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The palpi are very long, the cubital joint as well as the humeral long, and both are clavate. The radial joint is 
as long as, or even slightly longer than, the cubital, and rather less strong; its fore extremity joins in 
closely with the base of the digital joint, with which it coincides in breadth. The digital joint is oblong- 
oval, small; the palpal organs are well developed, complex, consisting of various characteristic well- 
compressed corneous spines and processes. 
The abdomen has a well-marked pattern, consisting of a large black patch in the middle of the fore-end on 
the upperside, continued backward in a dull blackish longitudinal band, which divides into two diverging 
branches towards the hinder part, each branch ending at the outer side of the broadest part of the 
abdomen, where, in the female, there is a very characteristic round tuberculiform black prominence, divided 
into four by a pale cross-line; behind this on each side above the spinners is a transverse black line; 
these prominences are absent in the male, being represented by four black spots on a white ground ina 
quadrangle. Some spines, somewhat like those found on this part in the female, are also present in the 
male, but most of them had evidently been rubbed off. 
The height of the clypeus is rather less than half that of the facial space. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
ASAGENA, Sundevall. 
Asagena mesta, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 4 lines, 
Cephalothorax longer than broad, well rounded at the anterior extremity ; lateral marginal impressions at the 
caput moderate; height of the clypeus more than half that of the facial space; clypeus sharply and 
strongly impressed transversely immediately below the eyes, rounded and prominent at the lower margin. 
Its colour is deep blackish-red-brown. 
Eyes subequal, the laterals largest, the posterior row straight, the curve of the anterior row directed forwards. 
The central quadrangle is a little longer than broad, and slightly wider behind than in front; the hind- 
central pair are nearer together than to the hind-laterals, the interval being equal to an eye’s diameter. 
The eyes of the fore-central pairs are more than a diameter apart, but are nearer to the fore-laterals. 
Each lateral pair is seated on a strongish geminated tubercle, and its eyes are divided by a narrow but 
distinct interval. The fore-centrals are seated on a strong somewhat geminated prominence. 
The legs are short, subequal, strong, 1, 4, 2, 3 or 1, 2, 4, 3, of a bright red-orange hue, the femora of the first 
and second pairs, and the basal portion of those of the third and fourth pairs, blackish red-brown ; they 
are furnished with coarse hairs and bristles only ; the femora of the first two pairs are strongly granulose, 
of the other two pairs slightly so, and there is a deep black-brown annulus at the fore extremity of the 
tibie. The bristles beneath the tarsi of the fourth pair are of a somewhat calamistrum nature. 
Falces moderately long, powerful, rounded, and rather prominent in front, similar in colour to the cephalo- 
thorax. 
Mawille short, very strong, inclined towards the labium, of a deep brown colour. 
Labium more than double as broad as it is high, the sides converging to the apex, which is very broadly 
truncated. 
Sternum large, heart-shaped, with its posterior extremity slightly drawn out into a blunt point. Surface 
tolerably convex and strongly granulose ; colour, like that of the labium, deep black-brown. 
Abdomen large, of regular oval form, and convex above, black in colour, clothed above with coarse, dark, 
rusty-reddish hairs. A slender marginal yellow-white line runs round the fore half, and is dentated at 
its ends, A similar, broken line runs longitudinally through the middle, and is crossed at the highest 
part of the upperside by another broken curved line of the same colour; low down on each side, near the 
fore-end, is a short, somewhat curved, narrow yellowish bar. This pattern probably varies much in 
distinctness in different specimens. The genital aperture is of a deep red-brown colour and of charac- 
teristic form. Spinners short, compact, and of a deep reddish-brown colour. 
Hab. Guatemata (Champion). 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Arachn. Aran., December 1896. 2 Ef 
