158 ARANEIDEA. 
CAREPALXIS, L. Koch. 
Carepalxis nigriceps, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 1} lines ; height from the spinners to the highest point of the abdomen 13 lines. 
Cephalothorax short, much humped behind the occiput, and sloping gradually from the top to the eyes, the 
hump rounded and without any subdivision ; the hinder slope very steep and a little hollow near the top ; 
the colour of the caput, including the hump, black and well-defined, the rest of the cephalothorax yellow- 
brown. ‘The caput and hump are covered thickly with coarse granulations and short bristly hairs. The 
height of the clypeus is a little less than half that of the facial space, and rather more than double. 
the diameter of the fore-central eyes. 
The eyes are in the normal position. The four centrals are on strong tubercles and about equal in size, 
forming a quadrangle broader than long, the fore-side rather shorter than the hinder one, and the sides 
rather the shortest. The lateral pairs are far removed from the central group, being placed near the 
anterior lower corners of the caput, and in a line almost parallel with its margin. 
Falces rather long, strong, straight; colour yellow-brown with some darker cloudings near their base. 
Legs short, rather strong, tapering, 1, 4, 2, 3, furnished with hairs and spines; colour yellow, the fore femora 
tinged with orange-brown. 
Mawille strong, much broadest and rounded at the extremities, slightly divergent ; colour dusky yellowish. 
Labiwm short, broader than high, not half the length of the maxille ; similar to the maxille in colour. 
Sternum nearly round, with the posterior extremity rather drawn out into a broad obtuse point between the 
coxee of the fourth pair of legs; colour dull yellow. 
Abdomen large, of a yellow-brownish mottled hue, clothed with short whitish pubescence. The height is much 
greater than its length, and it towers over the thorax ; the highest part is depressed in the middle, having 
an obtuse, somewhat slightly subdivided prominence on each side, with another less marked in the 
middle, in front of the others; the anterior side of the abdomen, which is nearly perpendicular, is marked 
by a central longitudinal well-defined black stripe thickly clothed with short black bristly hairs, The 
space also between and including the inner sides of the lateral humps is black and similarly furnished with 
black bristly hairs; between this black space and the spinners are four small black impressed spots in a 
quadrangle, whose anterior side is shorter than the rest, and above the two hinder spots is a large 
pale indistinct transverse bar. The sides and front of the abdomen are marked by some nearly parallel 
transverse darkish brown fine lines, and among the hairs with which the abdomen is clothed are some 
few black ones, stronger than the rest and of a bristly nature. The underside of the abdomen is dark 
brownish ; the genital aperture has a short obtuse epigyne, or process, connected with it, of characteristic 
form. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
WULFILA *, gen. nov. (Drasside). 
Cephalothorax oval, longer than broad, truncate before; lateral marginal impressions at the caput slight ; 
normal indentations slight. 
Eyes small, on black spots, in a largish semicircle very near the fore margin of the caput and not very greatly 
differing in size. Anterior row much shorter, very slightly curved, the convexity of the curve directed 
forwards ; posterior row much more curved in an opposite direction. 
Legs very long and slender, 1, 4, 2, 3, furnished thinly with longish hairs, and spines of great length, the 
longest hairs on the tibiee and metatarsi of the first two pairs. Terminal tarsal claws two. 
Palpi devoid of any terminal claw. 
Falces moderate in length and strength, directed forwards, straight, but slightly divergent. 
Mawille long, straight, curved on the outer margins and rounded at the extremities, where they are wider 
than at the base. 
* Nom. propr.: a Gothic Chief. 
