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Show 1897.] MR. R. I. POCOCK ON ETHIOPIAN SPIDERS. 735 b'. Eyes larger ; anterior laterals about once their diameter from the edge of the clypeus and twice their diameter from the medians, which are separated by a space equalling their diameter; 4 spines on outer surface of tibia and protarsus of 2nd leg ; legs uniform in colouring dyeri, Camb. The following species is unknown to me:- Moggridgea meyerl, Karsch, Zeits. Naturwiss. (3) iv. p. 384 (1879), from Hantam (S.W. of Cape Colony nearly midway between Cape Town and the Orange River). Family DIPLURIDJE. =Dlplurince, Simon, Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 174 (1892). Tbe two African genera of this group known to me may be readily recognized as follows :- a. Tarsi furnished with distinct ungual tufts; claws with a single series of teeth, &c Heterothele, Karsch. b. Tarsi without ungual tufts; claws armed with a double row of strong teeth, &c Brachythele, Auss. Genus BRACHYTHELE, Ausserer, Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1871, p. 173; Simon, Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 180 (1892). BRACHYTHELE BICOLOR, sp. n. Colour. Carapace deep brown, clothed with golden yellow hairs ; mandible the same colour, with longitudiual bands of golden hair; legs with femora and lower surface of all the segments blackish, upperside of patella, tibia, and protarsus, especially patella, reddish and contrasting with the dark tint of the rest of the appendage, clothed with yellowish hairs intermixed with blackish setae; (abdomen crushed); coxae and sternum infuscate. Carapace a little longer than patella and tibia of 1st and 4th leg, almost as long as protarsus and tarsus of 4th ; fovea a little recurved; tubercle high, anterior line of eyes slightly procurved; the eyes nearly equidistant, the space between the medians less than their diameter, laterals smaller than medians; posterior laterals a little smaller than anterior laterals, their short diameter shorter ; the posterior medians perhaps about half tke size of the anterior medians. Mandible armed below with a single inner row of 8-9 teeth; labium with a single spicule, very short, with convex bristly border; the sigilla defining it very distinct, meeting in the middle line. Sternum oval, the sigilla very distinct, tuberculiform, the anterior two pairs submarginal, the posterior removed from the margin to a space which nearly equals their long diameter. Maxilla without stridulating organ; its internal basal portion thickly armed with a large number of clawed spicules. Legs 4, 1, 2, 3; tarsi and protarsi of 1st and 2nd scopulate to the base, scopulae more or less scanty but undivided : tarsal scopulae 48* |
