332 ARACHNIDAN FAUNA OF BRITISH NEW (JUINEA, 



5. Antrochares Macgregori, sp.nov, 



(Plate VII., figs. 2, 2a.) 



2- Cephalothorax 1-7 mm. long, 15 mm. broad; abdomen 

 2 '5 mm. long, 1-4 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax convex, sparingly clothed with yellowish hairs. 

 Cajntt strongly arched at the centre, obtusely truncated in front. 

 Clypeus broad, convex, normal grooves and indentations distinct, 

 median depression at junction of cephalic and thoracic segments 

 deep and round. Marginal band broad. 



Eyes six, seated on a somewhat quadrangular, tubercular 

 eminence, and arranged in two groups of 2 and 4 respectively; 

 the lateral e3^es are large, oval, and oblique, and the median pair 

 are small and round. The two front eyes are separated from each 

 other by a space equal to their individual width, and are slightly 

 hollowed towards the centre of their inner margins; the posterior 

 pair are oval, diverge outwards, and are separated from each 

 other at their greatest extremity by twice their individual length; 

 the median pair are placed closely together, but are not con- 

 tiguous; the latter almost touch the posterior pair at their base. 



Legs long, thin, tapering, yellow-brown, clothed with long 

 3'ellowish hairs, and armed with strong spines; each tarsus is 

 furnished with two long and powerful pectinated claws, and one 

 small one. Relative lengths : 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Palpi long, similar in colour and armature to legs, and each 

 terminating with one pectinated claw. 



Falces long, powerful, projecting well forward, yellow-brown, 

 and clothed in front and on the inner margins with long, coarse, 

 yellowish hairs; outer margins fringed with long tawny hairs. 



Maxillce yellowish, long, powerful, divergent, apices truncated, 

 inner margins slightly hollowed out at the centre, the surfaces 

 shining, and sparingly clothed with yellowish hairs. 



Labium concolorous, convex, broader than long, rounded oflf at 

 apex. 



Sternum concolorous also, shield-shaped, smooth, shiny, 

 sparingly clothed with yellowish hairs. 



