334 ARACHNIDAN FAUNA OF BRITISH NEW GUINEA, 



Eyes black, arranged in two curved rows of four each, the 

 curvature directed forwards; the eyes comprising the anterior row 

 are somewhat smaller than those of the second. 



Legs long, strong, with yellowish and yellow-brown annulations, 

 moderately clothed with short, dark brown hairs, and armed with 

 short, strong, dark brown spines. Relative lengths: 1, 4, 2, 3. 



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



Falces long, strong, divergent at apex, moderately clothed with 

 long dark hairs ; the margins of the furrow of each falx are 

 armed with a series of teeth, those of the inferior margin being 

 smaller than those of the superior; the superior margins are also 

 furnished with a dense brush of moderately long, dark hairs. 



Maxilke convex, long, strong, dark brown, somewhat club- 

 ended, inclining inwards, clothed with long, dark brown hairs, 

 the inner margins furnished with dense dark brown scopulse. 



Labium long, convex, apex rounded-ofF, compressed at base, 

 yellowish, clothed with long dark brown hairs. 



Sternum of normal shape, dark brown, with a narrow lateral 

 band of pale yellow; the surface glossy, clothed in the median 

 area with coarse dark hairs, and laterally with short pale yellowish 

 pubescence. 



Abdomen long, cylindrical, convex, moderately overhanging 

 base of cephalothorax; the colour is dark brown generally, though 

 somewhat lighter in front; on the inferior surface there is a long, 

 narrow median groove; the latter is shallow, pale yellow, some- 

 what the broadest in front, and runs the entire length of the 

 abdomen. 



Epigyyie a large tubercular eminence, with two lateral apertures. 



Cribelhim transverse, narrow, entire. 



ffab. — Boirave, at 1,500ft.; July, 1896; and Rossel Island, 

 Louisiade Group. 



Family DICTYNID^. 



Genus A m a u r o b i u s, C. Koch. 



7. Amaurobius insignis, L. Koch; (immature). 



Xoc— Mount Scratchley, at 12,200ft.; Sept -Oct., 1896. 



