330 ARACHNIDAN FAUNA OP BRITISH NEW GUINEA, 



of which the lateral ones are sensibly the largest and are placed 

 obliquely to the rear of those comprising the median row; the 

 four large eyes are of a grey tint, and the four smaller ones of a 

 pearl-grey lustre, and each of the latter is encircled with a black 

 ring. 



Legs strong, yellow-brown, with dark brown annulations, 

 thickly clothed with coarse black hairs, and armed with long, 

 strong spines; each tarsus is terminated with a scopula, has two 

 claws, and each of the latter is armed with two teeth. Relative 

 lengths of legs : 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Palpi similar in colour and armature to legs; each palpus is 

 terminated with a claw, and scopula. 



Falces long, strong, projecting well forward, dark mahogany- 

 brown, clothed at apices and inner margins with long, coarse, 

 black hairs; the outer margin of the furrow of each falx is fringed 

 with long, red hairs, and the inner margins are each armed with 

 a row of four teeth. Fangs long, glossy black. 



MaxillcH long, strong, divergent, glossy, yellow-brown, mode- 

 rately clothed in front with short black hairs; inner margins 

 thickly fringed with long red hairs. 



Labium concolorous, fringed at apex with coarse dark hairs. 



Sternum concolorous also, oval, clothed laterally with mode- 

 rately long, coarse, black hairs. 



Abdomen ovate, overhanging base of cephalothorax, dark brown, 

 thickly clothed with short brown hairs. 



Only one specimen was obtained, and that was immature. 



Loc. — Boirave, at 1,500 feet, July, 189G. 



4. Idiommata sordida, sp.nov. 



9. Cephalothorax 5'2mm. long, 4mm. broad; abdomen 5"2mm. 

 long, 4"2 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown, convex, clothed with fine yellowish 

 hairs. Caput arched, truncated in front. Clypeus broad, normal 

 grooves distinct; at the junction of the cephalic and thoracic 

 segments there is a deep transverse indentation or cleft. Marginal 

 band rather narrow. 



