188 ARANEIDEA. 
Eyes small, subequal, occupying the whole width of the caput; in two transverse not very strongly curved 
rows, the posterior row has the least curve, its convexity directed backwards, that of the anterior row 
forwards. The four centrals form a quadrangle, whose fore side is rather the shortest, and its width 
behind rather greater than its length. 
Legs moderately long, slender, 1, 2, 4, 3, furnished with short slender hairs only. 
The palpi have the whole fore extremity of the radial joint produced into a strong apophysis. 
Falces moderately strong, equal in length to the height of the clypeus. 
Mazxille strong, straight, broader at the extremities than in the middle, and greatly inclined over the labium. 
Labiwm small, only one-third the width of the fore margin of the sternum, broader than high, and apparently 
of a somewhat subtriangular form. 
Sternum heart-shaped, about equal in length and breadth ; its posterior extremity produced between the coxe 
of the fourth pair of legs, bending over and widening round them; the width of this produced part of the 
sternum is equal to the width of the coxe. 
Abdomen connected with the thorax by a short but distinct coriaceous sheath-like pedicle, 
Egilona munda, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 1 line. 
Cephalothorax and falces bright orange-yellow, ocular area suffused with blackish. Legs suffused with 
blackish-brown, excepting the femora, of which the fore extremities only are blackish, the rest being 
orange-yellow. The ocular area is furnished with a few prominent hairs. The abdomen is rather large, 
oval, considerably convex above, of a pale dull yellowish hue, and thinly clothed with hairs ; its extreme 
point and the spinners are blackish. 
The eyes of the hind-central pair are separated from each other by two diameters’ interval, and from the 
laterals by about one and a half. The eyes of the anterior row are about equidistant trom each other, 
and those of each lateral pair are contiguous. 
Palpi moderate in length ; the cubital and radial joints short and equal in length, the latter the strongest, 
and with its extremity produced into a strong, prominent, bent, squarely truncated apophysis ; the digital 
joint is large, dark brown, prominent on the outer side, broadly obtuse at the extremity, and with a 
prominent obtuse point at its base on the inner side, and clothed with coarse hairs. Palpal organs highly 
developed, complex, and prominent; at their base on the outer side is a strong, circularly curved, corneous 
process (called the falciform process, and which, though apparently part of the palpal organs themselves, 
is in reality independent, and springs from the base of the digital joint) ; connected with the palpal organs 
are also two long, strong, somewhat coiled, black tapering spines. No description, however, can, apart 
from a figure, give a clear idea of the intricate structure and form of these organs in a large number of 
spiders in this and other groups. 
The maville, labium, and sternum are orange-yellow. 
Hab. Guatemaa, Chipor (Sarg). 
LEPTYPHANTES, Menge. 
Leptyphantes longispinosa, sp. n. 
Adult male, length nearly 14 lines, or very nearly 3 millim. 
The whole of this spider is yellow, the cephalothoraw a little the darkest and brightest ; profile-line almost even 
and gradually sloping behind the ocular area, where it curves over to the anterior eyes. Clypeus in 
height exceeding half that of the facial space; it is full, convex, and prominent below, but impressed 
immediately below the eyes. 
The eyes are small, subequal ; those of the posterior row have a very slight curve directed backwards, those of 
the anterior row an equal opposite curve. They are all seated on black spots, and all, excepting the 
fore-centrals, pearly-white. The four centrals form a quadrangle longer than broad, and its anterior 
much shorter than its posterior side. The hind-centrals are divided by an eye’s diameter from each 
other, and by nearly two diameters from the hind-lateral eye on its side. Those of cach lateral pair are 
placed slightly obliquely on a small tubercle, and are contiguous to each other. 
The legs are long, slender, 1, 4, 2, 3, those of the first pair greatly exceeding the rest. The femora of the first 
