. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. 497 Measurements.—Length of body 6, chelicerae 2+2-5, pedipalp 5-5, femora I-IV, 4:8:4:4-5; legs I-IV, 20 : 53 : 18-5 : 28. Types, ^ and ? from lUovo, Verulam, Natal; in Amsterdam Museum. The South African Museum has no representatives of this species. Rhampsinitus telifrons Pocock. (Text-fig. 81.) 1903. Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1902), pt. 2, p. 395. 1923. Eoewer, Die Weberknechte der Erde, p. 790, fig. 966. The following is Roewer's amended descripti
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. 497 Measurements.—Length of body 6, chelicerae 2+2-5, pedipalp 5-5, femora I-IV, 4:8:4:4-5; legs I-IV, 20 : 53 : 18-5 : 28. Types, ^ and ? from lUovo, Verulam, Natal; in Amsterdam Museum. The South African Museum has no representatives of this species. Rhampsinitus telifrons Pocock. (Text-fig. 81.) 1903. Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1902), pt. 2, p. 395. 1923. Eoewer, Die Weberknechte der Erde, p. 790, fig. 966. The following is Roewer's amended description of the cotype :— Colour of body yellow brown ; carapace and abdomen on each side speckled with brown, an ill-defined dark brown median band lighter and more or less obliterated in the middle ; appendages light reddish yellow; femora-tibia infuscated with brown. Body convex above and bluntly truncate posteriorly ; carapace and ocular tubercle (the latter with 5 teeth on each side above) as in fig. 81, thoracic tergites I and II and all abdominal tergites with 1 transverse row of spines ; all free sternites and surfaces of coxae III and IV smooth, coxae I and II -^ . JbiG. SI.—Ithampsimtus teh- roughly granular ; chehcera as m fig. 81 ; frons Pocock. ^ : ocular pedipalp short, normal, trochanter and femur tubercle and chelicera seen from the side (copied from ventrally sparsely toothed ; legs powerful, Roewer). trochanters I-IV toothed on each side, femora-tibiae I-IV angular and femora only with a row of teeth along the edges; secondary sexual characters of cJ present in chelicerae. Measurements.—Length of body 8, chelicera 3-5+4, pedipalp 6, femora I-IV, 4:7-5:4:6-6; legs I-IV, 21 : 38 : 19 : 27. Type, 1 cJ from Jansenville, Cape Province. Type in British Museum. The South African Museum possesses no representatives of this species. Rhampsinitus leighi Pocock. (Text-fig. 82.) 1903. Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1902), pt. 2, p. 396. 1923. Roewer, Die Weberknechte der Erd
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