. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 496 Annals of the South African Museum. pedipalp 14, femora I-IV, 4-5 : 7 : 4 : 4-5 ; legs I-IV, 23 : 45 : 19 : 27 mm. $. Length of body 8, chelicerae 4, pedipalp 7-5, femora I-IV, 4:7:4:5; legs I-IV, 20 : 35 : 19 : 28 mm. Types from Port Elizabeth, in Lnbeck Museum. Other localities : Johannesburg ; Teafountain, Grahamstown. The South African Museum has about 38 specimens of both sexes from the following localities : Willomore, Montagu, Port Elizabeth, Addo Bush, Cogmanskloof (Ashton), Matjesfontein
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 496 Annals of the South African Museum. pedipalp 14, femora I-IV, 4-5 : 7 : 4 : 4-5 ; legs I-IV, 23 : 45 : 19 : 27 mm. $. Length of body 8, chelicerae 4, pedipalp 7-5, femora I-IV, 4:7:4:5; legs I-IV, 20 : 35 : 19 : 28 mm. Types from Port Elizabeth, in Lnbeck Museum. Other localities : Johannesburg ; Teafountain, Grahamstown. The South African Museum has about 38 specimens of both sexes from the following localities : Willomore, Montagu, Port Elizabeth, Addo Bush, Cogmanskloof (Ashton), Matjesfontein, Prince Albert, Dunbrody (Uitenhage Division), all middle Cape Province. The Albany Museum has specimens from Steytlerville and East London. Throughout this series only the first and second coxae at most are granular, generally only the first and then not very strongly so, the third and fourth are always smooth and not, as in the description quoted by Roewer, " dicht und regellos hel'orneli " ; one male from Port Elizabeth has on the ocular tubercle 6 spines at the one side, 5 at the other, the specimens from Montagu, Matjesfontein, and Ashton have generally 3 spines on each side. Wiampsinitus minor Loman. (Text-fig. 80.) 1898. Loman, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., ii, p. 519. 1923. Roewer, Die Weberknechte der Erde, p. 790, fig. 965. The following is Koewer's amended description of the type :— Colour of body dark brown above, the dorsal spines almost black ; ventral surface of abdomen and coxae I-IV light brown ; appendages a uniform yellow brown. Body convex above, posteriorly rounded; carapace and ocular tubercle (above with 3 spines on each side) as in fig. 80 ; thoracic tergites I and II and all abdominal tergites with each 1 trans- verse row of small spines ; all free sternites and surfaces of coxae I-IV smooth ; cheli- cera of 2 small, normal, smooth, that of S Fig. 80.—Rhamvsinitus • r nr\ t ^ <• ^ t ^ n minor Loman. ^: ocu- as m fig. bO ; pedipalp of $ and S
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