. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. 493 stream, Humansdorp. This species is distinguished from most other species by the marked difference in colour of ^ and ? ; the chelicerae in the (^ are not much larger than those of the ? ; the legs are remarkably smooth and very long and slender ; the species is probably localised in the forested area of the Knysna district. Rhampsinitus transvaalicus n. sp. (Text-fig. 77.) Closely resembling R. leighi (Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1902, pt. 2, p. 396)
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. 493 stream, Humansdorp. This species is distinguished from most other species by the marked difference in colour of ^ and ? ; the chelicerae in the (^ are not much larger than those of the ? ; the legs are remarkably smooth and very long and slender ; the species is probably localised in the forested area of the Knysna district. Rhampsinitus transvaalicus n. sp. (Text-fig. 77.) Closely resembling R. leighi (Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1902, pt. 2, p. 396), differing from it chiefly in the shorter chelicerae. Colour as in leighi, a uniform dark blackish brown, coxae in proximal half sometimes a little lighter, legs uniform black ; ocular tubercle. Fig. 77.—Rhampsinitus transvaalicus. (^ : body and palp seen from the side. with 3 dorsal spines, armature of dorsum as in leighi ; chelicerae differing from leighi in being shorter, the sum of the two segments a little greater than the body length (the males here, however, probably not full grown) ; under surface of segment I on the outer side with a fairly regular row of about 11 strong curved teeth, these considerably larger than any other teeth found on the chelicerae (fig. 77); anterior surface of segment II with a number of small teeth and spicules not reaching as far distally as in leighi ; coxa I with a few small granules, remaining coxae smooth ; pedipalp as in leighi, femur equal in length to patella+tibia, shorter than tarsus, unspined. Legs : femur I with 5 rows of tooth-like spines, the 2 ventral rows largest, patella similar, tibia with 2 ventral rows of minute setiform spines, femur below at inner apex with 3-4 enlarged teeth, patella below with 2 rows of fairly large teeth, the 2-3 apical ones on each side enlarged ; femora of remaining legs with weaker spines than in I, remaining segments Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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