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largest. Lateral eyes separated by about a third of the diameter of one of the fore-laterals. Clypeus 
much projecting, its longitudinal extent being equal to nearly double that of the ocular area. 
Legs moderately long, 1, 4, 2, 3, strong; the femora and tibie of the first and second pairs densely clothed 
with long coarse hairs of nearly equal lengths and giving a brush-like appearance. The femora are 
black-brown, the tibiz deep reddish-yellow-brown; all the joints except the tarsi and metatarsi are 
marked with longitudinal paler reddish-yellow-brown stripes, the femora less conspicuously ; metatarsi 
and tarsi pale yellow-brown, the latter palest. All the legs are more or less clothed with greyish 
pubescence, and furnished beneath the tibia, metatarsi, and tarsi with spines varying in length and 
strength; a short calamistrum at the hinder extremity of the metatarsi of the fourth pair on the outer 
side. 
Mawille, labium, and sternum densely clothed with dark-coloured coarse hairs. 
Abdomen deep black-brown, clothed with short pale and other hairs, and with a narrow central longitudinal 
pale yellow-brown line on the upperside reaching through two-thirds of its length; on each side of this 
line is a longitudinal row of three equally separated pale greyish spots. On the middle of the underside 
is a quadrate yellow-brown, bare, coriaceous-looking area, broader than long, its lateral margins edged 
with a whitish line and its hinder margin covering a transverse slit leading no doubt into a spiracular 
organ. Spinners short, compact; immediately in front of the infra~-mamillary organ or spinner there 
appears to be another transverse spiracular slit. The genital aperture is a simple transverse narrow 
opening. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero, Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
Filistata tractans, Cambr. 
The male of this species is described and figured, antea, p. 183, t. 23. figg. 4, 4 a-d. 
The female, since found in the Mexican collection, is 8 lines in length. It is of a general yellow-brown 
colour. The cephalothorav has the oblique junctions of the caput and thorax, and the region of the 
thoracic indentation, paler than the rest. The legs are furnished with normal spines and hairs. The 
abdomen is of a duller brown than the cephalothorax and legs. The whole spider is in general form and 
size very like /’. capillosa, supra, p. 289, but may at once be distinguished not only by the darker, almost 
black hue of the latter, but by the absence of the dense brush of hairs beneath the femora and tibie 
of the first two pairs of legs, as well as by a slight difference in the size and relative position of the 
eyes. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (H. H. Smith). 
APOLLOPHANKES, Cambridge. 
Apollophanes distinctus, sp. n. 
Female, immature, length rather over 23 lines. 
In general form and appearance very like A. punctipes, Cambr., antea, pp. 79, 252, t. 9. figg. 15, 15 a—c, to 
which it is no doubt very nearly allied ; but it differs so much in its markings that I feel convinced that 
it belongs to a distinct species. 
Cephalothorax brownish-yellow, edged with a black line; almost the whole of each side, excepting a narrow 
marginal border extending round the clypeus, deep brown, with well-defined edges, leaving a broad central 
longitudinal band slightly marked with a few minute black points. 
Legs pale yellow, thickly speckled with black, the black dots forming on the first three pairs of legs a broad 
fairly well-defined longitudinal stripe. 
Falces yellowish, the basal portion in front, like the sides of the cephalothorax, deep brown. 
Palpi pale yellow, speckled with black. 
Mawille and labium pale yellow, with a few black dots. 
Sternum yellow, with a narrow marginal border formed by amalgamated black points, and a few others 
dispersed about its surface. 
Abdomen of a dull brownish-yellow ground-colour ; a broad longitudinal central slightly tapering band runs 
