Urquhart. — On the Spiders of New Zen fund. 191 



Cephalothorax broad-oval ; lateral marginal constrictions at 

 caput moderate ; clear pale stone-colour, ruga? scale-like ; me- 

 dian band and lateral margins dark-olive ; median indentation 

 broad shield -shaped ; contour of profile slight double arch ; 

 clypeus prominent, less than half facial space. 



Four intermediate eyes are placed on oval black spots, and 

 form a trapezoid longer than broad, whose shortest side is in 

 front ; fore-centrals dark, smallest of eight ; space between hind- 

 centrals — which, with side eyes, have a pearly lustre — is less 

 than an eye's diameter, and the interval between each and the 

 hind-lateral next to it more than an eye's breadth ; laterals 

 contiguous, seated obliquely on dark tubercular prominences, 

 nearly their diameter from fore-centrals. 



Legs long, slender, 1, 2, 4, 3 ; more transparent than cephalo- 

 thorax ; armature few dark hairs and strong erect bristles ; 

 superior tarsal claws, 1st pair, slightly curved from base, 

 straightening at free end, tips bent ; about 7 comb-teeth, in- 

 creasing in length and strength ; inferior claw smaller than 

 superior, bent sharply downwards and outwards, apparently 

 only one tooth. 



Palpi long, slender, resemble legs in colour and armature ; 

 palpal claw like tarsal claw, 5 teeth. 



Falces vertical, divergent, normal clear hue ; double row of 

 teeth, 3 outer strong. 



Maxilla somewhat oviform, apices and inner margins fringed 

 with black hairs, inclined towards labium, which is broader than 

 long, prominently everted, dark hue, pale apex. 



Sternum broad-cordate, normal hue. 



Abdomen oviform, convex above, yellowish, more or less 

 mottled with various shades of reddish-brown — in some examples 

 faint ; three longitudinal olivaceous spotted lines converge from 

 base to spinners ; lateral margins and ventral surface marked 

 with streaks of similar colour ; in some examples dark marks on 

 cephalothorax and abdomen nearly absent, and buff patch at 

 posterior end of abdomen prominent. Vulva large, somewhat 

 coniform, concave within, exterior rugose membrane has tints of 

 tortoise-shell, with a pale median band, terminating at margin in 

 a pale amber-coloured spoon-shaped, short apophysis, directed 

 backwards ; orifice large, somewhat reniform ; projecting from 

 posterior margin of labia is a second spoon-shaped apophysis, 

 longer and larger. 



Male nearly equals female in length, cephalothorax broader, 

 striae more denned, lateral margins have pinkish eminences over 

 each coxal joint. Palpi yellowish, humeral joint long, cubital 

 and radial short, latter cup-shaped ; digital joint broad-oviform, 

 convex and hairy externally, convexities directed towards each 

 other ; palpal organs simple, series of reddish lobes, projecting 

 beyond them on lower side is a pointed black process. 



