48 ARANEIDEA. 
the two anterior eminences; one example has the whole of the upperside and sides closely marked with 
yellowish points or spots). The underside, including the spinners, is black with some irregular white 
spots on the sides forwards and across the middle. The genital process is deep brown, characteristic but 
not very prominent, with a short epigyne directed backwards. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Volcan de Fuego and Chiacam (Sarg). 
CAREPALXIS, Koch. 
Carepalxis tuberculifera, sp. n. 
Adult female, length slightly less than 13 line. 
Cephalothorax dull orange, clothed with yellowish-grey hairs. Occipital eminence broad, obtuse, and massive. 
Eyes not large, in the usual position, with deep bistre-brown rims ; those of the central group form a quadrangle 
whose anterior side is shortest. The height of the clypeus is distinctly less than half that of the facial 
space. 
Legs short, 1, 2, 4, 3, dull yellowish tinged with brown, moderately strong. Clothed with hairs only. 
Falces similar in colour to the cephalothorax, with a dusky transverse bar near their extremities, strong, 
straight, vertical. 
Palpi similar to the legs in colour. 
Mawille, labtum, and sternum similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 
Abdomen large, heart-shaped, projecting greatly over the thorax; at each fore corner are two or three small 
tubercular prominences. It is of a dull clay-colour, clothed with short hairs and a few short black spine- 
like bristles, and with some indistinct brown markings, and four black impressed spots on the upperside, 
the latter forming a large square, whose fore side is shorter than the others. In front, in the hollow between 
and below the tubercles, it is blackish-brown, with a longitudinal central line of yellow spots. Sides 
brown with pale spots, the underside blackish. The genital process (so far as I can see it) appears to be 
of very simple form. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
A single example. 
Carepalxis gibbosa, sp. n. 
Not quite adult female, length 2% lines. 
Cephalothorax covered with short yellowish-grey hairs. Caput darkish yellow-brown, the thorax much paler, a 
strong longitudinal median indentation from the ocular area to the occipital eminence, which is composed 
of two strong, slightly divergent, dull orange-yellow conical prominences, whose bases are contiguous. 
The lower fore corners of the caput rather rounded. 
Eyes in the ordinary position, not very large; the four centrals form a quadrangle whose anterior side is 
shortest, and the height of the clypeus is equal to half that of the facial space. 
Falecs moderate in length and strength, of a dull orange colour, clothed with greyish hairs, prominent in 
front, the prominent part and also the extremities marked with a deep bistre-brown blotch. 
Legs rather short, moderately strong, 1, 4, 2, 3, of a yellow colour, the anterior portion of the femora and the 
genua being dark brown and the anterior parts of the other joints more or less suffused with the same tint. 
They are clothed with grey hairs and armed with spines, of which a group of several on the anterior sides 
of the femora of the first pair are the most noticeable, two of them being much the longest and strongest, 
dark at the base, and the rest pale-coloured. 
Palpi yellowish, the digital joints rather long and a little tumid, looking like those of the very undeveloped male 
palpi, and terminating with a thickly pectinated black claw. 
Maanlle brown, pale greyish at their extremities. 
Labium quadrate and brown at the base, pale and pointed at the apex. 
Sternum pale yellow-brown, with some whitish-yellow cretaceous-looking markings along the middle. 
Abdomen rather large, somewhat heart-shaped, projecting greatly over the thorax; at its fore extremity on 
