spiders of Victoria. 



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The Abdomen is oval, sti'aight in front, and rounded at rear, 

 thickly covered with close hair ; spinnei^ets two jointed, conical. 

 The superior pair is longest, but much narrower than inferior. 

 The intermediate quite small. 



The Cribelhim is smooth on the front face and not divided iu 

 the male. 



The femoral joint of the Palpi is well curved. The tarsal joint 

 is not much differentiated, but is furnished with a fine hooked 

 stigma. Two points project from side of tibial joint, the upper 

 one the largest. 



The Legs are rather long and fine. The rear coxae are 

 separated by a distance equal to half their breadth. They are 

 covered with furry hair intermingled with flat white haii's the 

 same as on the sternum. All the legs are furnished with short, 

 fine spines. 



Ceph. 

 Abd. 



3^ mm. long. 



4 



3 mm. broad. 

 o ,, ,, 



Legs 1 

 2 



3 

 4 



Coxa. 



1 mm. 



3. 



4 " 



3 



4 " 



Tr. & Feiu. Pat. & Tib. 



4 mm. - 5 mm. 

 3f„ - 4 „ 



or, 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Met. & Tars. 



5 mm. 

 4 „ 



3i„. 



15 mm. 



12i 

 '■-"I " 



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One male only, from Macedon. 



In his synopsis of genera, M. Simon (Nat. Hist, des Ai-., vol. 

 I., p. 236) makes Amaurobius come into a division in which the 

 rear coxae are contiguous. This, however, is no part of C 

 Koch's definition of the genus. The cribellum also should be 

 double. In several species the cribellum is double iu the females 

 and single in the males. This species, therefore, remains in the 

 genus Amaurobius, with which its eyes and clypeus agree, and 

 not my genus Hylobius. 



Family DICTYNIDAE. 



See M. E. Simon's Hist. Nat. des Araignees, vol. I., p. 236. 



