108 | ARANEIDEA. 
pale yellow, broadly and distinctly banded with black-brown, furnished with fine hairs and a few short 
fine spines. The tarsal claws (3 in number) spring from a very small false terminal joint. 
The palpi are similar to the legs in colour, but the dark annuli are smaller. 
The falces are moderately long, not very strong, straight, and a little inclined to the maxille. Their colour 
is similar to that of the cephalothorax. 
The maxille are short, rounded at the extremities, and much inclined over the labium, which has an impressed 
transverse line or groove across the middle, and its apex somewhat bluntly subangular. The colour of 
these parts is yellowish-brown. 
The sternum is heart-shaped, broadly and very hollow, truncated at its anterior extremity ; its colour is pale 
yellow. 
The abdomen is of a short, broad-oval form, widest behind, where it is well rounded; the upperside is mode- 
rately convex. It is of a dull luteous-brown ground-colour on the upperside and sides, considerably and 
closely marked with black, the principal pattern being a longitudinal central somewhat dentate stripe, 
with a bifid area on the fore half, followed to the spinners by a series of transverse, more or less perfect, 
angular bars. A broken transverse, yellow-white, rather irregular band crosses the abdomen a little in 
advance of the middle, and in front of this are two short longitudinal curved bars of the same colour, one 
on each side. The underside is pale dull whitish, with a bordering of white cretaceous spots. The 
spinners of the superior pair are as long as the abdomen, and taper to a point; their colour is yellowish, 
annulated with blackish-brown. The genital aperture is small but of characteristic form. 
The adult male resembles the female in general characters, colours, and markings, but the legs, palpi, and 
superior spinners are less distinctly annulated ; the latter being also somewhat longer in proportion. 
The palpi are rather long. The radial joint is nearly double the length of the cubital, a little incrassated 
towards its extremity, but with no projection or apophysis. The digital joint is as long as the radial, and 
drawn out into a finger-like point at its fore extremity, ending with several short curved spine-like 
bristles. The palpal organs are prominent, globular, rather simple, extending to only half the length of 
the digital joint. 
Hab. Mzxico, between Amula and Chilapa, at an elevation of 6000 feet (H. H. 
Smith). 
EURYOPIS, Menge. 
Euryopis lineatipes, sp. n. 
Adult female, length very nearly 2 lines. 
Cephalothorax dark brown. The profile forms a continuous and steep slope from the eyes to the posterior 
margin, which is considerably excavated ; the clypeus is impressed beneath the eyes, but prominent 
below, and its height considerably exceeds half that of the facial space; ocular area rather prominent. 
The eyes are moderately large, and not very greatly different in relative size. The four centrals form a large 
quadrangle whose anterior side is the longest and the posterior the shortest. The fore-central pair are 
largest, and are separated by an interval of a diameter and a half from each other, and from the laterals 
by less than half a diameter. Those of each lateral pair are very close together, but not quite contiguous. 
The hind-centrals are separated from each other by about a diameter, but by a diameter and a half from 
the laterals. The posterior row is very nearly straight, the anterior row strongly curved, the convexity 
of the curve directed forwards. 
The legs are short, subequal, 4, 1, 2, 3; the femora, metatarsi, and tarsi pale yellow, the femora. conspicuously 
marked with short, black, transverse lines, markings, and spots; the metatarsi have a longitudinal black 
stripe along the side, with short transverse black marks on the outer side, on the third and fourth pairs 
the longitudinal stripe is on the posterior side, and the transverse marks on the inner side. The coxal, 
genual, and tibial joints are all dark yellowish-brown, irregularly suffused with blackish. All the legs 
are thickly furnished with coarse bristles, some, especially on the tibie, being almost spines; indeed, one 
or two on their uppersides are quite so. 
Palpi short, strong ; pale yellow, with transverse black lines and markings. 
Fulces moderately long, vertical, not very strong, yellow-brown, suffused with blackish on the anterior half. 
