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Show 862 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [Nov. 14, dage, the mandibles otherwise uustriped; sternum green; legs yellow; all the segments, including coxa? and trochanters but not the tarsus, spotted with black at the base of the spines and also at the base of the large hairs on the femora, coxae, aud trochanters. Abdomen greenish; a pair of yellow stripes on the ventral surface running from the epigastric fold to the spinners, and a pair of broader stripes of the same colour on the dorsal side, separated by an elongate greenish area, which is marked in front by yellow stripes running obliquely forwards and inwards and meeting in the middle line, and behind by yellow spots or stripes continued like the anterior stripes from the lateral yellow bands. Clypeus scarcely vertical, the angle it forms with the upper surface of the head slightly obtuse ; carapace as long as tarsus of 1st leg, longer than patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp, a little shorter than tibia of 3rd leg, a little more than half the length of the protarsus of the 1st. Abdomen long, broad in front, narrow behind, more than twice as long as broad. Legs very long; the 1st more than six times as long as the carapace; 4th a little less than five times as long, armed with long black spines. Measurements in millimetres.-Total length 19*5 ; length of carapace 6*5, of 1st leg 42, of 2nd 37, of 3rd 27, of 4th 30. Loc. Loango (in the Keyserling Collection). Several female specimens. Differs from all the African species known to me in the form of the vulva; further differs from P. pulchra Blckw. and P. foliifera Butl. (? = P. striata Karsch) in having no black bands on the front of the clypeus and mandibles, and from P. luteiceps Simon (Donaldson Smith, 'Unknown African Countries,' p. 391) in having the ocular area less prominent, a single black stripe at the sides of the head and upper end of the mandible. Family LYCOSID^E. Genus OCYALE Aud. OCYALE ATALANTA Sav. Loc. Accra (67. A. Higlett) ; Benito Biver (67. L. Bates). Distributed throughout Tropical Africa. Family PISAURIDCE. Genus TETRAGONOPHTHALMA Karsch. TETRAGONOPHTHALMA PHYLLA Karsch. ? Dolomedes exilipes, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. r> 385 (1858). v Tetragonophthalma phylla, Karsch, Zeits. gesammt. Naturwiss li. p. 329, pl. ix. fig. 4 (1878). |