BY W. J. RAINBOW. 525 



Epigyne an arched and somewhat conical protuberance directed 

 towards spinnerets. 

 Hah. — Bungendore. 



Subfamily G ASTER AC ANTHID^;. 

 Genus Dicrostichus, Simon. 



DiCROSTICHUS MAGNIFICUS, Sp. nOV. 



(Plate XVII., figs. 8, 8a, 86.) 



9. Cephalothorax 6 mm. long, 7 mm. broad; abdomen 13 mm. 

 long, 1 6 mm. broad. 



Geiohalothorax pale yellowish, tuberculate, trurucated in front, 

 broader than long. Caput clothed with short yellowish pubescence, 

 elevated, tuberculate, the tubercles yellow, with the exception of 

 the one carrying the four central eyes, which is black at the 

 summit, reddish-brown at back and sides, and yellow in the front. 

 Cly/ieus broad, convex, tuberculate, reddish-brown at the 

 middle, yellowish laterally, and clothed with short pale yellowish 

 pubescence; tubercles thirteen in number, of these the highest 

 and most prominent is the one constituting the central ocular 

 eminence. 



Eyes reddish-brown ; the four intermediate eyes are seated 

 towards the summit of a large and prominent median club-shaped 

 tuljercle; of these the lower pair are the largest; lateral eyes 

 seated in pairs at the extremity of an arm-like tubercular pro- 

 tuberance extending from the base of the median tubercular 

 eminence; these latter are minute and not contiguous. 



Legs strong, moderately long, pale yellowish, with yellow-brown 

 annulations, and clothed with short yellowish pubescence; relative 

 lengths 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi short, strong, similar in colour to the legs. 



Falces yellowish, long, strong, clothed with short coarse yel- 

 lowish hair. 



Maxillce obscurely coloured, club-shaped, inclining inwards, 

 broadest at apex. 



Labium concolorous, siiort, broad, wedge-shaped. 



