LEPTYPHANTES.—ASAGENA. 189 
pair have two slender spines in a longitudinal line beneath the fore extremity, and one much stronger 
nearer the middle on the inner side. The tibisz and metatarsi have one spine on each (that on those of 
the first pair, however, is broken off). 
The palpi are short, the radial joint stronger than the cubital, rather spreading at its fore extremity, and 
furnished on the outer side with bristly hairs. The digital joint is large, with a lobe and an obtuse 
prominence at its base on the outer side. The palpal organs are highly developed, prominent, consisting 
of some strong corneous processes and spines, conspicuous among which is a long, rather slender, tapering 
one issuing from their base, and curving downward with a large circular sweep underneath, and up round 
their outer side, ends in a filiform point. 
Falces long, strong, convex in front, slightly divergent at their extremities. 
Maxille strong, straight, and inclined to the labium. 
Sternum as broad as long, heart-shaped, very convex and smooth, hinder end produced broadly, and spreading 
between and behind the coxw of the fourth pair of legs. The width between the base of the coxe is 
quite equal to that of the coxe. 
Labium small, broader than high, somewhat subtriangular in form. 
Abdomen elongate-oval, of a dull luteous-yellow hue, with some indistinct black markings at the middle of the 
fore end of the upperside ; a broken longitudinal line of white flecks or spots along the lateral margins, 
a distinct black spot on each side close to the spinners, and a gemmated black spot close above them ; 
spinners short, compact ; colulus small, pointed. 
In the greater width between the coxe of the 4th pair of legs this spider differs a little from the European 
forms of Leptyphantes, but it is scarcely, I think, generically different. 
Hab. Guatemata, Chichochoc, Coban (Sarg). 
ASAGENA, Sundevall. 
Asagena quadrimaculata, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 13 lines. 
Cephalothorax reddish-yellow-brown, oval, without lateral marginal impression at the caput, uniformly convex, 
converging lines slight, but a little darker than the rest, slightly granulose towards and on the margins. 
Eyes of posterior row of equal size, their line very slightly curved, the convexity of the curve directed forwards. 
The hind-central pair separated by a diameter’s interval, and each is separated by a little more than a 
diameter from the hind-lateral eye on its side. The anterior eyes appear to be slightly larger than the 
posterior, and the fore-laterals the largest of the eight. The intervals between the anteriors seem to be 
about equal, The fore-central pair are on a strong tubercular prominence, separated from each other by 
less than a diameter’s interval ; those of each lateral pair are also on a strong tubercle and are contiguous 
to each other. The quadrangle of the four centrals is a little longer than broad. 
Legs moderately long, 4,1, 2,3. The femora are considerably stronger than the rest, of a deep blackish- 
yellow-brown, the rest orange-yellow ; the femora very slightly granulose, and furnished with hairs and 
slender bristles only. 
Palpi moderately long ; radial and cubital joints short, of equal length, the former strongest, enlarging at the 
extremity, and coalescing with the digital joint, which is of moderate size and oval form. The palpal organs 
are neither very prominent nor complex; at their extremity are several corneous, characteristic processes. 
Mazxille strong, greatly bent over the labium, angularly prominent at their base on the outer side, and of a 
yellow-brown colour. 
Labiwm small, somewhat transverse-oval in form, a little broader than high, and transversely indented at the 
middle. 
Sternum heart-shaped, its hinder extremity drawn out into a short sharp point just between the beginning of 
the insertion of the legs. The colour of the sternum and labium is yellow-brown, suffused more or less 
with blackish. 
Abdomen oval, nearly black, with four well-marked white spots forming a large quadrangle on the fore half of 
the upperside ; the anterior pair of these spots are the largest, but form a transverse line of less length 
than the posterior pair. Underside dark yellow-brown, with a transverse, curved, pale, indistinct stripe 
in front of the spinners. At the fore extremity of the abdomen is a strong coriaceous, circular, sheath-like 
