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curved down^vard, has the eyes all subtouching, the middle ones 

 piojecting and very large, two-and-a-half times as large as the 

 lateral. The eyes of the second row are also unusually large, 

 and are halfway betw^een the first and third rows. The third 

 row is nearly as wide as the cephalothorax, which is a little 

 wider here than at any other point. The relative length of the 

 legs is 4123, all long and slender, particularly the metatarsi and 

 tarsi. The abdomen, above and below, and some joints of the 

 legs, have bunches of short stout hairs scattered over the sur- 

 face. 



This genus was founded by Thorell, in 1878, on fimhriatus 

 DoL, under the name Sinus. This being preoccupied, Linus 

 was substituted in 1885 (Genera of Attidae, p. 289). 



We have the type, and africanus Simon, from E^atal. Thorell 

 has described suhvexus from Sumatra and lahiatus from Bur- 

 mah under this genus. 



Maevia (C. K.) 1848. 

 PI. XXY, figs. 7-7b. 



The cephalothorax is moderately high and is but little longer 

 than wide, the sides being nearly vertical and parallel in the 

 -ce-phalic part, and bulging out behind the dorsal eyes. The 

 cephalic part is inclined, but the thoracic does not slope back- 

 ward in the first half, although it rounds off on the sides. (In 

 ^oronigera the thoracic part falls from the dorsal eyes.) The 

 eyes of the first row are large, and are subtouching or a little 

 separated, the middle ones being aljout twice as large as the 

 lateral. They form a straight or slightly curved row. The 

 second row of eyes is halfway between the first and the third 

 or a little nearer the first. The third row is nearly as wide as 

 the cephalothorax at that place. The quadrangle of the eyes is 

 from one-fourth to one-third wider than long, is equally wide in 

 front and behind or a little wuder in front, and occupies two- 

 fifths of the cephalothorax. The legs in the males are 4132, 

 or 4123, and in the females, 4312, 4132 or F412. 



This genus was made by C. Koch in 1848, the first species 

 described under the name being pencillata (which is a synonym 

 of Attus vittatus and Attus niger Hentz), and we therefore take 



