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Cystarachne, nor Celcenia (Thlaosoma) build any web ; the two 

 latter genera I had opportunities of watching during weeks, when I 

 have almost day after day found them occupying a position on the 

 lower side of a leaf (magnolia or loquat) where, if they had 

 any web, I must have seen it. These genera may all be obtained 

 by beating branches of trees over an umbrella or cloth. I have 

 found Tholia in Sydney and at Mount Victoria, 3000 feet above 

 the sea. 



Tholia Macleayi. N.iS. 



Cephalothorax, dark reddish-brown above a deep furrow sepa- 

 rating the caput ; abdomen projecting over the cephalothorax as 

 far as the second pair of legs where there is a slight transverse 

 band of greyish hairs ; mandibles, reddish-brown, fangs being 

 slightly darker ; maxilhe yellowish red tipped with fawn ; 

 labium red : sternum, reddish-brown ; palpi same colour mode- 

 rately furnished with short hairs. 



Legs, 1st, 2nd, and 4th pairs have the coxal and exinquinal 

 red; femoral red, tipped with dark reddish brown, genural dark 

 reddish-brown ; tibial, light reddish-brown with dark transverse 

 bands in the centre and at the tip ; metatarsi light reddish-brown ; 

 tarsi darker ; the 3rd pair is the same colour without the dark 

 bandings. 



Abdomen of a generally triangular form, the base being in front, 

 tuberculated or furrowed above, and of a reddish brown colour, 

 the prominent marking being two dark spots, each about equidis. 

 tant from the side to the centre of the abdomen ; between these is 

 a lighter coloured space, having in its centre a longitudinal line of 

 four small tubercles, on either side of which (at the front of the 

 abdomen) is a round depression with a minute tubercle in its 

 centre ; next come two eliptical depressions ; then at the side are 

 three round depressions ; placed between these and the dark spots 

 before mentioned are two small round depressions ; about midway 

 from the lower of the three lateral depressions to the point of the 

 triangle is a moderate- sized tubercle ; at the termination of the 

 central line of tubercles, are five transverse furrows of a darker 

 colour, having ridges more or less tuberculated between them 



