LIOCRANUM.—CRAGUS. 216 
with numerous bristly hairs, and has a short, sharp, curved, corneous, spine-like apophysis at its fore 
extremity on the outer side. The digital joint is somewhat oblong and rounded at the anterior extre- 
mity, where it is furnished with a patch of short fine hairs. The palpal organs present one of the most 
remarkable developments I have almost ever seen: they are prominent beneath the fore end, their whole 
outer side being covered with a kind of corneous plate, which is continued backwards and underneath the 
radial and cubital joints ; the margin of this plate or process is encircled with a closely-fitting, filiform, red- 
brown spine, which issues from a rounded lobe at the extremity on the inner side of the palpal organs. 
Nothing, however, but figures will give a correct idea of this unusual structural feature of these parts. 
Mazille strong, straight, broadest at the extremities, where they are rounded on the outer side. 
Labium longer than broad, half the length of the maxille, and slightly emarginate at the apex. The colour 
of the maxille and labium is dusky yellow-brown. 
Sternum oval, pointed behind, slightly emarginate across its whole width in front. Colour yellow. 
Abdomen of a flattish elongate-oval form, truncate in front; ground-colour dull luteous-yellowish, with a 
central longitudinal stripe, and a lateral one on each side of the fore half above, of a blackish hue; the 
lateral stripes are broadest and most distinct ; the central one is followed, to the spinners, by five or six 
slightly angular, transverse, blackish bars or chevrons; the sides, also, are marked on the posterior half 
with three slightly oblique blackish bars. The underside has no markings. The spinners are of moderate 
length ; those of the inferior pair are a little shorter but stronger than the superior pair, and all four are 
somewhat suffused with blackish towards their extremities. The anal process is of considerable length 
and pointed. 
The female is paler coloured and of a brighter yellow hue, and the markings are less distinct than in the 
male; the genital aperture is large, and of distinctive form. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
CRAGUS*, gen. nov. (fam. Drasside). 
Nearly allied to Clubiona, Latr. The central quadrangle of the eyes, however, differs, being as long as it is 
broad, and the whole ocular area is longer (from back to front) in proportion to its width. The masille 
are much straighter along their outer margin than in Clubiona, and well rounded at their outer extre- 
mity ; the labium also is strongly notched or emarginate at the apex. Cephalothorax oval, longer than 
broad, lateral marginal constrictions moderate, truncate in front; profile even and slightly curved. 
Sternum elongate-oval, long, slender. Legs 1, 4, 2,3; those of the first pair (at least in the male) of 
great length; spines long, slender. yes small, subequal; anterior row straight; posterior row curved, 
the convexity of the curve directed backwards; fore-central pair smallest ; fore-laterals largest; height 
of the clypeus about equal to the diameter of a fore-lateral eye. 
Cragus pallidus, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 2 lines. 
Cephalothorax yellow, thinly clothed with pale hairs. 
Eyes of the hind-central pair rather further apart than each is from the hind-lateral eye on its side; those of 
the anterior row near together, but the fore-central pair rather further apart than from the fore-laterals, 
all are on black slightly tuberculate spots. The anterior side of the central quadrangle is much shorter 
than the posterior side. 
Legs rather paler yellow than the cephalothorax. The tarsi end with two, apparently, untoothed or very 
finely toothed claws, beneath which is a thin claw-tuft. 
Palpi moderately long. The humeral joint has two or three spines in an obliquely transverse direction rather 
on the inner side towards the fore extremity, and another, single one, a little way behind near the 
middle of the upperside. The cubital joint is very short and has some long strong pale bristles on the 
upperside, one at the centre of the fore margin is strongest and of great length. The radial joint is 
more than double the length of the cubital, curved, strongly excavate along the outer side throughout the 
* Nom. propr. 
