CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE OF PAPUAN ARACHNIDA — RAINBOW. 1 1 3 



Family TnoMisiDiE. 

 Subfamily MisuMENiNiE. 

 Oenus Misumina, Latr, 

 Misumina pustulosa, L. Koch. 

 Hab. British New Guinea. 



Misumina innonata, Thorell. 



Zoc. Fly River (British New Guinea). 



Subfamily SxEPHANOPSiNiE. 

 Gemis Phrynarachne, Thorell. 

 Phrynarachne tubercidata, sp. nov. 



Phrynarachne tuberculata. 



?. Cephalothorax, 4-8 mm. long, 4'8 mm. broad; abdoiuen, 

 5*2 mm. long, 7-2 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax almost round, arched, tuberculated, yellow-brown. 

 Caput high, arched, uneven, sloping to the front, where it is some- 

 what obtusely truncated ; near the base, which is its highest point, 

 there are two large obtuse tubercles ; in front of the latter, and 

 at the sides of the cephalic segment, there are several smaller 

 tubercles ; the ocular area, which is of a creamy-white colour, has 

 also a number of small tubercles distributed over its surface, and 

 is moderately clothed with pale yellowish pubescence. Clypeus 

 is arched and furnished with a few small tubercles, and the radial 

 grooves are barely distinct ; the thoracic segment is yellow-brown, 

 although somewhat darker than the cephalic eminence. Marginal 

 hand rather broad. 



Eyes small, widely separated, but equidistant ; these are seated 

 on small tubercles, and arranged in two strongly recurved rows of 

 four each. 



Legs yellowish, moderately long, sparingly clothed with 

 yellowish hairs ; the tibiae and metatarsi are each armed with 



