. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 490 Annals of the South African Museum. anteriorly and at the sides ; pedipalp whitish, femur and patella with some brown stripes ; legs yellow, femora, patellae, and tibiae with some brown infuscated stripes. Body thickly covered with spines forming irregular transverse rows on the thoracic and abdominal tergites ; these spines of two types, those in the middle large, their sides with a varying number of small black spicules (fig. 75, e), their tips bifid or trifid, the spines at the sides of the bo
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 490 Annals of the South African Museum. anteriorly and at the sides ; pedipalp whitish, femur and patella with some brown stripes ; legs yellow, femora, patellae, and tibiae with some brown infuscated stripes. Body thickly covered with spines forming irregular transverse rows on the thoracic and abdominal tergites ; these spines of two types, those in the middle large, their sides with a varying number of small black spicules (fig. 75, e), their tips bifid or trifid, the spines at the sides of the body consisting of low conical tubercles surrounded at their bases with a ring of small black spicules, these tubercles tipped at their apices with 1 or 2 spicules (fig. 75, /); the largest spines in the middle of the body larger than those on the dorsal surface of ocular tubercle, those at the sides of the body considerably smaller than the spines of the ocular tubercle ; anterior margin of carapace in front of ocular tubercle with 3 enlarged spines, the median and largest projecting forwards and a little upwards, the 2 lateral ones pointing more directly up- wards ; carapace thickly covered with smaller spines (fig. 75, a); ocular tubercle above with 4 pairs of spines all with accessory spicules, the most posterior pair the smallest; thoracic and abdominal tergites with 2 irregular rows of spines ; 1 spine in the middle of each tergite distinctly enlarged, form- ing a median crest (fig. 75, a), this spine seen from above (fig. 75, b) placed between the 2 irregular rows of spines ; sternites smooth, all coxae strongly granular ; chelicerae spined as in fig. 75, c, segment I with a number of ventral spines on the outer side, those on the inner side similar but fewer in number ; pedipalp spined as in fig. 75, d. Legs : femora provided with 5 rows of strong tooth-like black-tipped spines, those of the median dorsal row longer than the others, patellae spined, tibiae without spines
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