. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Genus Selenops (Araneae) in South Africa. 589 Chelicerae.—Inferior margin with 2 rather small subequal teeth, separated by abont 1J times their width. Vulva as in fig. 28. Legs.—Tibia I and II with 5, metatarsus I and II with 3 pairs of inferior spines. Dimensions.—Length of carapace 3-1, total length 8 mm. Selenops schonlandi Pocock (fig. 29). S. schonlandi Pocock. , ser. 7, vol. x, p. 22, pi. iii, fig. 15, 1902. The $ type was from Jansenville, Cape Province. $ Colour.—Carapace reddish
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Genus Selenops (Araneae) in South Africa. 589 Chelicerae.—Inferior margin with 2 rather small subequal teeth, separated by abont 1J times their width. Vulva as in fig. 28. Legs.—Tibia I and II with 5, metatarsus I and II with 3 pairs of inferior spines. Dimensions.—Length of carapace 3-1, total length 8 mm. Selenops schonlandi Pocock (fig. 29). S. schonlandi Pocock. , ser. 7, vol. x, p. 22, pi. iii, fig. 15, 1902. The $ type was from Jansenville, Cape Province. $ Colour.—Carapace reddish brown with a narrow black margin, cephalic portion a little darker than thoracic portion, a crenulated submarginal marking on thoracic .„.,,...... portion blending anteriorly with the / - ' • darker cephalic portion; thoracic stria ..•"'- '''::':"/.\ cuneiform and dark, with fine blackish ' g radiations, cephalic portion bisected by a fine black line, a branch from the middle of this line running to the base of each posterior median eye; mandibles as dark as the Fig. 29.—Selenops schonlandi it i_ i i ,!• n Pocock. 2, vulva, cephalic area; abdomen above thickly covered with blackish-brown symmetrical blotches and markings, the sides more dotted, a broad transverse bow-shaped light mark- ing above the spinners, separated from them by a black wavy transverse bar; legs with strong black bands, as strong on the posterior as on the anterior legs, the bands on the lower surfaces of femora tending to coalesce, forming a continuous stripe in femur IV. Eyes.—Median eyes not strongly recurved, a line touching the upper surfaces of the anterior passing a little below the centres of the posterior medians; anterior medians a little more than half the diameter of the posterior medians, a little less than their own dia- meter apart, and more than half a radius from the posterior medians; posterior medians half the diameter of posterior laterals which are very larg
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