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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^ OF NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. No. 4. 



By W. J. Rainbow. 



(Plate X.) 



Family DRASSID^. 



Genus Drassus, Walck. 



Drassus perelegans, sp.no v. 

 (Plate X. figs. 1 and la.) 



9. Cephalothorax 2 mm. long, 1-5 mm. broad; abdomen, 3 mm. 

 long, 1*5 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown, furnished with few short yellow 

 hairs. Clypeus broad, moderately convex, yellowish-brown ; 

 cephalic segment tinged with red at apex, and fringed with short 

 yellowish hairs. 



Eyes seated on anterior part of cephalothorax, in two curved 

 diverging rows, the posterior of which is the longer and more 

 curved. 



Legs strong, moderately long, yellowish, furnished with rather 

 long spines and hairs ; each tarsus terminating with two claws 

 and scopula ; relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi rather short, similar in armature to legs. 



Falces yellowish, furnished with rather long coarse hairs or 

 bristles ; they are powerful, conical, and articulated on an inclined 

 plane. 



Maxillce concolorous, broad, convex, inclined inwards, furnished 

 with a few short yellowish hairs. 



