. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Chelicerae with 2 moderate subequal teeth, twice their basal width from each other. Vulva as in fig. 10, a, resembling that of S. heivitti and remarkable for its extremely small size. Legs.—Anterior tibiae with 5, anterior metatarsi with 3 pairs of inferior spines. Dimensions. — Length of carapace 3-7, total length 9-5 mm. 3 Colour as in the $, the legs, however, with- out, or with weaker markings, median eyes differing less in size than in the $, anterior medians their own diameter apart. Chelicerae
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Chelicerae with 2 moderate subequal teeth, twice their basal width from each other. Vulva as in fig. 10, a, resembling that of S. heivitti and remarkable for its extremely small size. Legs.—Anterior tibiae with 5, anterior metatarsi with 3 pairs of inferior spines. Dimensions. — Length of carapace 3-7, total length 9-5 mm. 3 Colour as in the $, the legs, however, with- out, or with weaker markings, median eyes differing less in size than in the $, anterior medians their own diameter apart. Chelicerae. — Inferior margin with 2 teeth, the basal one a little smaller and 2-3 times its width from the apical tooth. Legs.—Anterior tibiae with 5 inferior pairs of spines, II with 1 posterior lateral spine in addition, anterior metatarsi with 3 inferior pairs of spines, 0 lateral spines. Pedipalp.—Femur with 1 inner, 1-2 superior and 0 outer spines in its distal half; patella with 1 inner and 1 superior (apical) spine; tibia subequal to tarsus and distinctly longer than patella, with 3 processes on the outer side, two directed forwards and one downwards and forwards, fig. 10, b. This figure agrees substantially with that of Simon in " Hist. Nat. des Araignees," vol. ii, p. 27, text-fig. 23,1897. Dimensions.—Length of carapace 3*7, total length 8 mm. Specimens.—3 ??, 1 $, Port Elizabeth (, 4524). Pocock records it from Grahamstown. Fig. 10.—Selenops atomarius Simon, a, $, vulva. 6, tibia of pedipalp, <$, from outer side. Selenops barnardi n. sp. (fig. 11). Type, 1 $, Pokwani, South Ehodesia (, 14667). Colour.—Carapace fairly dark reddish brown, cephalic a little darker than thoracic portion, ocular area black, radiations from the thoracic stria not strongly marked, a number of submarginal spots subjoined to form a wavy band; mandibles a little darker than cephalic area; abdomen above blackish brown, with some ill-defined symmetrical markings
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