. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 146 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM sides and with the intervening dark scaling usually denser, finer and shorter; vestiture on legs in form of fine, longish and comparatively sparse hairs on femora below, especially in basal part or basal half, those on lower, outer or hinder aspect of middle femora however distinctly denser and more conspicuous and also longer than rest of the hairs on these femora below; scaling on legs dense, more flattened or lanceolate. Head more or less globular, about as b
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 146 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM sides and with the intervening dark scaling usually denser, finer and shorter; vestiture on legs in form of fine, longish and comparatively sparse hairs on femora below, especially in basal part or basal half, those on lower, outer or hinder aspect of middle femora however distinctly denser and more conspicuous and also longer than rest of the hairs on these femora below; scaling on legs dense, more flattened or lanceolate. Head more or less globular, about as broad as or sometimes even slightly broader than, occasionally slightly narrower than, broadest part of thorax; occiput broadish, well developed, sometimes distinctly longer in $$ than in $<$, the central sulcus behind ocellar tubercle narrow and slit-like; eyes large, reniform, convex, with the hind margin subangularly, or sometimes more roundly, indented, but without any visible or distinct, short, bisecting line extending forwards from indentation; the eyes separated above on vertex in both sexes, narrower in <$$ than in $$, the space in <$<$ may be as wide as ocellar tubercle or, at narrowest part in front of latter, distinctly narrower than tubercle, rarely broader than latter, the space on vertex in $$ always broader than in <$<$, usually about, or a little less than, or a little more than, twice distance between outer margins of posterior ocelli, rarely about three, or more, times this width; frons more rapidly narrowed basally in <$$ than in $$, usually more or less depressed anteriorly in both sexes, sometimes even deeply or foveately so, rarely not visibly depressed; integument of frons, especially in basal half and on to vertex in most $$, appearing smooth, polished and shining, sometimes so in both sexes; face usually not conspicuous, but in some forms with the medial part slightly more convex or raised, appearing subconically prominent from side
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