BY W. J. RAINBOW. 293 



Legs laterigrade, strong, moderately long, similar in colour to 

 cephalotliorax, clothed with short coarse tawny hairs; the tro- 

 chanter and femur of each leg of the first and second pairs 

 furnished on the upper side with long and strong tubercles, 

 which are directed forwards and densely clothed with short 

 tawny hairs^ and on the under side with short but powerful 

 spines which lie parallel to the joint on which they are located ; 

 the tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of those legs are furnished with 

 much longer hairs and spines than the second and third joints, 

 but are not furnished with tubercles ; the third and fourth pairs 

 somewhat lighter in colour than the first and second, their tuber- 

 cles and spines not so strong and prominent as those of the 

 anterior pairs ; the hairs of each metatarsus and tarsus darkest 

 on the under side ; relative length of legs, 1, 2, 4, 3, the first and 

 second pairs co-equal, or nearly so, and much the strongest. 



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

 legs. 



Falces strong, and moderately long, yellow-brown, furnished 

 with rather long coarse black hairs or bristles ; fangs black. 



Maxillm dark brown, moderately long, converging inwards, 

 fringed with coarse black hairs. 



Labium concolorous, moderately long, broad, rounded off at 

 apex ; fringed with coarse black hairs. 



Sternum nearly round, yellow-brown, thickly clothed with short 

 tawny hairs. 



Abdomen obovate, slightly projecting over the base of the 

 cephalothorax, somewhat truncate in front, and slightly notched ; 

 superior surface thickly clothed with short tawny hairs, rough 

 and uneven, furnished along the sides with short tubercles ; 

 hinder part higher and broader than tlie fore extremity, strongly 

 rugulose, and furnished with short tubercles ; the colour yellow- 

 brown, but darkest in front and down the centre ; sides yellow- 

 brown, rugulose ; inferior surface rugulose, yellow-brown, and 

 thickly clotlied with short dark hairs. 



Epigyne slightly raised, somewhat circular in form, depressed 

 in the middle. 



Hab. — Clarence River. 



