. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. 501 yellowish-white black-tipped teeth ; femora I-IV at their bases with lighter joints ; tibiae in their basal halves as well as metatarsi and tarsi I-IV lighter. Body above convex, posteriorly rounded ; carapace and ocular tubercle (the latter with 3 spines on each side above) as in fig. 85 ; thoracic tergites I and II and all ab- dominal tergites very closely and thickly provided with strong irregularly placed spines; all free sternites smooth ; sur
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. 501 yellowish-white black-tipped teeth ; femora I-IV at their bases with lighter joints ; tibiae in their basal halves as well as metatarsi and tarsi I-IV lighter. Body above convex, posteriorly rounded ; carapace and ocular tubercle (the latter with 3 spines on each side above) as in fig. 85 ; thoracic tergites I and II and all ab- dominal tergites very closely and thickly provided with strong irregularly placed spines; all free sternites smooth ; surfaces of coxae I-IV roughly granular ; chelicera and pedipalp of S as in fig. 85 ; legs slender, trochanters I-IV strongly toothed on each side ; femora-tibiae I-IV angles and the edges each with a row of teeth ; secondary ^ ^ . "^ dorsum Koewer. ^: ocular sexual characters of ^ present m chehcera, tubercle, palp, and chelicera pedipalp, and leg I; femur I somewhat from the side. (Copied from ^ ^ ^ 1 Roewer.) stouter than the rest. —Length of body, 5-5, chelicerae 2+2-5, pedipalp 7, femora I-IV, 5 : 9 : 5-5 : 7-5 ; legs I-IV, 21 : 33 : 21 : 30. Type, 1 ^ from Windhoek, South West Africa. Type in the collec- tion of Dr. Koewer. This species is not represented in the collection of the South African Museum. Rhamfsinitus granarius Roewer. (Text -fig. 86.) 1916. Roewer, Arch. Naturg., Ixxxii, A, fasc. 2, p. 154, t. 44. 1923. Roewer, Die Weberknechte der Erde, p. 793, fig. 972. Colour of body greyish to reddish yellow ; carapace and abdomen on each side above speckled blackish ; coxae I-IV minutely speckled with brown on each side ; chelicera and pedipalp reddish yellow ; legs reddish yellow except femora I-IV apically and patellae I-IV which are infuscated a little darker brown. Body convex above, closely and minutely granular, rounded posteriorly ; carapace and ocular tubercle (the latter with 4 teeth on each side above) as in fig. 86 ;
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