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Show 1902.] NEW HARVEST-SPIDERS. 397 Measurements in mm.:-( J type). Total length 6 ; length of carapace 2‘3 ; basal segment of mandible 4, second segment 6 ; palp about 8 ; femur of 1st leg 10, of 2nd 16, of 4th 12'5. Loc. Durban (G. F. Leigh). Resembling R. minor Loman, from Lower Ulovo, Natal, in the presence of three pairs of spines on the ocular tubercle, but differing entirely in its much longer and strongly spicular mandibles. P h a l a n g iu m (G u r u ia ) p a lm a t im a n u s , sp. n. (Text-fig. 81.) S . Colour of trunk blackish brown in the middle, pale at the sides; mandibles infuscate; palpi and legs yellowish, partially infuscate; trunk finely granular and segmentally spicular as in P. (R-) spenceri. Ocular tubercle higher, armed with three long spines on each side; only two or three small spicules on the ante-ocular area, no prominent one in the middle, one spicule external to the tubercle, three beyond it and some at the margin. Text-fig. 81. A Phalangium {Guruia) palmatimanus, A Carapace and mandible of male. 13. Anterior view of mandible of the same. Mandibles (text-fig. 81, A & B) with basal segment subcylindrical, tubercularly spinous above, externally and below, tlie tubercles thicker and smaller below; second segment very large, subglobose, spicular, except internally; fingers long, widely separated, each with two large teeth and some smaller near the apex. Palpi with trochanter directed transversely, spicular; femur arcuate, with convexity external, spicular at apex above; patella tubercular above, with one external distal spicule, and an internal distal rounded projection, covered with short hairs; tibia a little longer than patella, tarsus longer than the sum of the two, with a small claw. Legs with cox*, femora, and patellae spicular |