28 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 2. NiO 19. 



9 and 10. The largest specimen is 8,5 ram. in length and 

 has the transversal bands of yellowish white colour, the smal- 

 lest one is 7,5 mm. with reddish markings ^ As the hairs 

 and spines on the patellae are rubbed off, it is impossible 

 to lay hold on the interesting paper of Mr. Fr. Dahl in Sitz- 

 ungs-Bericht der Gesellschaft naturforsch. Freunde zu Berlin, 

 1902, N:o 2. 



Fam. Argiopidae. 

 Chrysometa Sim. 



Simon, Eng., Hist. nat. d. Araignées. T. I, fasc. 3, p. 736, 1894. 



The genera Meta C. K. and Chrysometa Sim. are very 

 near related to each other and to the genus Argyroepeira Em. ert. 

 It is therefore a very difficult thing to identify a species be- 

 longing to one of them. Thus I grant that the species de- 

 scribed below perhaps is a species before known to the 

 science, but not beeing able to classify it, I describe it as a 

 new one. 



Ch. T-iiotata n. sp.? (Pl. 3, fig. 8 a, b). 



Female. — Cephalothorax testaceous yellow, oval, cephalic 

 area prominent and high. Cephalic and thoracic strise di- 

 stinct. Central furrow distinct and deep. It is clothed with 

 a short and thin adpressed blackish pubescence. 



Eyes. Anterior row a little recurved, central eyes very 

 httle smaller. Intervals between anterior eyes nearly equal 

 in length, anterior centrals nearly twice their diameter apart. 

 Clypeus as high as the diameter of anterior centrals. Lateral 

 eyes about equal in size, subcontigous. Area of central 

 eyes mut^h broader in front than behind, not longer than 

 broad. Posterior row slightly recurved, eyes about equal in 

 size. Posterior centrals subcontigous, scarcely half their ra- 

 dius apart. The distance from posterior laterals about thrice 

 their diameter. 



Cheliceres Fang-groove at the interiör margin with 3 

 small teeth, at the exteriör margin with 4 larger ones, of 

 which every other is smaller. In this case the species differs 

 from the diagnose of the genus. 



^ Conf. the figures 7 a and b. 



