;316 ARANEIDAN FAUNA OF SANTA CRUZ, 



Caput dark brown in front, moderately clothed with rather long, 

 coarse hairs; ocular area almost black. Clypeus broad, arched, 

 pubescent, radial grooves distinctly marked, median depression 

 long, narrow, dark. Marginal hand moderately broad, fringed 

 with yellowish hairs. 



Eyes in three series of 4, 2, 2; those of the anterior row are 

 small, slightly procurved, equidistant; the pair comprising the 

 second row are the largest of the eight, and are separated from 

 each other by a space equal to fully twice their individual 

 diameter; those of the third row are large, but sensibly smaller 

 than the preceding and are widely separated from each other. 



Legs moderately long, strong, yellowish, with dark brown 

 annulations, armed with long, strong, dark spines; metatarsi and 

 tarsi dark brown, nearly black. Relative lengths : 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi moderately long, similar in colour and armature to legs. 



Falces robust, dark brown, thickly clothed with coarse brown 

 hairs or bristles; superior margin of each falx armed with two 

 strong teeth, the inferior with three. 



Maxilloi strong, club-ended, converging inwards, dark brown, 

 densely clothed with coarse dai'k brown hairs. 



Labitim concolorous, longer than wide, apex truncated. 



Sternum somewhat shield-shaped, yellowish, glossy, moderately 

 coftvex, hairy. 



Abdomen obovate, moderately projecting over base of cephalo- 

 thorax, hairy; superior surface of a dirty yellowish-brown tint, 

 with an obscure dark brown median patch, margined laterally and 

 in front with a rather broad pale yellowish band; sides somewhat 

 lighter in colour than superior surface ; inferior surface pale 

 yellowish. 



Epigyne as in figure, broad at base, rounded in front, dark 

 brown laterally and in front, median ridge glossy, yellowish. 



19. Lycos A obsccena, sp.nov. 



(Plate XXV., fig. 7.) 



9. Cephalothorax 4-5 mm. long, 3-5 mm. broad ; abdomen 

 7 "4 mm. long, 4 '4 mm. broad. 



