Type 1 female, Numas Valley, Brandberg, South West Africa, collected by W. Steyn. April, 1963. Colour. - Whole dorsal surface blackish brown, contrasting sharply with the sides and ventral surface which are dirty white to pale yellow; pleurites, except for a small blue-black portion adjoining the tergites on each side, white; sternites pale yellow, each bordered at the side by a blackish marking, giving the impression of a dark lateral stripe down each side; last two or three sternites almost entirely dark. Keyword: Solpugema aethiops.