BY W. J. RAINBOW. 23 



kindness I am indebted not only for the specimen herein described 

 but for other interesting types from the same neighbourhood. 



Genus A N e p s i a, Koch. 



Anepsia crinita, sp.nov. 

 (Plate III. figs. 5, 5a.) 



5. Cephalothorax, 2*5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad; abdomen, 3 mm 

 long, 2 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown, striated with bistre, and clothed 

 with long coarse yellow hairs. Caput elevated, convex ; normal 

 grooves and indentations distinct. Clypeiis broad, moderately 

 convex, with a strong deep indentation posteriorly. Marginal 

 hand narrow, dark, fringed with short black hairs. 



Eyes dark ; the four intermediate ones seated on a somewhat 

 quadrangular protuberance, forming a square, are of equal size, 

 and much the largest of the eight ; the eyes of each lateral pair 

 minute, placed obliquely on a small tubercle, and not contiguous. 



Legs long, moderately strong, yellow-brown, with dark brown 

 annulations, hairy, and furnished with moderately long and strong 

 spines; relative lengths, 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi long, strong, and similar in colour and armature to the 

 legs. 



Falces yellow-brown, articulated on inclined plane, clothed with 

 yellowish hairs which are thickest at base and inner margins ; a 

 row of teeth along margins of each falx on the underside, 



Maxillm short, strong, broadest at apex, which is rounded off; 

 yellowish, furnished with hairs and a few short rather strong 

 spines. 



Lahiiim concolorous, short, broad, and rounded off at apex. 



Sternum broad, shield-shaped, dark brown approaching black, 

 sparsely furnished with short yellowish sessile hairs. 



Abdomen broad-ovate, somewhat compressed towards posterior 

 end, projecting over base of cephalothorax, dull dark brown, 

 mottled with a few yellowish flecks ; a large leaf -like mark, the 

 lateral margins of which are sinuous, and which tapers towards 



