234 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Chasmoce)>halou was placed by Cambridge in the family 

 Theridiidse, from which it has been removed to tlie Argyopida? 

 by Simon. In the introduction to his paper 5 '- the Rev. O. P. 

 Cambridge says : — " One of the spiders described here is remark- 

 able, not only for its minuteness, being no more than half a line 

 in length, but for the peculiar character of its cephalothorax, in 

 which the ordinary indented lines showing the junction of the 

 caput and thorax are replaced by two deep oblique fissures, neces- 

 sitating, along with other characters, the formation of a new 



genus This specimen has been in my possession for 



many years past, but had until lately been overlooked owing to 

 its having been accidentally concealed among the hairs on one of 

 the legs of a large spider received in 1864 from the Swan River." 



•^Cambridge — Loc. cit., p. 35. 



