490 DESCRIPTIONS OP SOME NEW ARANKIDiE OF N.S.W., 



and tibia of each of the first and second pairs are smooth, and 

 are (together) as long as the femur; the tibise are very attenuated; 

 the metatarsi and tarsi are short, armed with small strong spines, 

 and clothed rather thickly with short scale-like hairs; the second 

 and third pairs of legs are short, and thickly clothed with short 

 stiff hairs. Relative lengths : 1 = 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi short, concolorous, hairy. 



Falces normal. 



Maxilloi short, broad, arched, apices divergent. 



Labium short, broad, arched, apex rather more obtuse than in 

 C. excavata, L. Koch. 



Abdomen overhanging base of cephalothorax, yellow-brown, 

 clothed with short hairs, broader than long, and higher than 

 broad, deeply sculptured, granulated, and surmounted at the 

 summit with two lateral lobes, from each of which a tapering and 

 somewhat acutely pointed process extends; in front there are two 

 prominent and well-defined ridges, uneven in outline, the space 

 })etween which is rather flat, and punctuated with six deep 

 depressions or pits; the anterior extremity or angle is strongly 

 recurved; the areas to the right and left of the ridges are rough, 

 sculptured, and pitted; sides uneven and wrinkled; behind the 

 contour is somewhat sinuous in outline, the surface rough and 

 uneven, and punctuated with deep pits. 



Epigyne : two deep circular pits as in figure. 



Log. — Prospect, near Sydney. 



Obs. — According to Cambridge his specimen had " a very 

 distinct pattern on the upper or forward side of the abdomen, 

 formed by lines of pure white, longish, scaly hairs, enclosing 

 various irregularly triangular spaces of deep chocolate-brown, on 

 a paler yellowish-brown ground; three of these patches or spaces 

 are nearly contiguous in the median line, a large one in front, 

 and two smaller ones immediately behind; some small tufts of 

 white hairs also occupy tlie sides, hinder portion, and other parts 

 of the abdomen."* 



* Loc. cii., p. 274. 



