180 : ARANEIDEA,. 
SYN/EMA, Simon. 
Synema cirripes, Cambr. 
Synema cirripes, Cambr. antea, p. 79, t. 10. figg. 11, 11 a—d. 
The male only of this spider has been described. The adult female now recorded is much like the male in 
general colours and markings, but is larger, length 3 lines. The cephalothorax is glossy, tinged with 
olive-greenish ; the legs, falces, maxilla, labium, and sternum are uniformly pale yellow. The quadrangle 
of the four central eyes is rather broader in proportion to its length, bringing these eyes somewhat nearer 
to the laterals. The bristles on the front of the falces are more numerous, shorter, and more spiniform. 
The spines beneath the first two pairs of legs are shorter, stronger, and more regularly disposed in four pairs. 
The abdomen is much broader, and rounded behind. The genital aperture is small, but of characteristic 
form. In the disposition of the eyes this species shows a marked approach to the genus Xystzcus. 
Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith). 
LITHYPHANTES, Thorell. 
Lithyphantes quesitus, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 2 lines. 
General form and structure normal. 
Cephalothorax deep rich red-brown, approaching to black, and thickly covered all over with minute tubercles 
or strong granulations ; lateral marginal impressions at the caput slight, but the thorax on the sides 
in front is somewhat tumid in form or at least more convex than usual. The caput is raised but little 
above the thoracic level; normal indentations strong. Clypeus impressed transversely close to the eyes, 
but convex below ; its height considerably greater than the longitudinal diameter of the ocular area. 
Eyes subequal, the fore-laterals slightly largest. The very slight curve of the posterior row directed forwards, 
that of the anterior row in the same direction more strongly but not excessively ; the tubercular promi- 
nences, on which the lateral pairs and fore-central pairs are seated, moderate. The quadrangle of the 
four central eyes is very nearly a square, its width being perhaps very slightly greater than its length ; 
the eyes of the hind-central pair are separated by less than a diameter, each being a diameter’s distance 
from the hind-lateral eye on its side. The fore-central pair are less than an eye’s diameter from each 
other, and still less from the fore-laterals. The laterals are nearly but not quite contiguous to each other. 
Legs moderate in length and strength, 1, 4, 2,3. Femora thinly furnished with minute tubercles or granula- 
tions; those of the first pair strongest, well furnished with hairs, of which many are erect. Femora, 
genuse, and coxe of the first and second pairs dark yellowish-brown, first pair darkest; the tibie, meta- 
tarsi, and tarsi orange-yellow ; the tibia with a dark brown annulus at the fore extremity. The third 
and fourth pairs are orange-yellow, the cox dark yellowish-brown ; the femora slightly suffused with 
brown, and there is a yellow-brown annulus at the fore extremity of the tibix. Superior tarsal claws 
strongly pectinated. 
Palpi moderately long, yellow-brown, the cubital, radial, and digital joints of a darker hue; the radial joint 
enlarges gradually and greatly to its fore extremity, and is furnished with bristly hairs ; the digital joint 
is large, oval, clothed with bristly hairs. Palpal organs well developed, compact, and with a pale, 
somewhat bent, prominent corneous process on the outer side of their fore extremity. 
Falces equal in length to the height of the facial space, vertical, straight, and not divergent, a little roundly 
prominent at their base ; outer profile-line rather hollow; colour dark brown. 
Maxille strong, of moderate length, considerably inclined towards the labium, and truncate at their extremity, 
both on the outer and inner sides. Colour dark brown. 
Labium much broader than high, rather narrower at the apex than at the base; apex a little hollow-truncate. 
Colour like that of the maxille. 
Sternum heart-shaped, strongly granulose, its posterior extremity produced into a longish, cylindric, obtuse- 
ending point between the coxe of the fourth pair of legs. Colour like that of the maxille and labium. 
