162 ARANEIDEA. 
RHANE*, Thorell (fam. Salticide). 
Rhane munda, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 2 lines; length of cephalothorax 2 of a line. 
Cephalothorax distinctly longer than broad, and broadest at the hinder part of the ocular area, which is 
distinctly broader than long; the posterior slope begins at the hinder row of eyes and declines at the 
same pitch as the ocular area slopes forwards to the anterior row; looked at in profile, the cephalothorax 
therefore forms an isosceles triangle, whose obtuse-angled vertex is made by the two slopes. The cephalo- 
thorax is dark reddish-brown in colour, thinly clothed with whitish, adpressed, somewhat scale-like hairs, 
and a few slender prominent bristly hairs on the ocular area. 
The eyes of the posterior row form a slightly longer line than those of the anterior row, and the second (or inter- 
mediate) row is a little the shortest, and rather nearer to the anterior than to the posterior row. The 
central eyes of the anterior row are double (or more) the size of the laterals, and the clypeus is obsolete. 
The eyes of the anterior row form a curved line looked at from above and behind, so that a line drawn 
close behind the centrals would just pass in front of and touch the laterals. The eyes of the posterior row 
are about two-thirds of the size of the fore-laterals. 
The legs are short, moderately strong, 4, 1, 2, 3; the femora of the first pair much incrassated. They are of 
a pale yellow colour; longitudinally marked on the inner side with a more or less well-defined blackish 
stripe, and also with a blackish macula or incomplete annulus at the extremity of each joint; the femora 
of the first pair are also strongly tinged with red-brown on the outer side. The legs are thinly clothed 
with hairs, and armed with a few spines. The latter are beneath the tibie and metatarsi—tibie I. three 
pairs (in two longitudinal rows); metatarsi I. two pairs (in two rows), sometimes an extra spine; tibie IT. 
two spines in a longitudinal row; metatarsi II. two pairs. Beneath the terminal tarsal claws is a very 
slight claw-tuft. 
Falces small, rather projecting, and of a yellow-brown hue. 
Palpi short, slender, yellow. 
Mawille and labiwm similar in colour to the falces. 
Sternum narrow-oval, black-brown. 
Abdomen oval, obtuse in front, of a darkish brown colour, thinly clothed with short pale hairs, and striped with 
pale brownish-yellow. Two longitudinal stripes run along the whole length on the upperside, one on 
each side of the median line, leaving a brown central stripe a little tapering towards the spinners ; on each 
side, near the posterior extremity, the yellow stripe emits two or three oblique lateral lines of the same 
colour, these also often combining with some other similar oblique lateral lines; each side of the abdomen 
has also a slightly oblique yellowish stripe, beginning at the fore extremity and running backwards and 
downwards, followed by another shorter but more oblique stripe. In some examples the brown colour of 
the abdomen is broken up into short lines and spots, which give it a much more spotted appearance; in 
these cases the ground-colour might be described as brownish-yellow and the markings dark brown. ‘The 
genital aperture is of simple but characteristic form. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
COCCORCHESTES, Thorell. 
Coccorchestes adjacens, sp. n. 
2 
Adult male, length a little less than 3 of a line, or 4, of an inch. 
In general form and appearance this spider very closely resembles Coccorchestes scarubwoides, Cambr. (anted, 
p. 121, t. 15. fig. 8). It is, however, smaller, and the cephalothorax is less convex above, and a little 
narrower in proportion from the front to the line of the hinder slope; the surface also is covered more 
thickly and evenly with larger pock-marks, and its colour is dark brown and not glossy as in C. scara- 
beoides, nor has it any trace of the purple reflections often conspicuous in that species. The sides of the 
caput also have the marginal line, when looked at from above, straighter. The anterior row of eyes is 
* The generic name Rhane was substituted by Dr. Thorell for Rhanis, C. L. Koch, the latter being preoccupied 
in Coleoptera. 
