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Show 1899.] AND SPIDERS FROM TROPICAL WEST AFRICA. 877 Measurements in millimetres.-Total length 13 ; length of carapace 6, width 4*8; length of 1st leg 33, of 2nd 34, of 3rd 22-5, of 4th 28; patella and tibia of 1st 12*5, tibia of 3rd 6. Loc. Benito Biver (G. L. Bates). . SPARASSUS BATESI, sp. n. (Plate LVIII. fig. 29.) 2 • Colour. Carapace, sternum, palpi, and legs flavous, less darkly coloured distally, with blackish-grey scopula? ou the protarsi and tarsi ; tarsus of palp also with blackish-grey scopula?; mandibles black; abdomen golden yellow, intermixed with brown, with transverse darker stripes passing outwards from the middle line ; sides of abdomen golden yellow, indistinctly mottled ; lower side of abdomen yellow. Carapace high, about as long as broad ; cephalic region strongly convex from side to side and from behind forwards ; width of head almost equal to its length measured from the anterior end of the fovea ; eyes more widely spaced than in S. benitensis; the ocular quadrangle distinctly narrowed in front. Mandibles with 4 teeth behind and 2 in front. Legs as in the preceding species, but without patellar spines and with only two pairs of spines on lower side of tibia. Vulva as in fig. 29, Plate LVIII. Measurements in millimetres.-Total length 14; length of carapace 6, width 5*9 ; width of head 4 ; length of 1st leg 26, of 2nd 28, of 3rd 19*5, of 4th 23. Loc. Benito Biver (67. L. Bates). SPARASSUS TRIFURCATUS, sp. n. (Plate LVIII. fig. 28.) d . Colour. Integument pale olive-yellowy clothed with hairs of a golden-yellow hue; mandibles pale ; tarsus of palp infuscate. Carapace high, convexly rounded, a little longer than broad, its length nearly equal to tibia of 3rd leg and to half the patella and tibia of the 1st. Eyes of posterior line very slightly recurved, sub-equal, subequally spaced, the medians a little less than two diameters apart; eyes of anterior line straight by their centres, medians larger than laterals, half a diameter apart and a little more than that from the laterals. Legs 2, 1, 4, 3; 2nd surpassing 1st by a little more than its tarsus, 3rd barely surpassing tibia of 2nd and not reaching tip of protarsus of 4th ; 2nd leg only a little more than five times as long as the carapace, the 4th rather more than four times; patella? of 1st, 2nd, and 4th with an anterior spine; no apical spines on under side of tibia?. Palp with tibia a little longer than patella, both wdthout spines; tibial apophysis consisting of 3 strong teeth, the upper the thickest, obliquely truncate apically, and ending in a sharp point, the inferior shorter and thinner than the rest; tarsus elongate oval, about as long as patella 4- tibia taken together. Measurements in millimetres.-Total length 13; length of carapace PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1899, No. LVII. 57 |