Distr.—Throughout.

78. Vipua REGIA (Linn.), Shaft-tailed Widow Bird.

Distr.—NCC. O. B. Tv. Bh. G.

79. VIDUA PARADISEA (Linn.), Paradise Widow Bird.

Disitr.—ECC. N. Z. ETv. Bh. P.

80. HypocHERA FUNEREA (De Tarragon), Black Widow Finch.

Distr.—N. Z. ETv. P. Rh.

81. HypocHERA FUNEREA NIGERRIMA (Sharpe), Purple Wudow

Finch.

Distr.—Zambesi.

82. HypocHERA FUNEREA AMAUROPTERA (Sharpe), Stcel-colowred

Widow Finch.

Distr.—Tv. Rh. P. G.

Famity V.—FRINGILLIDA.

*83, PETRONIA PETRONELLA (Gray), South African Rock Sparrow.

Distr.—Throughout.

*84. PASSER MELANURUS (P. L. 8. Miill.), Cape Sparrow.

Distr.—Throughout except coastlands from Knysna east-

wards and Damaraland.

*844, PASSER MELANURUS DAMARENSIS (Reichw.), Damaraland

Sparrow.

Distr.—G.

*84B. Passer DomeEsticus (Linn.), Huropean Sparrow.

Distr.—Ty. LN. (introduced).

85. Passer Morirensis (Smith), Greater South African Sparrow.

Distr.—NCC. B. Tv. Rh. G.

*86. Passer GRISEUs (Vieill.), Southern Grey-headed Sparrow.

Distr.—NCC. O. UN. Tv. B. Rh.

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87. PottospizA GuLARIS (Smith), Streaky-headed Seed-eater.

Distr—CC. G. B. N. Tv.

88. SERINUS CANICOLLIS (Swains.), Cape Canary.

Distr.—CC. O. N. Ty.

89. SERINUS SULPHURATUS (Linn.), Large Yellow Seed-eater.

Distr.—CC. O. N. Z. Tv.

*894. SERINUS SHARPEI (Neum.), Hast African Yellow Seed-eater.

Distr.—Zambesi.

90. SERINUS FLAVIVENTRIS (Swains.), Yellow-bellied Seed-eater.

Distr.—CC,

*90A. SERINUS MARSHALLI (Shelley), Marshall's Seed-eater.

Distr.—NCC. O. Tv.

*91 and 92. ANoMALOSPIZA IMBERBIS (Cab.), Vow der Decken’s Seed-

eater.

Distr.—Tv. Rh. G.

93. SERINUS IcTERUS (Bonn. & Vieill.), Hastern Yellow Seed-eater.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. O. Tv. Bh.

94. SERINUS ALBIGULARIS (Smith), White-throated Seed-eater.

Distr.—CC.

95. Serius crocopyarus (Sharpe), Damara Yellow-rumped Seed-

eater.

Distr.—G.

*96. SERINUS LEUCOPTERUS (Sharpe), White-winged Seed-eater.

Distr.—CC.

97. SrRinus scotors (Sundev.), Suwndevall’s Seed-eater.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Tv.

98. SERINUS ANGOLENSIS (Gmel.), Black-throated Seed-eater.

Distr.—NCC. B. Tv. Rh.

*99. ALARIO ALARIO (Linn.), Mowntain Canary.

Distr —CC. G.

100. Curysomirris torra (Sparrm.), South African Siskin.

Distr.—CC.

101. EmBeriza FLAVIVENTRIS (Vieill.), Golden-breasted Bunting.

Distr—ECC. N. Z. O. Tv. Bh. B. G.

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101A. Frinainus coELess (Linn.), Chaffinch.

Distr.—Cape division (introduced).

102. EMBERIZA MAJOR ORIENTALIS (Shelley), Shelley’s Bunting.

Distr.—Bh.

*103. FRINGILLARIA CAPENSIS (Linn.), Cape Bunting.

Distr.—Tv. CC. G.

*103a. F'RINGILLARIA CAPENSIS MEDIA (Sharpe), Deelfontein Bunting.

Distr.—CC.

*103B. FRINGILLARIA CAPENSIS REIDI (Shelley), Natal Bunting,

Distr.—N. Z. Tv.

104. FRINGILLARIA TAHAPISI (Smith), Hock Bunting.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. O. Ty. B. Rh.

105. FRINGILLARIA IMPETUANI (Smith), Lark Bunting.

Distr —CC. B. G. O. N. Tv.

Famity VI.—ALAUDIDA.

106. PyRRHULAUDA AUSTRALIS (Smith), Dark-naped Lark.

Distr. —CC. N. O. Tv. B. G.

107. PyRRHULAUDA VERTICALIS (Smith), Grey-backed Lark.

Distr.—NCC. O. Tv. G.

*108. PyRRHULAUDA SMITHI (Bp.), Smith’s Lark.

Disir.—NCC. B. Tv. G.

109. Ammomanzs GRayi (Wahlberg), Gray’s Lark.

Distr.—G.

110. AmMOMANES ERYTHROCHLAMYS (Strickl.), Red-backed Lark.

Disir.—Tv. B. G.

111. AmMMoMANES FERRUGINEA (Smith), Ferruginous Lark.

Distr.—CC.

112. CanENDULA CRAssiRosTRIS (Vieill.), Thick-billed Lark.

Distr.—CC. O. G.

*112a. Borua pirriciuis (Shelley), Botha’s Lark.

Distr.—O.

[*113. GALERITA mopeEsta (Heugl.), Heuglin’s Crested Lark.]

114.

115,

116.

117.

ius.

ibe)

120.

121.

122.

123.

124.

125.

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MIRAFRA NIGRICANS (Sundev.), Dusky Lark.

Distr.—Tv. Rh. G.

MrraFra SABoTA (Smith), Sabota Lark,

Ost — On lye. vk,

Mirarra N&VIA (Strickl.), Dark-lined Lark,

Distr.—NCC. Tv. B. G.

MirRAFRA AFRICANOIDES (Smith), Fawn-coloured Lark.

Distr.—NCC. B. G.

MIRAFRA DAMARENSIS (Sharpe), Damara Lark.

Distr.—Ovampoland.

MiraFRA AFRICANA (Smith), Hwfous-naped Lark,

Distr —ECC. N. Z. O, Tv. B. Rh. P.

MIRAFRA FRINGILLARIS (Sundey.), Finch-like Lark.

Distr.—Tv. O. B. G.

MIRAFRA CHENIANA (Smith), Latakoo Lark.

Distr —CC. N. Tv.

MrraFRA FISCHERI (Reichenow), Fischer's Lark.

Distr.—Tv, Bh.

MrraFRra APIATA (Vieill.), Bar-tailed Lark.

Distr.—CC. B.

MIRAFRA RUFIPILEA (Vieill.), Rufows-headed Lark.

Disir —NCC. O. Tv.

SPIZOCORYS CONIROSTRIS (Sundev.), Pink-billed Lark.

Distr.—Tv.

*125a. Sprzocorys sTARKI (Shelley), Stark’s Punk-billed Lark.

Distr.—Damaraland.

*125B. SPIZOCORYS SCLATERI (Shelley), Sclater’s Pink-billed Lark.

126.

Distr —Namaqualand.

TEPHROCORYS CINEREA (Gmel.), ed-capped Lark.

Distr—CC. N. O. Tv. B. G.

[*127. TEPHROCORYS SPLENIATA (Strickl.).|

[*128. TrEPHROcORYS ANDERSSONI (Tristvr.). ]

*134.

135.

136.

137.

138.

139.

140.

141.

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. OTOCORYS BERLEPSCHI (Hartert), South African Horned Lark.

Distr.—ECC.

. HeTEROcoRYS BREVIUNGUIS (Sund.), Skort-clawed Lark.

Distr —NCC. Tv.

. CERTHILAUDA SEMITORQUATA, Smith, Grey-collared Lark.

Distr.—CC. O. Tv. B. G.

. Mrrarra Nivosa (Swains.), Karroo Lark.

Disiz— WO lve

. CERTHILAUDA CAPENSIS (Bodd.), Cape Long-billed Lark.

Distr.—CC. N.

CERTHILAUDA ALBOFASCIATA (Lafr.), Rufous Long-billed Lark.

Distr.—CC. N. O. Tv. B. G.

Faminy VII.—MOTACILLIDAL.

Macronyx capensis (Linn.), Orange-throated Long-claw.

Distr.—CC. UN. Z. O. Tv. Bh.

Macronyx croceus (Vieill.), Yellow-throated Long-claw.

Distr —ECC. LN. Z. Tv. P.

Macronyx AMELIE (De Tarragon), Pink-throated Long-claw.

Distr.—LN. Z. P. Rh.

AntTHus cHtorIs (Licht), Small Yellow-tufted Pipit.

Distr.—ECC. O. N. Z. Tv.

ANTHUS LINEIVENTRIS (Sundey.), Stripe-bellied Pipit.

Distr.—N. Tv. B. Rh.

ANTHUS CRENATUS (Finsch & Hartlaub), Larger Yellow-

tufted Pipit.

Distr.—CC.

ANTHUS TRIVIALIS (Linn.), Tree Pipit.

Distr.—Tv.

ANTHUS BRACHYURUS (Sundev.), Short-tatled- Pipit.

Distr.—N. Z.

*149\. ANTHUS CAFFER (Sundey.), Transvaal Short-tailed Pipit.

Distr.——Tv.

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143. ANTHUS NICHOLSONI (Sharpe), Nicholson’s Pipit.

Distr.— CC. N. Tv. G.

*143a, ANTHUS VAALENSIS (Shelley), Vaal River Pipit.

*144,

145.

Distr.—UN. NCC:

ANTHUS PYRRHONOTUS (Vieill.), Cinamon-backed Pipit.

Distr.—Throughout.

ANTHUS RUFULUS (Vieill.), Lesser Tawny Pipit.

Distr.—Throughout.

146. AnTHus Bocaat (Nicholson), Bocage’s Pipit.

aie

Disir—G.

Moracinma vipua (Sundev.), African Pied Wagtail.

Distr.—ECC. N.

*1474, Moraciuna varnnanti (Cab.), Black-flanked Wagtail.

148.

149.

150.

151.

152.

153.

154.

155.

Distr.—NCC. O. Tv. Rh.

MoraciLLA LONGICAUDA (Riipp.), Grey-backed Wagtail.

Distr —KCC. N. Z. ETv.

MoraciLna capensis (Linn.), Cape Wagtail.

Distr.—Throughout.

MoracinLa CAMPESTRIS (Pallas), Ray’s Yellow Wagtail.

Distr.—N. Tv. Bh.

Moraciuna FLAVA (Linn.), Blwe-headed Wagtail.

Dist: Nev Goee

MoracinLa FLAVA BOREALIS (Sundey.), Grey-headed Wagtail.

Distr.—Tyv.

MorTaciLLa MELANOCEPHALA (Licht.), Black-headed Wagtail.

Distr.—CC. Ty.

Faminy VIII—CERTHIIDA.

SALPORNIS SPILONOTUS SALVADORII (Bocage), African Spotted

Creeper.

Distr.—Bh.

Famity IX.—PROMEROPIDAM.

PROMEROPS CAFER (Linn.), Cape Long-tailed Sugar-bird.

Distr.—CC.

318 Annals of the South African Museum.

156. PRoMEROPS GURNEYI (Verreaux), Natal Long-tailed Sugar-bird.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. O. Tv. P.

Famity X.—NECTARINIIDA.

157, NEcTARINIA FAMOSA (Linn.), Malachite Sunbird.

Distr.—Throughout.

158. CINNYRIS MARIQUENSIS (Smith), Southern Bifasciated Sunbird.

Distr.—Z. Tv. Bh. B. G.

*158a, CINNYRIS MICRORHYNCHUS (Shelley), Short-balled Sunbird.

Distr.—P.

*158B. CINNYRIS SHELLEYI (Alexander), Shelley's Sunbird.

Distr.—Zambesi.

*158c. Crnnyris CUPREUS (Shaw), Coppery Sunbird.

Distr.— Zambesi.

159. CINNYRIS LEUCOGASTER (Vieill.), South African White-breasted

Sunbird.

Dist.—N. Z. Tv. P. Bh. B. G.

*159a. CINNYRIS VENUSTUS (Shaw), Yellow-breasted Sunbird.

Distr.—Zambesi.

160. Crnnyris AFER (Linn.), Greater Double-collared Sunbird.

Disir.—CC, N, Z. O. Tv.

161, Crinnyris LuDOvICENSIS (Bocage), Northern Double-collared

Sunbird,

Distr.—G,

162. CInNYRIS CHALYBEUS (Linn.), Lesser Double-collared Sunbird.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. O. Tv. Bh.

163. CrynyRis GUTTURALIS (Linn.), Scarlet-chested Sunbird.

Distr.—Throughout, except WCC.

164, Cinnyris AMETHYSTINUS (Shaw), Black Sunbird.

Disir.—CC. N. Z. Tv.

165. CINNYRIS AMETHYSTINUS BRADSHAWI (Sharpe), Bradshaw's

Sunbird.

Distr.—Zambesi.

166.

168.

169.

70:

G2:

paly(oy

174.

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Crnnyris Kirk! (Shelley), Avrk’s Sunbird.

Distr.—Bh.

Crynyris Fuscus (Vieill.), White-vented Sunbird.

Distr.—CC. B. G.

CINNYRIS VERREAUXI (Smith), Mouse-colowred Sunbird.

Distr.— ECC. N. Z.

CrinNYRIS OLIVACEUS (Smith), Olive-colouwred Sunbird.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. P.

ANTHROBAPHES VIOLACEA (Linn.), Orange-breasted Sunbird.

Distr.—WCC.

ANTHROTHREPTES COLLARIS (Vieill.), Collared Sunbird.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z.

ANTHROTHREPTES COLLARIS HYPODILUS (Jardine), Zambesi

Collared Sunbird.

Distr.—Zambesi.

Faminy XI.—ZOSTEROPIDA.

ZOSTEROPS ANDERSSONI (Shelley), Andersson's White-eye.

Distr.—Ovampoland, Rh.

ZOSTEROPS VIRENS (Bp.), Green White-eye.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. Ty. P. Bh.

ZOSTEROPS PALLIDA (Swains.), Pale White-eye.

Distr-_NCC. Ty.

ZOSTEROPS CAPENSIS (Sundev.), Cape White-eye.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. O. Ty. G.

Faminty XIJ.—PARIDAK.

Parus AFER (Gmel.), Black-breasted Tit.

Distr.—CC.

*177A. PARUS CINERASCENS (Vieill.), Grey Tit.

Distr-—NCC2O. Ev.

*177B. PARUS CINERASCENS PARVIROSTRIS (Shelley), Northern Grey

Tut.

Disir.—Rh.

320 Annals of the South African Museum.

178. PARUsS PALLIDIVENTRIS (Reichw.), Pale-bellied Tit.

Distr.—Rh. P.

PARUS RUFIVENTRIS (Boc.), Red-bellied Tit.

Distr.—Ovampoland.

179. Parus nicER (Bonn. & Vieill.), Black Tit.

Distr —ECC. N. Ty. P. Rh. B. G.

180. Parus NIGER XANTHOSTOMUS (Shelley), Zambest Black Tit.

Distr.—CC. Zambesi.

“181. AlairHALUs minuTUS (Shaw), Cape Penduline Tit.

Distr.—CC.

*18la. AlarrHauus smitHr (Jard. & Selby), Transvaal Penduline

Dit:

Distr.—Tv. Rh. B.

182. AiGiTHALUS CAROLI (Sharpe), Andersson's Penduline Tit.

Distr.—P. Bh. B. G.

Faminy XIII.—LANIIDZA.

183. UROLESTES MELANOLEUCUS (Jard. & Selby), Long-tailed Shrike.

Distr.—NCC. O. UN. Z. Tv. Bh.

184. Lanius couuaris (Linn.), Liscal Shrike.

Distr.—Throughout.

185. Lanrus suBcoronatus (Smith), Coronetted Shrike.

Disir-—NCC, Ty. BG,

186. Lanius MINOR (Gmel.), Lesser Grey Shrike.

Distr.—O. Tv. Bh. G.

*186a. LANIUS LUEBBERTI (Reichw.), Lubbert’s Shrike.

Distr.—G.

187. Lanius coutuurio (Linn.), Red-backed Shrike.

Distr —CC. N. Z. O. Tv. Bh. G.

188. EUROCEPHALUS ANGUITIMENS (Smith), White-crowned Shrike.

Distr.—Tv. Rh. B. G.

189. Ninaus BRuBRU (Lath.), Brubru Shrike.

Distr.—Throughout except SCC.

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190. Ninaus NIGRITEMPORALIS (Reichw.), Black-browed Brubru

Shrike.

Distr.—Zambesi.

191. TELEPHONUS SENEGALUS (Linn.), Black-headed Bush-shrike.

Distr.—Throughout except WCC.

192. TeLEPHONUS TOHAGRA (Vieill.), Tchagra.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv.

193. TELEPHONUS AUSTRALIS (Smith), Three-streaked Bush-shrike.

Distr.—Ty. B. G. Rh.

194. TELEPHONUS MINOR (Reichw.), Hastern Three-streaked Bush-

shrike.

Distr.—L. Zambesi.

195. Dryosorus cusua (Shaw), Lesser Puff-back Shrike.

isi We CoN Ziaelv. Rh.

*195a. DryYoOSCcOPUS CUBLA HAMATUS (Hartl.), Tropical Puff-back

Shrike.

Distr.—G.

*196. Dryoscopus RUFIVENTRIS (Shaw), Greater Puff-back Shrike.

Distr.—CC. N.

*196a. DRYOSCOPUS RUFIVENTRIS HyBRIDUS (Neum.), Northern Puff-

back Shrike.

Distr.—Tv. Bh.

197. Dryoscopus curtatus (Hartl.), Hartlawb’s Shrike.

Distr.—Rh. B. G.

198. Dryoscopus mossamBicus (Finsch & Reichw.), Mozambique

Shrike.

Distr.—P.

199. LANIARIus aTRococcINEUS (Burchell), Black and Crimson

Shrike.

Disir—NCC. WTv. B. Bh. G.

200. Lanrarius Gurrurauis (P. L. 8. Miller), Backbakiri Shrike.

Distr.—CC. N. O. Tv. G.

201. LANIARIUS QUADRICOLOR (Cass.), Howr-colowred Bush Shrike.

Distr.—N. Z. Tv. Bh.

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202.

203.

*204.

*205.

206.

207.

208.

209.

212.

213.

214.

215.

216.

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LANIARIUS RUBIGINOSUS (Sundey.), Ruddy-breasted Bush Shrike.

Distr—ECC. N. Z. ETv.

LANIARIUS OLIVACEUS (Shaw), Olive Bush Shrike.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z.

LANIARIUS MARAISI (Scl. f.), Marais’ Bush Shrike.

Distr—Knysna.

LANIARIUS SULFUREIPECTUS (Less.), Orange-breasted Bush

Shrike.

Distr. ECC. N. Z. ETv. Rh. B.

LANIARIUS STARKI (Scl. f.), Southern Grey-headed Bush Shrike.

Distr —CC. N. Z. P. Rh.

NicaTorR GuLaRiIs (Finsch & Hartl.), Zambest Green Shrike.

Disir.—Z. P.

LANIOTURDUS TORQUATUS (Waterhouse), White-tailed Shrike.

Distr.—G.

SIGMODUS RETZII (Wahlb.), Retz’s Helmet Shrike.

Disir.—G. Bh.

. Siamopus TRIcoLoR (Gray), Zambest Helmet Shrike.

Disir.—ETyv. P. Rh.

. PRIoNops TALACOMA (Smith), Smith's Helmet Shrike.

Disir.—Z. ETy. P. Rh. B. G.

Faminty XIV.—CRATEROPODIDA.

CRATEROPUS JARDINII (Smith), Jardine’s Babbler.

Distr.—N. Z. Ty. Rh. B. P.

CRATEROPUS KIRKI (Sharpe), Kirk’s Babbler.

Distr.—Rh. P.

CRATEROPS MELANOPS (Hartl.), Black-faced Babbler.

Distr.—G.

CRATEROPUS HARTLAUBI (Bocage), Hartlaub’s Babbler.

Distr.—Rh. G.

CRATEROPUS BICOLOR (Jardine), Pied Babbler.

Distr.—NCC. Z. Tv. B. Rh. G.

AT.

218.

219.

220.

221.

222.

223.

224.

*295,

226.

227.

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PycnonoTus CAPENSIS (Linn.), Cape Bulbul.

Distr.—CC.

Pycnonotus TRIcoLoR (Hartl.), Damaraland Bulbul.

Disir.—G.

PYCNONOTUS LAYARDI (Gurney), Black-capped Bulbul.

Distr.—ECC. N. Tv. Rh. G.

Pycnonotus nigricans (Vieill.), Black-fronted Bulbul.

Distr.—NCC. N. O. Ty. B. G.

ANDROPADUS IMPORTUNUS (Vieill.), Sombre Bulbul.

Disitr.—CC. N. Z. Tv.

ANDROPADUS DEBILIS (Scl. f.), Slender Bulbul.

Distr.—P.

CHLOROCICHLA FLAVIVENTRIS (Smith), Yellow-bellied Bulbul.

Distr.—N. Z.

CHLOROCICHLA OCCIDENTALIS (Sharpe), Damara Bulbul.

Distr.—G. Bh.

CHLOROCICHLA INSULARIS (Hartl.),

Distr.—P.

PHYLLOSTROPHUS CAPENSIS (Swains.), Cape Bristle-necked

Bulbul.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Tv. B.

PHYLLOSTROPHUS STREPITANS (Reichw.), Rezchenow’s Bristle-

necked Bulbul.

Distv.—P.

. PHYLLOSTROPHUS FLAVISTRIATUS (Sharpe), Yellow-streaked

Bulbul.

Distr.—ECC. Z. ETv. P.

*298a. CRINIGER MILANJENSIS (Shell.), Milanji Bulbul.

229.

230.

231.

Distr.—Bh. P.

PARISOMA SUBC@RULEUM (Vieill.), Tit Babbler.

Distr.—CC. O. UN. Tv. Bh. G.

PARISOMA LAYARDI (Hartl.), Layard’s Tit Babbler.

Distr.—CC. G.

PARISOMA PLUMBEUM (Hartl.), Hartlawb’s Tit Babbler.

Distr.—N. Rh.

324

232.

233.

234.

235.

236.

237.

238.

239.

240.

*241,

*249,

243.

244.

245.

246.

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Famity XV.—SYLVIIDA.

SyLVIA CINEREA (Bechst.), Huropean Whitethroat.

Distr.—G.

SyLVIA sIMpLEX (Lath.), Garden Warbler.

Distr.—N. Tv. B. Rh. G.

PHYLLOsScoPpuS TROCHILUS (Linn.), Willow Wren.

Distrv.—Throughout.

HyYpouals INTERINA (Vieill.), Zcterine Warbler.

Distr.—B. G. Rh.

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS (Linn.), Great Reed Warbler.

Distr —ECC. N. Tv. Rh. G.

ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS (Bechst.), Marsh Warbler.

Distr.—N. Zambesi.

ACROCEPHALUS BEXTICATUS (Vieill.), African Reed Warbler.

Distr.—Throughout.

ACROCEPHALUS SCH@NOBENUS (Linn.), Sedge Warbler.

Distr.—Tv. G. Zambesi.

LocusTELLA FLUVIATILIS (Wolf), River Grasshopper Warbler.

Distr.—Zambesi.

CRYPTILLAS VICTORINI (Sund.), Victorin’s Warbler.

Distr.—CC.

EURYPTILA SUBCINNAMOMEA (Smith), Cinamon-breasted

Warbler.

Distr.—CC.

BRADYPTERUS BRACHYPTERUS (Vieill.), Stripe-throated Reed

Warbler,

Distr.—Throughout except G.

BRADYPTERUS BARRATTI (Sharpe), Barratt’s Reed Warbler.

Distr.—N. ETv.

BRADYPTERUS SYLVATICUS (Sundev.), Knysna Reed Warbler.

Distr.—Knysna.

BRADYPTERUS BABHICULA (Vieill.), Babbling Reed Warbler.

Distr.—Throughout.

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*246a, BRADYPTERUS CUNENENSIS (Hartert), Cunene Reed Warbler.

Distr.—Ovampoland.

247. SCHOENICOLA APICALIS (Cab.), Fan-tailed Reed Warbler.

Distr.N. Z. Rh.

248. EREMOMELA FUAVIVENTRIS (Burch.), Yellow-bellied Bush

Warbler.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. Rh.

*248a, EREMOMELA FLAVIVENTRIS DAMARENSIS (Sharpe), Damaraland

Bush Warbler.

Distr.—G.

249. EREMOMELA POLIOXANTHA (Sharpe), Buckley’s Bush Warbler.

Distr.—ETv.

250. EREMOMELA HELENOR#/ (Alexander), Zanibest Bush Warbler.

Distr.—Zambesi.

251. ErEMoMELA vustTiconiis (Sundey.), Brown-throated Bush

Warbler.

Distr.—Z. Tv. Rh. G.

252. EREMOMELA scotops (Sundev.), Dusky-faced Bush Warbler.

Distr.—Tv. Rh.

253. CAMAROPTERA OLIVACEA (Vieill.), Green-backed Bush Warbler.

Distr—ECC. N. Tv. Rh. P.

254. CAMAROPTERA SUNDEVALLI (Sharpe), Grey-backed Bush

Warbler.

Distr.—-ECC. N. Tv. B. G.

255. CAMAROPTERA BREVICAUDATA (Cretzschm.), Liippell’s Bush

Warbler.

Distr.—Zambesi.

256. SYLVIELLA RUFESCENS (Vieill.), Cromobec.

Disty.—CC. N. Z. Tv. Bh. G.

957. SyLVIELLA PALLIDA (Alexander), Zambesi Crombec.

Distr.—Zambesi.

258. CRYPTOLOPHA RUFICAPILLA (Sundey.), Yellow-throated Flly-

catcher Warbler.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. ETv. P.

326 Annals of the South African Museum.

959. Apatis THORACICA (Shaw & Nodder), Bar-throated Warbler.

Distr.—CC. N. ETv. B.

260. Apaurs scrTa (Vieill.), Favry Warbler.

Distr.—CC. UN. O. Tv.

961. CuLoropyta FLAVIDA (Strickl.), Black-breasted Bush Warbler.

Dist —Ge

262. CHLoRODYTA NEGLECTA (Alexander), Eastern Black-breasted

Bush Warbler.

Distr —ECC. N. Z. ETy. P. Rh.

263. CHLORODYTA DAMARENSIS (Wabhlb.), Damara Bush Warbler.

Disti.—G.

264. CHLORODYTA ICTEROPYGIALIS (Lafr.), Yellow-rumped Bush

Warbler.

Distr.—CC. N.

265. CALAMONASTES FASCIOLATUS (Smith), Barred Wren Warbler.

Distr.—CC. B. Ty. Bh. G.

266. PRINIA SUBSTRIATA (Smith), White-breasted Wren Warbler.

Distr.—CC.

267. PRINIA HYPOXANTHA (Ayres), Saffron-breasted Wren Warbler.

Distr.—ECC. N. ET.

268. PRINIA MACULOSA (Bodd.), Cape Wren Warbler.

Distr.—CC. G.

269. PRINIA MYsTACEA (Riipp.), Tawny-flanked Wren Warbler.

Distr. —NTv. Rh. P. G.

270. Printa FLAvICANS (Bonn. & Vieill.), Black-chested Wren

Warbler.

Distr.—CC. O. Ty. Rh. G.

“270A. SPILOPTILA MOLOPENSIS (Sharpe), Molopo Wren Warbler.

Distr.—B.

271. SPILOPTILA OCULARIA (Smith), Rufous-eared Wren Warbler.

Distr.—CcC. N. Tv.

272. CISTICOLA FULVICAPILLA (Vieill.), Tawny-headed Grass Warbler.

Distr.—CC. N. Ty. G.

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973. CISTICOLA ABERRANS (Smith), Smuth’s Grass Warbler.

Distr.—ECC. N. Tv. Rh. G.

274. CisTICOLA CINERASCENS (Heuglin), Grey Grass Warbler.

Distr.—Z. Rh.

275. CisticouA ERYTHROPS (Hartl.), Lwfous-fronted Grass Warbler.

Distr.—Zambesi.

276. CisticoLA RUFA (Fraser), Fraser's Grass Warbler.

Distr.—P.

277. CisTICOLA TEXTRIX (Vieill.), Pinc-pine Grass Warbler.

Distr.—_WCC.

278. CisTICOLA TINNIENS (Licht.), Levaillant’s Grass Warbler.

Disir-—_CG: Ne Tv. G. Rh.

279. CisTICOLA TERESTRIS (Smith), Wren Grass Warbler.

Distr.—Throughout except G.

980. Cistrcona cursiTans (Frankl,), Mediterranean Grass Warbler.

Distr.—G.

981. CisTICOLA SUBRUFICAPILLA (Smith), Grey-backed Grass

Warbler.

Distr.—CC. O. Tv. B.

*9814, CISTICOLA CHINIANA (Smith), Hastern” Grey-backed Grass

Warbler. |

Distr.—N. Z. P. Bh.

*981n, CISTICOLA RUFILATA (Hartl.), Hartlawb’s Grey-backed Grass

Warbler.

Distr.—G.

282. CIsTICOLA LUGUBRIS (Riipp.), Buff-fronted Grass Warbler.

Distr.—N. Z. P.

283. CIsTICOLA NATALENSIS (Smith), Natal Grass Warbler.

Distr.—EHCC. N. Z. P. Tv. Rh.

284. CisTICOLA oBscuRA (Sundev.), Dusky Grass Warbler.

Distr.—N.

285. CIsTIcOLA MUELLERI (Alexander), Miiller’s Grass Warbler.

Distr.—Zambesi.

289.

290.

291.

292.

293.

294.

295.

296.

297.

Annals of the South African Museum.

. PryarorNis pLuMosus (Sharpe), Sooty Chat Warbler.

Distr.—Bh,

. CHETOPS FRENATUS (Temm.), Rufous Rock-jumper.

Distr. —WCC.

. CHEHETOPS AURIANTIACUS (Layard), Orange-breasted Lock-

jumper.

Distr.—ECC. N.

CH#Tops pyconopyetius (P. L. Sclater), Damara Rock-jwmper.

Distr.—G.

SPHENG@ACUS AFRICANUS (Gmel.), Cape Grass-bird.

Distr.—WCC.

SPHENG@ACUS INTERMEDIUS (Shelley), Hastern Province Grass-

bird.

Distr.—ECC.

SPHEN@ACUS NATALENSIS (Shelley), Natal Grass-bird.

Distr.—N. Z. Tv.

Famity XVI.—TURDID.

TurpDus Gurratus (Vigors), Natal Thrush.

Distr. ECC.N.

TURDUS LITSIPSIRUPA (Smith), Grownd-scraper Thrush.

Disir.—NCC. N. O. Tv. B. Rh. G.

TURDUS GURNEYI (Hartl.), Gurney’s Thrush.

Distr.—N. Tv.

TURDUS OLIVACEUS (Linn.), Cape Thrush.

Distr.—CC. N. Z.

TurDus caBanisi (Cab.), Cabanis’ Thrush.

Distr.—NCC. O. Tv. B.

TURDUS LIBONIANUS (Smith), Kurrichaine Thrush.

Distr.—Z. Ty. B. Rh.

*298a. TURDUS LIBONIANUS TROPICALIS (Ptrs.), Peters’ Thrush

Distr.—P.

“2988. TURDUS LIBONIANUS VERREAUXI (Boc.), Verreaua’s Thrush.

Distr.—G.

299.

300.

301.

305.

306.

*307.

308.

309.

310.

311.

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ERITHACUS PHILOMELA (Bechst.), The Eastern Nightingale.

Distr.—Zambesi.

Monticoua RUPESTRIS (Vieill.), Cape Rock Thrush.

Disitr—CC. N. Z. O. Tv.

MonrTicoLa EXPLORATOR (Vieill.), Sentinel Rock Thrush.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. O. Tv.

. Monricona BREVIPES (Waterhouse), Short-toed Rock Thrush

Distr.—NCC. Tv. G.

. MoNnTICOLA ANGOLENSIS (Sousa), Angola Rock Thrush.

Distr.—Rh.

. MYRMECOCICHLA FORMICIVORA (Vieill.), Ant-eating Chat.

Distr.—Throughout.

MYRMECOCICHLA BIFASCIATA (Temm.), Buff-streaked Chat

Distr.—ECC. UN. O. Tv.

PRATINCOLA TORQUATA (Linn.), Sowth African Stone Chat.

Distr.—Throughout except G.

SAXICOLA MONTICOLA (Vieill.), Mountain Chat.

Disir.—CC. UN. O. Tv. B. G.

SAXICOLA PILEATA (Gmel.), Capped Wheatear.

Distr—Throughout except Zambesi.

SAXICOLA PILEATA LIVINGSTONI (Tristram), Livingstone’s

Wheatear.

Distr.—Zambesi.

SAXICOLA NANTHE (Linn.), Huropean Wheatear.

Distr.—Zambesi.

SAXICOLA ALBICANS (Wahl.), Damara Chat.

Disir.—G.

. SAXICOLA LAYARDI (Sharpe), Layard’s Chat.

Distr.—Orange River.

SAXICOLA FAMILIARIS (Stephens), Familiar Chat.

Distr.—CC. N. Z.

*313a. SAXICOLA FAMILIARIS GALTONI (Strickl.), Galton’s Chat.

Dist —Tvy. Rh:

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*313B. SAXICOLA FAMILIARIS HELLMAYRI (Reichw.), Hellmayr’s Chat.

Disir.—G.

314. SAXICOLA FALKENSTEINI (Cab.), Falkenstein’s Chat.

Distr.—Zambesi.

315. Emarcrinata sinuata (Sundev.), Sickle-winged Chat.

Distr:—CC. 0: Ty. B.

*316. HMARGINATA CINEREA (Vieill.), Grey Chat.

Distr.—CC.

*316a. HMARGINATA SCHLEGEL (Wahl.), Schlegel’s Chat.

Disir.—G.

317. EMARGINATA POLLUX (Hartl.), Hartlawb’s Chat.

Disir.—CC.

318. THAMNOLHA CINNAMOMEIVENTRIS (Lafr.), White-shouldered

Bush Chat.

Disir—ECC. UN. O. Ty. B. Rh.

319. THAMNOLHA ARNOTTI (Tristr.) Arnot’s Bush Chat.

Distr.—ECC. Ty. Rh. G.

320. CossyPHA BICOLOR (Sparrm.), Noisy Robin Chat.

Disir.—COC. N. Z. Tv. P. G.

321. COSSYPHA NATALENSIS (Smith), Natal Robin Chat.

Disir.—N. Z. ETv. P.

322. CossyPHA HEUGLINI (Hartl.), Heuglin’s Robin Chat.

Distr.—ETv. Rh.

323. CossypHA CAFFRA (Linn.) Cape Robin Chat.

Distr—CC. N. Z. O. Tv. B. Rh.

324. CossYPHA HUMERALIS (Smith), White-shouldered Robin Chat.

Distr.—N. Z. Tv. P. Rh. B.

325. CossypHA siGNata (Sundey.), Brown Robin Chat.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z.

326. CICHLADUSA ARCUATA (Peters), Morning Warbler.

Distr.—Zambesi.

327. TARSIGER STELLATUS (Vieill.), White-starred Bush Robin.

Distr.—CC. N. ETy.

328.

329.

330.

dal.

334.

339.

336.

337.

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TARSIGER SILENS (Shaw), Stlent Bush Robin.

Disiz-—CCIN. ZO. Ty. B:

ERYTHROPYGIA P@NA (Smith), Smith’s Ground Robin.

Distr —NCC. G. B. Tv. Bh.

ERYTHROPYGIA ZAMBESIANA (Sharpe), Zambest Ground Robin.

Distr.—Zambesi.

ERYTHROPYGIA LEUCOPHRYS (Vieill.), White-browed Ground

Fobin.

Distr—ECC. N. O. Tv. P. B. Rh.

. ERYTHROPYGIA MUNDA (Cab.), Damara Ground Robin.

Distr.—G.

. ERYTHROPYGIA QUADRIVIRGATA (Reichb.), Lwfouws-breasted

Ground Robin.

Distr.—ETy. P. Bh.

ERYTHROPYGIA CORYPHBUS (Less.), Cape Ground Robin.

Distr.—WCC. B. G.

Famity XVII—MUSCICAPIDA.

LIOPTILUS NIGRICAPILLUS (Vieill.), Bush Blackcap.

Distr.—ECC, N. ETv.

BRADYORNIS ATER (Sundey.), Black Flycatcher.

Distr.—N. ETr. G. Rh.

BRADYORNIS INFUSCATUS (Smith), Brown Flycatcher.

Distr.—WCC. B. G.

BRADYORNIS MARIQUENSIS (Smith), Mariqua Flycatcher.

Distr. —NCC. Tv. B. G.

*338a. BRADYORNIS GRISEA (Reichw.), Hast African Flycatcher.

339.

Disiz—Ge Pe:

BRADYORNIS MURINUS (Finsch & Hartl.), Mouwse-colowred

Flycatcher.

Distr.—Z. Rh,

340. Musicapa GRisoua (Linn.), Spotted Flycatcher.

Distr.—Throughout.

Bae Annals of the South African Museum.

341. MusIicaAPA CH#RULESCENS (Hartl.), Blue-grey Flycatcher.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. Bh. G.

342. AnsEONAX ADUSTA (Boie), Dusky Flycatcher.

Distr.CC. N. Z. ETv. Rh.

343. CHLOROPETA NATALENSIS (Smith), Natal Yellow Flycatcher.

Distr.—N. Z. ETy.

[“344. CHLOROPETA ICTERINA (Sundev.), Sundevall’s Yellow Fly-

catcher. |

345. HynioTa AUSTRALIS (Shelley), Mashonaland Flycatcher.

Distr.—Rh.

346. SMITHORNIS CAPENSIS (Smith), Cape Broad-bill.

Distr.—N. Z.

347. Bras musicus (Vieill.), Black and White Flycatcher.

Distr.—P. Rh.

348. PLATYSTIRA PELTATA (Sundey.), Green-throated Flycatcher.

Distr.— ?N. P.

349. PACHYPRORA CAPENSIS (Linn.), Cape Flycatcher.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. ETv.

*3494. PACHYPRORA FRATRUM (Shelley), Woodward’s Flycatcher.

Distr.—Z.

350. PacHyprora MOLITOR (Hahn and Kuster), White-flanked Fly-

catcher.

Disir.—ECC. N. Z. ETv. P. Rh. G.

351. Pacnyprora pririt (Levaill.), Pririt Flycatcher.

Distr.—WCC. G.

352. ERYTHROCERCUS Livinestont (Finsch & MHartl.), Lwing-

stone’s Flycatcher.

Distr.—Bh. P.

353. TROCHOCERCUS CYANOMELAS (Vieill.), Bluwe-mantled Flycatcher.

Disty.—CC. N. ETv.

353A. TROoCHOCERCUS ALBONOTATUS (Sharpe), White-spottied Fly-

catcher.

Distr.—Rh.

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354. TERPSIPHONE PERSPICILLATA (Swains.), Paradise Flycatcher.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv.

*354a. TERPSIPHONE PLUMBEICEPS (Reichw.), Grey-chinned Paradise

308.

306.

307.

308.

359.

360.

364.

360.

Flycatcher.

Distr.—G. Bh.

Faminy XVIII.—DICRURIDA.

Dicrurus AFER (Licht.), York-tailed Drongo.

Distr.—Throughout in wooded districts.

DicruRrus LUDWIG! (Smith), Square-tailed Drongo.

Distr.—N. Z. P. ETv. Rh. B.

Faminy XIX.—CAMPOPHAGIDE.

CAMPOPHAGA NIGRA (Vieill.), Black Cuckoo Shrike.

Distr.—Throughout.

CAMPOPHAGA HARTLAUBI (Salvad.), Hartlawb’s Cuckoo Shrike.

Distr.—Throughout.

GRAUCALUS PECTORALIS (Jard. & Selby), Black-chested Cuckoo

Shrike.

Distr.—Tv. P. Rh. G.

GraucaLus cmsius (Licht.), Grey Cuckoo Shrike.

Distr.—CC. N. Z.

Faminy XX.—HIRUNDINIDA.

. CHELIDON uURBICA (Linn.), House Martin.

Disir.—UN. Ty. Rh.

. CoTiLE RrPARIA (Linn.), Huropean Sand Martin.

Distr.—Tv.

. COTILE PALUDICOLA (Vieill.), South African Sand Martin.

Distr.—Throughout except G.

CotiLE cincta (Bodd.), Banded Sand Martin.

Distr.—Throughout.

PTYONOPROGNE FULIGULA (Licht.), Rock Martin.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Ty.

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366.

367.

368.

369.

370.

371.

374.

375.

376.

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PTYONOPROGNE ANDERSSONI (Sharpe & Wyatt), Andersson’s

Rock Martin.

Distr.—G.

Hirunpo rustica (Linn.), Huropean Swallow.

Distr.—Throughout.

HIRUNDO ANGOLENSIS (Boc.), Angola Swallow.

Distr.—G.

HIRUNDO ALBIGULARIS (Strickl.), White-throated Swallow.

Distr.—Throughout.

Hirunpo pimipiata (Sund.), Pearl-breasted Swallow.

Distr.—Throughout.

HIRUNDO ATROCERULEA (Sundev.), Blue Swallow.

Disir.—N.

. Hrrunpo smitui (Leach), Wire-tailed Swallow.

Distr.—Zambesi, N.

. HiIRUNDO GRISEOPYGA (Sundev.), Grey-rwmped Swallow.

Distr.—N. Z. P. Bh.

Hrrvunpo cucunuata (Bodd.), Larger Stripe-breasted Swallow.

Distr.—Throughout.

HIRUNDO PUELLA (Temm.), Smaller Stripe-breasted Swallow.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. Tv. Rh.

HIRUNDO SEMIRUFA (Sundey.), Rufous-breasted Swallow

Distr.—N. O. Ty. Rh.

HirvuNDO MONTEIRI (Hartl.), Monteiro’s Swallow.

Distr.—P. Rh. G.

PETROCHELIDON SPILODERA (Sundey.), South African Cliff

Swallow.

Disty.—ECC. N. Z. O. Tv.

PSALIDOPROCNE HOLOMEL/NA (Sundev.), Black Rough-winged

Swallow.

Disir—CC Ne Lye

PSALIDOPROCNE ORIENTALIS (Reichw.), Hastern Rough-winged

Swallow.

Distr.—P.

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Haniny XX XI.—PITEID As.

*381. PITTA LONGIPENNIS (Reichw.), Central Afrocan Pitta.

Distr.—Bh.

Ornper IT.—PICARIA.

Famity I.—UPUPIDZ.

382. Upupa arricana (Bechst.), South African Hoopoe.

Distr.—Throughout.

Faminy II.—IRRISORIDA.

383. Irrisor viripis (A. A. HB. Licht.), Kaxelaar.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv.

383A. IRRISOR ERYTHRORHYNCHUS (Lath.), Hast African Kakelaar.

Distr.—N. Z. P.

383B. IRRISOR DAMARENSIS (Grant), Damaraland Kakelaar.

Distr.—G.

384, RHINOPOMASTUS CYANOMELAS (Vieill.), Scimitar-bill.

Disir.—NCC. N. Z. Tv. B. Rh. G.

Faminy III.—CYPSELIDA.

385. CYPSELUS AFRICANUS (Temm.), White-bellied Swift.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. G.

386. CypsELus Aapus (Linn.), Hwropean Swift.

Distr.—NCC. Rh.

387. CyPSELUS BARBATUS (Sel.), Black Swift.

Distr. CC. N.

388. CYPSELUS CAFFER (Licht.), African White-rumped Swift.

Distr.—CcC. N. Tv. Bh.

389. CyPsELUS AFFINIs (J. E. Gray & Hardwicke), Indian Swift.

Distr.—CC,

390. TacHORNIS PARVA (Licht.), Palin Swift.

Distr.—Zambesi, G.

391. CHHTURA STICTILHMA (Reich.), Reichenow’s Spine-tail.

Distv.—Zaimbesi.

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Famity IV.—CAPRIMULGIDZ.

392. CaPpRIMULGUS EUROPHUS (Linn.), Hwropean Nightjar.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. O. Tv.

393. CAPRIMULGUS RUFIGENA (Smith), Rufows-cheeked Nightjar.

Distr.—CC. O. Tv. B. Bh. G.

394. CAPRIMULGUS FERVIDUS (Sharpe), Miery-necked Nightjar.

Disir._N. Z. Tv. G.

395. CAPRIMULGUS PECTORALIS (Cuy.), South African Nightjar.

Distr —CC. N. Z.

396. CAPRIMULGUS TRIMACULATUS (Swains.), Freckled Nightjar.

Distr.—G. Ty.

397. CAPRIMULGUS Fossu (Hartl.), Mozambique Nightjar.

Distr.—Z. O. B. Bh. P.

398. CAPRIMULGUS NATALENSIS (Smith), Natal Nightjar.

Distr.—N.

399. COSMETORNIS VEXILLARIUS (Gould), Standard-wing Nightjar.

Distr.—N. Z. P. Rh. G.

Famity V.—CORACIIDA.

400. Coracias GARRULUS (Linn.), Huropean Roller.

Distr.—Throughout, rare in CC.

401. Coractas caupatus (Linn.), Moselikatze’s Roller.

Distr—NCC. N. Z.' Ty. B. Rh. G. P.

402. CorACIAS SPATULATUS (Trimen), Facquet-tailed Roller.

Disir.—Rh.

403. CoRACIAS MOSAMBICUS (Dresser), Purple Roller.

Disir.—CC. N. O. Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

404. Eurystomus AFER (Lath.), Cinnamon Roller.

Distv.—Tv. Rh. P.

Famity VI.—MEROPIDA..

405. Mrrops APIASTER (Linn.), Hwropean Bee-Hater.

Distr.—Throughout.

406.

407.

408.

409.

410.

411.

412.

413.

414,

415,

416.

417.

418.

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Merops PERSIOUS (Pallas), Blue-cheeked Bee-Eater.

Distr.—Throughout.

Merops BoEHMI (Reichw.), Bdhn’s Bee-EHater.

Distr.—Zambesi.

MeErops NuBICOIDES (Desmurs & Pucheran), Carmine-

throated Bee-Eater.

Disir.—Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

DICROCERCUS HIRUNDINEUS (Licht.), Swallow-tailed Bee-Hater.

Distr.—NCC. N. Tv. B. Bh. G.

MELITTOPHAGUS MERIDIONALIS (Sharpe), Little Bee-Hater.

Distr.—N. Z. Ty. B. Bh. G. P.

MELITTOPHAGUS BULLOCKOIDES (Smith), White-fronted Bee-

Hater.

Distr.—N. Z. Tv. Bh. P.

Famity VII.—ALCEDINIDA.

CERYLE RuDIS (Linn.), Pied Kingfisher.

Distr —Throughout.

CERYLE MAXIMA (Pall.), Giant Kingfisher.

Distr.—Throughout.

ALCEDO SEMITORQUATA (Swains.), Half-collared Kingfisher.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Tv.. Bh.

CoRYTHORNIS CYANOSTIGMA (Riipp.), Malachite Kingfisher.

Distr.—Throughout except G.

ISPIDINA NATALENSIS (Smith), Natal Kingfisher.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. P.

Haucyon swarnsoni (Smith), Grey-headed Kingfisher.

Distr.—Tv. Bh. G.

HALCYON ALBIVENTRIS (Scop.), Brown-hooded Kingfisher.

Distr —CC. N. Z. Tv.

HALCYON ORIENTALIS (Peters), Peters’ Kingfisher.

Distr.—P.

HALCYON CHELICUTI (Stanley), Striped Kingfisher.

Distr.—NCC. Z. Ty. Bh. G. P.

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491. Hatcyon cyANoLeucus (Vieill.), Angola Kingfisher.

Distr.—Z. Tv. B. Bh. G.

422, HALCYON SENEGALOIDES (Smith), Mangroove Kingfisher.

Distr.—ECC. N.

Fawiny VIIT.—COLIIDA.

*493, CoLius stRIATUS (Gmel.), Speckled Mouse-Bird.

Distr.—CC.

*493a, COLIUS STRIATUS MINOR (Cab.), Natal Speckled Mouse-Bird.

Distr.—N. Z. Tv. P.

*424, Couius CAPENSIS (Gmel.), White-backed Mouse-Bird.

Distr — Ce Oa riv.

*4244, CoLIUS CAPENSIS DAMARENSIS (Reichw.), Damaraland Mouse-

Bird.

Distr.—G.

425, CoLIUus ERYTHROMELON (Vieill.), Red-faced Mouse-Bird.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Tv. B. P.

425s. COLIUS ERYTHROMELON LACTEIFRONS (Sharpe), Whitefronted

Mowuse-Bird.

Disty.—G.

Famity I[X.—BUCEROTIDA.

426. Bucorax CAFER (Boc.), Brom-Vogel.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. Tv. Rh. P. G.

427. BYCANISTES BUCCINATOR (Temm.), Trumpeter Hornbill.

Disty.—HCC. N. Z. E. Tv. P.

*4974, BYCANISTES CRISTATUS (Riipp.), Zambest Trumpeter.

Distr.—Zambesi.

428. LoPHOCEROS MELANOLEUCUS (Licht.), Crowned Hornbill.

Disitr.—CC. N. P.

429, LopHOCEROS MONTEIRI (Hartl.), Monteiro’s Hornbill.

Distr.—G.

430. LopHocrRos EPIRHINUS (Sundey.), South African Grey

Hornbill.

Distr —Z. Tv. B. Bh. G. P.

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431. LopHocEROS ERYTHRORHYNCHUS (Temm.), Red-billed Hornbill.

Distr.—Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

432. LopHOCEROS DAMARENSIS (Shelley), Damaraland Hornbiil.

Distr.—G.

433. LopHocEROS LEUCOMELAS (Licht.), Yellow-billed Hornbill.

Distr.—N. Tv. B. Bh. G. P.

Faminy X.—TROGONIDA.

434. HAPALODERMA NARINA (Stephens), Narina Trogon.

Disitr.—SCC. N. Z. ETv. P. Bh.

Faminy XI.—PICIDA.

435. GEOCOLAPTES OLIVACEUS (Gmel.), Grownd Woodpecker.

Distr.—CC. N. O. Tv.

436. CAMPOTHERA NoTaTaA (Licht.), Knysna Woodpecker.

Distr.—CC. N.

437. CAMPOTHERA ABINGDONI (Smith), Golden-tailed Woodpecker.

Disir. N. Z. E'Tv. B.

438. CAMPOTHERA sMITHI (Malh.), Smith’s Woodpecker.

Disir.—NCC. Ty. Bh. G. P.

439. CAMPOTHERA BENNETT! (Smith), Bennett's Woodpecker.

Distr.—Z. Ty. B. Rh.

4394. CAMPOTHERA BENNETTI CAPRICORNIS, Capricorn Woodpecker.

Distr.—G.

*440, DENDROPICUS CARDINALIS (Gmel.), Cardinal Woodpecker.

Distr.—Throughout except Zambesi Valley.

*4404. DENDROPICUS CARDINALIS HARTLAUBI (Mahl.), Hartlawb’s

Cardinal Woodpecker.

Distr.—Zambesi Valley.

441, Turipias NAMAQuUSs (Licht.), Bearded Woodpecker.

Distr.—ECC. Z. Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

442. Mmsopicus GRISEICEPHALUS (Bodd.), Olive Woodpecker.

Disir.—CC. N. Z. Tv.

443. Iynx RnuFrIcotuis (Wagler), South African Wryneck.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z, Tv.

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Faminy XIJ.—INDICATORIDA.

444, INDICATOR SPARRMANI (Steph.), Sparrman’s Honey-Guide.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Tv. Rh.

445. INDICATOR MAJoR (Steph.), Yellow-throated Honey-Guide.

Distr.—CC. N. Ty. Rh.

446. INDICATOR VARIEGATUS (Sundev.), Scaly-throated Honey-Guide.

Distr.—CC, Z.

447. INDICATOR MINOR (Steph.), Lesser Honey-Guide.

Distr.—Throughout.

448. PRopoTiscus REGULUS (Sundev.), Wahlberg’s Honey-Guide.

Distr.—N.

Famity XIIIT.—CAPITONID/A.

449. Lysrus Torquatus (Dumont), Black-collared Barbet.

Distr — ECC) N« 4s Ly. bs ab. 2)

450. TRICHOLAMA LEUCOMELAS (Bodd.), Pied Barbet.

Distr.—Throughout.

451. TRICHOLHMA AFFINIS (Shelley), Shelley’s Barbet.

Disir—NCC. N. G.

452. STACTOLHMA LEUCOTIS (Sundeyv.), White-eared Barbet.

Disir.—N. Z. ETv. P.

453. STACTOLEMA SOWERBYI (Sharpe), Sowerby’s Barbet.

Distr.—RBh.

454, STAcTOLAMA wWooDWarDI (Shelley), Woodward's Green Barbet.

Distr.—Z.

455. BARBATULA PUSILLA (Dumont), Tinker Bird.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z.

456. BARBATULA EXTONI (Layard), Hxton’s Tinker Bird.

Distr.—Tv. B. Rh. P.

457. BARBATULA BILINEATA (Sundey.), White-browed Tinker Bird.

Disir.—Z, ETv.

458. TRACHYPHONUS CAFER (Vieill.), Levadlant’s Barbet.

Distr.—N. Z. Tv. B. Rh. P.

459.

460.

461.

462.

463.

464.

465.

466.

467.

468

469.

470.

471.

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Faminty XIV.—CUCULIDA.

Cucuuus GuLaris (Steph.), South African Cuckoo.

Distr.—N. O. Ty. B. Bh. G.

Cucutus canorus (Linn.), Hwropean Cuckoo.

Distr.—ECC. Tv. Bh. G. P.

CucuLUs POLIOCEPHALUS (Lath.), Smaller Cuckoo.

Distr.—N.

Cucutus sonitarius (Steph.), Red-chested Cuckoo.

Disir-—=CC UN, Ety, PR:

Cucuuus cuamosus (Lath,), Black Cuckoo.

Distr —ECC. N. Z. Tv. B. G.

CHRYSOCOCCYX SMARAGDINEUS (Swains.), Hmerald Cuckoo.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Rh.

CuHRYSOCOCCYX KLAASI (Steph.), Klaas’ Cuckoo.

Distr.—Throughout.

Curysococcyx cupREUS (Bodd.), Didric Cuckoo.

Distr.—Throughout.

CoccysTES GLANDARIUS (Linn.), Great Spotted Cuckoo.

Distr.—Throughout except WCC.

CoccysTEs JACOBINUS (Bodd.), Black and White Cuckoo.

Distr.—Throughout except CC.

CoccysTES HYPOPINARIUS (Cab. & Heine), Black and Grey

Cuckoo.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. P.

CoccysTESs CAFER (Licht.), Levaillant’s Cuckoo.

Disir—N. Tv. B. Rh. G. P

CoccYsTES SERRATUS (Sparrm.), Black-crested Cuckoo.

Disiz7C Ca Ney.

. CENTROPUS BURCHELLI (Swains.), Burchell’s Coucal.

Dist; —CCaNe iva bo Rh 2:

. CENTROPUS SENEGALENSIS (Linn.), Senegal Coucal.

Distr.—B. ?

CENTROPUS FLECKI (Reichw.), Hleck’s Coucal.

Distr.—B.

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CENTROPUS CUPREICAUDA (Reichw.), Bronzy-tailed Coucal.

Distr.—G. Rh.

. CENTROPUS SUPERCILIOsus (Hempr. & Ehr.), White-browed

Coucal.

Dist Ne Rh:

. CENTROPUS NIGRORUFUS (Cuv.), Natal Coucal.

Distr.—N. Tv. Bh.

CEUTHMOCHARES AUSTRALIS (Sharpe), Green Coucal.

Distr —N. Z. P.

Faminy XV.—MUSCOPHAGIDA.

TURACUS CoRYTHAIX (Wagl.), Knysna Plantain-Hater or Lowrie.

Distr.—SCC. N. Z. ETv.

TURACUS LIVINGSTONII (Gray), Livingstone’s Lourie.

Distr.—Z. Rh.

GALLIREX PORPHYREOLOPHUS (Vigors), Purple-crested Lourie.

Distr.—N. ETy. Rh.

GALLIREX CHLOROCHLAMYS (Shelley), Zambesi Purple-crested

Lourie.

Distr.—Zambesi.

SCHIZORHIS CONCOLOR (Smith), Grey Lourie.

Distr.—Z. Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

Orver IIT.—PSITTACI.

Faminy I1.—PSITTACIDA,

P@OcCEPHALUS ROBUSTUS (Gmel.), Levaillant’s Parrot.

Distr.—CC. N.

P@OCEPHALUS ROBUSTUS ANGOLENSIS (Reichw.), Brown-necked

Parrot.

Distr.—Rh. G.

PoEOCEPHALUS FUSCICAPILLUS (Verr.), Brown-headed Parrot.

Distr.—Z. ETv. P.

POEOCEPHALUS MEYERI (Cretzch.), Meyer's Parrot.

Disty.—Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

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488. PokOCEPHALUS RUEPELLI (Gray), Riippell’s Parrot.

Distr.—G.

489. AGAPORNIS ROSEICOLLIS (Vieill.), Rosy-faced Lovebird.

Distr.—N. CC. B. G.

490. AGAPORNIS LILIANH (Shelley), Nyasaland Lovebird.

Distr.—Zambesi.

Orper [V.—STRIGES.

Famity I.—STIGIDA.

491. Srrix rouAmMMEA (Linn.), Barn Owl.

Distr.—Throughout.

492. Srrix CAPENSIS (Smith), Grass Owl.

Distr.—CC, N. Tv.

Famity II.—BUBONIDA.

493. AsIo CAPENSIS (Smith), Marsh Owl.

Distr.—Throughout.

494, Asto LEucoTIS (Temm.), White-faced Owl.

Distr.—N. Tv. B. Rh. G.

495. SyrNruM woopForD!I (Smith), Woodford’s Owl.

Distr—CC. N. Ty. Rh.

496. Buxso capensis (Smith), Cape Hagle-Ovwl.

Distr.—CC. N. Z.

497. Buso macuxosus (Vieill.), Spotted Hagle-Owl.

Distr.—Throughout.

498. Buso LactEnus (Temm.), Verreaux’s Hagle-Ovl.

Distr.—Throughout.

499. Scops CAPENSIS (Smith), Cape Scops Owl.

Distr.—Throughout.

500. GuAucIDIUM PERLATUM (Vieill.), Pearl-spotted Owl.

Distr.—NCC. Z. Tv. B. Bh. G.

501. GLAUCIDIUM CAPENSE (Smith), Barred Owl.

Distr.—NCC. ETy. Rh. P.

502. ScoroPELia PELI (Bp.), Pel’s Fishing Owl.

Distr.—ECC. N. Zambesi.

344

503.

504.

505.

506.

507.

508.

509.

510.

oll,

612.

517

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Orper V.--ACCIPITRES.

Famity I.—FALCONIDA.

Fatco minor (Bp.), South African Peregrine.

Distr.—CC, N. Rh. G.

Fatco prarmicus (Temm.), South African Lanner.

Distr.—Throughout.

Fatco suBBUTEO (Linn.), Hobby.

Distr.—CC. N. Bh. G.

FaLco cuviERI (Smith), African Hobby.

Distr.—ECC. N.

FAaLco RUFICOLLIS (Swains.), Led-necked Falcon.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. P. G.

TINNUNCULUS RUPICOLUS (Daud.), South African Kestrel.

Disty.—Throughout.

TINNUNCULUS RUPICOLOIDES (Smith), Larger Kestrel.

Disir.—CC. N. O. Tv. B. Rh. G.

TINNUNCULUS NAUMANNI (Fleisch.), Lesser Kestrel.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. B. Bh. G.

TINNUNCULUS VESPERTINUS (Linn.), Western Red-legged

Kestrel.

Distr.—G.

TINNUNCULUS AMURENSIS (Radde), Eastern Red-legged Kestrel.

Distr—Throughout.

. TINNUNCULUS DICKINSONI (Scl.), Dickinson’s Kestrel.

Distr.—Rh. G. P.

. Baza VERREAUXI (Lafr.), Cuckoo Falcon.

Disi7:— SCG NZ. fy, Ri

. PoLIOHIERAX SEMITORQUATUS (Smith), Pigmy Falcon.

Distr—NCC. Tv. B. G.

. AQUILA VERREAUXI (Less.), Verreaux’s Hagle.

Distr.—CcC. N. Ty.

AQuILA RAPAX (Temm.), Tawny Eagle.

Distr.—CC. N. Ty. B. G.

518.

519,

534.

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AQUILA WAHLBERGI (Sundev.), Wahlberg’s Eagle.

Disir.—Tv. B. Rh. P. G.

EUTOLMAETUS PENNATUS (Gmel.), Booted Hagle.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. G.

. EUTOLMAETUS SPILOGASTER (Layard), African Hawk-EHagle.

Distp==CCe NN. Aly. Rh. G.

. Evtotmaiitus BeLLIcosus (Daud.), Martial Eagle.

Distr.—Throughout except Rhodesia.

. Spizamrus coronatus (Linn.), Crowned Hawk-Hagle.

Distr.—SCC. N.

. LopHoaétus occrprTatis (Daud.), Crested Hawk-Hagle.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. ETv.

. HALIAETUS VocIFER (Daud.), Sea Hagle.

Distr.—Throughout.

. HELOTARSUS ECAUDATUS (Daud.), Batelewr.

Distr.—Throughout except WCC.

. GYPOHIERAX ANGOLENSIS (Gmel.), Vultwrine Sea Eagle.

Dist — ve

. GYPABTUS OSSIFRAGUS (Savign.), Southern Lammergeyer.

Disir.—CC. N. Tv.

. CrrcaEtus PEcTorauis (Smith), Black-breasted Harrier- Eagle.

Distr.—Throughout.

. Crrcaitus Fascronatus (Gray), Banded Harrier-Hagle.

Distr.—N.

. ASTURINULA MoNoGRAMMICA (Temm.), African Buzzard-Hagle.

Distr.—N. Z. Tv. Rh. G. P.

. Bureo saKau (Daud.), Jackal Buzzard.

Distr.—Throughout except Northern G.

. BurEo aueur (Riipp.), dugur Buzzard.

Distr.—Rh.

. Burro DESERTORUM (Grill), Steppe Buzzard.

Disir.—CC. O. Tv. G.

Mitvus aeyprius (Gmel.), Yellow-billed Kite.

Disitr.—CC. N. Z. Tv. Rh. G. P.

536.

537.

538.

539.

O44.

5405.

546.

547.

548.

549.

500.

ool.

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. Minvus korscuun (Gmel.), Black Kite.

Distr.—G.

ELANUs C£RULEUS (Desf.), Black-shouldered Kite.

Distr.—Throughout.

MacHRAMPHUS ANDERSSONI (Gurney), Andersson's Pern.

Distr.N. G.

PERNIS APIVORUS (Linn.), Honey Buzzard.

Distr.—N. Tv. Rh. G.

ACCIPITER MINULLUS (Daud.), Little Sparrow-Hawk.

Disin.-—CC. N. 2. By. BB. G.

. ACCIPITER RUFIVENTRIS (Smith), African Sparrow-Hawk.

Distp — CCN Ly.

. ACCIPITER OVAMPENSIS (Gurney), Ovampo Sparrow-Hawk.

Distr.—G. Bh.

. ACCIPITER MELANOLEUCUS (Smith), Black Sparrow-Hawk.

Distr—SCC. N.

. AstuR TAcHIRO (Daud.), African Goshawk.

Distr—CC. N. Z. Tv. G. P.

ASTUR POLYZONOIDES (Smith), Little Banded Goshawk.

Distr.—NCC. N. Tv. Rh. G.

MELJERAX CANORUS (Rislach), Chanting Goshawk.

Disir.—CC. N. Tv. B. G.

MELIERAX MECHOWI (Cab.), Mechow’s Goshawk.

Disir.—G. Bh.

MELIERAX GABAR (Daud.), Gabar Goshawk.

Distr.—Throughout.

MELIERAX NIGER (Bonn. & Vieill.), Black Goshawk.

Distr.—CC. B. Tv. Rh. G.

CIRCUS CINERACEUS (Montagu), Montagu’s Harrier.

Distr.—Throughout.

Crrcus MAcruRusS (Gmel.), Pale Harrier.

Distr.—Throughout.

Crrcus mAurus (Temm.), Black Harrier.

Distr.—CC. O. N.

952.

053.

554,

500.

*556.

“O07”

508.

559.

560.

561.

562.

563.

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Circus =RuGINosus (Linn.), Marsh Harrier.

Disir.—tTy; Bh.

Circus RANIVoRUS (Daud.), South African Harrier

Disty.—Throughout except G. and Rh.

POLYBOROIDES TyPICUS (Smith), Harrier Hawk.

Distr.—CC., N. G. Rh.

Faminy II.—VULTURIDA.

Gyps KotBi (Daud.), Kolbe’s Vulture.

Distr.—Throughout.

GYPS RUEPPELLI (Brehm), Riippell’s Vulture.

Distr.—N. Tv. Bh. G.

PsEUDOGYPS AFRICANUS (Salvad.), African White-backed

Vulture.

Distr.—Tyv.

OTOGYPS AURICULARIS (Daud.), Black Vulture.

Distr.—Throughout.

LopHoeyps occrpirauis (Burchell), White-headed Vulture.

Distr —NCC. N. B. G. Rh.

NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS (Linn.), Egyptian Vulture.

Distr.—Throughout.

NECROSYRTES PILEATUS (Burchell), Hooded Vulture.

Distr.-—NCC. N. G. Rh.

Faminty IIJ._-PANDIONIDZ.

PANDION HALIAETUS (Linn.), Osprey.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv.

Famity I1V.—SERPENTARIIDA.

SERPENTARIUS SECRETARIUS (Sparrm.), Secretary Bird.

Distr.—Throughout.

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Orper VI.—STEGANOPODHES.

Famity I.—PHALACROCORACID.

564. PHALAcRocorAX LucIDUs (Licht.), White-breasted Dutker.

Distr.—S.A. Coasts and Rivers.

565. PHALACROCORAX CAPENSIS (Sparrm.), Trek Duzker.

Distr.S.A. Coasts.

566. PHALACROCORAX NEGLECTUS (Wahlb.), Bank Duiker.

Distr.—W. Coasts.

567. PHALACROCORAX AFRICANUS (Gmel.), Reed Dutker.

Distr.—Throughout.

568. Puorus rurus (Lacep. & Daud.), Snake Bird.

Distv.—lLarger Rivers of South Africa.

Famity II.—SULIDA.

569. Sua capensis (Licht.), Malagash.

Distr.—Coasts S.A.

570. Suta cyanops (Sundev.), Masked Booby.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

571, Suna LEucoGAsSTRA (Bodd.), Brown Booby.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

Faminty IIJ.—FREGATIDA.

572. FREGATA AQuina (Linn.), Frigate Bird.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

Faminy IV.—PHAETHONTIDZ.

573. PHA#THON RUBRICAUDA (Bodd.), Red-tailed Tropic Bird.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

Famity V.—PELECANIDA.

574, PELECANUS ROSEUS (Gmel.), Hastern White Pelican.

Distr.—Coasts, Lake Ngami, Zambesi.

575. PELECANUS RUFESCENS (Gmel.), Pink-backed Pelican.

Distr.—Coasts CC. and N.

576.

577.

578.

579.

580.

581.

582.

583.

584.

585.

586.

587.

588.

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Orper VIT.—HERODIONES.

Famity I.—CICONIIDA.

ABDIMIA ABDIMII (Licht.), White-bellied Stork.

Distr.—NCC. Tv. B. Rh. G.

DIssoURA MICROSCELIS (Gray), Woolly-necked Stork.

Distr.—KCC. N.

CrcontA ALBA (Linn.), White Stork.

Distr.—CC. N. Ty. B. Rh. G.

CrcontA nigra (Linn.), Black Stork.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. Bh.

ANASTOMUS LAMELLIGERUS (Temm.), African Open-Bill.

Distr.—N. Tv. B. Bh. G.

HPHIPPIORHYNCHUS SENEGALENSIS (Shaw), Saddle-Bill or

African Jabiru.

Distr.—Throughout, though rare.

LEPTOPTILUS CRUMENIFERUS (Less.), Marabou.

Distr,—Throughout, rare in south.

PSEUDOTANTALUS IBIS (Linn.), Wood Ibis.

Distr.—Throughout, but rare in south.

FAMILY II.—SCOPID/.

Scopus UMBRETTA (Gmel.), Hammerkop.

Distr.—Throughout.

Faminy IT].—ARDEID/K.

ARDEA GOLIATH (Cretzschm.), Goliath Heron.

Distr.—Throughout.

ARDEA CINEREA (Linn.), Grey Heron.

Distr.—Throughout.

ARDEA MELANOCEPHALA (Vig. & Childr.), Black-headed Heron.

Distr.—Throughout.

ARDEA PURPUREA (Linn.), Purple Heron.

Distr.—Throughout.

350

589.

590.

ous

595.

596.

597.

598.

Dog:

600.

601.

604.

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HeEropiAs ALBA (Linn.), Great White Egret.

Distr.—Throughout.

HERODIAS BRACHYRHYNCHA (Brehm), Yellow-billed Egret.

Distr.— Throughout.

HERODIAS GARZETTA (Linn.), Little Egret.

Distr.—Throughout.

. MELANOPHOYX ARDESIACA (Wagl.), Black Heron.

Disie— Ney:

. MELANOPHOYX VINACEIGULA (Sharpe), Red-throated Heron.

Distr.—Tv.

. Busuucus isis (Linn.), Cattle Egret.

Distr.—Throughout.

ARDEOLA RALLOIDES (Scop.), Squacco Heron.

Disty.—Throughout.

ERYTHROCNUS RUFIVENTRIS (Sundeyv.), Rufous-bellied Heron.

Distr —HCC. N. Z. Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

BuToRIDES ATRICAPILLA (Afzel.), Green-backed Heron.

Distr.—ECC. N. Z. Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

NycTicorax GRISEUS (Linn.), Night Heron.

Distr.— Throughout.

Nyoricorax LEUCONotUS (Wagl.), White-backed Night Heron.

Distr.—ECC. Tv.

ARDETTA PAYESI (Hartl.), Red-necked Little Bittern.

Distr,—Throughout.

ARDETTA MINUTA (Linn.), Huropean Little Bittern.

Distr.—ECC.

. ARDETTA STURMI (Wagl.), African Dwarf Bittern.

Distr.—Throughout.

. BorauRus CAPENSsIS (Schlegl.), Cape Bittern,

Disir—CC- NO. Ly B:

Faminy ITV.—IBIDIDA.

Isis mTHropica (Lath.), Sacred Ibis.

Distr.—Throughout.

605.

606.

607.

608,

609.

610.

611.

612.

613.

614.

615.

616.

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GrERONTICUS CALVUS (Bodd.), Bald Ibis,

Distr.—CC. N. Z. O.

HAGEDASHIA HAGADASH (Lath.), Hadada.

Distr.—SCC. N. Tv. B. P.

PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS (Linn.), Glossy Ibis.

Distr.—Throughout.

Faminry V.—PLATALEIDA.

PLATALEA ALBA (Scop.), African Spoonbill.

Distr.—Throughout.

Orver VIII.—ODONTOGLOSSAK.

Famity I.—PHdiNICOPTERIDA.

PHGNICOPTERUS ROSEUS (Pall.), Greater Flamingo.

Distr.—Throughout.

PHGNICOPTERUS MINOR (Geoffr.), Lesser Flamingo.

Distr.—CC. N. B. G. P.

Orper 1X.—ANSERES.

Faminty I.—ANATID/A.

PLECTROPTERUS GAMBENSIS (Linn.), Spuwr-wing Goose.

Distr.—Throughout, rare south of Orange River.

PLECTROPTERUS NIGER (Scl.), Black Spur-winged Goose.

Disa ee

SARCIDIORNIS MELANONOTA (Penn.), Anob-billed Duck.

Diste—Ty Be Rh. G:

NETTOPUS AURITUS (Bodd.), Dwarf Goose.

Distr.—Throughout except G.

DENDROCYONA vibUATA (Linn.), White-faced Duck.

Distr.—N. Tv. B. Bh. P.

DENDROCYCNA FULVA (Gmel.), Whistling Duck.

Disir:-—bo Ge Ne

301

352

Oli:

618.

619.

620.

621.

622.

623,

624.

625.

626.

‘627.

628.

629.

630.

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ALOPOCHEN #GYPTIACUS (Linn.), Berg Gans.

Distr.—Throughout.

Casarca CANA (Gmel.), South African Shelduck.

Distr.—CC. O. Ty.

ANAS UNDULATA (Dubois), Geelbek.

Distv.—Throughout except G.

ANAS SPARSA (Smith), Black Duck.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Tv. B. Bh.

NETTION CAPENSE (Gmel.), Cape Widgeon.

Distr.—WCC. Ty. B. G.

NETTION PuNCTATUS (Burch.), Hottentot Teal.

Disir.—CC, N. Tv. B. G. P.

P@CILONETTA ERYTHRORHYNCHA (Gmel.), Hed-bill.

Distr.—Throughout.

SPATULA CLYPEATA (Linn.), Hwropean Shoveller.

Distr,—Near Cape Town, once.

SPATULA CAPENSIS (Smith), Cape Shoveller.

Distr.—CcC. N. Tv. B. G.

NYROCA ERYTHROPHTHALMA (Wied), South African Pochard.

Distr.—Throughout.

THALASSIORNIS LEUCONOTA (Smith), White-backed Duck.

Distr.—Throughout except Rh.

ERISMATURA MACCOA (Smith), Maccoa Duck.

Distr.—CC. Tv. P.

OrpER X.—COLUMBA.

Faminty I,—TRERONIDA.

VINAGO DELALANDI (Bp.), Delalande’s Green Pigeon.

Distr.—KCC. N. Tv. Rh. P.

VINAGO SCHALOWI (Reichw.), Schalow’s Green Pigeon,

Distr.—NCC. Bh. G.

643.

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Faminy II.—COLUMBIDZA.

. CoLuMBA PHaONOTA (G. R. Gray), Speckled Pigeon.

Distr.—Throughout.

. COLUMBA ARQUATRIX (Temm. & Knip), Olive Pigeon.

Distr CCIN WA. Tv.

. TURTUR@NA DELAGORGUEI (Delagorgue), Delagorgue’s Pigeon.

Disir.—N. Z.

. TURTUR SEMITORQUATUS (Riipp.), Led-eyed Dove.

Distr— CCN: By Rh: G:

). TURTUR AMBIGUUS (Boc.), Bocage’s Red-eyed Dove.

Distr.—Zambesi.

. TURTUR CAPICOLA (Sundey.), Cape Turtle Dove.

Distr.—Throughout except G.

. TURTUR CAPICOLA DAMARENSIS (Finsch & Hartl.), Damaraland

Turtle Dove.

Distr.—G.

. TURTUR SENEGALENSIS (Linn.), Laughing Dove.

Distr.—Throughout.

. GANA CAPENSIS (Linn.), Namaqua Dove.

Distr.—Throughout.

. TYMPANISTRIA BICOLOR (Reichenb.), Tambourine Dove.

Dist; —SsCC NZ:

. CHALCOPELIA AFRA (Linn.), Emerald Spotted Dove.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. Ty. B. Bh. G.

2, HAPLOPELIA LARVATA (Temm. & Knip), Lemon Dove.

Distr.—CC. N. Z. ETv.

Order XI.—PTEROCLETES.

Famity I.—PTEROCLIDA.

PTEROCLES VARIAGATUS (Burch.), Spotted Sandgrouse.

Distr.—NCC. WTv. B. G.

PTEROCLES GUTTURALIS (Smith), Yellow-throated Sandgrouse.

Disir.—NCC. 0, Ty. B. Rh.

. PTEROCLES Bicrnctus (Temm.), Dowble-banded Sandgrouse.

Dist — NCC kv Gab

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646. Prerociurus NAMAQUA (Gmel.), Namaqua Sandgrouse.

Distr.—CC. O. Tv. B. G.

Orper XII.—GALLIN A.

Famity I.—PHASIANIDA.

647. FRANCOLINUS CoguI (Smith), Coqui Francolin.

Distr.—N. Tv. B. Bh.

648. FRANCOLINUS SEPH2HNA (Smith), Crested Francolin.

Distr.—Z. Tv. B. G. P.

649. FRANCOLINUS AFRICANUS (Steph.), Greywing.

Distr.—CC. O. Tv. N.

650. FRANCOLINUS LEVAILLANTI (Valenc.), Cape Redwing.

Distr.—CC. N. O. Tv.

651. FRANCOLINUS GARIEPENSIS (Smith), Orange River Francolin.

Distr.—NCC. O. STv. B.

652. FRANCOLINUS JUGULARIS (Buttik.), Biittikofer’s Francolin.

Distr.—G.

653. FRANCOLINUS SHELLEYI (Grant), Shelley’s Francolin.

Disir.N. Bh. P.

654, FRANCOLINUS ADSPERSUS (Waterh.), Red-billed Francolin.

Distr.—WTy. B. G.

655. FRANCOLINUS CAPENSIS (Gmel.), Cape Pheasant.

Distr.—CC.

656. FRANCOLINUS NATALENSIS (Smith), Natal Francolin.

Distr.—N. Tv. B. Rh. P.

657. PTERNISTES NUDICOLLIS (Bodd.), Red-necked Francolin.

Distr.—CC. N.

658. PrERNISTES HUMBOLDTI (Peters), Humboldt’s Francolin.

Distr.—Bh. P.

659. PrERNISTES SWAINSONI (Smith), Swainson’s Francolin.

Distr.—NCC. Tv. Rh. G.

660. CorurNIx AFRICANA (Temm. and Schleg.), Cape Quail.

Distr.—Throughout.

661.

662.

663.

664.

665.

666.

667.

668.

669.

670.

671.

672.

673.

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CoTURNIX DELAGORGUEI (Delagorgue), Harlequin Quail.

Distr.—ECC. N. O. Tv. B. Rh. G. P.

EXCALFACTORIA ADANSONI (Verr.), Blue Quail.

Distr.—ECC. N.

NumipA coronata (Gray), Conon Guinea Fowl.

Distr —ECC. N. Z. O. Tv. B. Rh.

NumipA PAPILLosa (Reichw.), Damaraland Guinea Fowl,

Distr.—G.

Noumipa mitrata (Pall.), Hast African Guinea Fowl

Distr.—Zambesi Valley.

GUTTERA EDOUARDI (Hartl.), Crested Guinea Fowl.

Disir.—N. Z. Tv. Bh. P.

Orper XIJI.—HEMIPODII.

Famity I.—TURNICIDA.

TuRNIX HOTTENTOTTA (Temm.), Hottentot Henipode.

Distr.—SCC.

TURNIX LEPURANA (Smith), Kurrichane Hemipode.

Distr —Throughout except in CC.

TuRNIX NANA (Sundey.), Natal Hemipode.

Distr.—ECC. N.

Orper XIV.—FULICARIA.

Faminty I.—RALLIDA.

RALLUS CHRULESCENS (Gmel.), Kaffir Rail.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. Rh. G.

CREX PRATENSIS (Bechst.), Huropean Corn Crake.

Disir.—CC. N. Z. Tv. B. Rh.

CREX EGREGIA (Peters), African Corn Crake.

Disir.—N. Tv. Rh. G. P.

ORTYGOMETRA PORZANA (Linn.), Spotted Crake.

Distr.—B. Zambesi.

355

306

674.

675.

676.

679.

680.

681.

682.

683.

684.

685.

686.

687.

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OrTYGOMETRA PUSILLA (Pall.), Baillon’s Crake.

Distr.—Throughout.

SAUROTHRURA LINEATA (Swains.), Jardine’s Crake.

Distr.—CC. N. Rh.

SAUROTHRURA ELEGANS (Smith), White-spotted Crake.

Distr.—CC. N.

. SAUROTHRURA RUFA (Vieill.), Red-chested Crake.

Disir.—CcC. N. Tv. G.

. CoTURNICOPS AYRESI (Gurney), White-winged Crake.

Disin-— CC. Ne vs

LIMNOBHNUS MARGINALIS (Bp.), Hartlauwb’s Crake.

Distr.—CC. G.

LimNnocoraXx NIGER (Gmel.), Black Crake.

Distr.—-Throughout.

GALLINULA CHLOROPUS (Linn.), Moor-Hen.

Distr.—Throughout.

GALLINULA ANGULATA (Sundev.), Lesser Moor-Hen.

Distr.—Throughout, rare South of Orange.

PoRPHYRIO MADAGASCARIENSIS (Lath.), King Reed-Hei.

Distr.—Throughout except Rh.

PoRPHYRIO ALLENI (Thompson), Allen’s Reed-Hen.

Distr.—CC. Tv. B. Bh. G. P.

Fuuica cristata (Gmel.), Led-knobbed Coot.

Distr.—Throughout.

Famity I].—HELIORNITHIDA.

Popica PETERS! (Hartl.), Peters’ Funfoot.

Distr.—ECC. N. Ty.

OrpER XV.—ALECTORIDES.

Famity 1.—GRUIDZ.

BUGERANUS CARUNCULATUS (Gmel.), Wattled Crane.

Distr.—CC. N. B. Bh. G.

688.

689.

690.

691.

694.

695.

696.

697.

698.

699.

700.

701.

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TETRAPTERYX PARADISEA (Licht.), Blwe Crane.

Distr.—Throughout except Lower N. and Z.

BALEARICA REGULORUM (Bennett), Crowned Crane.

Distr.—ECC. N. O. Ty. B. Rh. G. P.

Faminy II.—OTIDA.

OTIS RUFICRISTA (Smith), Red-crested Knorhaan.

Distr —NCC. Tv. B. Rh. G.

Oris aFRA (Gmel.), Black Knorhaan.

Distr.—CC. .

. OTIS AFROIDES (Smith), White-quilled Knorhaan.

Distr —NCC. O. Ty. B. G.

. OTIS vicorsi (Smith), Vaal Knorhaan.

Disiz——CC.UN, OL Ly.

OTIS RUEPPELLI (Wahlb.), Riippell’s Knorhaan.

Distr.—G.

OTIs LUDwiaiI (Riipp.), Ludwig’s Paawv.

Disir.—CC. UN. Tv. O.

Oris CAFRA (Licht.), Stanley's Paaww.

Distr.—CC. UN. O. Tv.

OTIS MELANOGASTER (Ripp.), Black-bellied Knorhaan.

Distr.—N. Z. Bh.

OTIS HARTLAUBI (Heugl.), Hartlaub’s Knorhaan.

Distr.—?

OTIS CHRULESCENS (Vieill.), Blwe Knorhaan.

Distr.—CC. UN. O. STv.

OTIs BARROWI (J. E. Gray), Barrow’s Knorhaan.

Distr.—CC. UN. O. Tv. B.

Otis KoRI (Burch.), Gom Paaww.

Distrv.—Throughout.

358

702.

703.

704.

705.

706.

707.

708.

‘109.

710.

“aL

712.

713.

714.

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OrperR X VI.—LIMICOLA.

Faminy I.—AGADICNEMIDZA.

CEDICNEMUS CAPENSIS (Licht.), Dikkop.

Distr.—Throughout.

CEDICNEMUS VERMICULATUS (Cab.), Water Dikkop.

Distr.—Throughout.

Faminty II.—DROMADIDA.

DRoMAS ARDEOLA (Payk.), Crab Plover.

Distr.—N. Coast.

Faminty IIJ.—GLAREOLIDA.

Cursorius RuFuS (Gould), Burchell’s Courser.

INstr.—CcC., N. O. Tv.

CURSORIUS TEMMINCKI (Swains.), Temmuinck’s Courser.

Distr —ECC. N. Z. Tv. Rh. G.

RHINOPTILUS AFRICANUS (Temm.), Two-banded Courser.

Disty.—CC. O. Tv. B. G.

RHINOPTILUS SEEBOHMI (Sharpe), Seebohm’s Courser.

Disir.—Rh. G.

RHINOPTILUS CHALCOPTERUS (Temm.), Bronze-wing Cowrser.

Distr.—Throughout.

GLAREOLA PRATINCOLA (Linn.), Pratincole.

Disir.—CC. N. G. P.

GLAREOLA MELANOPTERA (Nordm.), Nordmann’s Pratincole.

Distr.—Throughout except Rh.

GALACTOCHRYSEA EMINI (Shelley), Emin’s Pratincole.

Distr.—Zambesi.

Faminy ITV.—PARRIDZ.

ACTOPHILUS AFRICANUS (Gmel.), African Jacana.

Distr.—Throughout.

MIcROPARA CAPENSIS (Smith), Smaller Jacana,

Distr.—KCC. N. Rh. B.

715.

716.

TAG

718.

730.

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Famity V.—CHARADRIIDA,

ARENARIA INTERPRES (Linn.), Turnstone,

Distr.—Sea Coasts.

LoBIVANELLUS LATERALIS (Smith), Wattled Plover.

Disir.—n. Z. Tv. B. Bh. G.

XIPHIDIOPTERUS ALBICEPS (Gould), White-headed Wattled

Plover.

Msir.—Tyv. Bh. P.

HEMIPARRA LEUCOPTERA (Sharpe), Long-toed Lapwing.

Distr.—Z. Rh.

. HoPLoprervs ARMATUS (Burch.), Blacksmith Plover.

Distr —NCC. O. Tv. N. B. G.

. STEPHANIBYX CORONATUS (Bodd.), Crowned Lapwing.

Disir.—Throughout except Rh.

. STEPHANIBYX MELANOPTERUS (Cretzsch.), Black-winged Plover.

Distr.—CC. N.

. STEPHANIBYX INORNATUS (Swains.), Swainson’s Plover.

Distr.—_N.

. SQUATAROLA HELVETICA (Linn.), Grey Plover.

Distr.—Sea Coasts and G.

. JNGIALITIS GEOFFROYI (Wagl.), Great Sand-Plover.

Distr.—CcG. N.

. ANGIALITIS ASIATICA (Pall.), Caspian Plover.

Distr.—Throughout.

. ANGIALITIS HIATICOLA (Linn.), Ringed Plover.

Distr.—Throughout except Rh.

. JNGIALITIS ALEXANDRINA (Linn.), Kentish Plover.

Distr.—G.

. ANGIALITIS TRICOLLARIS (Vieill.), Three-banded Plover.

Distr.—Throughout.

. ANGIALITIS VENUSTA (Fisch. & Reichw.), Fischer’s Sand Plover,

Distr.—CC. (Port Elizabeth once).

NGIALITIS MARGINATA (Vieill.), White-fronted Sand Plover.

Distr.—Sea Coasts, G. to N.

733.

734.

739.

736.

(eit

738.

739.

740.

741.

742.

743.

744,

745.

746.

147.

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. AUGIALITIS MARGINATUS PALLIDUS (Strickl.), Tropical White-

fronted Sand Plover.

Distr.—Zambesi.

. ANGIALITIS PECUARIA (Temm.), Kittlitz’s Sand Plover.

Distr.—Throughout.

HMATOPUS MOQUINI (Bp.), Black Oyster-Catcher.

Distr.—Coasts, G. to N.

Himantopus CANnDiDUS (Bonn.), Black-winged Stint.

Distr. —Throughout.

RECURVIROSTRA AVOCETTA (Linn.), Avocet.

Distr.—CC. N. G. Zambesi.

NUMENIUS ARQUATUS (Linn.), Curlew.

Disir.—CC. N. Tv. G. P.

NumeENIus PHmoPUS (Linn.), Whincbrel.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. G.

ToTANUs CaLipris (Linn,), Redshank.

Disiz—CC. Ne BG:

ToTANUS NEBULARIUS (Gunn.), Greenshank.

Distr.—Throughout.

TOTANUS STAGNATILIS (Bechst.), Marsh Sandpiper.

Distr.—Throughout.

TOTANUS GLAREOLA (Linn.), Wood Sandpiper.

Distr.—Throughout.

Toranus ocHropus (Linn.), Green Sandpiper.

Distr.—CcC. ?

TOTANUS CINEREUS (Giildenst.), Terek Sandpiper.

Distr.—CC. N. G.

TOTANUS HYPOLEUCUS (Linn.), Common Sandpiper.

Distr—Throughout.

PAVONCELLA PUGNAX (Linn.), Lif.

Distr.—Throughout.

TRINGA CANUTUS (Linn.), Knot.

Distr.—G.

TRINGA BAIRDI (Coues), Baird's Sandpiper.

Distr.—G.

748.

749.

750.

Tol.

702.

753.

754.

759.

757.

758.

709.

760.

ole

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TRINGA mINuTA (Leisl.), Little Stint.

Disty.—Throughout.

TRINGA SUBARQUATA (Giildenst.), Curlew Sandpiper.

Disty.—Throughout.

CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Linn.), Sanderling.

Distr.—Coasts throughout.

GALLINAGO MEDIA (Gerini), Double Snipe.

Distr.—CC. N. Tv. B. G.

GALLINAGO NIGRIPENNIS (Bp.), Ethiopian Snipe.

Distr.—Throughout.

ROsTRATULA CAPENSIS (Linn.), Painted Snipe.

Distr.—Throughout.

Orper XVII.—GAVIAi.

Faminty I.—LARIDA.

Larus pominicanus (Licht.), Southern Black-backed Gull.

Distr—Coasts 8.A.

Larus HARTLAUBI (Bruch.), Hartlaub’s Gull.

Distr.—Coasts G. EC,

. Larus CIRRHOCEPHALUS (Vieill.), Grey-headed Gull.

Disin—CC) Ne Ze ly. b. G. PB.

Famity II].—STERNIDA.

HYDROCHELIDON HYBRIDA (Pall.), Whiskered Tern.

Distr —Throughout.

HYDROCHELIDON LEUCOPTERA (Meis. and Schinz), White-

winged Black Tern.

Distr.—O. Tv. B. G. P.

STERNA CASPIA (Pall.), Caspian Tern.

Distr.—Coasts S.A.

STERNA BERG (Licht.), Swzft Tern.

Distr.—Coasts S.A.

STERNA CANTIANA (Gmel.), Sandwich Tern.

Distr. —Coasts CC. N. G.

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. SterNA MEDIA (Horsf.), Smaller Crested Tern.

Disir.—N.

. STERNA DOUGALLI (Mont.), Roseate Tern.

Distr.—Coasts CC.

. STERNA VITTATA (Gmel.), Kerguelen Tern.

Distr.—Coasts CC.

. STERNA FLUVIATILIS (Naum.), Common Tern.

Disir.—Coasts G. CC.

. STERNA MACRURA (Naum.), Arctic Tern.

Distr.—CC. N.

. STERNA BALHNARUM (Strickl.), Damara Tern.

Distr.—Coasts G. CC.

. STERNA MiINvTA (Linn.), Little Tern.

Distr.—Coasts 8.A.

. STERNA SAUNDERSI (Hume), Saunders’ Tern.

Distr.—Coasts N.

. STERNA FULIGINOSA (Gmel.), Sooty Tern.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. Anous stTouipus (Linn.), Noddy.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. Micranovus Leucocarinuus (Gould), Lesser Noddy.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. GyGis CANDIDA (Gmel.), White Noddy.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

Famity IIJ.—RHYNCHOPIDA.

RHYNCOPS FLAVIROSTRIS (Vieill.), African Skimmer.

Distr —NCC. Tv. B. G. Zambesi.

Faminy IV.—STERCORARIID.

. STERCORARIUS ANTARCTICUS (Less.), Southern Skua.

Distr.—Coasts G. CC.

. STERCORARIUS CREPIDATUS (Banks), Richardson's Skua.

Distr.—Coasts G. CC.

. STERCORARIUS POMATORHINUS (Temm.), Pomatorhine Skua.

Distr.—Coasts G.

778.

779.

780.

781.

782.

783.

784.

785.

786.

18K.

788.

789.

790.

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OrperR XVIJI.—TUBINARKES.

Faminty I.—OCHANITIDA.

OckANITES ocEANICUS (Kuhl), Wilson’s Petrel.

Distr.—Coasts G. CC.

GARRODIA NEREIS (Gould), Garrod’s Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

FREGETTA MELANOGASTER (Gould), Black-bellied Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

FREGETTA GRALLARIA (Vieill.), White-bellied Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

Famity I1.—PROCELLARIIDA.

PROCELLARIA PELAGICA (Linn.), Storm Petrel.

Distr.—Coasts G. CC.

OcEANODROMA LEUCORRHOA (Vieill.), Leach’s Fork-tailed Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

PurFFINusS GRAVIS (O’Reilly), Great Shearwater.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

PUFFINUS KUHLI (Boie), Mediterranean Shearwater.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

PuFFINUS AssIMILIs (Gould), Gould’s Little Shearwater.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

PUFFINUS GRISEUS (Gmel.), Sooty Shearwater.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

PRIOFINUS CINEREUS (Gmel.), Great Grey Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

PRIOCELLA GLACIALOIDES (Smith), Silver-grey Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

MasAQuEUS HQUINOCTIALIS (Linn.), Cape Hei.

Distr.—Coasts G. CC. N. P.

. CAsTRELATA MACROPTERA (Smith), Long-winged Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

806.

807.

808.

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. CHsTRELATA LESSONI (Garnot), Lesson’s Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. CASTRELATA INCERTA (Schlegl.), Schlegel’s Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. GAsTRELATA MOLLIS (Gould), Soft-plumaged Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. OSSIFRAGA GIGANTEA (Gmel.), Giant Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. Daprion capensis (Linn.), Cape Pigeon.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. PRION C£RULEA (Gmel.), Blue Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. PRION BANKSI (Smith), Banks’ Blue Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. Prion virtatus (Gmel.), Broad-billed Blue Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. PRION DESOLATUS (Gmel.), Narrow-billed Blue Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. PRION BREVIROSTRIS (Gould), Fairy Blue Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. PELECANOIDES EXUL (Cab. & Reichw.), Diving Petrel.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. DIoMEDEA EXULANS (Linn.), Wandering Albatross.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

. DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS (Temm.), Mollymawk.

Distv.—Cape Seas.

. THALASSOGERON CULMINATUS (Gould), Gould’s Yellow-nosed

Mollymawk.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

THALASSOGERON CHLORORHYNCHUS (Gmel.), Yellow-nosed Molly-

mawk.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

THALASSOGERON LAYARDI (Salvin), Layard’s Mollymawk.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

PH@BETRIA FULIGINOSA (Gmel.), Sooty Albatross.

Distr.—Cape Seas.

809.

810.

811.

812.

813.

814.

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OrpER XIX.—PYGOPODES.

Faminty I—PODICIPEDIDZ.

PopIicirEs CRISTATUS (Linn.), Crested Grebe.

Distr.—CC. O. Tv.

PODICIPES NIGRICOLLIS (Brehm), Hared Grebe.

Distr.—CC. Tv. B. G.

PODICIPES CAPENSIS (Licht.), Cape Dabchick.

Distv.—Throughout.

OrpER XX.—IMPENNES.

Faminy I.—SPHENISCIDA.

SPHENISCUS DeMURSUS (Linn.), Jackass Penguin.

Distr.—Coasts G. CC.

CATARRHACTES CHRYSOCOME (Forster), Rock-hopper Penguin.

Distr.—Coasts CC,

Orper XXI.—STRUTHIONES.

Faminty I.—STRUTHIONIDZ.

STRUTHIO AUSTRALIS (Gurney), Southern Ostrich.

Distr.—Throughout.

(3) NOTES ON THE SPECIES MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK

IN THE CHECK LIST.

5. BUPHAGA ERYTHRORHYNCHA (Stanley).

The eggs of this species are wrongly described in the first volume

of the Fauna. Mr. Millar informs me that he has taken a large

number of nests, and that the birds build in his garden near Durban

every year. The eggs are always white with purplish-red spots and

blotches, slightly varying in size and measure about ‘95 x -70 inches.

The nesting season is from the end of October to the middle of

December, and the clutch usually consists of three eggs.

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6. CREATOPHORA CARUNCULATA (Gmel.).

The generic name Dilophus proposed by Vieillot in 1816 being

preoccupied, having been used by Meigen for a genus of Diptera in

1804, Mr. Oberholser (Proc. Acad., Philad., 1899, p. 216) has sug-

gested Perissornis. Richmond, however (Auk, xix. p. 92) has

recently rediscovered the name Creatophora of Lesson assigned to

this bird in 1847, and by this name it should be in future known.

8. AMYDRUS CAFFER (Linn.).

Reichenow (V6g. Afr. ii. p. 697) distinguishes a subspecies var.

intensetincta from Port Elizabeth and the eastern province of Cape

Colony. It is distinguished by its slightly larger size and by the

slightly darker colour of the quills, especially at the base. The

specimens in the South African Museum hardly justify this race,

though it is adopted by Mr. Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 366) for birds

collected at Deelfontein.

19, CINNYRICINCLUS LEUCOGASTER VERREAUXI (Boc.).

The name of this genus must be changed to Cznnyricinclus

(Less. Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 272), which antedates Pholidauges of

Cabanis by eleven years.

19a. StuRNUS vULGARIS Linn.

The English Starling has, during the last few years, completely

established itself in Cape Town and the various suburbs extending

round the slopes of Table Mountain ; it has also been seen as far as

Stellenbosch about twenty-five miles inland. It is said that a few

pairs were imported and turned out in the Groote Schur grounds at

Rondebosch some years ago (I believe in 1898), together with several

other species of English birds, by Mr. Cecil Rhodes. The Starling,

however, is the only one which has thoroughly established itself and

spread any distance from its original starting-point.

It nests freely about Cape Town and the suburbs, choosing some-

what similar sites to those made use of in England, such as attics,

chimneys, watershoots, and other convenient places about dwelling-

houses.

214. OrtoLUS auRaATUS Vieill.

This Oriole was met with by Alexander on the banks of the

Zambesi, near Zumbo, in December, and should therefore be included

in our fauna. It is a West and North-east African bird closely allied

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to O. notatus. It can be distinguished from that species by the

black base to the otherwise yellow outer tail feather.

Genus HYPHANTORNIS.

The key given by Dr. Stark (p. 55) does not seem to me a very

satisfactory one. I would suggest the following, which, however,

only deals with the males in breeding plumage, but which appears

to me to make matters somewhat clearer.

A. Throat black.

a. Back mottled black and yellow.

at, Head black all round, bordered by a narrow yellow collar round the

madi go so oo G6 .OCk DON oc) lCoMlNcan Mme H. nigriceps.

bt. Head yellow, no black on the crown .. .. .. .. 4H. spilonotus.

). Back greenish yellow, sometimes with traces of darker centres to the

feathers.

at. Fore part of the crown to behind the level of the eye black, occiput and

mayne yall os oo oo “co Ga 6g .bo Une om) Noa | Gumeleuliipre

bt. Only a narrow band of black across the forehead, sometimes interrupted

in the middle; crown golden yellow.

GE, lbenqeere, Wann BHO) WO GP2) oo op 60) 00 oo Go bo Pela OaoniMiy

bes cneliere, wanes 293 Wo) BH) 45 co 5a 66 oo Boa JaluMinrneyathhtie

B. Throat not black.

a. Smaller, wing 3°35; entire head yellow Sh Meise, ers os H. subaureus.

b. Larger, wing 3°75; only the forehead yellow, rest of the head and face

Reichenow (V6g. Afr. ii. p. 29) puts together all the yellow

Weaver birds included in the South African genera, Hyphantornis

Sitagra, and Sycobrotus, and other genera from tropical Africa and

South Asia, under one genus Ploceus ; he recognises seventy-two

African species, and arranges these in twelve subgenera separated by

colour characters.

27. HYPHANTORNIS AURICAPILLUS (Swains.).

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. i. p. 79) adopts the older name auri-

capillus of Swainson for this species. It is merely a smaller and

brighter coloured form of H. velatus. Males in the non-breeding

season appear to have a strong tinge of pinkish below, judging from

examples sent to the South African Museum by Dr. Stoehr.

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29. HYPHANTORNIS JAMESONI Sharpe.

This species is closely allied to H. xanthops from Hast Africa

and Nyasaland; the birds obtained by Marshall (Ibis, 1900, p. 243)

and Alexander (Ibis, 1899, p. 574) from Mashonaland and the Zambesi

Valley are probably referable to this species and not to H. wanthops.

33. SITAGRA CAPENSIS OLIVACEA.

The oldest name for this species according to Reichenow (Vég.

Afr, ii. p. 87) is olevaceus of Hahn. The bird is only subspecifically

distinct from S. capensis typicus, and should therefore be known as

Sitagra capensis olivacea.

34, SYCOBROTUS GREGALIS (Licht.).

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 32) separates the southern Black-backed

Weaver from the form inhabiting Angola. He retains the earliest

name bicolor for the latter race, while to our species he attaches

Lichtenstein’s name gregalis.

484. LAGONOSTICTA RHODOPAREIA Heugl.

This species must be added to the South African fauna; it is an

Kast African bird whose range extends from Bogosland and Mombasa

to Nyasaland. There is, however, an undoubted example in the South

African Museum obtained in October, 1892, on the Uremma River,

near Beira. It resembles L. jamesoni, but is more richly coloured

and has small white spots along the sides of the breast and flanks,

which are absent in the other species.

49, LAGONOSTICTA RENDALLI Hart.

Shelley (B. Afr. iv. p. 260) separates under this name the Little

Ruddy Waxbill of Nyasaland and Southern Africa from that of tro-

pical and Hast Africa, which retains the older name L. brunneiceps.

514. LAGONOSTICTA NITIDULA Hartl.

I was fortunate enough to obtain an example of this rare species

(only before met with on Lake Tanganyika and on the Kuanza River,

in Angola) on the banks of the Zambesi, a few miles above the

Victoria Falls.

This species can be at once distinguished from others of the genus

by the absence of the crimson upper tail coverts. It is olive-brown

throughout, the eyebrow, sides of the head, throat, and fore-breast

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washed with claret-red, with a few fine white spots on the breast,

under-tail coverts ochre-brown. The specimen from the Victoria

Falls is a young bird and just shows the red feathers commencing to

appear on the throat; the iris 1s dark brown, the bill red with a black

line along the culmen, the legs brown. It was shot on October 17th.

Capt. Shelley has recently referred this bird to the genus Hypargus

which he distinguishes from Lagonosticta by the absence of the

peculiar shaped first long primary; he has also renamed it A.

harterti as he also refers Hstrilda nitidula (Hartl., Ibis, 1865, p- 269),

a quite different species, to the same genus Hypargus.

02. HsTRILDA ASTRILDA (Linn.).

Reichenow (V6g. Afr. iii. p. 178) distinguishes some seven geo-

graphical subspecies of the widely distributed Rooibekje. Of these

three are found within our limits, viz., Hstrilda astrilda typica from

South Africa generally, including Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River

Colony, and the Transvaal; Hstrilda astrilda cavendishi, darker in

colour with leaden brown head, from Southern Mozambique ;

Estrilda astrilda damarensis, paler than the type from German South-

West Africa.

55. HsTRILDA ANGOLENSIS (Linn.).

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 102) separates as a subspecies from

Listrilda angolensis typica, a paler variety, EH. angolensis damarensis

from Damaraland and the Kalahari.

57. EsTRILDA CLARKEI (Shelley).

Shelley (Bull B.O.C. xiii. p- 75, 1903) separates the Southern

form of the Orange-breasted Waxbill from south of the Equator from

that in other parts of Africa; the latter retains the old name, the

former becomes Hstrilda clarkei. This new species is distinguished

by its paler yellow colour, only the crop being washed with orange.

63. PHILEZTERUS soctus (Lath.).

Reichenow (Vég. Afr. ili. p. 242) places this bird among the true

Fringillide close to Passer, as the first primary is absent. In the

two examples I have been able to examine this is certainly the case

as far as can be seen without injuring the specimens, but it must be

remembered that traces of the first primary can be found in many of

the so-called nine-quilled Passeres, and the distinction between the

two families (fringillide and Ploceide) is by no means a funda-

mental one.

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64a, AMADINA FASCIATA (Gmel.).

The East African species, Amadina fasciata, often called the Cut-

throat Weaver Finch by bird fanciers, must be added to the list of

South African Birds.

It is easily distinguished by the transverse band of red on the

throat and by the absence of red on the crown.

Dr. Stoehr, of the Geodetic Survey, has sent to the South African

Museum a pair obtained at George’s Ferry, near Zumbo on the

Zambesi, on February 12, 1904, while this year I saw alive in an

aviary at the house of Mr. Marshall Hole, the Civil Commissioner of

Bulawayo, a pair which he assures me were caught in the immediate

neighbourhood of that town.

Hitherto it does not appear to have been met with south of Dar-

es-Salaam in German East Africa.

65. QUELEA QUELEA (Linn.).

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. i. p. 110) regards Q. quelea and Q. russi

as identical. He terms this bird Quwelea sanguinirostris lathami,

and considers it a subspecies of the West African typical form

QWuelea sangunrostris or Quelea quelea.

664. QUELEA CARDINALIS (Hartl.).

A pair of weavers undoubtedly referable to this species have

recently been presented to the South African Museum by Dr.

Stoehr, of the Geodetic Survey. They were obtained at Kanyani

in the Zambesi valley near Zumbo. Previously the most southerly

record was the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

67a. PYROMELANA ORYX SUNDEVALLI (Bp.).

Under this name the smaller form of the Red Bishop Bird may

be distinguished; it differs from the typical subspecies only in its

much smaller size—wing of a male 2°65, as compared with 3:0.

678. PYROMELANA FLAMMICEPS (Swains.).

This widely distributed tropical species extends as far south as

the Zambesi Valley, where it was obtained by Alexander (Ibis, 1899,

p. 567). The South African Museum contains an example from the

Zambesi Valley in the neighbourhood of Zumbo, procured by Dr.

Stoehr, of the Geodetic Survey. It resembles P. oryx, but has a

scarlet head and very much blacker wings.

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70. PYROMELANA CAPENSIS APPROXIMANS (Cab.).

According to Reichenow (Vég. Afr. iii. p. 132) the oldest name for

this subspecies is Orynx approximans Cab.; the bird should there-

fore be known as P. capensis approximans.

744, COLIOPASSER MACRURUS (Gmel.).

This tropical Africa species was also met with by Alexander at

Zumbo on the Zambesi in December (Ibis, 1899, p. 565). It is

black with the back and lesser wing coverts yellow, the greater

coverts and wings with brownish streaks; wing 3-0 to 3-25 inches.

83. PETRONIA PETRONELLA (Licht.).

Ivy (Ibis, 1901, p. 19) states that this bird lays three to four dull

unspotted brown eggs, very unlike those of the common Sparrow.

According to Reichenow (Vég. Afr. iii. p. 244) the oldest name

for this bird is swperciliaris of Blyth.

84. PasseR MELANURUS (P. L. S. Mill.).

84a. PASSER MELANURUS DAMARENSIS (Reichw.).

Reichenow (Vég. Afr. iii, p. 233) uses the older name melan-

urus of P. L. S. Miller, dating from 1776, for this species, generally

known as Passer arcuatus Gmel., which dates from 1788. The same

author, on p. 234, further distinguishes a paler variety from Damara-

land and Benguella under the name of P. melanurus damarensis.

84n. Passer DomEsticus (Linn.).

I have recently examined an undoubted example of this species

obtained in the neighbourhood of Pretoria, and now preserved in the

Transvaal Museum there. Dr. Gunning, to whom I am indebted

for the opportunity of so doing informs me that so far as he is

aware the English Sparrow has never been introduced into the

Transvaal, but Mr. C. Fuller, the Government Entomologist of

Natal, in his Report for 1903-4 (p. 31), states that they have been

introduced at Durban and have increased very rapidly in that neigh-

bourhood since April, 1902, when they were first noticed.

86. PASSER GRISEUS (Vieill.).

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 230) adopts an older name,

griseus, of Vieillot, dating from 1817 for this bird, in preference

to diffusus, of Smith, dating from 1836.

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894. SERINUS SHARPEI Neum.

Reichenow (Vog Afr. iil. p. 266), distinguishes the East African

form of S. sulphuratus under this name; it differs from the type

species in its smaller size, its rather yellower rump, and the much

smaller amount of green on the lower surface. According to Reiche-

now, this species extends as far south as the Zambesi Valley, whence,

at Tette, an example was obtained by Kirk. A specimen in the South

African Museum from Shella, in the Mossamedes Province of

Angola, appears to be referable to this species.

90a. SERINUS MARSHALLI Shelley.

Shelley (B. Afr. iii. p. 200) distinguishes under this new name the

northern race of S. flaviventris, which replaces the typical form

between the Orange and Zambesi Rivers. Marshall’s Canary, as it

may be called, also inhabits the Island of St. Helena. An examina-

tion of the specimens in the South African Museum corroborates the

differences pointed out by Shelley between the two races. The male

of S. marshallt resembles S. flaviventris, but the bill is slightly

larger and the upper parts are yellower and brighter ; wing 2°75 to

2°85 as compared with 3-0 to 3:12 in S. flaviventris. The female of

S. marshalli, on the other hand, is much paler than that of S. flavi-

ventris, and the under parts are much less strongly streaked.

91 and 92. ANOMALOSPIZA IMBERBIS (Cab.).

Tristam’s Crithagra rendalli, the types of which were obtained near

Barberton by Dr. Percy Rendall, and which are now preserved in the

Liverpool Museum, has always been somewhat of a puzzle ; recently

Captain Shelley (Bull. B.O.C. xii. p. 30, 1901) has stated that it is

really a Weaver bird, and should be placed in the sub-family

Vidwiine, near the genus Quelea ; he further proposes a new genus,

Anomalospiza, for its reception, characterised by a sharp angle on the

cutting edge of the lower mandible. Reichenow (Voég. Afr. iii. p. 276)

accepts Shelley’s genus, but keeps it close to Serius and does not

recognise its Ploceine features. He further identifies the bird with

Crithagra imberbis of Cabanis, so that the name, according to

Reichenow, stands as Anomalospiza imberbis (Cab.). If Reichenow’s

identifications are correct the species ranges from the Transvaal to

German Hast Africa. It is figured on Plate xxxi. of the recently

issued fourth volume of Shelley’s Birds of Africa.

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96. SERINUS LEUCOPTERUS (Sharpe).

There is an example of this apparently rare species in the South

African Museum—a female obtained on September 5, 1884, at Ceres

Road, about eighty miles from Cape Town, by a Museum collector,

Mr. T. D. Butler. It differs from the description given of the type

in having no yellow tinge on the forehead, and is somewhat more

black on the chin. The wing measures 2:8, and in this agrees with

the description given by Shelley (B. Afr. ii. p. 224), but not with that

given by Stark. Apart from the type in the British Museum and the

example above mentioned no other specimen appears to be known

in collections.

99. ALARIO ALARIO (Linn.).

Sharpe (Bull. B. O. C. xcix. p. 80, 1903) has described a new

species, dA. leucolema, from Great Namaqualand, the type of which is

in the British Museum. It differs from the older known species in

having the sides of the forehead, a broad eyebrow, a patch on the

cheek, chin, and throat, white. Captain Shelley (Birds Afr. iii.

p. 214) considers the new species merely the winter dress of the

ordinary Mountain Canary. Reichenow, who has examined a some-

what similar specimen from Kaffraria, believes that it is only a sport,

or perhaps a young bird. Sharpe, in some further remarks (Ibis,

1904, p. 353) on another example from Deelfontein does not consider

any of the explanations hitherto advanced satisfactory, and

we must, perhaps, await further observations before coming to a

definite conclusion on the matter.

1014. FRINGILLA C@&LEBS (Linn.).

The Chaffinch was introduced by Mr. Rhodes into the Cape

Peninsula at the same time as the Starling, but though occasionally

seen is by no means abundant.

103. FRINGILLARIA CAPENSIS (Linn.).

Shelley (B. Afr. iii. p. 158) distinguishes the Cape Buntings from

Natal and the Transvaal under the name of F’.. reidi; these differ

in having the paler parts of the head and the under parts very much

darker and of a sandy-yellow colour. Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 354)

finds that the Cape Buntings obtained by Seimund and Grant at

Deelfontein are intermediate between those of the west and those of

north and east, and names this form ’. media. It will probably be

most convenient to consider these forms as merely subspecies, and we

shall then have—

Fringillaria capensis typica. Cape div. and Saldanha Bay (S. A.

Mus.), Tjotis in Namaqualand (B. Mus.).

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Fringillaria capensis media, Hanover (S. A. Mus.), Deelfontein

(Type in Bt. Mus.), Mossel Bay (Shelley).

Fringillaria capensis reidi. Natal, Zululand, and Transvaal ;.

Campbell, in Griqualand West (S.A. Mus.).

108. PyrRRHULAUDA SMITHI Bp.

Shelley unites this species with P. lewcotis (Stanl.), from Abyssinia,

under the latter and older name; Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 365)

keeps our southern species separate as a subspecies under the

name of P. leucotis smithi.

112a. Borua pirriciuis Shelley.

Shelley (B. Afr. iii. p. 105, pl. 22, fig. 1) describes a new genus

and species of lark under this name from the Orange River Colony.

It is a small bird, with a conical somewhat pinkish bill, and a tail

with white edges. The following four characters readily distinguish

it according to Shelley: (1) bill conical; (2) bastard primary large ;.

(3) hind claw long and nearly straight; (4) pattern of tail.

113. GaLERITA MODESTA Heugl.

The specimen alluded to in Stark (vol. i. p. 204) as having been

procured at Clanwilliam has been examined by Captain Shelley.

He informs me that he believes it to be merely a young bird of

Callendula crassirostris. Galerita modesta must, therefore, be re-

moved from the South African list.

125a and B. SPIZOCORYS STARKI ET SCLATERI Shelley.

Shelley (B. Afr. ii. p. 135, pl. 22, fig. 2, p. 1386, pl. 22, fig. 3)

describes these two new species, the former from Damaraland, Great

Namaqualand, and the Transvaal, the latter from Great Namaqualand

only. S. starki is distinguished from S. conirostris, with which it

has hitherto been confused, by its paler colour, its larger bill, and

by the presence of a distinct crest. S. sclateri has a longer and less

curved bill, no crest, and the white on the tail is confined to the

outer webs of the three outer tail feathers.

127. TEPHROCORYS SPLENIATA (Strickl.).

128. TEPHROCORYS ANDERSSONI (Tristr.).

Shelley (B. Afr. ili. p. 123) is unable to distinguish these two

red-capped larks from the better known and more widely spread

T’. cinerea,

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131. CERTHILAUDA SEMITORQUATA Smith.

Shelley and Reichenow both place this species in the genus

Certhilauda, a position to which its long bill undoubtedly en-

titles it.

132. MrraFrra Nivosa (Swains.).

The bill in this species is not sufficiently elongated to entitle it to

a position in the genus Certhilauda; it should be, following Shelley

and Reichenow, relegated to Mirafra.

134. CERTHILAUDA ALBOFASCIATA Lafr.

The description of Anthus rufulus, given by Vieillot, does not

apply to this bird, but to the Indian Pipit. The oldest name,

therefore, is Certhilauda albofasciata of Lafresne, published in

1836.

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 354) distinguishes a much paler

form of this species from German South-west Africa, under the

name of C. albofasciata arenaria.

142. AnTHUS BRACHYURUS Sund.

1424. ANTHUS CAFFER Sund.

Shelley (B. Afr. ii. p. 301) separates the Short-tailed Pipit of the

Transvaal and Swaziland from that of Natal and Zululand, and

identifies the former with Anthus calthrope of Layard. This latter

was described from a caged bird in Mr. Layard’s possession, which,

he states, came from Swartland, the old name for the Malmesbury

district, near Cape Town, and not from Swaziland, as stated by

Shelley. As the type of A. calthrope is no longer to be found, it is

difficult, if not impossible, to settle what species it is identical with.

Reichenow (Vég. Afr. iii. p. 313) identifies this same bird (7.e., the

Short-tailed Pipit of the Transvaal) with Anthus caffer, of Sunde-

vall, the type of which (now in the Berlin Museum) he has examined ;

the type locality is the Upper Limpopo, in what is now the Rusten-

burg district of the Transvaal. Anthws caffer closely resembles 4.

brachyurus, but is somewhat larger ; it is lighter coloured above, and

has narrower black median streaks on the feathers; the wing

measures about 2°75, as against 2°5 to 2°6.

143a. ANTHUS VAALENSIS Shelley.

Captain Shelley (B. Afr. i. p. 311) describes a new Pipit,

A, vaalensis, which is very similar in size, form, and colouring to

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A, nicholsoni, but differs in having the crown and back quite uniform,

with no darker centres to the feathers. The species is founded

on specimens obtained in Northern Natal, near Newcastle, and the

Ingagane River. Two Pipits from near Kimberley, and from the

Molopo River, in the Mafeking district, respectively, preserved in

the South African Museum, seem to be referable to this new species.

Reichenow dogs not recognise this new species; he considers it

identical with A. leucophrys (1.e., A. pyrrhonotus).

144, ANTHUS PYRRHONOTUS (Vieill.).

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 316) substitutes the name lewcophys,

also of Vieillot for this species.

147. MoracinnaA vIDUA Sundev.

1474. MoracinnbA VAILLANTI Cab.

Shelley finds (B. Afr. ii. p. 266) that there are two distinct

species confounded under the first of these two names, the widely-

spread species for which he retains Sundevall’s name, and another

species distinguished by the possession of black or dusky grey

instead of white flanks. The differences between the two species

are clearly shown by a coloured plate. The second species, which

he names M. ngricotis, is found in the basins of the Orange and

Limpopo Rivers. Reichenow (Vég. Afr. iii. p. 299) follows Shelley,

but refers the black-flanked form to Motacilla vaillanti of Cabanis.

This name is doubtless founded on Leyaillant’s plate (Ois.

d’Afr. iv. pl. 178) which is drawn from the same form, while the

old author’s description states that the flanks are white, and is

doubtless referable to M. vidua.

In the South African Museum there are three examples from

Upington, on the Orange River, obtained by Bradshaw, and one

from Colesberg, also near the Orange River, collected by Ortlepp.

These are undoubtedly MW. vaillanti. A pair from Port St. John’s

in Pondoland, on the other hand, are undoubted examples of

M. vidua. Recently I secured a pair of Pied Wagtails on the

Upper Zambesi, above the Victoria Falls. As their flanks are

dark grey, these appear to me to be intermediate forms, and it

will perhaps be best to consider M. vaillanti as only a strongly

marked subspecies.

1584. CINNYRIS MICRORHYNCHUS Shelley.

This bird (Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 55), a smaller edition of

C. mariquensis, with a shorter bill and much less coppery gloss,

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is found in Hast Africa, and extends along the coast as far as

Inhambane, in Portuguese East Africa. The Sovth African Museum

contains examples from Inhambane collected by Mr. H. F. Francis

in December, and from the Pungwe River by Mr. T. D. Butler in

October, while Mr. Boyd Alexander met with the species at Zumbo

on the Zambesi. It must, therefore, be undoubtedly included in

the list of South African Birds.

1588. CINNYRIS SHELLEYI Alexander.

This little Sunbird was discovered and described by Captain Boyd

Alexander (Ibis, 1899, p. 556, pl. 11) on the Zambesi, about sixty

miles below its junction with the Kafue River; it is allied to

C. mariquensis, from which it differs in having the golden shade

confined to the back of the head, neck, and mantle, while the

sides of the head and throat are plain metallic green; the pectoral

band is a bright scarlet and not deep red.

158c. CINNYRIS CUPREUS (Shaw).

The Copper-coloured Sunbird (Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 86), a

common species in tropical Africa, has also been met with on

the Zambesi near its junction with the Shiré River by Alexander ;

it somewhat resembles C. mariquensis, but is without the red

pectoral band.

1594. CINNYRIS VENUSTUS (Shaw).

This is another tropical African species (Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 62)

from’ Senegambia and other parts of West Africa, the range of

which extends southwards to the Zambesi, where it was met with at

Zumbo by Boyd Alexander. It can be recognised by its metallic

head and back, its pale buff breast and under-parts, and by its

yellow and red pectoral tufts.

173. ZOSTEROPS ANDERSSONI Shelley.

The account given of the distribution of this species by Stark

is hardly correct; it ranges from Benguela and Ovampoland to

Mozambique and Mashonaland; it is common along the Zambesi,

and has been procured by Mr. Guy Marshall, near Salisbury,

throughout the year.

175. ZosTEROPS PALLIDA.

Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 345) follows Finsch (Tierreich Lief. 15, p. 12,

1901) in rejecting Swainson’s name Z. pallida for this species,

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and substitutes the later Z. swndevalli of Hartlaub. On reference

to Swainson’s original description it does not appear to be anything

but thoroughly applicable to the Pale White-eye, and it would

certainly have been a species which Burchell, who collected

Swainson’s types, would have been likely to meet with.

177. Parus AFER Gm.

177A. PARUS CINERASCENS Vieill.

1778. PARUS CINERASCENS PARVIROSTRIS Shelley.

Mr. Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 342) states that there are two distinct

Tits which have been hitherto confounded under the name of Parus

afer. The distinctness of these two forms is clearly pointed out by

Levaillant, who figures both of them. In the neighbourhood

of Cape Town and in the south-western part of the Colony is

to be found Levaillant’s ‘“‘ Mésange brune,”’ a bird with a distinetly

brown back and pale fawn under-parts. It is described on page 167,

and figured on plate 139, fig. 2 (err. pro fig. 1) of the 3rd vol.

of the Oiseau d’Afrique, and is identical with the Black-breasted

Titmouse of Latham, on which Gmelin founded his Parus afer.

The British Museum contains examples of this species from near

Cape Town, and a good series from Deelfontein in the Karoo,

while in the South African Museum are to be found speci-

mens from Malmesbury, Gouda (7.e., Porterville Road Station), and

Hanover.

The Grey Tit was first discovered by Levaillant, and described

by him (Ois. d’Afr. ii. p. 164, pl. 138, fig. 1) as the Mésange

Grisette (not, as stated by Sharpe, Mésange gris a joue blanche,

which is the Indian Parus cinereus). It is a blue-grey bird above

and below, with the white edges to the wing and tail quills much

more strongly marked, and is found from the Orange River north-

wards to Nyasaland, and is well represented in the British Museum.

There is no record, so far as I am aware, of its occurrence in

the eastern half of the Colony or in Natal, and I suspect that

Levaillant really obtained his bird on the Orange River during

his northern journey, and not, as he states, at Camdeboo, which

is now known as the Somerset Hast district of Cape Colony. The

correct name for the Grey Tit is P. cineresceus of Vieillot, founded

on Leyaillant’s description. Shelley (B. Afr. ii. p. 243) proposes

to call a geographical race of this latter species from Mashonaland

and Nyasaland Parus parvirostris ; it is distinguished by its much

smaller bill, though resembling the typical form in plumage.

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178A. PARUS RUFIVENTRIS Boc.

There is an example of this species (Shelley B. Afr. ii. p. 238) in

the South African Museum, a male, obtained by the late Mr. A. W.

Eriksson, at Ochimbora in Ovampoland, on November 4, 1890.

It must, therefore, be included in the South African list. It

closely resembles P. pallidiventris, but is a darker blue-slate above

and a richer cinnamon below. The range of the species extends

northwards through Benguela to the Congo.

181. ANGITHALUS MINUTUS (Shaw).

1814. ANGiTHALUS sMmITHI Jard. and Selby.

Mr. Sharpe (Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 60, and Ibis, 1904, p. 343), states

that there are two species of ‘‘ Cappoc Vogel”? which have hitherto

been confused by authors under the name of 4. capensis. This

name was founded by Gmelin on Sonnerat’s ‘“ Petite Mésange du

Cap de Bonne Esperance,” the figure of which is entirely unlike

the Cape ‘“‘Cappoc Vogel”’; it perhaps represents Stenostira scita, but

it is quite unrecognisable, and should be dropped.

The earliest name for the Cape Cappoc is Sylvia minuta Shaw,*

founded on ‘Levaillant’s description and figure of the “ Figuier

Becque-Fleur’’ (Ois. d’Afr. ii. pl. 184, figs. 1, 2), which is stated

to have come from the Oliphant River district, now the Clanwilliam

and Van Rhyns Dorp divisions of Cape Colony.

Examples of this bird from Deelfontein, Port Elizabeth, and King

William’s Town are preserved in the British Museum, and from the

Cape division, Berg River, and Hanover, in the South African

Museum, and it is apparently confined to Cape Colony south of the

Orange River.

The Capoc Vogel of the Transvaal, Mashonaland, and Damaraland

is stated by Sharpe to be brighter in colour than that of the Colony,

and to this form he assigns the name githalus smithi, of Jardine

and Selby, + the description of which is founded on a specimen

obtained by Sir Andrew Smith.

Both these species are figured by Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, pl. viu.,

figs. 1, 2), and the following diagnosis is given :—

a. Breast darker, and dull ochreous; upper surface dark ashy, dark olivaceous on

the rump and upper tail coyerts; on the crown a slight indication of dusky

SSIS Wo) HI IINEHS G6 Ob oo ob So 56 00 oo oo on 2%8in ADORE.

* Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Mise. xxiii. pl. 997 (1812).

+ Illustr. Orn. pl. 113, fig. 1 (1881).

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). Breast light sulphur-yellow, slightly darkening in older birds, but always

distinctly yellow; light grey on the head, verging gradually into light

olive-greenish, becoming more sulphur-yellow on the rump and upper tail

coverts Ee ee aero cuca som eidal bac eeisos ao. oak o22 Bl: SHOU

1864. LANIUS LUEBBERTI Rchw. -

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. i. p. 619) describes a new Shrike from

Brakwater in Damaraland as follows :—

« Above throughout pale grey, a black band from the base of the

bill through the eye and ear coverts, above which is a plainly marked

white eyebrow ; wing coverts and quills black, primaries white at the

base, inner primaries and secondaries with narrow white tips; below

white, breast and abdomen tinged with salmon; under-wing coverts

white, those of the primaries grey, middle tail feathers black with

narrow white tips, others with base and tip white, outer pair pure

white ; bill and feet black ; length, 8:25; wing, 4°5; tail, 4:0.”

It appears to be closely related to L. minor.

1954. DryoscoPpus CUBLA HAMATUS Hartl.

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. il. p. 594) distinguishes the tropical form of

the Puff-back Shrike under the above name. The males, apparently,

are identical, but the female can be distinguished by the greyer

tinge of rump, and is without any trace of the olive-green shade

present in the typical form. According to Reichenow this form occurs

from East Africa to Angola and North Damaraland.

I am not able to sustain or otherwise this subspecies with the

specimens at my disposal.

196. Dryoscopus RUFIVENTRIS (Shaw).

This species should be referred to under Shaw’s name as above,

which was founded on “le Boubou”’ of Levaillant.

196A. DrRYOSCOPUS RUFIVENTRIS HYBRIDUS Neum.

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. li. p. 553) distinguishes a northern sub-

species of the Greater Puff-back Shrike by the pale ochreous colour

of the whole of the under-parts from the crop downwards.

It takes the place of the typical subspecies from the Transvaal

northwards to the Zambesi and beyond to German East Africa.

904. LANIARIUS MARAISI Sel. f.

Dr. Reichenow believes that this species is founded on a young

bird of LZ. rubiginosus ; im my original description I stated that I

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was also inclined to this belief, but was only convinced of the dis-

tinctness of the species by the fact that Mr. Marais assured me that

the greater number of the specimens obtained by him were adult,

with sexual organs enlarged and obviously in use.

205. LANIARIUS SULFUREIPECTUS (Less.).

Neumann (J. f. O. 1899, p. 395) has divided this well-known and

widely spread species into four races; the material for an examina-

tion of the validity of these races does not exist in the South African

Museum, but neither Sharpe (Ibis, 1901, p. 43) nor Hartert (Noy.

Zool. ix. p. 624) seems inclined to agree with his conclusions in

their entirety. Should the South African race be considered dis-

tinct, it may be known as ZL. sulfwreipectus similis Smith.

225. CHLOROCIHLA INSULARIS (Hartl.).

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 408) substitutes the above name for

oleaginus of Peters. The species is found throughout East Africa,

from Witu to Inhambane.

2284. CRINIGER MILANJENSIS (Shell.).

An undoubted example of this species, first described by Shelley

(Ibis, 1894, p. 9, pl. i. fig. 1), from the Milanji hills in Nyasaland

from a specimen procured by Mr. Alexander Whyte, was sent to

me some little time back by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall. He procured

it in the Chirinda forest, in the Melsetter district of Southern

Rhodesia, on the borders of Portuguese territory, in the month of

December. It is very like the other green bulbuls, such as

Chlorocichla flaviventris, but can be at once distinguished by its

white-streaked ear coverts.

241. CRYPTILLAS VICTORINI (Sund.).

Oberholser (P. Acad. Philad., 1899, p. 211) has pointed out that

the generic term Phlexis of Hartlaub is preoccupied in Coleoptera by

Phiexys of Erichson. He proposes to substitute Cryptillas as above.

242. HURYPTILA SUBCINNAMOMEA (Smith).

Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 338) gives particulars of the nesting habits

of this bird as observed by Messrs. Seimund and Grant in the

neighbourhood of Deelfontein. The nest was found, on December

8th, in the grass at the foot of a big rock on a kopje and was

composed chiefly of spiders’ web; the eggs, three in number, were

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pale bluish white with numerous dots and small spots of lilac

generally distributed. They measured -75 x °5d.

2464. BRADYPTERUS CUNENENSIS (Hartert).

Hartert (Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 62, 1893) describes a new Reed

Warbler from the Cunene River obtained by Mr. A. W. Eriksson on

April 3, 1880. It is apparently allied to B. babecula (Calamocichla

gractilirostris apud Hartert), but is greyish instead of rufous-brown

above and is slightly larger.

2484, EREMOMELA FLAVIVENTRIS DAMARENSIS (Sharpe).

Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 339) considers that the Damaraland form of

E. flaviventris is worthy of separation from the typical race owing to

its paler colour. An examination of the series in the South African

Museum hardly convinces me of the distinctness of the two races;

moreover, Burchell’s type of the typical species came from Griquatown

and would probably be referable to the Damaraland race, or be at

any rate intermediate.

270A. SPILOPTILA MALOPENSIS (Sharpe).

Sharpe (Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 80) distinguishes under this name the

Rufous-eared Wren Warbler from the Molopo River in Bechuanaland.

It is paler and more fulvescent above, having scarcely any grey on

the crown and neck, while the rufous eyebrow and face is light

vinous cinnamon; the sides of the body, flanks, and under-tail coverts

are light sandy buff, and not streaked as in the typical form.

An old skin in the South African Museum from Kuruman is

apparently referable to this species, which extends westwards to

Great Namaqualand, while examples from the Transvaal are some-

what intermediate

281a. CISTICOLA CHINIANA (Smith),

281B. CISTICOLA RUFILATA (Hartl.).

Sharpe (Hand-list Birds, iv. p. 199) again recognises these two

Grass Warblers as distinct from the common Grey-backed form of

the Colony.

The South African Museum contains examples of the first-named

form from Durban, the Zambesi Valley, and from Nyasaland. It

is larger than C. swbruficapilla, and has no trace of spots on the

breast, while the head is uniform rufous and not streaked.

There are two examples of C. rufilata also in the same collection

Check List of the Birds of South Africa. 383

from Ovaquenyama and Ochimbora in Ovampoland, where they were

obtained by Eriksson. These can be at once distinguished by the

general rufous tinge on the back as well as the crown.

298a. TURDUS LIBONIANUS TROPICALIS (Ptrs.).

2988. TURDUS LIBONIANUS VERREAUXI (Boc.).

Hellmayr (Journ. Ornith., 1902, p. 219) distinguishes these two

subspecies of the Kurrichaine Thrush from Inhambane and the

Lower Zambesi to Tanga in Hast Africa, and from Ombongo and

Angola respectively. The former has darker brown upper parts and

a more orange shade over the breast than the type; the latter is

greyer above and has the greater part of the breast brownish grey,

while the white portion of the lower surface is more widely spread

and the orange portion more restricted,

307. SAXICOLA MONTICOLA (Vieill.).

A further discussion of the Mountain Chat, with its very puzzling

series of plumage changes, is given by Hartlaub (Notes Leyd. Mus

xxil. p. 153) and Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 327), but no definite con-

clusion is reached by either author, except that the latter is inclined

to consider the Damaraland race as a distinct species under the

name Sazxicola leucomelena, because of its creamy-white or pure

white crown.

312. SaAxIcoLA LAYARDI Sharpe.

As has been pointed out by Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 325), the web

of the second primary of this Chat is slightly emarginated at the tip,

so that the species should occupy a position somewhat intermediate

between the genera Saxicola and Hmarginata.

313. SAXICOLA FAMIEIARIS Stephens.

3134. SAXICOLA FAMILIARIS GALTONI (Strickl.).

3138. SAXICOLA FAMILIARIS HELLMAYRI Reichw.

Reichenow (Orn. Monatsb. x. pp. 77, 78, 1902) recognises two

geographical races of the Familiar Chat from Damaraland and the

Transvaal respectively. The former, which he names S. luebberti,

but which, if distinct, should be called S. galtoni, is a paler form

of the typical race, and has a very broad black band at the end of

the tail; the latter, S. familiaris hellmayri, has the black band on

the tail very much narrowed and broken up, and even absent alto-

gether on some of the feathers; the general colour of the tail, too,

is a lighter chestnut.

384 Annals of the South African Museum.

316. EMARGINATA CINEREA (Vieill.).

3164 EMARGINATA SCHLEGELII (Wahl.).

Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 325) distinguishes a smaller form of the

Grey Chat under the latter name; it is light brownish grey with

the throat and breast delicate isabelline, and is confined to Damara-

land. H. cinerea is a larger bird, ashy grey in colour, with the

throat and breast light ashy grey; it is founded on the “ Tractrac ”’

of Levaillant, and confined to Great Namaqualand.

3384. BRADYORNIS GRISEA Reichw.

Sharpe (Ibis, 1900, p. 112) records this Kast African species from

Mapicuti, near Beira, and, somewhat doubtfully, from the Ivuna

River in Zululand, It is closely allied to B. mariquensis, but paler

and greyer in general colour, the crown is always clearly streaked

with black, and the under-wing coverts are isabelline grey not white.

Wing about 3°25.

344, CHLOROPETA ICTERINA Sundev.

Sharpe (Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 35, 1901) has examined the type of

this species in the Stockholm Museum, and finds that it is merely

the young of C. natalensis.

3494, PACHYPRORA FRATRUM Shelley.

This species was accidentally omitted from the second volume of

the Birds of South Africa. It was described by Shelley (Ibis, 1900,

p. 522) from two examples procured by Messrs. Woodward at St.

Lucia Bay, in Zululand. The bird was grey above with a black band

on either side of the head running through the eye, over which is

a narrow white eyebrow, below white with a crop band of chestnut.

It was stated by the collectors to be a male, but analogy would lead

us to believe it was really a female.

353A. TROCHOCERCUS ALBONOTATUS Sharpe.

An undoubted example of this species, procured by Mr. G. A. K.

Marshall in the Chirinde forest in December, 1901, at an elevation of

4,500 feet on the borders of the Melsetter district of Rhodesia and

of Portuguese Hast Africa, was presented to the South African

Museum by the collector. It is the first record of the occurrence of

this East African species south of the Zambesi.

7’. albonotatus can be at once distinguished from 7. cyanomelas,

the other South African species by the absence of the white spots on

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the wing coverts and of the white inner secondaries, and by the

presence of white tips to the outer tail feathers. It is figured

on plate vii. fig. 1 of the Ibis for 1892.

3544. TERPSIPHONE PLUMBEICEPS Reichw.

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. ii. p. 510) maintains that the Paradise

Flycatcher of Ovampoland, Angola, the Zambesi Valley, and Nyasa-

land is distinct from the typical South African form. An examination

of a pair in the South African Museum from Ochimbora in Ovampo-

land obtained by Mr. Eriksson confirms this. The chin and throat

are slaty grey like the rest of the under-parts, and are without

metallic gloss; while the gloss on the crown, though present, is

much weaker and less widely spread. The female of this species

can also be distinguished from that of 7. perspicillata by its much

paler and less metallic crown.

381. PivTaA LONGIPENNIS Reichw.

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. ii. p. 390) points out that the Pitta from the

Zambesi obtained by Alexander is identical with a species (P. longi-

penms) described by him from Langenburg in German Nyasaland,

and differs from the true P. angolensis, which is confined to West

Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola. Sharpe (Ibis, 1903, p. 93,

pl. iv.) also points out the differences between the three African

Species, and gives a figure of our present one from specimens

obtained by Mr. J. ffolliott Darling near Salisbury.

493. CoLIus stRIATUS Gmel.

4934. CoLIUS STRIATUS MINOR Cab.

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. ii. p. 203) distinguishes as a subspecies the

Speckled Mousebird of South-east Africa from Nyasaland to Natal

under the above name minor of Cabanis.

The subspecies is of smaller size (wing about 3:5 against 3°75)

and has a darker, almost black, chin and throat. An example in

the South African Museum from Pinetown in Natal confirms these

characters, though they do not seem of any fundamental importance.

424, CoLius CAPENSIS Gmel.

4944. COLIUS CAPENSIS DAMARENSIS Reichw.

Reichenow (Vog. Afr. ii. p. 208) also distinguishes as a subspecies

the Damaraland form of the White-backed Mousebird, by its very

much paler colouration.

386 Annals of the South African Museum.

4274. BYCANISTES CRISTATUS (Riipp.).

This East African species extends southwards to the Zambesi,

where it was got by Kirk. It is easily distinguished from

B. buccinator by its white lower back and by the black of the

under-parts reaching to the legs, which are clothed in front with

black and behind with white feathers. The secondaries, too, are not

tipped with white.

440. DENDROPICUS CARDINALIS (Gmel.).

4404. DENDROPICUS CARDINALIS HARTLAUBI Malh.

Reichenow (Vég. Afr. ii. p. 193) separates the Cardinal Wood-

pecker from the Zambesi Valley and northwards under the latter

of the two names; he states that it differs from the typical form

in its somewhat smaller size, its stronger olive tone above, and the

weaker and less conspicuous black streaks on the lower surface.

Two examples from the Zambesi Valley are preserved in the South

African Museum.

485. Pa@ocEPHALUS ROBUSTUS ANGOLENSIS Reichw.

Reichenow (V6g. Afr.) regards the Brown-necked Parrot merely

as a subspecies of Levaillant’s Parrot (P. robustus) and has given

it a new name, reserving fuscicollis of Kuhl for the West African

subspecies.

506. GYPS RUEPPELLI—RUPPELL’S VULTURE.

A Vulture which appears to be undoubtedly referable to this

species was recently obtained at Livingstone, on the Zambesi, a

few miles above the Victoria Falls by the collector of the South

African Museum. I think there can be little doubt that the

Vultures recorded by Ayres from Potchefstroom, and probably

from Natal and Mashonaland, were really referable to the White-

backed species next on this list.

557. PSEUDOGYPS AFRICANUS (Salv.).

The South African Museum has recently received through the

kindness of Mr. Austin Roberts a fine example of the White-backed

Vulture found at Potchefstroom, an allusion to which will be

found in a footnote on p. 388 of the third volume of the Fauna.

The specimen agrees very well with the descriptions given by

Sharpe and others, and is markedly distinct from Gyps kolbw and

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G. rueppelli, as it has a pure white lower back and rump. At

the same time it undoubtedly possesses fourteen tail feathers, so

that it cannot be assigned to the genus Pseudogyps as defined by

Sharpe.

Whether a mistake has been made in regard to the number of tail

feathers in this species or whether the Potchefstroom White-backed

Vulture should be referred to another species of the genus Gyps

must remain for the present uncertain.

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X.—The Moths of South Africa (Part I11.).—By Sir G. F.

Hampson, Bart., B.A., F.Z.S., &e.

THe present instalment of the classification of the Moths of South

Africa deals with the families Pterothysanide, Lymantriade, and

Hypside@, and concludes the Noctuid group of families having vein 5

of the forewing move or less approximated to vein 4. It also

includes a supplementary list of species from South Africa belonging

to the families dealt with in the first two papers of the series, which

were published in the Annals of the South African Museum,

Vol. I., pp. 33-66, and pp. 255-446.

An (*) indicates that the species is not in the British Museum.

Famiry PTEROTHYSANID-.

Genus PTEROCEROTA, nov.

Proboscis absent; palpi very short not reaching as far as frons ;

antennee of male with very long waved branches to extremity; mid

and hind tibize with terminal pairs of spurs. Forewing with the

apex rounded ; the cell short, rounded at extremity the upper disco-

cellular being oblique ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from

above angle; 6 from well below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 11 stalked,

10 absent, 11 very short and becoming coincident with 12. Hind-

wing with the frenulum absent; the cell short, rounded at extremity,

the upper discocellular being oblique; vein 3 from well before angle

of cell; 5 from well above angle; 6, 7 stalked; 8 connected with

the cell by an oblique bar near base.

Allied to Hibrildes, Druce.

PTEROCEROTA VIRGINEA, 0. sp.

390 Annals of the South African Museum.

g. Pure white; frons pale yellow; antennz brown ; fore cox

yellowish, the tarsi brown. Wings semidiaphanous with indistinct

hyaline line just beyond middle highly excurved beyond cell of both

wings and two curved subterminal lines.

Hab. Natal (Marshall). Hp. 62 mill. Type in B.M.

Famity LYMANTRIADA.

Key to the Genera.

A. Forewing with vein 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole.

a. Hind tibiz with one pair of spurs.

at, Hindwing with vein 5 from below angle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from

angle of cell.

a*, Forewing with the areole very pra veins 8, 9 from

its extremity .. .. eT Og OW

b?. SOHEE with the arople Easton: veins ae ‘9 stalked from it.

3. Hindwing with the cell closed .. .. .. .. Olapa.

i Hindwing with the cell open, a veinlet in cell .. Bracharoa.

b'. Hindwing with vein 5 from angle of discocellulars, 7

trom belore upper anele see nae) een ere is eee Oumolar

d. Hind tibie with two pairs of spurs.

a*. Frons clothed with long woolly hair... .. .. .. .. Creaga.

bt. Frons not clothed with long woolly hair.

a*, Forewing with the areole long and narrow .. .. Redoa.

b?. Forewing with the areole short and broad.

a3. Forewing short and broad .. ....,...... -.. Baziza.

b3, Forewing longer.

a+. Forewing rather narrow, the termen obliquely curved.

a5. Forewing with the costa highly arched

and the apex produced .. .. .. .. Psalis.

bs, Forewing with the costa slightly arched,

the apex not produced .. <. <. «. . Lelia.

b4. Forewing broader, the termen more erect .. Dasychira.

B. Forewing with vein 10 from cell, or from 11, then anastomosing

with 8,9 to form the areole .. .. . Son an elhaniynin

C. aes with veins 7, 8, 9, 10 Sigteerl 4 or 7 for eit or 9 absent.

. Hind tibie with one pair of spurs.

az, Hindwing with yen 3vabsent 3. .. .. ==. .- #. Mtcraroa:

b'. Hindwing with vein 3 present .. ..-.. .. .. .. Aclonophlebia.

b. Hind tibize with two pairs of spurs.

a‘. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 stalked or from a point, 5 separate.

a’, Forewing with the apex produced, the termen

lines ual 55 “6d oo on) oo 5e 50 oo SOHO

b?, Forewing short and broad, the termen more erect.

a3, Forewing with vein 10 from 8, 9, beyond 7.

a+, Abdomen without dorsal crests .. .. .. <dvoa.

b+, Abdomen with dorsal crests .. .. .. .. Homochira.

v3, Forewing with vein 10 from 8,9 before 7 .. .. Lymantria,

b'. Hindwing with veins 4, 5 from a point, 3 separate .. Cymaroa,

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D. Forewing with veins 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 from cell.

a. Fore and mid femora and tibi tufted with long thick hair ;

antenne with large tuft from basal joint .. .. .. .. Naroma.

b, Fore and mid femora and tibize slightly fringed with hair ;

antenne with slight tuft from basaljoint .. .. .. .. Pteredoa,

Genus OGOA.

Type.

Ogoae Wikewa I%63 (1806) |... ... s.. a. Semplex

OGoa simpLEX, WIk. vii. 1764 (1856).

Hab. British East Africa, Kikuyu, Taru; Natal, Durban

(Gueinzius, Millar). Hap. 58-76 mill.

Grnus OLAPA.

Type.

Olapa, Wik. iv. 823 (1855) ....... ... ... flabellania.

Antiphella, Wk. vii, 1743: (1856)... ... ... flabellaria.

A. Forewing with the veins dark.

a. Forewing yellowish white OP ater) Gis) ish ss. | at MUU

ib Doane innous \elllony 55 60 oo oo ad bo 00) om oo HR

B. Forewing with the veins concolorous.

a. Forewing with the costal edge concolorous .. .. .. .. «.. jflabellaria.

b. Forewing with the costaledge black .. .. .. .. «. «. nigricosta.

(1) Onapa nupA, Holl. Don. Smith’s Travels, p. 409, pl. f. 5 (1897).

Hab. Somaliland; Central Africa, Monbuttu; Mashonaland,

Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie); Gazaland, Melsetter (Mar-

shall), Mt. Chirinda (Marshall); Natal, Gadzima (Marshall) ;

Cape Colony, Ovampo Lake. Huxp. 46-56 mill.

(2) OLAPA FURVA, 0. sp.

Fulvous yellow; antenne black; tibize and tarsi suffused with

black; wings semihyaline fulvous yellow, the veins dark; a fine

dark terminal line.

Hab. Mashonaland, Mazoe District (Marshall, Dobbie); Natal,

Gadzima (Marshall). Hxp. 48-56 mill.

(8) OLAPA FLABELLARIA, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 188 (1787).

Liparis crocicollis, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett, f. 110

(1854).

Olapa temperata, W1k, iv. 823 (1855).

Antiphella vecontia, Druce, A.M.N.H. (7) iii. p. 469 (1899).

Hab. Nigeria, Borgu, Gelwa Lake; Abyssinia, Atbara; Natal,

392 Annals of the South African Museum.

Karkloof (Marshall), Durban (Gueinzuis, Leigh); Cape Colony,

(Dr. Smith, Townsend), Grahamstown, Knysna (Trimen).

Eap. 40-66 mill.

(4) OLAPA NIGRICOSTA, N. sp.

3. Head yellow; antennze brownish; palpi black at extreme

tips; thorax white; fore and mid tibiz and tarsi streaked with

black above ; abdomen white; wings semihyaline white ; forewing

with the costal edge black, the costal area and veins more thickly

scaled.

Hab. Cape Colony. Hzp. 38 mill. Type in B.M.

GENUS BRACHAROA, noy.

Type B. quadripunctata,

Proboscis absent; palpi minute, hairy; antennze of male with

very long branches; hind tibize with the medial spurs absent. Fore-

wing short and broad, the termen curved ; vein 3 from close to angle

of cell; 4, 5 stalked; 6 from below upper angle; 9 from 10

anastomising with 8 to form a very short areole; 11 from cell.

Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from above angle; a

recurrent vein in cell running back to base and the upper part of

cell open; 6, 7 stalked.

A. Forewing ochreous or brownish ochreous oe) ee EQULadnuniumnciatar

Jody IMoreabave RENIN ION 65 546 oo’ oo oo 00 ao oo ChRAAGS

(1) BracHaroa QuADRIPUNCTATA, Wligrn. Gifv. Vet. Ak. Forh. 1875,

p. 99.

Aroa bistiymigera, Butl. P.Z.8., 1896, p. 847, pl. xlii. f. 7.

Hab. British East Africa, Neugia, Machakos, Port Ugowe;

British Central Africa, Kondowi; Gazaland, Mt. Chirinda

(Marshall) ; Transvaal, Johannesburg (Rose); Zululand, Lower

Tugela (Reynolds); Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), Durban

(Delvin); Basutoland, Maseru (Crawshay). Hxp. 22-26 mill.

(2) BRaAcHAROA DREGEI, Herr Schiff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 114

(1854).

Hab. Cape Colony, Capetown (Sir A. Smith, Matthew). Hap.

24 mill.

Genus CIMOLA.

Type.

Cimola, W1k. iv. 817 (1855) tan Gee ga eeropalinar

Cimoua opaLina, WIk. iv. 817 (1835).

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Anomeotes thymiathis, Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. xx. p. 156 (1883).

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro) ; Natal, Karkloof (Marshall),

Durban (Plant, Leigh). Haxp. 34 mill.

Genus CREAGA.

Type.

Creaga, Wligrn. K. Vet. Akad. Handl. (2) v.

Giemscn(LSG5) 2 ss. i. we) ees 5 Ceaata.

CREAGA DEALBATA, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 111 (1854).

Lelia aliena, Wilgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 162 (1860).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Malvern (Mar-

shall), Durban (Bowker, Heale, Plant, Whyte) ; Cape Colony, Knysna

(Trimen), Capetown. Hxp. 40-54 mill.

Genus REDOA.

Type.

Redoa, Wk. iv. 826 (1855) ... ... ... submarginata.

REDOA MELANOCRASPIS, Nn. sp.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white; antenne with the

branches tinged with fuscous; fore tibize streaked with fuscous

above; wings semihyaline white, forewing with the base of costal

edge more or less black.

Hab. Gazaland, Chirinda Forest (Marshall); Transvaal, Endla-

togana (Mrs. W. M. Mercer); Natal, Karkloof (Marshall), Durban

(Heale, Leigh). Hap. 30-42 mill.

Genus BAZIZA.

Type.

Baziza, Wik. xxxii. 398 (1865) .... ... ... melaxantha.

BazizaA PERCULTA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 201 (1897).

Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant). Hap. 26 mill.

Genus PSALIS.

Type.

Psalis, Hiibn. Ziitr. 2. p. 19 (1827), non deser.

Moore, Lep. Cey]l. ii. p. 94 (1882) ... ... secures.

PsaLis sEcuRIS, Hiibn. Ziitr. 2. p. 19. ff. 291, 292 (1827).

Hab. British East Africa, Sabaki Valley ; Mashonaland, Salisbury

(Marshall, Dobbie); Transvaal, Pochefstroom District; Natal, Durban

(Leigh); India; Ceylon; Burma; Java; Australia. Mxp. 3 34,

? 50 mill.

394 Annals of the South African Museum.

Genus LAILIA.

Type.

Lelia, Steph. Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins. ii. p. 52

(G29) coll etar ance Gasca eee es ease ey OPENS

Cropera, Wik iv. 820 (1855)! 23: 2.-) ste ee bestaced:

Anthora, Wik. iv..801 (1855) .. 2.) ss... subrosea.

A. ee without postmedial series of spots.

; Forewing withethervemsidark-”)) S-p7s. 4 eke eis ie SDIilebunts.

. Forewing with the veins not dark.. .. .. .. testacea.

B. pane with more or less Somat series of sae or 2 eta

a. Forewing with the series of spots incurved below vein 4.

at. Forewing with the postmedial spots red 56 a0 00 on sllmomorannti.

bt. Forewing with the postmedial spots dark.

az» Colourjochneoussyellow, 7. 2s 2) cle ie een caspensa.

. Colour pale lemon-yellow .. .. . setinoides.

b. dae with the series of spots obliquely ecammert Belen vein 4,

a’. Colour orange-yellow.. .. = oe ee pUNeruLatar

b'. Colour pale yellow largely salineed “pila crimson -. +. hematica.

ct, Colour whitish.

a*, Forewing tinged with pale purplish pink .. .. .. subrosea.

b?, Forewing tinged with pale brown .. .. .. .. .. diascia.

d', Colour pale reddish brown.

a?, Forewing without black fascie.. .. .. .. wyleutis.

b?, Forewing with black fasciz on median neryure nnd

PUNO) Ware WE S65 og “ag 96 46 So ) 65 oa Ulyleyeree

e™. Colour more fiery red ecco Mot wl 6.00 sack=un Suleende Aina

(1) LaLi1a PHLEBITIS, n. sp.

g. Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous yellow; tibiz and tarsi

streaked with black. Forewing fulvous yellow; the costal edge

fuscous at base ; the veins fuscous except on costal area and towards

base. Hindwing fulvous yellow.

? rather paler and the wings semihyaline.

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury, Umtali (Marshall). Hap. ¢ 30,

? 46 mill. Type in B.M.

(2) Lania Testacea, WIk. iv. 826 (1855).

Hab. British East Africa, Machakos, Usambara, M’gana;

Natal, Durban (Gueinzius, Gooch, Burrows); Cape Colony,

Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), Hap. g 34, 2 46 mill.

(3) Lana Fuuvinorata, Butl. P.Z.S., 1893, p. 678.

Hab. British Central Africa, Zomba; Mashonaland, Salisbury,

Umtali (Marshall) ; Gazaland, Mt. Chirinda (Marshall). Hp.

S 42, 2 54 mill.

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(4) Lara apspersa, Herr.-Schiff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 109 (1854).

» prolxa, Wliigrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iy. p. 162 (1860).

Hab. Nigeria, Lokoja; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban

(Gooch, Bowker). Hazp. 30-38 mill.

(5) Lauia setinoiwes, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 431 (1893).

Hab. West Africa, Cameroons, Congo; British East Africa,

Kanisa, Shambe; Natal, Victoria District (Gooch). Hzp.

32-40 mill.

(6) Latra punctuata, Butl. A.M.N.H. (4) xvi. p. 400 (1875).

Hab. Natal, Durban (Burrows, Leigh); Cape Colony (Sir A.

Smith), King William’s Town (Lightfoot). Hxp. 28-36 mill.

(7) LasLIA HMATICA, n. sp.

Head and thorax yellow; patagia crimson; abdomen ochreous

white. Forewing yellow suffused with crimson except on costal

area ; a black-irrorated fascia below cell to origin of vein 2; a spot

in end of cell or a fascia extending to near termen; a postmedial

series of small spots, the one above vein 4 displaced inwards, then

running obliquely towards the submedian fascia. Hindwing semi-

hyaline white, the cilia tinged with ochreous.

Hab. British East Africa, Nairowa, Gwelil (Betton); Mashona-

land, Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie). Hap. 32 mill. Type in B.M.

(8) Laiia suBRosEa, WIk. iv. 801 (1855).

a subrufa, Snell. Tijds. v. Ent. xv. p. 39 (1872), and xxii.

palo; pl 8, fvo1s79).

2 rosea, Schaus, 8. Leone Lep. p. 26, pl. 1, f. 3 (1893).

Hab. Sierra Leone; Natal, Durban (Leigh). Hzp. 3 28,

? 36 mill.

(9) LaLIA DIASCIA, n. sp.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Forewing ochreous

white rather thickly irrorated with fuscous forming indistinct streaks

in the interspaces, the streak in discal fold very distinct; an oblique

series of four points from median nervure near end of cell to vein 1;

a postmedial series of points in the interspaces, running obliquely

from below vein 7 near termen to submedian fold with a slight out-

ward curve at middle, then bent inwards towards the medial series,

a dark shade on the inner side of the series sometimes present.

Hindwing white with a slight yellowish tinge.

Hab. Abyssinia, Atbara; British East Africa, Kikuyu (Crawshay,

396 Annals of the South African Musewm.

Betton), Numisu (Lord Delamere); Mashonaland (Dobbie); Natal

(Gooch); Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Hap. g¢ 30,

? 30-40 mill. Type in B.M.

(10) Lauia XYLEUTIS, n. sp.

3. Head and thorax pale red-brown; abdomen ochreous white,

the ventral surface browner. Forewing pale red-brown sparsely

irrorated with fuscous; a series of small black spots in the inter-

spaces from above vein 6 to submedian fold towards which it is bent

inwards, and with a slight outward curve at middle. Hindwing very

pale pinkish.

2 ochreous white, the costa of forewing tinged with ochreous.

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junod); Basutoland, Masite (Crawshay).

Hep. 38 mill. Type in B.M.

(11) Laura BIFASCIA, n. sp.

3. Head and thorax pale reddish brown often tinged with

fuscous ; pectus and legs dark brown; abdomen ochreous white,

ventrally tinged with rufous. Forewing pale reddish brown irrorated

with black ; a diffused black fascia on medial nervure and basal half

of vein 4; a similar fascia on vein 1 from before middle to beyond

middle ; a subterminal series of obscure streaks on the veins, often

almost obsolete. Hindwing ochreous white.

? usually rather redder ; forewing with the fasciz narrower and

often shorter.

Hab. British East Africa, Machakos (Crawshay); Zululand,

Lower Tugela (Reynolds); Natal, Mooi River, Durban (Leigh) ;

Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), Knysna (Trimen), Kokstad

(Mrs. Pringle). Hap. 32-38 mill. Type in B.M.

(12) Laura Fieuina, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) iv. p. 361 (1899).

Hab. Transvaal; Natal, Delvin (Stanger). Hxp. 40 mill.

AUCTORUM.

Lelia amabilis, Auriv. Gifv. Vet. Akad.

Forh. xxxvi. (7) p. 58° (1879)... .... Damaraland:

Genus DASYCHIRA.

Dasychira, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii.

pi 08" ClIS29) ene See ene nace pudibunda.

Boreconta, Wk. xxxii. 459 (1865) | .:. ~... fusca.

Type.

The Moths of South Africa. 397

Sect. I. Abdomen without dorsal crests.

A. Forewing with the basal and medial areas tinged with greenish.

a. Forewing with subterminal series of small dark lunules.. .. fusca.

b. Forewing without subterminal series of small dark lunules .. herbida.

B. Forewing with the basal and medial areas not tinged with greenish.

a. Forewing with the postmedial line not angled inwards in discal

LOU MMM vc as. Ss els Se aes | orem UC Ipalis.

b. Forewing with the postmedial line angled inwards in discal fold.

a‘. Hindwing white, the apical area tinged with fuscous.. .. postpura.

DemEnnd wine euSCOUSsOROWM Nhl |e ss + «el oe we MOStPUSCa.

(1) Dasycuira Fusca, WIk. vi. 918 (1855) 3.

Orgyia tephra, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 387 (1855).

Boreconia subviridis, Wik. xxxii. 460 (1865) ?.

Hab, Cape Colony (Sir A. Smith), Knysna (Trimen). Fzp.

40-52 mill.

(2)*DASYCHIRA HERBIDA, WIk. vu. 1740 (1856).

Hab. Cape Colony. LHxp. 60 mill.

(3) Dasycurra MuNIcrIPALIS, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 200 (1897) 3.

Lacipa diffusa, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 200 (1897) ¢.

Hab. British Central Africa, Chiromo; Transvaal; Natal;

Cape Colony, Transkei, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett). Hp.

36-40 mill.

(4) DaAsycHIRA POSTPURA, N. sp.

$. Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown; palpi black

at sides; tegule with black medial line; tarsi banded with black,

abdomen white irrorated with brown. Forewing white slightly

tinged with brown and thickly irrorated with black; costa black at

base; a subbasal black line angled outwards in cell and ending at

submedian fold; antimedial line angled outwards below costa, then

dentate ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black, the former

irregularly rounded, the latter with fuscous centre; a slight incurved

medial shade; postmedial line inwardly oblique at costa, bent out-

wards below costa, then dentate, angled inwards in discal fold,

retracted to near origin of vein 2, then inwardly oblique ; two black

striz from costa before apex; a highly crenulate terminal line ; cilia

grey and black. Hindwing white; a slight discoidal lunule ; the

terminal area slightly irrorated with brown, more prominently on

apical area.

Hab. Cape Colony, Stellenbosch. Hxp. 32 mill. Type in B.M.

(5) DASYCHIRA POSTFUSCA, N. Sp.

$. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown; palpi

398 Annals of the South African Museum.

blackish at sides ; tegulee with medial black line; tarsi banded with

black; abdomen brown with greyish segmental bands towards

extremity, the ventral surface white. Forewing grey suffused with

brown especially on medial and terminal areas and irrorated with

fuscous ; costal edge black at base; subbasal line angled outwards

in cell, oblique from submedian fold to vein 1; antemedial line

double, strongly dentate; orbicular and reniform defined by black

and with brownish centres, the former elliptical; traces of an in-

curved, waved medial line; postmedial line strongly bent outwards

below costa, then irregularly dentate, angled inwards in discal fold

and below vein 4 retracted to near origin of vein 2, then outwardly

oblique ; two oblique black strize from costa before apex ; a series of

black and white striae before termen. Hindwing fuscous brown ; the

under side paler brown with dark discoidal lunule and curved post-

medial line.

Hab. Cape Colony, Kowie (Dr. Becker). Hzp. 34 mill. Type

in B.M.

Sect. IJ. Abdomen with dorsal series of crests.

A. Forewing with the ground colour brownish.

a. Forewing without whitish spots on costa and in end of cell.

a*, Forewing without whitish patches on inner or apical areas.

a?, Hindwing white or fuscous.

. Forewing with the postmedial line placed on an

oblique rufous band . ai. @ Oe Je) eer CunUIvITgata.

63, Forewing with the wos fag ng placed on an oblique

rufous band.

a+, Forewing with the linesrufous.. .. .. .. rubrifilata.

b+. Forewing with the lines dark.

a5, Forewing with the postmedial line out-

wardly oblique towards costa .. .. .. ecscota.

bs. Forewing with the postmedial line incurved to costa.

a°. Forewing with the subterminal line

Ghidis Go. toot oe aren eLCLONE CL

. Forewing with the Bae fenenieel line

whitish defined by dentate dark marks

Gin whale BCG Se oo oo ca on Una

. Hindwing black in male, orange in female.. .. .. libyra.

c?, Hindwing bright rufous .. .. .. metathermes.

*. Forewing with white patches on inner paul ee areas... whitei.

b. hae ing with whitish spots on costa and in end of cell .. proleprota.

B. Forewing with the ground colour grey.

Mooney nasa yada) seavoneNi Mba Go “G6 on) So o0 Ho oa oo Chippllent.

b. Forewing without medial line.

at. Forewing with the postmedial line not angled inwards in

Ghisllivoil os. do so Be ice Peon on extatura.

bt. Forewing a the pestmadial line angled aaaie? in “alee

KC] Gee ory oe HoH uoos act Go. oo oq oor bdo Ge CURIE

The Moths of South Africa. 399

C. Forewing with the ground colour white.

a. Forewing sufiusedwith green .. .. «. .. .. «ws ‘%. meascarend.

b. Forewing not suffused with green.

at. Forewing with the lines numerous, dark.

a?. Forewing with the markings indistinct, fuscous.. .. georgiana.

b?. Forewing with the markings prominent, black .. .. octophora.

bt. Forewing with slight yellowish ante- and postmedial lines confinis.

(6) DasycHIRA ‘CURVIVIRGATA, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 373,

ple ive fa:

Hab. West Africa, Togo; British Central Africa, Nyasaland ;

Matabeleland (Oates). Hxp. 40 mill.

(7) DASYCHIRA RUBRIFILATA, 0. Sp.

?. Head and thorax pale reddish brown; abdomen grey-brown

with the dorsal crests black. Forewing pale purplish grey thickly

irrorated with fuscous ; the lines ferruginous ; an indistinct waved

subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved antemedial

line; a reniform stigma indistinctly defined by ferruginous ;

oblique waved postmedial and subterminal lines slightly bent in-

wards between veins 3 and 1; a terminal series of stria. Hindwing

pale greyish fuscous; the under side whitish irrorated with fuscous

and with indistinct postmedial line.

Hab. British Central Africa (Ambruster); Rhodesia, Sabakwe.

Hzp. 42 mill. Type in B.M.

(8) DAsycHIRA ECSCOTA, 0. sp.

g. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black ; abdomen

fuscous, the dorsal crests reddish. Forewing pale grey-brown with

some dark irroration, the basal half and postmedial and terminal

areas suffused with greenish fuscous ; traces of a waved rufous and

black subbasal line ; an indistinct oblique waved rufous and black

antemedial line; the reniform defined at sides by very obscure

rufous and black bars; a better defined double, minutely waved post-

medial line filled in with rufous, oblique from costa to submedian

fold then bent outwards, some blackish suffusion beyond it towards

costa; a subterminal series of rufous and fuscous spots; cilia

chequered grey and fuscous. Hindwing greyish, thickly irrorated

with fuscous brown, the terminal area rather darker ; the under side

more ochreous irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot, post-

medial line and diffused subterminal band.

?. Forewing with the medial and terminal areas paler.

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hap. g 30, 9 40 mill.

Type in B:M.

400 Annals of the South African Museum.

(9) Dasycuira ExTorTA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 203.

Lymantria hera, Druce, A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 209 (1898).

Hab, British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe; Mashonaland, Umtali

(Marshall); Transvaal; Natal, Durban (Queckett, Leigh) ;

Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), Grahamstown. Hp.

30-40 mill.

Larva. Fuscous black, the warts with tufts of loose greyish hair;

subdorsal pencils of black hair on first somite just behind head ;

large dorsal brushes of red-brown hair on fourth to seventh somite

. urticating.

(10) DasycHIRA LUNENSIS, D. sp.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with some

grey. Forewing pale olive irrorated with brown, the costal area,

cell and area from below end of cell to subterminal line suffused

with purplish ; traces of a subbasal line angled outwards below costa

and extending to vein 1; traces of a double irregularly dentate ante-

medial line ; postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below

costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, an oblique series of dentate

white and black marks beyond it between veins 4 and submedian

fold, the lowest larger; a subterminal series of black strizw obliquely

placed above veins 3 and 2. Hindwing ochreous whitish tinged

with fuscous on terminal area.

?. Forewing with the medial area tinged with greenish; reni-

form suffused with whitish ; a large brownish semilunate patch from

below costa to vein 2; a whitish line before the subterminal striz

angled inwards in discal fold and strongly in submedian fold, and

with a series of dentate black marks on its inner side.

Hab. Natal, Durban (Gooch, Leigh). Hxp. § 32, 9 36 mill.

Larva. Yellow; warts with tufts of long whitish hair ; first somite

with lateral pencils of long plumose brown hair projecting forward ;

fourth to seventh somite with dorsal brushes of short whitish hair ;

a brownish dorsal stripe spotted with yellow, on thoracic somites

barred with yellow, defined below by the yellow subdorsal line with

crimson marks on it at middle of each segment; lateral line indistinct,

yellow ; head yellow marked with crimson ; prolegs crimson-tipped.

(11)*Dasycurra LiByra, Druce, A.M.N.H. (6) xvii. p. 352 (1896).

Heteronygmia flammeola, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) vil. p. 360 (1899).

Hab. East Africa; Transvaal, Lydenburg. Hzp. 3g 42,

? 50 mill.

(12) DasycHirA METATHERMES, 0. sp.

3. Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown and tinged with

The Moths of South Africa. 401

pale rufous ; tarsi with blackish rings ; abdomen fulvous, the dorsal

crests black, the ventral surface tinged with fuscous. Forewing

greyish tinged with rufous and thickly irrorated with dark brown;

an indistinct double subbasal line angled inwards in submedian fold

and outwards on vein 1; antemedial line double, angled inwards in

submedian fold, a blackish patch below the cell from it to the slightly

incurved black medial line ; postmedial line black defined by whitish

on outer side, excurved between veins 7 and 4, then oblique and

angled inwards in submedian fold; subterminal line whitish,

excurved at vein 7 and middle, angled inwards in discal and

submedian folds; a series of dark striz before termen, the one above

submedian fold obliquely placed ; cilia chequered fuscous and brown.

Hindwing bright fulvous, the apical area suffused with brown; the

under side with slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line.

Hab. Cape Colony, Grahamstown, Kouri River (Dr. Becker).

Eap. 34 mill. Type in B.M.

(13) Dasycurra wHiTetr, Druce, A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 209 (1898).

Hab. West Africa, Old Calabar; Natal, Durban (Bowker,

Innes, Marshall). Hap. 34 mill.

(14) DasycHIRA PROLEPROTA, N. sp.

g. Head, thorax, and abdomen dull brown suffused with whitish.

Forewing dull brown tinged with grey; some ill-defined whitish

marks at base; two whitish spots on middle of costa and two

towards apex; reniform narrow, filled in with whitish; traces of

a double waved antemedial_line; postmedial line slightly bent out-

wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then angled inwards in

submedian fold; cilia with whitish points at extremity of veins.

Hindwing dull reddish brown.

Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Hap. 32 mill. Type in B.M.

(15) DasycHIRA ATRIFILATA, nN. sp.

$. Head and thorax grey mixed with black; metathorax with

black bars; fore and mid tarsi black; abdomen brownish grey.

Forewing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; a slight subbasal line,

angled outwards below costa and ending on a wedge-shaped black

patch below cell with a fuscous shade from its extremity to costa ;

antemedial line rather broad, slightly angled outwards below costa,

then straight ; a rounded spot defined by black in end of cell with

a striga from costa above it; a medial line from origin of vein 2 in-

curved to inner margin; a minutely dentate postmedial line excurved

from costa to vein 4, then angled inwards to below end of cell, then

402 Annals of the South African Musewn.

bent outwards again; a fine subterminal line ineurved at veins

5, 3, 2. Hindwing white, the termen tinged with fuscous.

@. Forewing more strongly irrorated with black; antemedial

line less distinct ; reniform outlined by black and produced upwards,

with a wedge-shaped mark defined by black from its inner side to

antemedial line; postmedial line not so strongly angled inwards

below cell, nor bent outwards again; subterminal line less distinct

with an iregular waved black line before it strongly incurved and

with a black lunule on it below vein 2. Hindwing more tinged with

fuscous ; the under side with the costal and terminal areas irrorated

with fuseous, a discoidal lunule and diffused sinuous subterminal line.

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hap. g 40, 2? 46 mill.

Type in B.M.

Pupa in a thin cocoon of grey and black hair.

(16)*Dasycurra ExTaTuRA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 202 (1897).

Hab, Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant). Hap. 3 40, 9 50 mill.

(17) Dasycu1ra GWELILA, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc., 1903, p. 469.

Hab. British East Africa, Gwelil, Machakos; Rhodesia, Bula-

wayo (EF. Eyles); Natal, Durban (Leigh). Hap. 36 mill.

(18) DasycHira MASCARENA, Bull, A.M.N.H. (5) ii. p. 294 (1878).

he cangia, Druce, P.Z.S. 1887, p. 674. Holland,

Psyche; vi. p. 007, pl: 10) 1, 12.

Hab. Delagoa Bay; Madagascar. Exp. 3 50, ? 56 mill.

(19) DasycHIRA GEORGIANA, Fawcett, Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. p. 314,

pl. xix. lOO ait 900):

Hab. Transvaal (Marshall); Natal, Durban (Leigh). zp.

S$ 42, 2 72 mill.

(20) DasycHIRA OCTOPHORA, N. sp.

3. Head and thorax white; palpi black except at tips; lower

part of frons black ; a black bar between antenne which have black

points on shaft in front and blackish branches ; tegule edged with

black behind; thorax with black markings ; legs banded with black;

abdomen ochreous white with fuscous dorsal and lateral bands.

Forewing white; the base of costa black; a subbasal black line from

costa to submedian fold, angled outwards in cell; two irregularly

dentate antemedial lines, the second arising from an annulus on

costa and angled inwards nearly to former in cell; orbicular repre-

sented by a small annulus, the reniform by an 8-shaped mark ;

a striga from middle of costa and a Y-shaped mark on inner margin;

The Moths of South Africa. 403

postmedial line irregularly dentate, bent outwards below costa,

angled inwards in diseal fold, strongly incurved below the cell, then

bent outwards again; a wedge-shaped black mark from costa before

apex with a white point on it; some irregular subterminal marks; a

terminal series of black spots becoming larger and triangular towards

tornus, emitting streaks on the cilia except towards tornus. Hind-

wing white, some fuscous marks at and below apex and a line

towards tornus forming part of a subterminal band; a terminal

series of black strive; the under side with fuscous bars from costa

before, at, beyond middle and at apex, a black discoidal lunule.

Hab. Natal, Durban (Millar) ; Cape Colony, Howie (Dr. Barker),

Heald Town (Miss F. Barrett), Grahamstown. Hzp. 38 mill. Type

in B.M.

(21)*Dasycutra coNnFINIS, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) iv. p. 360 (1899).

Hab. Transvaal, Natal Frontier. Hxp. 52 mill.

Genus LACIPA.

Type.

MGocipde WilkeciverMGONGLSOO) s25 sa. se. co so PUCtM.

Microgymna, Wllgrn. K. Vet. en anal (2) v

Dx B18) (QUSIES)) sco, sacs «NGS SEONG oC CP RCIA preta.

A. Forewing with the ground colour yellowish .. .. .. sarcistis.

B. Forewing with the ground colour white tinged with Reecoueee pulverea.

C. Forewing with the ground colour pure white.

a. Forewing with the bands defined by black, an oa

medial series of black spots>. .. . 5s 00 JOON.

}). Forewing with the bands not iaetned a ince no medial series of black

spots.

a, Forewing with terminal series of black points .. .. quadripunctata.

b'. Forewing with terminal series of yellow spots.

. Forewing with two or three black points on medial

part of postmedial line Btu tic s- =» gemmata.

. Forewing with complete series of fie spots on

inner side of postmedial line .. .. .. .. «. nobilis.

(1) Lacrpa SARCISTIS, n. sp.

Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; fore cox tinged with

fuscous; anal tuft of female fuscous. Forewing flesh yellow irro-

rated with rough white scales; the costa more orange ; traces of a

curved orange subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; ante-

medial line orange, acutely angled on median nervure and oblique

towards costa and inner margin; an orange postmedial line arising

near apex, very oblique below vein 7. Hindwing orange-yellow.

404 Annals of the South African Musewmn.

Under side of forewing except marginal areas suffused with fuscous

in male.

Hab. Natal, Victoria District, Durban (Queckett). Hap. 28 mill.

Type in B.M.

(2) Lacipa puLVvEREA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) 1. p. 117 (1898).

Euproctis pubescens, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc., 1903, p. 404.

Hab. Transvaal; Zululand, Lower Tugela (Reynolds) ; Natal,

Malvern (Marshall), Durban (Leigh). Hap. 24 mill.

(3) Lacrpa picta, Boisd. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 599

(1847) ; Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 113.

Hab. Cape Colony, Grahamstown, Knysna (Trimen). Hzp.

28 mill.

(4) Lacipa QuapDRIpUNCTATA, Dewitz., Verh. L.C. Akad. xliii. p. 67,

pl if 4ss1):

Lacipa sexpunctata, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 201 (1897).

» gquinquepunctata, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 117 (1898).

Hab. British Central Africa, Stevenson Road; Mozambique ;

Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie), Umtali (Marshall) ;

Southern Rhodesia, Sebakwe; Transvaal. Hxp. 26-34 mill.

(5) Lacrpa cGemmata, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 200 (1897).

Hab. Transvaal (Tulloch); Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson),

Maritzburg (Burnup); Cape Colony, Grahamstown. Hap. 32-

42 mill.

(6) Lacrpa nopiuis, Herr.-Schiaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 388 (1855).

Hab. Cape Colony, Knysna (Trimen), Wynberg (Trimen).

Hzp. g 34, 9 42 mill.

Genus MICRAROA, nov.

Proboscis absent; palpi short, not reaching beyond the frons and

clothed with hair; antennze of male with long branches; head,

thorax, and abdomen elothed with rough hair; hind tibia with one

pair of spurs. Forewing short and broad, the apex rounded; vein 3

from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; the cell open; 6 from

upper angle; 7, 8, 10 stalked, 9 absent, 11 from cell. Hindwing

with vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 5 absent; a recurrent vein

in cell, the upper part of which is open; 6, 7 stalked.

The Moths of South Africa. 405

MIcRAROA RUFESCENS, 0. sp.

3. Uniform red-brown, the branches of antennie black.

Hab. Natal, Tugela River, Bond’s Drift (Reynolds), Estcourt

(Hutchinson), Maritzburg (Burnup). Hzp, 22 mill. Type in B.M.

Genus ACLONOPHLEBIA.

Type.

Aclonophlebia, Butl. P.Z.8., 1898, p. 428 ... flavinotata.

A. Hindwing yellow.

a. Forewing brown, with medial band formed of white patches .. mosera.

b. Forewing fuscous, with white patch on medial costal area and

yellow patches below and beyond cell .. .. .. .. .. .. lugardi.

1d}, lebinchwrbare pyle Golan Se o6 40 dm 6G 60 BOND) eo oa aioe

Copund winch hitee mien Nec Ile ce wt o« « «4 tessellata:

(1) AcLoNoPHLEBIA MosERA, Druce, A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 208 (1898).

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro); Rhodesia, Bulawayo

(Eyles) ; Natal, Durban (Queckett, Leigh). Hap. 32-50 mill.

Larva hairy, brown, strongly urticating. Pwpa hair - brown

(Leigh).

(2) ACLONOPHLEBIA LUGARDI, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc., 1903, p. 493.

Hab. N’Gamiland (Lugard). Hp. 3 34, ? 44 mill.

(3) ACLONOPHLEBIA RHODEA, N. Sp.

?. Head and thorax brown, area round base of antenne and

sides of neck, some hair behind tegule and pectus crimson ; antenne

blackish; femora crimson above; abdomen crimson with dorsal

series of small black spots, the extremity blackish, the anal tuft

yellow. Forewing fuscous, irrorated with white, the veins speckled

with pinkish white; subbasal line represented by small crimson

spots with black points on their inner side ; a white antemedial band

oblique from costa to below cell where it becomes confluent with an

irregular medial white patch on inner margin interrupted by dark

strie ; postmedial line expanding towards costa into a white patch

angled outwards at vein 7 where it is met by two obliquely placed

spots from apex, angled outwards on veins 4 and 3, then inwards

and ending on inner margin; a series of small crimson spots on

termen and cilia. Hindwing pale crimson ; a pale fuscous terminal

band from apex to vein 3, then becoming narrower and subterminal

and ending at tornus.

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junod). Hap. 40 mill. Type in B.M.

406 Annals of the South African Museum.

(4) AcLONOPHLEBIA TESSELLATA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 201

(1897).

Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie); Transvaal, Lydenburg. LHzp.

40 mill.

AUCTORUM.

Arctia rhodalipha, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 100,

f; DOi(ASTAVE ase: Sean neat nee coe ae ene aL OSC MeO lon,

Grenus EUPROCTIS.

: Type.

Ewproctis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 159 (1827) ... chrysorrha@a.

Dulichia, Wik. iv. 809 (1855) ... ... ... fasciata.

Lopera, Wik. iv. 919 (1855) «... =~... «.. squamosa.

A. Forewing with more or less prominent ante- and post-medial lines or bands.

a. Forewing pale brown, the costal area suffused with white .. aspersa.

b. Forewing orange to white.

at. Abdomen with the extremity black .. .. .. .. .. terminalis.

bt. Abdomen with the extremity not black.

a’, Forewing without red discoidal spot.

a3, Forewing with the basal area irrorated with rough

black scales O06 squamosa.

. Forewing with the teal area nee crocaied nu black scales.

a+. Forewing with the ante- and post-medial lines not red.

. Forewing with subterminal points of black

Scales 2. « 0 punetifera.

. Forewing sun! queen Back putas mesozond.

b4. peso with the ante- and post-medial lines

maine @r Isis Gg oa 60 of co co os jCKenien

2. Forewing with discoidal a SUN og Go oo a6 oa Sepopibdiqte

B. nee without ante- and post-medial lines or bande.

. Ground colour of male orange crocata.

. Ground colour of male ochreous or mele valle

at. Forewing with some black scales round the red discoidal

spot .. stellata.

. Forewing inert Wing cols pond the ro iieeoidal

spot . : crocosticta.

Cs pes white or pallenien ae

. Forewing without red subterminal marks.. .. .. .. monosticta.

. Forewing with red subterminal marks.

a?, Forewing with red marks near tornus.. .. .. .. hamodetes.

b?. Forewing with red marks near apex and eae .. rufopunctata

(1) Euproctis aspersa, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 100, f. 6 (1872).

Hab. Cape Colony, Van Vlyk’s Vley (Alston), Deelfontein (Col.

Sloggett). Hap. 36 mill.

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EUPROCTIS TERMINALIS, WIk. iv. 794 (1855).

Hab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall, Heale); Cape Colony, Grahams-

town, Knysna (Trimen). Hp. 3 30-34, ? 38 mill.

(3) Euproctis squamosa, WIk. iv. 920 (1855).

Hab. Cape Colony, Capetown. Hp. 34-44 mill.

(4) Euproctis puNcTIFERA, WIk. iv. 792 (1855).

Hypogymna melanura, Wilgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 163 (1860).

Lopera gaudens, W1k. xxxii. 357 (1865).

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junod) ; Natal, Durban (Gueinzius, Gooch,

McKen) ; Cape Colony, Grahamstown. Hxp. 30-38 mill.

(5) HuPROCTIS MESOZONA, 0. sp.

3. Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen orange, the

anal tuft brownish. Forewing pale yellow mostly suffused with pale

fulvous ; traces of pale ante- and postmedial lines angled outwards

at middle ; the medial area with large black-tipped rufous scales in

end of cell, beyond lower angle and from lower angle to inner margin.

Hindwing bright orange.

Hab. Cape Colony, Grahamstown. FH yxp. 32 mill.

(6) Euproctis rasciata, WIk. iv. 809 (1855).

Artaxa squamiplaga, Wk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 338

(1869):

Huproctis susanna, Stgr. Iris. vii. p. 258, pl. 9 f. 9 (1894).

rr torrida, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 202 (1897).

Hab. Syria; Aden; West Africa, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Congo;

Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); Transvaal, Murchison

Range ; Zululand, Lower Tugela (Reynolds); Natal, Estcourt

(Hutchinson). Hap. 30-46 mill.

(7) EUPROOTIS SANGUIGUTTA, N. sp.

3g. Bright orange. Forewing with indistinct pale ante- and

postmedial lines, the former curved, the latter excurved at middle ;

a round discoidal blood-red spot on a rather paler medial band

which is constricted below cell; an indistinct -pale subterminal line,

somewhat excurved at middle.

Hab. Nyasaland, Konelowi (Crawshay) ; Mashonaland (Dobbie) ;

Cape Colony, Knysna (Trimen). Hp. 34 mill.

(8) Euproctis crocata, Boisd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 599 (1847) ;

Herr.-Schiaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 112.

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ITypogynma cateja, Wilgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 163 (1860).

Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson); Cape Colony (Trimen).

Exp. 36-42 mill.

(9) Euproctis steLuata, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 202 (1897).

Hab. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall); Delagoa Bay (Junod) ;

Natal, Karkloof (Marshall), Estcourt (Hutchinson), Durban

(Gooch, Burrows, Leigh); Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F.

Barrett), Grahamstown. LHzp. g 30, ? 38-44 mill.

(10) Euproctis CROCOSsTICTA, n. sp.

$. Ochreous yellow. Forewing with round orange-red discoidal

spot.

?. Rather paler; the anal tuft brown.

Hab. British Central Africa, West of Nyasa, Kondowi (Craw-

shay); Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hzp. 3 42, ? 48-

54 mill.

(11) Euprroctis monosticra, Butl. P.Z.S., 1898, p. 428, pl. 32, f. 7.

Hab. British East Africa, Taru, Machakos; Natal. Lup.

gd 26, 2 42 mill.

(12) EUPROCTIS HHMODETES, N. sp.

Yellowish white; abdomen with the anal tuft yellow in male,

brown in female. Forewing with orange-red discoidal spot sur-

rounded by a few black scales ; a similar spot just above tornus with

some black scales above and below it; the male with a few dark

scales on termen below apex.

Hab. Cape Colony, Knysna (Trimen). Exp. g 34, 9 42 mill.

(13) Euproctis ruFopunotaTa, W1k. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) 1, p. 265

(1862).

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Juncd) ; Natal, Durban (Queckett). Haxp.

46 mill.

Genus AROA.

; Type.

Aroa, Wik: ivs791 (1850)"... Aes" css, eeeetese @TSEaL tS

Ornithopsyche, Wllgrn. K. Vet.Akad. Handl.

(2) v. (4) p. 35:\(1865). 12 as ee ee See daseaas:

Sect. I. Forewing with vein 6 from upper angle of cell.

(1) AROA MELANOLEUCA, I. Sp.

3. Head, thorax, and abdomen black mixed with some white

hairs ; branches of antenne brown. Forewing black irrorated- with

The Moths of South Africa. 409

white; an obliquely curved, rather broad white band from just

beyond upper angle of cell to vein 1 near tornus; cilia tipped with

white. Hindwing black; an ill-defined oblique white band from

costa beyond middle to submedian fold above tornus; cilia tipped

with white ; the under side with the band rather more defined and

joining a diffused white fascia on inner area.

Hab. Gazaland, Melsetter, 5,500 ft. (Marshall). Hap. 26 mill.

Sect. II. Forewing with vein 6 from well below angle of cell.

(2) Aroa piscaLis, WI1k. iv. 792 (1855) ; Waterh. Aid. i1. pl. 178, £. 5.

», ochraceata, W1k. xxxii. 327 (1865).

5, signata, Wik. xxxil. 328 (1865).

Ormthopsyche hypoxantha, Wligrn. K. Vet.-Akad. Handl. (2) v.

(4) p. 35 (1865); Held. Reis. Nov. pl. 100, f. 4.

Hab. British East Africa, Kikuyu, Munisu, Kilaman’jaro ;

Uganda, Port Ogowe, Marengi, Masevi; British Central

Africa, Zomba ; Portuguese East Africa, Quilimane, Mashona-

land, Salisbury (Marshall); Delagoa Bay (Junod) ; Zululand,

Lower Tugela (Reynolds) ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban

(Gueinzius, Gooch, Trimen, Heale, Leigh); Cape Colony,

Grahamstown. Hzp. g 34, 9? 42-44 mill.

Larva hairy, nearly black; Cocoon whitish. Food plants,

grasses (G. EF. Leigh).

AUCTORUM.

Orgyia tricolor, Herr.-Schiff. Aussereur.

Schmett. i. f. 472 (1856) ... ... ... Cape Colony.

Ornithopsyche anthora, Feld. Reis. Nov.

pl. 100, f. 8 (1874) ? = A. discalis ... Cape Colony.

Orgyia melaxantha, Wik. xxxii. 324 (1865) = pyrrhochroma, W1k. xxxii. 329, is

from India, not South Africa.

Genus HOMOCHIRA, nov.

Type H. rendallt.

Palpi porrect to well beyond frons, the second joint thickly scaled,

the third short; antenne of male with long branches ending in a

bristle, of female with shorter branches; legs hairy, the fore tibize

and tarsal joints fringed with long hair; hind tibize with two pairs of

spurs; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Forewing

rather short and broad; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell;

6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7;

410 Annals of the South African Museum.

11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked or from

angle; 5 from above angle; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from upper

angle.

A. Hindwing orange... 3, Js cee sel peiaaas-1- 0 cece ecu on LUT CCLULS

B. Bindwing brown .. is Gases) ieee ect ees ITC IUCLLLLT

(1) Homocurra pirFiciuis, W1k. xxxii. 328 (1865).

Hab. Natal, Durban (Gueinzius, Leigh). Hap. 40 mill.

(2) Homocuira RENDALLI, Dist. A.M.N.H. (6) xx. p. 203 (1897).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), Umtali (Marshall) ;

Transvaal ; Natal, Durban (Bowker). Hap. 36 mill.

Genus LYMANTRIA.

Type.

Lymantria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 160 (1827) ... monacha.

Polymona, Wlk. ili. 768 (1855) ww. ww. reufifemur.

Morasa, Wik. iv. 859 (1855) ... ... ... ... ‘modesta.

Sarothropyga, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 8 (1875),

NONM-CESCE: | geaee hace mee =e). Sepey bea GIOGESTA:

LyMANTRIA MoDESTA, WIk. iv. 859 (1855).

Sarothropyga rhodopepla, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 100, f£. 23 (1875).

Hab. Transvaal (Leyds); Natal, Durban (Gueinzius, Bowker,

Gooch, Leigh) ; Cape Colony, Grahamstown. Hzp. 3 36, 9 54 mill.

AUCTORUM.

Liparis subfusca, Boisd. pole Delegorgue, ii.

jee oieron @LSCu\ES Menke | bce ee rere Aull eveu

Liparis lutea, Boisd. Ho “Dalesasete, il.

ps O98 (1847) ies ee esos: (shh a dess soch. Geo eeaulalanas

Genus CYMAROA, nov.

Type C. leptopepla.

Palpi porrect to well beyond frons and clothed with rather long

hair; antenne of male with moderate branches ending in a bristle,

of female with very short branches, the shaft with rough scales

above; hind tibize with two pairs of spurs; abdomen without dorsal

crests. Forewing rather short and broad; veins 3 and 5 from near

angle of cell; 6 shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10; 11 from cell.

Hindwing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7

from upper angle.

The Moths of South Africa. 411

CYMAROA LEPTOPEPLA, N. sp.

3. Head and thorax fulvous yellow mixed with fuscous; tibize

and tarsi banded with black; abdomen fulvous yellow slight irro-

rated with fuscous. Forewing fulvous yellow irrorated with black;

subbasal line indistinct, diffused, waved, with more distinct black

mark at costa; antemedial line irregularly dentate, bent outwards

from subcostal nervure to submedian fold; medial line with black

mark on costa, then very indistinct, waved, oblique to lower angle

of cell where it is angled; postmedial line waved, oblique to below

vein 6, then inwardly oblique, a similar slightly curved line beyond

it; a very ill-defined waved subterminal line. Hindwing golden-

yellow with small fuscous discoidal spot and ill-defined subterminal

line.

?. Browner, especially the hindwing.

Hab. Basutoland, Maseru (Crawshay); Cape Colony, Grahams-

town (Miss F. Barrett), Capetown. Hap. 38-46 mill.

Genus NAROMA.

Type.

Naroma, W1k. vii. 1744 (1856) =... Sw. Sw. stgnifera.

Hysibada, Wk. xxxii. 497 (1865) ... ... ... sagnifera.

Zarfa, Wik. Proc. Nat. Hist. ee: Glasg. i.

DesoGu(LOOO)y. Besa w ese signifera.

Werdema, Snell. Mid ve fant (2 ) vi Dp: 40

(CUS OMMR EE) Goh ecceec dec cotton Stgntiferds

NAROMA SIGNIFERA, WIk. vii. 1744 (1856).

Hysibada varipes, Wik. xxxii. 498 (1865),

Zarfa lunifera, Wik. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soe. Glasg. i. p. 339 (1869).

Werdemia weyenberghi, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. (2) vii. p. 43, pl. 3, ff. 9-

12 (1872).

Cnethocampa cadica, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 85 (1880).

Dasychira mabilli, Rochebr. Bull. Soe. Philom. (7) vii. p. 30 (1884).

Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Accra, Old Calabar,

Congo; Uganda, Karasa; Mashonaland Salisbury (Marshall),

Umtali (Marshall); Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban (Gueinzius,

Leigh, Miss Heaton). Hap. 30-54 mill.

Genus PTEREDOA, nov.

Type P. plumosa.

Palpi porrect to just beyond frons, moderately clothed with hair ;

antenn of male with extremely long feathery branches, decreasing

412 Annals of the South African Museunv.

suddenly to apex, of female with short branches; hind tibia with one

pair of spurs; abdomen without crests. Forewing rather short and

broad ; vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 5 from near angle;

7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hindwing with vein 3 from before

angle of cell; 6, 7 stalked.

Sect. I. Forewing with vein 6 from angle of cell; hindwing with vein 5 from just

above angle.

(1) PrerEepoa USEBIA, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1903, p. 382.

Hab. British Central Africa, Likoma (de Jersey); Delagoa Bay

(H. Junod). Hap. 34 mill.

Sect. II. Forewing with vein 6 from below angle of cell; hindwing with

vein 5 from well above angle; fore tibia with the process long

and arising from base.

(2) PrEREDOA PLUMOSA, 2. sp.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white; vertex of head orange ;

antenne of male with the branches brownish ; wings uniform white

and almost hyaline, clothed with bifurcate hairs.

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hap. 30-34 mill.

GENERA AUCTORUM.

Homeomeria flavicapilla, Wilgrn. Wien.

Ent. Mon. iv. p. 163 (1860) ; id. K. Vet.

Akad. Handl. (2) 5 (4) p. 386 (1865) ... Cape Colony.

Pygetera boldingu, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 99,

f. 8 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 446 ... Cape Colony.

Oreinobia scurrilis, Wligrn. Wien. Ent.

Mon. iv. p. 163 (1860); id. K. Vet.

Akad. Handl. (2) v. (4) p. 34 (1865) ... Cape Colony.

Palasea albimacula, Wilgrn. K. Vet. Akad.

Handl. (2) v. (4) p. 835 (1865) ... ... Cape Colony.

Ethypopteryx sordida, Auriv. Cifv. Ak.

Férh. xxxvi. (7) p. 57 (1879) ... .... Damaraland.

Faminty HYPSIDA.

Key to the Genera.

A. Forewing with vein 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole.

a. Palpi upturned, the third joint long and somewhat dilated at extremity.

a‘. Forewing in both sexes on under side, with oblique furrow

of ridged membrane with membranous tooth before it above

The Moths of South Africa. 413

inner margin towards tornus, coinciding with streak of largé

scales below costa of hindwing on upper side .. .. .. Hypsa.

bt. Forewing normal A see -- «- »- Digama.

b. Palpi porrect, projecting about ae each of Hende

re Mid tibize with the spurs well developed... .. .. .. .. Diota.

. Mid tibiz with oe OMS waATNEY “GG Ge Go ee oc oo JOTI aR.

B. Foreving with veins 7, 8, 9 stalked.

. Hindwing with vein 5 inom near lower angle of cell... .. .. dAlytarchia.

b. Hindwing with vein 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars Callioratis.

Genus HYPSA.

Type.

Hypsa, Hibn. Verz. p. 172 (1827)... ... ... monycha.

Pseudhypsa, Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 384 (1892)... speciosa.

Sect. I. (Psewdhypsa). Antenne of male bipectinate, the apex simple.

ik, leblinghrale Witto4 66° 60 oa co do oo) GON dGn Nabe bol Gazette

B. Hindwing orange.

a. Forewing brown with fine white streaks on the veins.

at, Hindwing with black terminal band from apex to vein 1 bawmanniana.

bt. Hindwing wholly orange or with fuscous apical patch .. swbretracta.

DreROrewineiOrangels.) fj. Bie ich er ce} oes" wal “we CONSpieUa:

(1) Hyprsa speciosa, Drury, Ill. Ex. Ent. ii. pl. 5, f. 2 (1778).

» undulifera, Wik. vii. 1676 (1856); Snell, Tijd. v. Ent.

SEXP lA, pled t. 2

Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Old Calabar,

Nigeria ; ? South Africa. Hxp. 56-70 mill.

(2) Hypsa BAUMANNIANA, Karsch. Ent. Nachr. xxi. p. 369, pl. iii.,

f. 5 (1895).

Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone; Mashonaland, Salisbury

(Marshall); Natal. Hp. 54-66 mill.

(3) Hypsa suBRETRACTA, WIk. vii. 1676 (1856).

Aganais aphidas, Hopff. Monatsb. Berlin, 1857, p. 422; Peter’s

Reise Zool. v. p. 432, pl. 28, f. 8; larva Fawcett, Tr. Zool.

Soc. xv. p. 315, pl. 47, f. 16.

Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Old Calabar, Nigeria; British

East Africa, Tanga; Natal, Durban (Gooch, Leigh); Cape

Colony, Grahamstown, Brak Kloof. Hap. 56-74 mill.

4) Hypsa conspicua, Swinh. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 503 (1903).

Hab. Transvaal; Natal, Pinetown (Bowker). Hxp. 60-74 mill.

Hypsa borbonica is confined to Madagascar and Bourbon.

414 Annals of the South African Musewm.

Genus DIGAMA.

Type.

Sonmeria, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. in.

p: Lar(1827)mon-deseryy. .) am-cr aCWUas

Digama, Moore, Lep. E.1.C. p. 297 (1859) hearseyana.

Homeognatha, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 5 (1874),

NON-AESCry Mes eset see ecm eae eee ees GUIS:

Sect. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with long branches, the apex simple.

A. Hindwing white FOL Od) POON Oe mu! 66. ce oe dee ne hooiency nei

B. Hindwing yellow.

a. Hindwing with terminal series of fuscous spots from apex to

vein 2, or dentate band .. .. .. Ben SUIUILOSL =

b. Hindwing with more or less developed trascons band on eel

part of termen; vertex of head without spot.. .. .. .. .. culta.

c. Hindwing wholly yellow ; vertex of head with fuscous spot .. aganais.

(1) Dicama sprtosoma, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 106, f. 20 (1874).

Hab. British East Africa, Kikuyu; Cape Colony, Knysna

(Trimen). Hxp. 40-46 mill.

(2) Dicama srnvosa, n. sp.

Head and thorax white; palpi with black bands on each joint ;

sides of frons above and below with black spots; antennz black ;

tegule with black spots and black at base and sides; patagia black

at shoulders ; prothorax with black patch, metathorax with pair of

spots; pectus and coxe with black spots; legs fuscous ringed with

white ; abdomen orange, ventrally whitish, with dorsal, lateral and

sublateral series of black spots. Forewing white; an irregular sub-

basal black patch on costa with white spot on it, a spot below cell

and round spot further from base above inner margin with a pair of

spots beyond them ; irregular patches on costa at and beyond middle,

their lower extremities conjoined by.a very irregular somewhat

v-shaped mark, its lower outer arm reaching inner margin; from

the lower extremity of postmedial costal patch arises a loop-

shaped black mark connected with the very irregular terminal band,

which is grey edged with black on inner side and is more deeply

excised above veins 6 and 3. Hindwing pale yellow with terminal

series of fuscous spots from apex to vein 2 in male, in female with

maculate dentate band.

Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Hap. 42 mill. Type in B.M.

(3) Dicgama cunta, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. iii. p. 13, ff. 433-4

(1827).

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Spilosoma marmorata, Wk. xxxi. 293 (1864).

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro); Cape Colony, Grahams-

town. Hzxp. 30-40 mill.

(4) Digama acanats, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 106, f. 21 (1874).

Hab. Natal, Durban (Gooch, Queckett, Leigh). Hap. 40-

42 mill.

Sect. II. Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches on outer

side and very short branches on inner.

(5) Digama ostenTATA, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) iii. p. 463 (1899).

Hab. Transvaal; Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett).

Exp. 36 mill.

Genus DIOTA.

Type.

Diota, Wilgrn. Svensk. Handl. (2) v. (4) p. 46

(1865) Bp es Vika -n,tine rostrata.

A. Forewing with postmedial black spots above and below vein 4;

hindwing brown Me es eet este ee ee fas basifurca.

B. Forewing without postmedial black spots; hindwing yellowish .. rostrata.

(1) Diora BasirurcA, W1k. xxxii. 335 (1865).

Hab. Cape Colony. Hp. 40 mill.

(2)*Diora ROSTRATA, Wllern. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 161 (1860).

Hab. Cape Colony. Hxp. 30 mill.

Genus DEILEMERA.

Type.

Deilemera, Hiibn. Verz. p. 178 (1827) ... ... evergusta.

Sect. I. Hind tibize of male very short, the spurs nearly as long as the tarsus,

the terminal pair ending in some long hairs.

DEILEMERA LEUCONOE, Hopff. Monatsb. Akad. Bul., 1857, p. 422;

Peter’s Reise Mossamb. vy. p. 430, pl. 28, f. 3.

Leptosoma fuscipennis, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 161 (1860).

Hab. Abyssinia; Uganda, Foda, Rusisi; British East Africa,

Muthambi; British Central Africa, Nyasa, Zomba, Blantyre ;

Mozambique; Delagoa Bay (de Jersey); Natal, Durban (Trimen,

Marshall, Leigh). Hp. 50-58 mill.

416 Annals of the South African Museum.

Genus ALYTARCHIA.

Type.

Alytarchia, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vu. p. 147

(ES GS) WRN ore ecm San J hin. hee eee RMU TL

Sect. I. Frons smooth; hindwing of male with the tornus produced to a

point.

(1) AnyrarcHta amanpa, Boisd. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr. i.

p. 097 (1847).

Deiopeia cingulifera, Wik. ii. 569 (1854).

, ocellina, Wlk. ii. 571 (1854).

, albocincta, Rambr. Cat. Lep. And. ii. p. 228 (1864).

» serrata, Mab. Le Nat. i. (3) p. 5 (1879).

Hab. West Africa, Niger, Congo; Uganda, Wadelai, Mulema,

Wawamba Co; British East Africa, Machakos; German East

Africa, Tanganyika ; British Central Africa, Zomba, Fwambo ;

Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Gazaland, Chirinda (Mar-

shall) ; Zululand (Angas) ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban

(Gooch); Madagascar. Hp. 46-56 mill.

Sect. II. Frons clothed with rough hair; hindwing of male with the

tornus rounded.

(2) ALYTARCHIA BELLATRIX, Dalm. Anal. Ent. p. 50 (1823).

Euchelia pardalina, Herr.-Schiff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 117

(1854).

Hab. Uganda, Toro; British East Africa, Kikuyu; British

Central Africa, Blantyre; Delagoa Bay (Marshall); Natal,

Karkloof (Marshall), Durban (Gooch, Leigh); Cape Colony,

Grahamstown, Knysna (Trimen). Hap. 58-70 mill.

Genus CALLIORATIS.

Type.

Callioratis, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 2 (1874), non-

descr. aac.” abel. wall Leo a Gbcd. eee earns

Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect not reaching beyond the

frons ; antennz almost simple; tibize with the spurs short. Fore-

wing with vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 5 from well above

angle ; 6 from well below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from

cell. Hindwing with vein 3 from long before angle of cell ; 5 almost

obsolete from middle of discocellulars; 7 from before upper angle ;

8 approximated to cell to middle.

The Moths of South Africa. 417

Sect. I. Forewing of male with the under side clothed with large whitish

androconia, and a patch of fulvous androconia above and below

base of vein 2; hindwing on upper side with a fringe of very long

hair from subcostal nervure and vein 6 covering a patch of fulvous

androconia in and below lower angle of cell; vein 1 with fringe

of long hair, the inner area folded over on under side and the

tornus produced to a point; the under side clothed with large

whitish androconia.

(1) Canbioratis aBRAXxIS, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 100, f. 17 (1874), 3.

” boisduvalu, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 100, f. 18 (1874), 2.

Hab. Natal; Cape Colony, Bashee River (Trimen). zp.

66 mill.

Sect. II. Wings of male normal.

(2) CALLIORATIS MILLARI, N. sp.

Head orange-red, third joint of palpi, lower part of frons and

antenne black; tegule orange-red, black at middle ; patagia orange-

red, the outer edge black ; thorax black; fore coxe in front orange-

red ; abdomen black with six orange-red bands extending to sub-

lateral area and the last band entire, the extremity orange, the anal

tuft of male black. Forewing orange-red, the base blue-black with

oblique sinuous outer edge and band of whitish scales on it; an

oblique sinuous black antemedial band with band of whitish scales

on it; an oblique black bar from costa to just below angle of cell; a

postmedial black band with band of whitish scales on it, dilated

towards costa, oblique to vein 6, then its outer edge produced to five

small dentitions and bent outwards to tornus; a series of black

spots on termen and cilia, conjoined into a band from apex to vein 6.

Hindwing orange-red, the extreme base and basal third of inner area

black ; an elliptical discoidal spot; a curved postmedial band with

waved edges ; six spots on termen and cilia; the under side with

blaék fascia on costa to near middle except at base.

Hab. Natal, 2,500 ft. (A. D. Millar), 13,1 2 type. Hap. 3 68

@ 72 mill.

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SUPPLEMENT.

SYNTOMID.

(3a) SYNTOMIS ENDOCROSSIS, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 338 (1903).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hap. 40 mill.

(2) Eprrroxis nigra, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 239 (1903).

Hab. Gazaland, Mt. Chirinda (Marshall). Hap. 32 mill.

(la) Merarcria BuRRA, Schaus Lep. 8. Leone, p. 23, pl. 1, f. 6 (1893).

Hab. Sierra Leone; Congo; British East Africa, M’gana;

Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hxp. 40 mill.

(1b) Merarcria RUBRIPUNCTA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. 1,

p. 147, pl. v. f£. 4 (1898).

Hab. West Africa, Gaboon, Congo; Abyssinia, Zegi eee

British East Africa, Ruwenzori; Mashonaland, Salisbury

(Marshall). Hap. 52 mill.

(2a) METARCTIA BENITENSIS, Holl. Psyche vi. p. 395 (1893).

Hab. West Africa, Cameroons, Benita; Basutoland, Maseru

(Crawshay). Hap. Sf 30, @ 42 mill.

ARCTIADZ.

NOLIN.

Genus RGISELIA.

Type.

Reselia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 397 (1827) ... ... togatulalis.

Ra@sELIA INFuscATA, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 842 (1903).

Hab. Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall). Hap. 22 mill.

The Moths of South Africa 419

LITHOSIANA.

(3) PHRYGANOPSIS ATRESCENS, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 343

(1903).

Hab. Cape Colony, Grahamstown. Fxp. 22 mill.

(2) Macrosta cHaLyBEATA, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) viii. p. 179

(1901).

Hab. British East Africa, Eb Urru; Mashonaland, Salisbury

(Marshall). Hap. 42 mill,

(5a) Inpma sanauicosta, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) viii. p. 181 (1901).

Hab. British East Africa, Uganda Railway; Mashonaland,

Salisbury (Marshall). Hap. g 46, ? 36 mill.

Genus MICRILEMA.

Micrilema, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 343

(1903) Sif ggic der aro P eee amare

Type.

craushayt.

MICRILEMA CRAUSHAYI, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 343 (1903).

Hab. Basutoland, Machacha, 10,000 ft. (Crawshay). Hzp.

20 mill.

Genus ANAPHOSIA.

Type.

Anaphosia, Eimpen. “A.M.N.H. (7) xi.

p. 344 (1903) Re ss sacs ens CYANOGTAMIMG.

ANAPHOSIA CYANOGRAMMA, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 344

(1903).

Hab. Mashonaland, Mpodzi River (Marshall). Hxp. 40 mill.

(la) CutoN=MA CAPENSIS, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 347 (1903).

Hab. Cape Colony, Grahamstown. Hp. 22 mill.

(2) EuRosIA FULIGINEA, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 347 (19083).

Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh); Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss

F, Barrett). Hap. 18 mill.

Genus OPSAROA.

Opsaroa, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xv. p. 487

(1905) Rah SA Lied Ls em Osten ras

OpsaroA FuLViINoTA, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xv. p. 437 (1905).

Hab. Cape Colony, Triangle. Hap. 22-24 mill.

Type.

fulvinota.

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ARCTIAN.

Genus PHRAGMATOBIA.

Type.

Phragmatohia, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent. Haust.

il, pe (3 (1828). «ss. 25s eee Peet eee em eligenose.

PHRAGMATOBIA PARVULA, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 100, f. 24 (1874).

Hab. Cape Colony, Hout Bay Road. Hzxp. 28 mill. The

locality «‘ N.W. Himalayas ”’ is an error.

DIACRISIA PUNCTULATA, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 161

(1860).

Spilosoma auricinctum, Butl. P.Z.S., 1896, p. 847, pl. 42, f. 6.

Hab. British Central Africa, Nyasaland ; Mashonaland, Salis-

bury (Marshall). Hap. 48 mill.

DIACRISIA EURYPHLEBIA, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) xi. p. 351 (1903).

Hab. Zululand, Lower Tugela (Reynolds). Hzp. 38 mill.

AMSACTA GRAMMIPHLEBIA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iii.

p. 323, pl. 46, f. 4 (1901).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hap. 50 mill.

Genus HYPHANTRIA.

Type.

Hyphantria, Harr. Ins. Mass. p. 255 (1841)... cunea.

HYPHANTRIA STRIGULOSA, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) viii. p. 185

(1901).

Hab. Natal. Exp. 40 mill.

EsTIGMENA GYNEPH#A, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) vii. p. 185 (1901).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hzp. $ 36, ?

38 mill.

*“PROCANTHIA DISTANTI, Dewitz. Verh. L.C. Acad. xlii. p. 68, pl. 3,

ff (18st).

Hab. Cape Colony.

AGARISTID.

Paida gordoni is the female of ParpA PULCHRA.

JEGOCERA LATREILLI, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 19

(1853).

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Hab. Senegambia, Casamanca ; British Central Africa, Zomba;

Matabeleland, Umfuli River (Marshall). Hap. 50 mill.

Afgacera tricolor is a variety of Al. TRIMENT.

Pais DECORA, insert (syn) Paws moldenki Dew.

Genus OMPHALOCEPS.

Type.

Omphaloceps, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal.

Memeo 628 (1901)... .., ... ... dtmangularis:

OmMPHALOCEPS DARIA, Druce, A.M.N.H. (6) xv. p. 42 (1895).

Hygocera triplagiata, Roths. Noy. Zool. iii. p. 95 (1896).

- 5 var. dispar, Kirby A.M.N.H. (6) xviii.

De old lex. 1. 1 (LSI6).

Mitrophrys meraca, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xxiv. p. 332 (1898).

Hab. East Africa Lindi; Zambesia, Loangwa River, M’pta ;

German South-West Africa. Hap. 54-68 mill.

NOCTUID,

AGROTINA.

(2) RacHuva stTiagMatTiA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 29

(1903).

Hab. Basutoland, Maseru (Crawshay); Cape Colony, Transkei

(Miss F. Barrett). Hzp. 30 mill.

(3)*Timora TRANSVALICA, Dist. Entom. 1902, p. 212; Hmpsn. Cat.

eps Phal BME iva palls; pl. o8, 1. 12.

Hab. Transvaal, Johannesburg. Hxp. 32 mill.

GENus POROSAGROTIS.

Porosagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38,

OR CLOQON eek iscs gees sss ees | oe ce VELUSEM.

Type.

PoROSAGROTIS CAFFRA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 658,

ple tig) zon OOS):

Hab Natal, Mooi River. Hzxp. 40 mill

Genus MICRAGROTIS.

Type

Micragrotis, Hmpsn. Cat Lep. Phal. B.M. iv.

pelasy(G03) ae. se 8 cee) ss enw Peet) cerns ULE.

492 Annals of the South African Museum.

(1) Micracrotis ExusTa, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 149,

pl. 60, f. 1 (1903).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hap. 34 mill.

(2) MicRAGROTIS RUFESCENS, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 152,

pl. 60, f. 2 (1903).

Hab. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), Bushman Lake

(Alston). Hap. 36 mill.

(3) MicraGRoTIs MICROSTIGMA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv.

p. 659, pl. 78, #. 10 (1903).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie). Hzp. 16 mill.

(4) MrcraGRoTis PRosaRcA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 659,

pl. 78, f. 11 (1903).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie). Hap. 26 mill.

Genus EUXOA.

: Type.

Hucoa, HubutVerz.p. 209 (1827) «:. ... =». decora-

(1) Kuxoa LONGIDENTIFERA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 166,

pl260; £10'(1903).

Hab. British East Africa, Muthambi, Machakos, Kikuyu ;

Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); Natal, Estcourt (Hutchin-

son), Durban (Gooch); Basutoland, Maseru (Crawshay) ;

Madagascar, Diego-Suarez. Hap. g 34, ? 40 mill.

(2) Kuxoa RuFomixta, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 661,

pl. 16; f,.14 (oe)

Hab. Cape Colony, Kokstad (Mrs. Pringle). Hp. 30 mill.

(3) Acrotis ypsiton, Rott. Naturf. ix. p. 141 (1776).

Hab. North and South America; Europe; Egypt; Natal, Hst-

court (Hutchinson); West Asia; Japan; China; India;

Ceylon, Java; Queensland; New Zealand; Hawaii. Hzp.

40-50 mill.

(4) Euxoa ruricers, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 661, pl. 78,

f. 12 (1908).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie). Hap. 36 mill.

(5) Euxoa pronycra, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 324, pl. 67,

f. 14 (1903).

The Moths of South Africa. 493

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), Umtali (Marshall).

Hzp. 32 mill.

(6) Huxoa EprpyriA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 325, pl. 67,

EAT ALB0S).

Hab. British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe; Mashonaland, Salis-

bury (Marshall), Hxp. 30-32 mill.

(19a) AGROTIS ANNULARIS, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 265 (1891).

Agrotis transjecta, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 220 (1898).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); Transvaal, Pre-

toria; Madagascar, Betsileo. Hxp. 24-28 mill.

(19b) Acrotis EcstricaTa, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv. p. 662,

pl co.t. ts (1903),

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie). Hxp. 28 mill.

Genus LYCOPHOTIA.

Type.

Lycophotia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 215 (1827) ... porphyria.

LYycoPHOTIA ECVINACEA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. iv.

p. 663, pl. 78, f. 15 (1903).

Hab. Cape Colony, Kokstad (Mrs. Pringle). Hp. 36 mill.

HADENINZ&.,

Gexus CRATERESTRA.

Type.

Craterestra, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v.

[On ONG 6) seen Sa sna tciem ny HCUNG.

CRATERESTRA MEDIA, WIk. xi. 756 (1857); Hmpsn. Moths Ind.

lie pele nid-acat. ep. hal. BMy. p: 19, pl. m8, 1. 28.

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); India; Burma.

Exp. 34-36 mill.

Genus POLIA.

Type.

Polia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 73 (1816), non

descr.; Treit. Schmett. Hur. v. (2), p. 5 (1825) cappa.

Mamestra, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 75 (1816),

non descr.; Treit. Schmett. Hur. v. (2), p. 127

(USD) Fee: vost Mesh eschy ce aces canes anise a ese

424 Annals of the South African Musewn.

(7a) Ponta FuscrRUFA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 108,

pls, fet(s05):

Hab. British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe, Kikuyu, Machakos,

Quaso, Eb Urru; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hp.

36-38 mill.

(7b) Powra cupREScENS, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 163,

pl. 82, f. 32 (19085).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Hap. 34 mill.

(la) ASPIDIFRONTIA GLAUCESCENS, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v.

p: 401; pl. 91, fot 905):

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie). Hap.

34 mill.

Genus CIRPHIS.

Type.

Cirphis, Wik. xxxil. 622 (1865)... ... ... ... costalts.

(1) CrrpHis PRomINENS, WIE. ix. 102 (1856).

Leucama hispanca, Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 421, pl. 9,

ieee

Hab, Spain; Algeria; West Africa, Nigeria, Congo; British

East Africa, Kikuyu; Mashonaland (Dobbie). xp. 28-

36 mill.

(2) CIRPHIS POLYRABDA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 507,

pl. 92, tls qads0a):

Leucania albicosta, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 273 (1902),

nec Moore.

Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson). Hap. 38 mill.

(3) CIRPHIS aTRINOoTA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 523, pl. 92,

f. 25 (1905).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie). LH xp.

30 mill.

(4) CIRPHIS INSULICOLA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 82 (1852).

Leucania simplaria, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 252, f. 160 (1891).

Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Nigeria; Natal,

Durban (Gooch); Madagascar; Bourbon. Hap. 34-36 mill.

(5) CIRPHIS LEUCosTIcHA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 541

(1905).

The. Moths of South. Africa. 425

Leucania insulicola, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 254, f. 181 (1891), nee

Guen.

Hab. British East Africa; Eb Urru; Natal, Durban (Gooch,

Leigh) ; Mauritius. Hp. 36 mill.

Genus BOROLIA.

Type.

Borolia, Moore, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 334 wes ee fOSCIOLO.

(1) Boronra meranorpEs, Méschl. Verh. z-b. Wien, xxxiii. p. 291,

pl. xvi. f. 4 (1884).

Hab. Abyssinia, Zegi Tsana; British East Africa, Eb Urru,

Machakos, Nairowa; Mashonaland (Dobbie); Natal, Estcourt

(Hutchinson); Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett),

Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett); Madagascar, Betsileo. Exp.

34-36 mill.

(2) BorontA RUBRESCENS, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 563,

pl. 94, f. 25 (1905).

Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson). Hxp. 38 mill.

(3) Boronia MeLANostrota, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 564,

pl. 94, f. 28 (1905).

Hab. Zululand, Lower Tugela (Reynolds); Natal, Weenen;

Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Hap. 32-386 mill.

(4) Boronta pHaocHROA, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 572,

pl: 955 & 91905)

Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson); Cape Colony, Annshaw

(Miss F. Barrett), Kokstad (Mrs. Pringle). Hxp. 34-38 mill.

(5) Boronia peRsecra, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 974,

gle Sy st, 12) (ES 10%))s

Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson). Herp. 34 mill.

(6) Boroura micropis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 574, pl. 99,

f. 14 (1905).

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie). zp.

28 mill.

(7) Boronia cupreata, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. v. p. 575, pl. 95,

f, 15 (1905).

Hab. Gazaland, Chirinda Forest (Marshall). Hap. 38 mill.

426 Annals of the South African Museum.

CUCULLIAN,

(12) HELIOPHOBUS LEUCOGONIA, 0. sp.

g. Head and thorax dark reddish -brown mixed with greyish ;

antennz ochreous white; abdomen reddish brown. Forewing red-

brown with some greyish irroration, the veins darker; the basal half

from cell to inner margin yellowish irrorated with rufous; a comma-

shaped white mark in cell near base; a dark medial line angled in

submedian fold, then oblique; an elliptical white spot on end of

median nervure conjoined or nearly conjoined to a white discoidal

bar, constricted at middle; an obliquely curved postmedial line bent

inwards to costa and placed unusually near termen; a dark

terminal line. Hindwing white, the costal area tinged with

rufous; a brown discoidal spot, curved postmedial line and fine

terminal line.

Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie). Exp. 32 mill. Type in B.M.

ACRONYCTINE,

Genus PROCRATERIA, nov.

Type P. nolordes.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect extending to well beyond

frons, which has a large truncate conical prominence with raised rim

and a corneous plate below it; antenne of female ciliated, head and

thorax clothed with scales, the pro- and meta-thorax with spreading

crests; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal. segment. Forewing

with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle;

9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell.

Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from

below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing

with the cell near base only.

PROCRATERIA NOLOIDES, 0. sp.

?. Head, tegule, and prothoracic crest black pencilled with dark

grey; thorax grey; legs suffused with fuscous; abdomen grey

irrorated with fuscous. Forewing grey-white irrorated with fuscous,

a large triangular black patch on basal part of costa extending to the

indistinct whitish antemedial line which is bent outwards at median

nervure, then oblique; orbicular and reniform small, indistinctly

defined by fuscous, the former round; the veins of terminal half

streaked with black ; traces of a very highly dentate postmedial line

produced to a series of black and white points on the veins, very

The Moths of South Africa. 427

oblique from costa to vein 6 and with some fiery red scales on it, a

large black patch on costa from it to apex, its lower edge irregularly

rounded and attenuate at extremities; subterminal line represented

by some fiery red points on the veins; cilia grey and fiery red.

Hindwing whitish suffused with fuscous; the under side with

indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line.

Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie). Hzp. 36 mill. Type in B.M.

(1a) CoNSERVULA CRAUSHAYI, n. sp.

g. Antennz with uniseriate dentitions. Head and _ thorax

ochreous whitish mixed with rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with

yellow-brown. Forewing ochreous whitish with golden-brown

markings; the basal area traversed by streaks in cell, submedian

fold and on vein 1; the antemedial line double, angled outwards

below costa and inwards in cell, then sinuous; orbicular and

reniform slightly defined by brown, the former small, round, the

latter large, irregular, pointed above and somewhat excised on inner

side, with some fuscous in it at lower angle of cell; an oblique

waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial

line double with some golden-brown suffusion on each side of it,

arising near apex, obliquely curved to vein 2 then nearly erect; a

slightly waved terminal line; cilia brown at tips. Hindwing pale

suffused with fuscous; the under side whitish irrorated with fuscous,

with dark discoidal spot and oblique postmedial line excurved below

costa.

Hab. Basutoland, Mahalishoek (Crawshay). Hzp. 30 mill. Type

in B.M.

(4) ACRAPEX CARNEA, 0. Sp.

$. Head and tegule fuscous mixed with grey; thorax flesh-

coloured; abdomen ochreous. Forewing flesh-colour; an ochreous

fascia in cell bent upwards at extremity to below apex; the veins of

costal area with slight pale streaks; a diffused fuscous streak on

median nervure; a black point at upper angle of cell and others

just before and beyond lower angle; a diffused ochreous fascia in

submedian interspace and above vein 2 to near termen; a slight

terminal series of black points; cilia brownish with slight pale line

through them. Hindwing pale fuscous, the cilia paler.

Hab. Basutoland, Machacha (Crawshay). Hap. 30 mill. Type

in B.M.

428 Annals of the South African Museum.

EUTELIAN&.

(5a) EKuTELIA LEIGHI, n, sp.

3. Head whitish, the base of palpi and tufts on basal joints of

antenne purple-brown; tegule and thorax in front purple-brown,

the former with white medial line and white tips, mesothorax fuscous

and white, metathorax pale brown and white; pectus and legs

white, the former crimson in front, the latter with black bands;

abdomen blackish with paired dorsal whitish marks on basal

segments, the dorsal crests and ‘anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface

whitish, rufous towards extremity. Forewing whitish slightly

tinged with pink and with olive-green on costal area; a curved

red-brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial

line double, the inner red-brown, the outer black, excurved at

middle ; medial area with some red-brown suffusion below the cell;

orbicular and reniform red-brown with ill-defined white annuli and

both defined by a sinuous red-brown line below; a medial line

angled at middle, then oblique; a black streak from reniform to

postmedial line which is oblique from costa to vein 6, angled

inwards in discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then oblique and

irregularly dentate, an oblique fuscous fascia from it to termen

below middle and some white points beyond it on costa; an indistinct

dentate subterminal line, incurved and defined by fuscous towards

inner margin; a terminal series of small lunules; cilia pale rufous.

Hindwing whitish with fuscous suffusion in cell and pink beyond it ;

indistinct minutely waved medial and postmedial lines; terminal

area fuscous, narrowing and with white line on it towards tornus ;

cilia rufous with white line at base; the under side irrorated with

fuscous and red, a black discoidal lunule, the lines more prominent.

Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Hap. 30 mill. Type in B.M.

(lla) Hurewia piscistriaa, WIk. xxxiil. 823 (1865).

Hab. British East Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe, Machakos, Neugia,

Taru, Takaunga; Natal, Durban (Leigh); Arabia, Sheik Otthman,

Aden ; India, Sind, Nilgiris; Ceylon. Hp. 34 mill.

SARROTHRIPIN.

Genus SARROTHRIPA.

\. Type.

Sarrothripa, Curt. Brit Ent. i. fig. 29 (1824)... revayana.

Proboscis fully developed ; palpi very long, obliquely porrect and

thickly scaled; antennz of male minutely ciliated; forelegs with the

The Moths of South Africa. 429

femora and tibiz fringed with long hair. Forewing with veins 3

and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7 from

angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4

stalked or from angle; 5 from or from above angle ; 8 anastomosing

with the cell before middle.

SARROTHRIPA RUFIMEDIA, n. sp.

?. Head and thorax grey mixed with black; pectus, legs, and

abdomen brownish white, the last dorsally tinged with fuscous.

Forewing grey irrorated with black; a double irregularly waved

subbasal black line from costa to vein 1; a double irregularly waved

antemedial line angled outwards on median nervure and above inner

margin and emitting a slight streak in submedian fold; a large pale

rufous patch in, below, and beyond lower angle of cell with the

brown-outlined reniform on it; a double waved postmedial line

obsolete on costal area, angled inwards on vein 2 and outwards in

submedian fold, placed near the strong black subterminal line which

is angled inwards below costa, outwards at vein 7, and excurved at

middle. Hindwing semihyaline white, the veins towards termen

tinged with fuscous; the termen fuscous, expanding on apical area ;

cilia of apical half blackish except at tips.

Hab. Rhodesia, Bulawayo (Kyles). Hzp. 32 mill. Type in B.M.

ACONTIAN.

(3) NEAXESTIS RHODA, n. sp. -

Head and thorax bright rufous tinged with crimson in front;

palpi, pectus, and legs white, the forelegs rufous in front with white

rings on tarsi; abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore-

wing bright rufous sometimes tinged with crimson and with slight

dark irroration; antemedial line dark, obliquely curved; a slight

dark discoidal spot; postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6

where it is obtusely angled, then inwardly oblique and slightly

sinuous. Hindwing semihyaline white, the termen and cilia tinged

with yellow. Under side of forewing with the disk tinged with

fuscous in female.

Hab: Rhodesia, Bulawayo (Eyles). Hxp.28 mill. Type in B.M.

(3) ERIZADA ALBIVENA, N. sp.

g. Head and thorax grey-white, the scales pencilled with red-

brown; palpi brown; tarsi banded with black; abdomen whitish.

Forewing grey-white, the scales pencilled with red-brown and the

430 Annals of the South African Museum.

terminal area suffused with brown, a few large black scales

scattered over the wing; the veins streaked with white; the costal

edge pale rufous ; a rather indistinct sinuous antemedial brown line

incurved in cell; orbicular and reniform small, deep black with

whitish annuli, the former round, the latter elliptical; medial line

brown, obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique and

sinuous; postmedial line formed of black strize defined by white on

outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then rather oblique and

sinuous ; an indistinct minutely dentate whitish subterminal line; a

rufous terminal line. Hindwing yellowish white clouded with brown

from near base to termen ; an indistinct curved postmedial line.

Hab. Zululand, Lower Tugela (Reynolds). 1 3 type. Hzp.

34 mill.

CATOCALINA.

(la) HomMopTERA VARIEGATA, 0. sp.

3g. Head and thorax black-brown, slightly irrorated with grey

and ochreous, some ochreous on frons, behind the tegule, and on

metathorax ; abdomen fuscous. Forewing rufous suffused and irro-

rated with black; a fine white streak on median nervure; a white

point at base below cell; subbasal line black defined by white on

outer side, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black,

slightly defined on each side by whitish, angled outwards below

costa and inwards on median nervure and vein 1; reniform rather

small, black, embraced by a hoop-shaped mark from costa to below

cell defined by a sinuous black line on a whitish line; postmedial

line black slightly defined by white on outer side, angled slightly

inwards below costa, outwards at discal fold, then oblique and

crenulate and with a diffused black shade before it, a slight ochreous

streak before it below discal fold and a prominent one beyond it

above the fold ; subterminal line interrupted, whitish, angled outwards

at vein 7 and inwards at discal and submedian folds, with some black

streaks before it at middle and a whitish patch above vein 1; a

terminal series of black and white points; cilia black with white

patch below apex. Hindwing fuscous black; cilia with fine pale

line at base and white tips; the under side with the costal and

terminal areas irrorated with grey, a small discoidal spot, curved

medial and postmedial dark lines and sinuous whitish subterminal

line.

Hab. Cape GOolony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), Haxp. 64 mill.

Type in B.M.

The Moths of South Africa. 431

(6a)*AUDEA SUBLIGATA, Dist. Entom. 1902, p. 212.

Hab, Transvaal. Hxp. 40 mill.

(1a)*CHALCIOPE PRETORIZ, Dist. Entom. 1902, p. 212.

Hab, Transvaal, Pretoria. Hzp. 60 mill.

(27b) OPHIUSA MELACONISIA, 0. sp.

$. Head and thorax clothed with grey and brown scales with

some large black scales mixed ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown.

Forewing grey very thickly and finely striated with brown and irrc-

rated with some large black-tipped white scales; the veins white ;

subbasal line white, oblique, from costa to submedian fold; ante-

medial line white defined by brown on inner side, oblique and slightly

excurved below costa ; orbicular and reniform elliptical, black defined

by white; postmedial line white defined by brown on outer side,

excurved from just below costa to vein 4, then incurved, slightly

excurved again above inner margin; subterminal line whitish defined

on each side by red-brown, some black marks on its inner side below

costa, slightly excurved below vein 7, then nearly straight; a fine

crenulate red-brown line just before termen; a fine whitish line at

base of cilia. Hindwing ochreous suffused with brown, the terminal

area suffused with fuscous; a dark terminal line, the cilia pale.

Under side of both wings whitish, the terminal areas suffused with

fuscous ; forewing with the dark orbicular and reniform showing.

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie). Hxp. 46 mill. Type in

B.M.

Genus EGYBOLIS.

Type.

Caloptera, Blanch. Hist. Ins. ii. p. 363

(1845), nec Guér. Dipt. 1830 ... ... vadllantina.

Egybolis, Bois d. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr.

tie Pe O9o (S47)... 22. ane coe wee oo VaUllanina.

EGYBOLIS VAILLANTINA, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. pl. 31, f. 3 (1790);

Saund. Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) iv. p. 59, pl. 14, £3 a-c; Ang. Kaff.

Illustr. pl. 30,f.19; larva, Fawcett, Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. p. 282,

pl. vii. ff. 13, 14.

Caloptera formosa, Blanch. Hist. Ins. ii. p. 376, pl. 17, f. 6 (1845).

Egybolis natalui, Boisd. Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. i. p. 595

(1847).

Hab. Uganda; Zanzibar; British Central Africa, Blantyre,

Nyasa; Delagoa Bay (Kenrick); Zululand (Angas); Natal, Durban

(Gooch, Leigh). Hap. 52-66 mill.

432 Annals of the South African Museum.

PLUSIANZ.

(2a) Puusta conrusa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 (1888).

Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh); India, Sikhim, Nilgiris ; Ceylon.

Hp. 42 mill.

NOCTUINZE.

(1a) CATEPHIA DIPLOGRAMMA, 0D. sp.

g. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black ; abdomen

greyish suffused with brown, the dorsal crests black. Forewing grey

with a purplish tinge, suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal

line black, oblique towards costa, strongly. excurved at median

nervure and ending at vein 1; antemedial line double, slightly

waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then strongly incurved ;

reniform defined by black; postmedial line double, angled slightly

outwards at veins 6 and 4, then incurved, waved and angled upwards

in submedian fold to near antemedial line; subterminal line indis-

tinct, pale defined by fuscous, curved, slightly angled outwards at

vein 7 and excurved at middle; the veins streaked with black towards

termen; a fine black terminal line. Hindwing white, the veins

brownish ; a black-brown patch at tornus crossed by a pale striga ;

the under side with discoidal point and postmedial series of strize on

the veins.

?. Hindwing with the whole terminal area pale brown.

Hab. Transvaal, Potchefstroom District (Ayres), Lydenberg Dis-

trict (Ayres). Hap. 38 mill. Type in B.M.

(5a) CATEPHIA BARRETT, 0. sp.

g. Head and thorax dark reddish brown, the scales slightly

tipped with grey; abdomen grey-brown. Forewing dark reddish

brown slightly irrorated with grey, the terminal area paler; the

subbasal line indistinct, slightly angled outwards below costa and

ending at submedian fold; an oblique black mark on inner margin

before middle ; the antemedial line indistinct, slightly angled out-

wards below costa and on median nervure, then incurved and bent

outwards again at vein 1; claviform represented by an obscure dark

patch ; orbicular round, grey defined by brown; reniform elliptical,

defined by brown and grey; some grey points on costa towards

apex ; postmedial line brown defined by grey on inner side, bent

outwards below costa, excurved and sinuous to vein 4, then bent

inwards and oblique; a small triangular blackish mark from costa

The Moths of South Africa. 433

before apex with one or two points below it. Hindwing white, the

costal area and terminal half blackish ; the under side with the costal

area irrorated with grey, a blackish discoidal spot.

Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Hp. 38 mill.

Type in B.M.

Genus COPIFRONTIA, nov.

Type C. xantherythra.

Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the second

joint slender and smoothly sealed, the third moderate; frons with

vertical ridge-shaped process ; eyes smooth, not ciliated ; antennz

of male serrate and ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair and

scales mixed, the latter with rather ridge-shaped dorsal crest; hind

tibiee fringed with hair on both sides, the inner spurs very long;

abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Forewing with the termen

obliquely curved and the inner margin rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from

near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing

with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4

from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6,7 from

upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only.

CoPIFRONTIA XANTHERYTHRA, N. Sp.

$. Head and thorax bright yellow, palpi above, frons and patches

on tegule, patagia and dorsum of thorax purplish red; antenne

fulvous; abdomen ochreous yellow. Forewing bright yellow; a

subbasal purple-red band with the scales pale-tipped, broad and

oblique from costa to below cell, then narrowing, with waved edges

and not quite reaching inner margin ; an antemedial series of small

spots, oblique from costa to vein 1, where it is angled and has a

small spot before it; orbicular a purplish red annulus connected with

a large patch from just below costa expanding in, beyond, and below

end of cell, leaving a yellow line on discocellulars and connected

with inner margin by some small spots; two postmedial series of

small spots from costa to vein 6, the postmedial line only traceable

on the purple-red area where it is fine, yellow, and obliquely in-

curved; the terminal area purple-red except at apex, conjoined

between veins 5 and 2 with the medial patch; the subterminal line

fine, yellow, waved, dentate inwards on the veins and connected

with termen by slight streaks above and below vein 6 and in sub-

median fold. Hindwing yellowish white.

Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie). Hzp. 46 mill. Type in B.M.

434 Annals of the South African Museum.

Genus PLATYJA.

Type.

Platyja, Hiibn. Verz. p. 268 (1827) ... ... wmminea-

After Calesia.

PLATYJA PHHOPHENICA, N. sp.

@. Fuscous brown slightly irrorated with bluish white and

suffused with purple; palpi white at tips; tarsi with white rings.

Forewing with slight interrupted waved white subbasal line from

costa to submedian fold; a sinuous rufous antemedial line with

white points at costa and veins; a slight discoidal point; a waved

rufous postmedial line with white points on it at the veins, slightly

excurved from costa to below vein 2 and expanding into a band with

waved edges beyond the cell, retracted from below vein 2 to lower

angle of cell, and enclosing in its sinus a greenish white figure-of-8-

shaped spot, then erect to inner margin; a small subterminal white

spot on vein 6 with an oblique striga above it; a series of white

points on costa towards apex and termen. Hindwing with waved

postmedial rufous line with series of white points on it, obsolescent

towards costa; a terminal series of white points.

Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Hp. 52 mill. Type in B.M.

(2a) ACANTHOLIPES LOXIA, 0, sp.

g. Ochreous white; palpi tinged with fuscous at sides; head,

thorax, and abdomen sparsely irrorated with black. Forewing irro-

rated with brown and blackish ; two indistinct oblique antemedial

lines from cell to inner margin; black points at middle of cell and

on discocellulars; an oblique black band from just beyond lower

angle of cell to middle of inner margin; an indistinct oblique post-

medial line ; subterminal line arising from apex and slightly incurved,

whitish defined by an indistinct line on inner side and strongly by

black on outer; a terminal punctiform line. Hindwing whitish

with oblique medial dark bar from cell to submedian fold; a sub-

terminal band from vein 7 to tornus; a terminal punctiform line ;

the under side irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot, an oblique

postmedial line obsolete towards costa and inner margin, a some-

what incurved subterminal band.

Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Hzp. 24 mill. Type in B.M.

ERASTRIANZ.

(4a) MmGALODES XANTHIA, N. sp.

Yellow with a slight olive tinge ; head and thorax slightly tinged

with rufous and with a few black scales; tibize and tarsi banded with

The Moths of South Africa. 435

brown. Forewing irrorated with a few rufous scales; subbasal line

indistinct, curved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line

rather indistinct, angled outwards in interspaces ; the cell and area

beyond and just below it suffused with dark reddish-brown on medial

area, a patch also on vein 1, the orbicular and reniform remaining

yellow, the former round ; postmedial line dentate, strongly bent out-

wards below costa and very strongly incurved below vein 4; some

yellow points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line only defined by a

somewhat dentate rufous line on its inner side, angled outwards at

vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 3,4; a terminal series of dark

strie; cilia chequered yellow and brown. MHindwing rather paler

yellow slightly irrorated with brown; a fine brown terminal line ;

the under side with dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line.

Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie); Natal, Deloni (Stanger),

Bushman’s River (Hutchinson). Hap. 3 32, 2? 36 mill. Type in

B.M.

(2a) TARACHE MIONIDES, 0. sp.

g. Frontal prominence with central process, corneous wall and

plate below it.

Head and thorax white; palpi at tips, sides of frons and bands on

tibiz and tarsi fuscous, abdomen white tinged with ochreous. Fore-

wing with the basal area white, the costal and inner areas grey with

white striz representing the subbasal and antemedial lines; the rest

of the wing grey suffused with olive-green, especially on disk; a

small white lunule at upper angle of cell; a white patch on costa

from before middle to near apex constricted at vein 7 and ending

truncately on vein 5; postmedial line white from vein 2 to inner

margin, incurved to vein 1, then angled outwards; three waved

whitish lines on disk before the subterminal series of white spot

with black points on them developed into two black spots below apex

and one above tornus; cilia brownish. Hindwing white with some

brown on termen from apex to vein 2; the under side with small

discoidal black spot.

Hab. Cape Colony, Deelfontein (Colonel Sloggett), 1 g type.

Exp. 28 mill.

(2b) TARACHE DIOPIS, n. sp.

g. Antenne ciliated; frons with long truncate conical promi-

nence with raised rim at extremity ; forewing with the costa concave

beyond middle.

Head and thorax black-brown ; abdomen dark-brown. Forewing

red-brown ; orbicular a small round white spot with some brown

436 Annals of the South African Museum.

scales in centre, reniform a small white lunule, the area between

and beyond them dark brown; an indistinct pale obliquely curved

postmedial line; terminal area rather darker and irrorated with

grey; a fine dark terminal line; cilia brownish white. Hindwing

uniform dark brown; cilia dark at base, the tips whitish mixed with

brown.

Hab. Transvaal, Piet Retief (Crawshay). Hxp. 22 mill.

(10a) TARACHE LEUCOTRIGONA, 0. sp.

?. Head black; thorax pinkish white with some black scales on

metathorax; palpi white except at tips; pectus white; legs banded

black and white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown and

with fuscous bands. Forewing pinkish white, the costal area more

or less completely olive to beyond middle ; subbasal line double, from

costa to submedian fold; anternedial line double, waved; a hoop-

shaped black discoidal mark, in one specimen with its outer side

produced above to a point emitting two black streaks; a triangular

white postmedial patch on costa, extending to vein 6 and with the

waved black postmedial line arising from it, strongly incurved below

vein 4, with a band of slate colour on its inner side and the area

beyond it slate colour; a waved sinuous whitish subterminal line

with patches of black scales on it, and some white irroration beyond

it ; a terminal series of black striz; cilia mostly white from middle

to above tornus. Hindwing fuscous brown, rather paler towards

base ; the cilia mostly white; the under side yellowish white with

black discoidal lunule, fuscous spot on middle of costa, waved diffused

postmedial line and diffused terminal band.

Hab. Gazaland, Melsetter (Marshall), 1 9 type; Zululand, Lower

Tugela (Reynolds), 1 9 ; Natal, Maritzburg (Burnup),1 2. Hap.

30-36 mill.

Genus STOMAFRONTIA, nov.

Type S. albifasciata.

Proboscis absent ; palpi very short, porrect, not reaching as far as

the large frontal prominence which has a corneous plate below it and

ends in a rounded corneous process with raised walls and projecting

beak above; antennz of female with long uniseriate serrations;

thorax and abdomen smoothly sealed ; tibize with the spurs moderate.

Forewing with the apex produced and acute, the termen obliquely

rounded ; vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 5 from above angle;

6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind-

wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 rather slight from below

The Moths of South Africa. 437

middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 strongly stalked; 8 anastomosing

with the cell to two-thirds, then approximated to it to angle, then

diverging.

STOMAFRONTIA ALBIFASCIATA, N. Sp.

?. Head and thorax white mixed with pale red-brown; legs

tinged with fuscous ; abdomen brownish ochreous. Forewing white

irrorated with red-brown and suffused with golden eneous except on

costal and terminal areas ; a white fascia in and beyond cell met by

an oblique streak from apex; the veins with slight dark streaks.

Hindwing nearly pure white; the under side with the costal area

tinged with pale brown.

Hab. Natal, Mooi River. Hap. 38 mill. Type in B.M.

(2a) EUBLEMMA TRUNCATA, 0. sp. i

g. Forewing with glandular swelling on costa, the apex truncate

and the termen obtusely angled at vein 4.

Head and tegule white; thorax ochreous white ; abdomen brown

with white segmental lines, ventrally white irrorated with black.

Forewing ochreous brown; indistinct short subbasal and waved

antemedial lines with black points at costa; an oblique blackish line

from middle of costa to lower angle of cell, then brown and nearly

erect ; a sinuous postmedial line, oblique from costa to vein 4 where

it is sharply angled, then inwardly oblique and incurved between

veins 3 and 1, some pink and white on inner side of its costal half;

apical area darker brown irrorated with pink and with white points

on costa, a white and black subterminal line on costal half with a

small white spot on its inner side above vein 6 and black patch below

it; a subterminal series of slight fuscous lunules on inner half;

termen pink. Hindwing pale brownish, the terminal area tinged

with fuscous; cilia of both wings white irrorated with fuscous.

Under side whitish ; forewing with the disk suffused with fuscous, a

curved postmedial line, the apical area rufous with white line on it;

hindwing irrorated with fuscous, a minutely dentate postmedial line.

Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Hap. 18 mill. Type in B.M.

(3) EuBLEMMA raAGcuSANA, Frr. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. v. p. 92 (1844).

i" virginea, Guen. Noct. i. p. 248 (1852).

Hab. Europe, Dalmatia; West Africa, Nigeria, Gold Coast ;

British East Africa, Kikuyu; Mashonaland (Dobbie) ; Natal, Tugela

River (Reynolds); Asia Minor; Syria; India; Andamans; Java;

New Guinea; Australia. Hap. 22 mill.

438 Annals of the South African Musewm.

(17a) KUBLEMMA ECRUFA, 0. sp.

?. Head and thorax whitish mixed with grey and slightly tinged

with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous white. Forewing whitish thickly

irrorated with fuscous grey ; an indistinct oblique dark medial line

from cell to vein 1 defined by white on inner side; a slightly oblique

sinuous postmedial line defined by white on outer side and almost

obsolete except in submedian interspace ; subterminal line whitish,

oblique, minutely waved, incurved in submedian interspace, defined

on inner side by a broad fuscous shade, the area beyond it suffused

with rufous; a terminal punctiform black line. Hindwing pale

ochreous with some fuscous irroration especially on apical area.

Hab. Cape Colony, Deelfontein (Colonel Sloggett). Hap. 18 mill.

Type in B.M.

HYPENINA.

(2) ALELIMMA GRISEA, 0. sp.

g. Antenne simple; forelegs normal.

Grey tinged with fuscous. Forewing with indistinct antemedial

line angled in submedian fold ; a slight discoidal bar ; the postmedial

line indistinct, angled at vein 4, then strongly incurved ; an indistinct

terminal series of dark points.

Hab. Basutoland, Machacha, 10,000 ft. (Crawshay). Hap. 20

mill. Type in B.M.

( 439 )

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Anthrobaphes weer seer ee ecieeer 319

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CaprimuUlousmeaie etree 536

@asarcar tescs sas cgeces seem ee 352

Catamerst i. dence cn acne tereraere 250

Catarrnactes cic. aeicrnatnerrerteeere 365

Catephian cs scc sn ss qocreryecyericle 432

Censorinusms aa .aeacecs ose. 57

Wentropus! cice serrie eee cee: 341

@erilocistemee eee 44, 47, 50, 52

Certinilaudaas concrete 316, 575

ery le jie races uta sree ye tolerate heirs 337

Cetherdiny sc aidiciisa eta eoren 44, 50

Geuthniocharese meer aie 342

ChehOpsircsicc dis acciers aie sts seis eters 328

(hae aithe: Nonmomorecioa cinco 0 cnccac 3385

Chalciopem ene sccemer rere tert 431

Chalcopeliaics.vc\- i+ mists eee 353

@helidonews ic cne a seinen 333

Chionrem a) 2.4% 62. eens es ree 419

Chiseniusi 24.05 s005 4600 eee ee 184

Chiorocichlawaasceneneeenere 323, 381

Chlorodytays au. eens 326

Chloropetal cia steers ayhenvoneys 332, 384

ChirySOCOGCY Xe releie te ere tate 341

Chrysomitrisicr. severieer erate 313

Cichladusa,2 ssc osc nares sete 330

CICONIA] SAS Hesinee sconce eee 349

@imola ye 7 xs cicsois iste eeborenesbeneers 392

Cinmyricincliis) rece 307, 366

Cin yris: cease ces cia accion 318, 376

CIVeBEhUs!) Fee celisteiecscleveros-sysverars . 345

CincUsiaiaieeue cance Gace 346

Cinphisie setae iiicnieuon eoreoe eres 424

@isticol aes cers sic eens 326, 382

Cleontes) 236 sects sacs see sO OOS

COCCYSLES! Ne ciciee salersinct te ORO 341

Coliopasser ..<sccesfeiccsc eve 311, 371

Colitis: eee ae cston oho ohare 338, 385

Colunmbay see cre in acto eeree 353

Conseryulayencicscioeecieoee oer 427

Copitrontiamacossoseeetie ake 433

Coptopteray. thie -cctorscicterenestererete 175

Ooraciaswets. scenic ranicenentoee 336

Index cf Genera.

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Coranopsisiie- eter cee 45, 48, 51

Goranulsiaisce aiesaatac Givers 45, 51

(CroyA AA? Soasgadaccsscecdodor 306

COrviis oie csr ears ove ole reveteteuetonere 306

(COARINCUY Ga onosoubenecosose 337

Cosmetornismerere erect rt 336

Cosmolestesm.- 2s cieireres or 45, 47, 55

(COHAN, soesapoccosccs0000D 330

Cotilet an Sahin dcr aee 333

CofurniGops) ie irri r ister: 356

Coiurmixtiyony. cia teilireseisciettar 354

Craspedophoruse eet 187

Grateresttar ere mierci seria eer ercor 423

Crateropusmeet eee 322

(Gigs | Gogalsaconnonondacon cnc 393

Creatophorameeceeiiictrccic 306, 366

OKEX fisclefe vcinicrsfete rate steeiorats seeranele 35d

Crimiger hm efomes echelons oreers 323, 381

Cryptillasmyercaae eerie 324, 381

Cryptochile........ is wihla casters 296

(Croll nae seoanccconsedog0 50 325

(Clicm Ene aes Gotan manos oo ac 341

Cursonus) eee eos cece reer 358

@yamaroadme eta tetera 410

(Crise Saosooouepdeonocao00 297

Cyipselusieeer creer etre 335

Cradrnno evens Sogesorccsoccccc 29

ID BOSTSe sierepoieverssors sears ekep there narnate 14

IDEV MOM sooapogovogoonos occ Os 364

Dasychiraleryy tierce eeer 396

Decatomapeereeecieriscieeteriee 284

Weilemera W.- vce eee 415

Dendrocyenaes. -irerilcit eer ieey 351

Wendropicusmeeetrt) tree 339, 386

Dentexmiyansspiercmel temo r 66

IDIRYOatS oo como ooua oe Godd00o020 420

Diastellopalpust eri tile eile 224

WichAStOpsmeceeeieteesreierker 244

Dicrocercusi steele eee 337

IDI Goo goooeadeceu00000d000 333

IDTESTESOMIB a eletelletel storie reer 271

Dicama Gececusc losis saeter 414

IDNA Goooogougmdaccoccagc 63

Diomed Gamer cee eeers 364

ID fords tedamicaaia ce oMecnosD o20r 0 147

IDOlie an Aes coca, aconsa cous. 415

Disphsenicus: erectile tien 188

IDISSOUTS Bein leischeise see eee 349

Dovelovenancir: eictleiecie eee nr 280

Dreyer Sogausocccotvooudesocc 358

DEY OSCOPUBS)c ier elee el-)-tey= lel 321, 380

IDyEleeey aocgunUd0ouGooDoC oom 276

BICLOMOCOLIS| eceie e eleies eeieieior 44, 5d

INGE: 5 ggucoadsesedocto.00d 00 44, 50

igy bolas) .is.< sctie. tera ecscalane afetener> ie 431

IDMTENEMORNIE, Goooanosse

IDDM 4 ocaccaceeee

Rmdustomius) e-seaee

Hmoplosnathay se... -.

IDO NVHO} Oleg pa ee ooodne oe

Ephippiorhynchus

Hipinephelus) 425.4... ..

DIL OXI Si eer erence

iBicemomel ayer aeer

EIPISMMATUL Ae | es > ne

IAHIOEOWIS! cogonoaoocs

IBIS ome coos oo oe

Hirythrocercus ........

IDI AGUAS Gooeagooas

EinyiHOpy Sale. sels). ee

shiomenaleee seer

INHOUD Gogo due oonoads

JOURS socgacensccc

Hurocephalus..........

ISURORE, ascoopacacseas

IDOI Eos cogneo 06 coe

Huy StOmMUS eee

Biubeliga semceictae 8 sia:

UXO Mapes nite tence

LONEEACIS, Geos a UGe ene Oe

Eixealfactoria ..........

IDRRTOVINDIS. Go cacoocosac

Ba COMER i eee ts 2

Hrancolintsi see eee ese.

TEU SSYEEEN IY sae ete ae eee

RES CRGA cavcsiee calcio as

sR rer oral ees sraptecoece- ss es

Brine Waria 2.99 «52 <t 6cc

JENUUINGE, csr Gon mesa eee

Galactochrysea ........

Galeosomal.g.5+55.....

Galleria nae shiek decc.

Galllima go) “aa scestoc ees:

Gaillinulaee assess ea

Gallirexme cee eee

Garrodianne sae ee.

Gazanusiee seer ences.

Geocolaptesissssss. 555.

Geronticusi-- eee.

Ghalecagee sea

Glarcolaeesnrra eee.

Glaucidinmeeeae eee ee

Gorgyrellawna.e.. cocnk «

Graphipterus..........

Graucalusheese eer.

Giitterawee aes er eee

GAB groin nieinerdenes eat e avs

Gypaetosine noancsteee

Index of Genera. 44]

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oly ae 346 Gypohierax <. 254.50 ees

330, 384 GYpe. 5-1 as ee ee Re

313, 314

tcatelosha iets 242 H

mueactel get) 149; Hematochares Seooacsucdinsucs 4h

SO 297 | Hematopus. ¢. 12... net eee eee oD

aeaeyeetes ~ 349 iemus| <2 .ahtsee ser eS

B' O'S 01 64, 66 | Hacedashia : 45.2 54ee een

egies a18 13 Ach (0) Ree Arn 8 co oe 37)

825, 382 Haliaéius ic. .e. eee 345

see reer iets 302 Hapaloderma,... °:.2.2..2.5. see aao

SEONG Oe 829 Haplopelia: 4s eee

seqeagaeeats 429 ie vielarpaictind,). 1.4 sees hehe eee

BONE Oe 332 HMarpactirella:.:.52-.ce55 4.2 ko

OTS SLE 350 aE pACtOL! «or. atc, sae ae ees

vette goa!) Heliophobus- .\<5-.0.7.560e eaeetoe

WOM p celot 420 | aEtelotarsng...4.0 1. ede gee

310, 369 lemipanna, 1. )...200 ev ea eee 359

shteseceei 437 Blermach ai =. 2h... Soe ee

Peotodoe 406 Plermachastes’ 22s. .c. ea eee ee

TS 98 GiGi 320 Her piscius<. cs022 526 ce eee

EIS Oe 419 LCT OGIAS soc: 0.242.850 sc 5505 oe ee OO

B24, 381 Eeteroconys se. .) 32 tc aoe 316

TES AC 336 HICKS C ONG fen. s tens cect eee OS

Dom JIC 428 Hexamerocerus)...9. 0.2.0.0 eseee 059

ROTC 345 elimantOpust vices each. see OOO

5800 00D 422 arund Ofer sestias ties oe eee eae

sNeo shhh os 106 Holoptilus siti cece > aston Ogee

coos Bo go 395 Homochira 205 «2 ses scee seen 409

SOS IGE c 296 Homoptera. 2%. sacocc ceies 430

iHoplony xe stent eee 254

Hoplopterus™ perrat.s tris seers 359

pieecalces 344 Eydrochelidon <5,.¢emc ssn 22 see oOl

ek tin 354 Slee gene eon Aes

Rae Sib MOUS “comgiag ono ose oseodacane Coe

BRS Tes aS [fe eeee VI OLORUS Foch. Nears scree ciaretete ieee Oto

314, 373 Ely phantOrnis:./4..%0n' 2 307, 367

314, 373 Ely Mantria, Geis... aes rise om ces 420

<a ae 356 ERY DOCH Eras tecmieh sient are seers OL

Pmmely Olas siete cht srerierersi einicteret: B24

IELiy Sire Presa tenayacattervarsnste ect 413

Bef Ely SiriChopusinmerracerirre nee 174

Tord cos 3)

Mopsimostegert 92 I

[eel LIS Ree oa me gaara

Se Ga ee 356 | idee ise ahah ahei eto Meta aRe. wis) apes eh

55 ec avis Gils) Sooo gocesooomDaaGooou na

thse Be [pe einidicator n-ne een ee ose 340

ae ee 504 lina EO Smee nianeneacnSHoceH nen. ~ 335

hy apse a 339 LIS) v0 Wirt ee Cees BAN re Oech ate A 337

Bae in 35] PSTN. cial atctayninreieioreteis ses cher eee 339

sete rants 297 -

amieseraee 358 x y

2A SNR 343 [Ait hnt it Rey wn Roreerasecdcsccas, oo

Beer Alsat OF |} ‘Bdepsiphris nc Sececeetae erties

soo DOU 183 |

Paes ey: 333 L

wvaligtstsiatels 355 Tigeipa” . [36% aavicnch cena neeera0s

seiteterouie BOQ) | Melia: scxwacke eats mea ee Oe

erates 345 Tmosthenes!., << ~ 4240501000 sme 296

442 Indea of Genera.

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Lagonosticta .........-..-- 309, 368

lbpkiehcagooo po doaepodndacdad st 287

ThAMpPrOcolwUserys/ tae lelteleleyeley t= 306

Lamprotornis..........----.--- 306

IbpiEHAIWE! ooomooouGbCoDbDOC 321, 380

IbPHOMAHOIAS Sooonc00000D0G40KC 322

lb MINIT nog wooo ba OOO DODO OS 320, 380

IDA gadosoosooadcopoue nob eT 361

IDAHO. soocoooooposncno0c 152

ILI ou doco osoo Caso eoodbO ONS 178

ILA, Soboocopooooausdoocs 181

ILI OMOWIEINEY 5 5650d0000cqD0eueC 45, 51

IDEy OKO UNS G oo copa os odSDCOCaoR 349

imino bDseMUsese eee ere nooner 356

MpiMM OCONAK eters cls stensterers rotors 356

ILWAAccocooooocsccscsecound 161

ITOH ITS SongopGbcenooboo0000 176

IMO MMS soosenbonobooevcccse 331

IMOVIE, Secccccccocnbaoecaas 10

ICE Gaia os oe ome cidbee.50 5806 50

Hobivewells eer tcllerneeetiers 359

Miocustellar snc. 6 <tc erste sys eee 324

ILOUNGE 4 coacocascd56oacnc 345

UGCA osoodcupdoocsopecs05e 338

ILO AOPAANS GoagcagcnoGouo000dCC 347

NH OPLOMY LES peters ciel ereieleleietetser= 51, 53

UCT Steeyeeietertekereciresielel eee 162

ity DUS eretetetetavereReroelele tele efeted=setetekers 340

iy Cophotianytelereliele eee eer 423

IbW@GEE, godancocgDocKGde 35, 40, 118

inva ari ixaeeleteretee clei rae eee 410

IUA ARTS scoceocéocousconcaccce 243,

IUKEIE. oo GacoootoouoobuOCedoese 286

Machseramphusin. « «ss eeielorie ere 346

NCO Ne BA eoeeemepnia ages co.cc 296

Nicene nullity) SoS 5560 daccdnen ac 170

NEKO TOINWES MaGog anon oes doo cob 316

IMA CY OST) nyaysiecstsi esse 1 <<) e) syne oleebors 419

MEN EGWENS sagdoscn9cpo0C0ds506 363

Wier ESS peyexcyeucte tel etoloraterocchey= 55, 56, 62

Mea ailodes's aererccore: ste «fore, owstteeruonee 434

WMiEbrO sey Soosaaocccad6o0c 6

Melan om hoyxaerroerrciseieioriterriee 350

IMCVIOTAKES Sacce reser sucietere ensvevcrorerere 346

Melititopnagusi itileisteie scree 337

MelOG ao crsecs is sic arene lous eusieteyey sieves 282

IMGLOPS raters senstcrclels s croicce stevens 336

MESO DICUS Merritt era error 339

Metallica acne .sisyeteiernnis wire cies 180

IMetarctiny sects ceicecirorer striae 418

Metaxymorphusy iy. ciel ltl 174

Micragrotisiss sclemisvcine csicueuceieel: 421

MaGranous: sxcrexetoscierosicleeroretetoers 362

Miacran fereus: ctr rcrs srs ols) srtereter slate 245

Micraroaecrect-crtsrleemirceier 404

Mierilemal) os. <;cjeps,ocdcisrare.sistesoyorae 419

Micropartaler isc. cactieer ce 358

Milichrus: fas cies sare eavecreets 222

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Mall wis coy) fas teea os ae siemens 345

Win Od, oso dgac0dca09 315, 316, 375

MiG ev Oob ye rere ere etalevetornte oie erete inet tos 156

Wiloyerernakeethe soacoocodd0o0GDKE 18, 69

Mioluris sis 'yc 5 stcraos.e'o< estaneolere 297

Monticola) sees. occigae oo oeees 329

Motacillaic Acs eotc ce oes Ble, Bia

WSO coopapcsocodeponaqne 331

May albristaer.teleiverketre ticker 283

Miyrm ecocic hla scart ieieeeier 329

Miymmied Onl a erstyeieler et eterttrers 206

Na gustaria. cere 46, 49, 51, 54

NEMS Baoacoacoacocubdoc 270

INERGII, Goqgeanancoqsobaocnuosd 411

NeaxéStiS® c.ccoecchs ccee oe ones 429

WIEOROENAHIEE cooscccoscocucsede 347

INCabt, Guam ancarousaacad od. 318

INGO MAUI saacoasesoounsoodocc 347

INIDHORITE, Sa 5cdsovaasucacas00e 262

INGLUODUS etc seeeericrr 351

NEGRI? Weagpapaancedhe aoGagaac 322

IN setictereictersciekei sie icra rcksretoiore 320

NIMES esbaudocquceccs0s os 360

INI) GosodadEboCseneonoce 1s 355

IN WGMCORED< oo oNcoudsooccKoab00r 350

INGAROER oospogsooocss00nasDouT 352

OWI. osoagcoe0s00ca 00005 363

Oceanodromare sess 363

(Hidrenemus ease eee oer 358

OBIT, acacacoabongetcn coon obse 353

GHstrel aisles erecta 363

ORO noccouocccdooodnsooanc0, 391

OME. svcconcacdbocansssen000 391

Omphalocepsterr iia eerie 421

Oncoceplalust ieee ereie 43, 50

Omihophasusierreree creer 219

OnE 54 Ge5dnacenuoooKgss 56% 431

Opsaroaectecire leet eritete 419

Onolugeer se core se cere 307, 366

OnAyMOMMANE, Go05a6¢c500b000000- 355

COMA; AOOVR, coooooonbo0eo0000c 31

OSSUMPARB Ree cere ls crekereeletronere 364

OPIS iirc es neocon epee toe 357

Otoconys eee eeieiciier 316

OMEGUS Sononodaoddssoupc sac 347

AY ANOUE bg GoobGCD0000GRC 332, 384

PYG Es ooo pp oncdobooooUsoS DOSE 67

leah OM peace ac obONsoecoTds.06 347

LEU IEVES Boocboosocanocac 45, 51

PArACtenOGapeeriemreterererierrreciers 285

Paramary Gm Us) ers) o1 oe) <le101 hele elstere 261

Paratilaplaiee eeisietoreeliaweicrl tere 301

‘Pard Osaie wcisdavsan cocoon 134

Index of Genera. 443

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IPATISOMIA cortenstlohere! ofereteere «lots 8: oe 323

IParomostolaycmmctc se seb ans ae oc 93

PANU Serer Vora shel ereietesorede cectere 319, 378

PASSE Ia letay varcher rakole eh sioreverets BD. Bir/il

IPAVON CEI Amereyever ohare cilcl a aroie-evers welene 360

PO CERROGEE os cooucHdoodoaonle 364

Relecanusp mime coir etnies 348

REIMMEOMICD, Sanacce0cooGeccdes 181

Renielnlsin,. cssieretexcrote eam ovte-wte ae 270

ROG ISteciccestecausyaisneceje ao Qos mrad 346

Petalochinusmcesccenes sees AS OO, 00

Retrochelidonmeaemeriee er eee 334

IREWROING, “GoosuoooouobocadcuP a, Bil

VAST MOT recs aes leat siclevayevoberetehels 348

iPhia aerocora xa eee 348

hilestenusmescce scien 310, 369

PoulkaoPH IID, 566 ou nocodc ano oKOU 297

PMO A cc cspavetod ae attan cama aoe 235

IPialkexovaantlia so oo onsoc0cccdc anes 177

IDC Hema oso o Gudecomd cs 364

IZ VAMC ONS sosccoconcavcdad 351

Phonereatesssacce ae 44, 46, 50, 59

IPhonoctonuceacemocie ceca. 51

Phraomatopiameererieeeceecc ea 420

BUT YSANO Sisters ctype crete see else) 419

Phy lWoscapusierteierslre leita oie 324

Bhyllosizophusyy. cee 323

Physorhynchus....45, 47, 50, 53, 60

IRIN ATONNISwreeh eae esi see 328

Pina testers sta s cesnae 44, 50, 55, 59

Pitta stereos sDoOn OSD

Plataleatweermcr acre Geis cick caaus 351

TRIER AGES (lon Smees conan Core ee 434

Pla tyanerisiy sta vome ce oee ec 44

Pla tyausicrcr ia eect eee eed sos 201

latystirae meson Acie seers oe 332

Plectroptcrnusiee erica race rere 351

PIC ACI SE vecclbacistets) cae eiatene i lene 3 351

IRIOCEIUPASSERS eo. a)41e.is4 aie setvew ess 309

TPLOVADIE! wy cuacica eres Broek ree PERE ERE cere a 348

IPI STAMP e Saar cote ones 432

IDGGNOD: 3.6 06 08 6 AUD SOIR OD ER reo 356

IROGICIPES re ser) ereie ce ersiesveeetce 365

Roscilometianmrye ccc 2 cel ssa untae B52

IFO OMNES Gohoocanooacas 342, 386

JEONG)» s.6.c meas Cola ee aoe 423

Roliohieraxeermr sn scicace cts 344

IPOMOSPIZ Amara verses Sexe ties) Sos les 313

Polyininmiapeeerseie scot eee s5- oe 184

Poly boridesemerrers ces sciecs eos 347

IPONOSaerOLIS weyers male cicies ceca te 421

Borphyniop recs acess ss ns saiet ss 356

PY AO G CNA aeiielreord citiscsisiers oie eis 273

Rratineo lamererrce ca can care ecke ae 329

Prin ay ree ee ec Mar ate are Sait 326

IEA 3.5 ou.0G. 8 UetS 6 OO Oeo ere 363

PLIOMMUSHeee rr rereiatencee aisverae eke 363

JETSIGh as che oie oo.e ODO Cee Or 364

AVION OPS eteserers loin si otensexsieleleeyercveyere 322

IProcanthiar apa acien comer eie cele 420

Procellariay ee nackte ee ee ee 363

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Procrateria «:,.2anseveicl oar 426

Prodotiscust ssa eee 340

PHOCVIPPAr cniese citer eto eee 111

Bromerops).aaeieoee ee nenee 317

Rsalidoprocnes se) 334

Psalis: 5 2.c.. as acca ais ae eee eS

Bsammodesiac serie eer 230, 297

BSCR Y PS. ae Seer 347, 386

Psecudotantalusiaanceemeeeeeeeee 349

PterartOriay.: saceiack ete eee 112

Pteredoaizsis..chonasee een 411

Ptermistés? <i. nett eee ere 354

PLEO CEL OLA) carcrwlersiereia tee Pee 389

PLCYOCLES), 705). onc eens Ree tee 353

IETeLOClURUS nse ae ae eee 354

IPLIDUS! asad y Hasna ed eee ee 225

PivOnoprogne series 333

PYVCDOMNOUNUE Goocagacoscocsccar 323

Bygolampisiyy <i.1is) eit seers 54

Pyromelanay Gace secsaceder ole onO

Prva EHEC, Soooboccanages 314, 374

Pivibeligy sr Asvac ctelote)-veletsi erecta chee 309

PUN S Hs se Micke eieteterrte ree ee 363

OUlelesis eerste srssloscas onys 311, 370

IRGC HUT at parieyendercerteicrereie tere 421

Vala Si ryetecensre arsrerevereos ovorescveeorets 355

IVECURVITOSUTAyat)-leyeeiieeieieeiore 360

ROO Airsrcronetetsverstersiste; ctaisiemialevenscowye 393

IRCGIDNANE! oooccnooon0e 44, 50, 52, 55

MING POMASLUSh teenie 335

Rain optilusmeycrtreeie acre 358

IN VMICOPSie evatetons steceisssieus Aelia 362

RGSS CL Als cer ctecvvenaters cxeuste te raecerora Sate 418

Ostia tU 8.7. cccsre roy anceuves cto snel eros 361

Salpormishesem sar citi acieiae 317

Sarcldionms Wencesac ace ceere 351

SHARON, SoooocosesonodnDGc 428

SAStAPAC Biri caus wicker) ache ee eters 43

SypitoloNb Go o0G0c00ds00000n0 356

Saxicolaiaasacetee woes 329, 383

Schizorhish-meecesadssceece te 342

Schcenicolaysccec.seeieeeeeee 325

GON gnopenbonnotcomhvododnec 343

SGODUSmeitetitleietet siete ie rie 349

Scotopeliar iii vise seoriae eee 343

Seyllhosaleuser. eeeeeeeeiee 63

Seothiymal rerercuetreeyn eke ne 31-34

Sana] Apennobeanonnocoucellsy, By

SeLPeMlariUsm erred eee 347

Siomodus? oan ccemeceen eee 322

Sirtheneas acncaceebcee eee 44, 47

Sitaera: eerste ciertee 308, 368

IMIG MOLMIS eerie 332

Solpugay a cprsen cori rsteriestere 3

444 Index of Genera.

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Shohy iol Fo aemadigggad oeese sc cia 352

Spermestes..........+-++----- 310

Sphedanolestes ..............-- 61

Spheniscus .............+------ 365

Spheneacus .............----- 328

Sphydrinus..........++..+-.-41, 55

‘Sjoukoywis niacodoodsocusoosat 326, 382

SPiZHebS! fe ce ciclo risen 345

SPIZOCOLYS vere iclelele te) -toreiatla voi 315, 374

SDOLODINeSs ere re Peer 309

SiO) HoaanoosoccnoDouGoD90N ae 306

SoM HHO) 20 ooo ganonosdoacco es 359

Stactolesmiay metiecisrtcrhm creases 340

SHEMSienOVHE) Gesococudc 19. 22-24, 73

SHIMON cogoooadooocdsoc 227. 296

Sfenolsmusise sce career O mol

Stephani bysce. welll rierr 359

Shon Yoonicodvcanco0cedc 362

Serm aietes ceca tte sisiouort ea eteptets 361

Stomeafrontia ey etes verelarel corrects 436

Sinabe qasenagaapoocoasocaicn ac 343

Stroneviiumiesct eee eerie 263

Struthionss sarc ielocieis elton 365

Shy) AX OMeLKUS seer 173

Sturnus) 22's cas sec eosisis ereue 307, 366

SU i csopsscrasials wiarsrssiayn oatneueucionetenere 348

Sy CODLOLAS soe) ci ee 308, 368

SHAME cogooocenopucsosondboo0s 324

SyLveillaie ee torte erent 325

SHAONOWANS 5A 06000000 0000080000 418

Shavit AS eo epIans obo SOD Seo 343

TUNE VIE Sogognedoa oo boo dddor 335

MPATSCME! aya ,0;.1 css 0: 3 oie cio, rorers ters 435

MArSIGOY ccewie nie ne cise kta 330

Melephouusienciri cece 321

MephrOcony sy ete cele lcd ete 315, 374

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Metrachalacrjes.«scisccusecemo es 167

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MOR GOU 2 jore'< ois, spits «i ao: chs are Steronaenees 308

MEISE, Boocuseoocccodor 352

hall asSOgexOM! veyole veto teeee ne 364

sUopyewvONey Geooaccadc0o acu’ 330

WheleGhOris! rere rocisicnecte eerste 106

Meri diOnn fessiss's v6 ctaton eee 157

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AMIGO 5 Gonacbapbomapocdsacon 339

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TuMOraee eis eee 421

Mimotheuss css saieeee ee eee 57

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Mina 20% Zante tanrecees cer 352

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DT AMGEN 4520000 000e000c 359

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ZiGlOWCUGY skcveersreereiaeyee eee 185

ZOPUOGESs eters er kate cucionse crea vomits 297

ZAOSUCTOPStetaweeitotoaerere okt telers 319, 377

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