346 ARACHNIDAN FAUNA OF BRITISH NEW GUINEA, 



Bternum long, shield-shaped, smooth, moderately arched, glossy. 



Abdomen ovate, arched, moderately overhanging base of cepha- 

 lothorax ; superior surface dark brown, mottled with yellow ; 

 inferior surface yellow. 



The epigifne is situated in a broad and deeply-grooved recess. 



Loc. — Neneba; November, 1896. 



Family CLUBIONID^. 



Subfamily SPARASSIN^l. 



Genus Heteropoda, Latr. 



40. Heteropoda salacia (?) ^, L. Koch. 

 Loc. — Boirave, at 1,500ft. 



Genus S A r o t e s, Sund. 



41. Sarotes procerus, L. Koch; (immature). 

 Loc. — Tamata Station, Mambare River. 



42. Sarotes similaris, sp.nov. 



(Plate vii., fig. 10.) 



9. Cephalothorax 6-6 mm. long, 5-7 mm. broad; abdomen 

 9 '5 mm. long, 5*9 mm. broad. 



Cefhalothorax convex, clothed with short yellowish pubes- 

 cence, dark brown with yellowish markings. Caput arched. 

 Clypeus broad, radial grooves distinct, median groove or depression 

 wedge-shaped, broadest in front ; at the base of cephalothorax 

 there is a broad, slightly curved transverse band of pale yellow. 

 Marginal hand broad. 



Eyes black, arranged in two recurved rows of four each; the two 

 median eyes of the anterior row are the smallest of the series; the 

 lateral anterior eyes and those of the anterior row are all the same 

 size; the anterior median eyes are separated from each other by 

 about twice their individual diameter, and from their lateral neigh- 

 bours Vjy about one diameter; the median eyes of the second row are 

 separated from each other by a space equal to once their individual 



