310 ARANEIDAN FAUNA OF SANTA CRUZ, 



11. EUNESIOTES JENNINGSI, Sp.nOV. 



(Plate xxiv., 3, 3a, 36.) 



9. Cephalothorax 2-4 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad ; abdomen 

 5"1 mm. long, 6"8 mm. broad. 



Cejjhalothorax slightly longer than broad, arched. Caput 

 mahogany-brown, glossy, very finely punctured, high, convex, 

 sloping forward, normal grooves distinct. Clyjiens broad, arched, 

 glossy, sides rather paler than caput, hinder extremity pale 

 yellow, radial grooves indistinct. Marginal hand narrow. 



Eyes black; the four comprising the median group form a square? 

 or nearl}' so, and are elevated on a slight tubercular eminence; 

 the anterior pair comprising this group are separated from each 

 other by a space equal to fully twice their individual diameter, 

 and those of the anterior row by a space equal to nearly two 

 diameters; the lateral eyes are widely removed from the median 

 series, and seated obliquely upon small tubercles; they are minute 

 and contiguous to each other. 



Legs yellowish, short, slender, tapering, clothed with fine hairs 

 and armed with moderately long spines ; tarsal claws black, 

 pectinated. Relative lengths : 1 = 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi short, slender, similar in colour and armature to legs. 



Falces yellowish, glossy, short, strong, arched, divergent at 

 apex; the lower margins of the furrow of each falx are armed 

 with a row consisting of two long and strong teeth and three 

 smaller ones, and the upper margin with a row of three long 

 teeth, and one small one; fangs short. 



Maxilke arched, short, strong, glossy, divergent, outer margins 

 reddish-brown, inner margins pale yellowish. 



Labium arched, broader than long, glossy, rounded oflf at apex; 

 reddish-brown from base to near apex, thence pale yellowish. 



Sternum shield -shaped, broad, moderately convex, pale yellowish, 

 tuberculated laterally. 



Abdomen obtusely triangular, boldly projecting over base of 

 cephalothorax, broader than long, strongly arched; the anterior 

 angle (where it is broadest) is moderately procurved; from thence 



