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Show 760 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON ETHIOPIAN SPIDERS. [June 15, about two-thirds scopulate, about half the 3rd covered, and one-third of the 4th; all the tarsal scopulae entire ; legs 4, 1, 2, 3, patella and tibia of 4th longer than those of 1st; claws unarmed. Tibia of 3 not spurred. Posterior sigilla on sternum remote from the margin. Labium transversely oblong, wider than long, thickly aud closely granular on its margin like the inner angle of the maxilla. Mandible wdthout external pad ; area of maxilla between fringe and suture sparsely bristly. ANOPLOSCELUS CELERIPES, sp. n. (Plate XLI. fig. 3.) Colour ferruginous, the hairy clothing of the body and limbs a nearly uniform ochre-yellow ; the segments of the legs with a narrow distal whitish band. Carapace as long as the patella and tibia of the 2nd leg, shorter than those of the 1st and 4th and scarcely excelling the length of the 4th protarsus. Anterior median eyes distinctly the largest of the set, separated by a space less than their diameter and from the anterior laterals by a space about equalling their radius; anterior laterals with their long diameter about equaling that of the medians and twice their own short diameter ; the eyes themselves about twice as large as the posterior laterals, which are themselves close to and a little larger than the posterior medians. Legs 4, 1, 2, 3 ; tarsus and protarsus of 1st very slightly shorter than those of 2nd, which are shorter than those of the 3rd leg; protarsus of 4th as long as tarsus and protarsus of 1st and as patella and tibia of 3rd; femur of 3rd leg very much swollen, rounded, as wide as it is high, the width as great as the area on the carapace that lies between the fovea and the hind border; tibiae and tarsi of 1st leg in 3 unmodified. Papal organ with spine moderately thick, lightly curved, not twice as long as the length of the bulb, sharp and attenuate at the apex but not filiform. A feathery scopula on external surface of femur of palp. Measurements in millimetres. Total length 27 ; length of carapace 13, width 10 ; length of 1st leg 40, of 2nd 36, of 3rd 36, of 4th 47 ; patella and tibia of 1st 15, of 4th 16'5. Loc. Komboli, Lake Tanganyika. A single male example (W. H. Nutt). Genus PHONEYUSA, Karsch. Phoneyusa, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1884, pp. 347-348. Type P. helandana, Karsch. Phoneuusa, id. op. cit. 1886, p. 82. Harpaxotherla, Simon, Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. 1889, p. 413. Type antilope, Sim. As I have already pointed out (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xv. p. 167), the species named helandana, Karscb, is the type of the genus Phoneyusa, since it was the sole species upon which the |