BY W. J. RAINBOW, 329 



Order ARACHNIDA. 



Sutorder ARANE5; THERAPH0S5:. 

 Family AVICULARIID^. 



Sutfamily PACHYLOMEREiE. 

 Genus Conothele, Thor. 



1. Conothele malayana, Dolesch. 



L,oc. — Neneba, Mount Scratchley, between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, 

 July, 1896. 



Subfiinily BARYCHELIN^. .' 



Genus I d i o m m a t a, Auss. 



2. Idiommata reticulata, L. Koch. — Only one specimen, and 



that immature, but there can be no doubt as to its identity, 

 as it agrees so closely with Koch's figure and description. 

 Loc. — Mount Scratchley, at 12,200 feet, 



3. Idiommata crassipbs, sp.nov. 



(Plate vii., fig. 1.) 



9, Cephalothorax 8-3 mm. long, 7-5 mm. wide ; abdomen 

 11'2 mm. long, 7'5mm. wide, 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown, convex, clothed with short, strong, 

 black hairs. Caput arched, truncated in front, where it is 

 margined with a broad, pale flesh-coloured band. Clypeas broad, 

 normal grooves distinct, junction of cephalic and thoracic segments 

 indicated by a deep transverse indentation or cleft. Marginal 

 hand broad. 



Eyes elevated on a prominent tubercle; those comprising the 

 front row are large and separated from each other by a space 

 equal to about twice their individual diameter ; those of the 

 second row are equal in size, but are separated from their anterior 

 neighbours by about one and one-half their individual diameter, 

 and from each other by a space equal to about one diameter; the 

 third series of eyes are small, contiguous, arranged in two pairs 



