PecJcliam — Spiders of the Famih Atiidae. 307 



Simaetha severa sp. nov. 



?. Lengtli Q.Q mm. Legs 1423, first longest and stoutest. 



In this species the quadrangle of the eyes is twice as wide as 

 long, occupies one-half of the cephalothorax, and is much wider 

 behind. The first row of eyes is straight ; the middle eyes are 

 large and subtouching ; the lateral are nearly half as large, and 

 are separated from them by their own diameter. The second 

 row is very much nearer the first than the third. The cephalo- 

 thorax is as wide as long, and is widest at the second row of 

 eyes, where there is a distinct bulge. The f alces are vertical^ 

 as wide as the first row^ of eyes, and flattened. The maxillae are 

 rounded. The palpus has the patella, tibia, and tarsus flat- 

 tened. The color is brown, the cephalothorax being covered 

 with yellowish hairs above, and halfway down the sides and 

 hinder slope. Where the sides bulge out in front these hairs 

 grow long. The abdomen, in our specimen, is rubbed bare,, 

 showing only -Q.Ye pairs of indented dots. 



We have one female from Singapore. 



Tliyene Simon, 1885. ^ 



PL XXV, figs. 4-4b. i 



Bidl. Soc. Zool. de Fr. 1885, t. x, p. 4. ^ 



This genus covers several medium sized species (5-9 mm.) 

 from the Eastern Hemisphere. In the males there is a char« 

 acteristic bulging out of the sides of the cephalothorax which 

 makes it resemble, on a much smaller scale, some of the males 

 of Parnaenus, Zenodorus and Hyllus In both sexes the sides, 

 are distinctlv rounded. 



The cephalothorax is highest behind, or at, the dorsal eyes;. 

 The cephalic plate is strongly inclined and the thoracic part and' 

 the sides are much rounded. The widest point is just behind 

 the dorsal eyes, excepting in the male of huccidentum where it is 

 in front of the third row. The quadrangle of the eyes is one- 

 third wider than long, is from a little (imperialis) to a good 

 deal (hiicculentum) wider behind, and occupies two-fifths of the 

 cephalothorax. The first row of eyes is almost straight, witb 



