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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MCSEIM. 



by a space equal to once their imlividual diameter (Fig. 3). 

 Le'./s. — Xot loug, moderately strong, yellow, annulated with 

 brown rings ; all ambnlatox'y limbs armed with long, fairly 

 strong spines; the latter are longest and strongest upon the 

 metatarsi — at any rate insofar as the second, third and foui'th 

 pairs are concerned; unfortunately each anterior leg has lost all 

 joints below the patella. Palpi. — Loug, yellow, not annulated ; 

 hairy, and similarly armed to legs. Falces. — Slightly project- 

 ing, concolorous with cephalothorax, clothed with long, coarse 

 hairs or bristles, apices divergent ; inner angle of the farrow 

 of each falx armed witli two small teeth, of which the one 

 nearest the fang is the smaller. Ma.i-illce. — Yellow-browu, 

 inner angles pale yellow, modei'ately long, arched, apices 

 inclined inwards and obtuse ; a few long, bristly hairs dis- 

 tributed over the surface. Labium. — Concolorous, rather 

 longer than broad, parallel-sided, apex truncated, but slightly 

 depressed at centre. Steniuiu. — Concolorous with cephalo- 

 thorax, broad, smooth, shining, slightly arched, anterior angle 

 truncated, apex acuminate, and terminated between posteiior 

 coxse. Abdomen. — Large, ovate, slightly overhanging base of 

 cephalothorax, strongly arched, pubescent, superior surface 

 and sides cinerous, relieved by a series of slightly darker 

 patches and markings (Fig. 2) : inferior surface concolorous, 

 with three slightly darker median, longitudinal stripes, 

 extending from epigastric fol'l to near cribelliini, which lattei- is 

 bipartite. Epiyiinum. — Large, laised, arched, shining brown 

 with an undulating lip overhanging a deej) cavity (Fig. 4). 



7f„t._Gordonvale, forest. May 9, 1913. 

 Family SIC AR II DJ:. 

 Sub-famihj SCYTODIN^. 

 GeuHs Scytodes, Lufr. 



SCYTODES PENICir.LATA, .-7/. }I01-. 



(Plate xiv., tigs. 5, 6 and 7). 



9 Cephalothorax, 4.2 nun. long, 3.5 mni. broad ; abdomen, 

 5.7 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax-. — Yellow, with dark pencillings, subglobose, 

 narrowest in fj^ont. Var^ cepltaJira strongly arched, smooth, 

 sloping forward precipitately to near region of anterior eyes, 

 from whence it gradually ascends towards clypeus, which latter 



