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does not, however, occupy the whole frontal breadth, nor are the 

 rear eyes equidistant, nor the clypeus broader than the front 

 eyes. I have, therefore, provisionally left it in the old genus of 

 Drassus, Walck. It is really a Drassus, with the claws of a 

 Hoemicloea, and, with more material to work from, might be 

 constituted into a new genus, as it differs materially from both 

 Drassodes, Westr., and Leptodrassus, Simon. 



One male and one female (of the sub-family Drassodinae) 

 have the chitinous careniform lamination on the edges of the 

 falx sheath, which M. Simon denotes as the special charac- 

 teristic of the group Gnaphoseae. The strongly impressed 

 maxillae are sufficient to keep it in the family of Drassidae, 

 otherwise in many respects it so closely resembles the Clubionidae 

 as to be almost a connecting link between the two families. 

 The inferior spinnerets are rather near together and in the 

 shape of the cephalothorax and sternum and long front coxae 

 it has analogies with Lampona, Thorell. The genus differs from 

 Gnaphosa, Latr., in not having the rear row of eyess trongly 

 recurved and in having the eyes constituting same equidistant. 



It differs from Callilepis, Westr., in having the cephalothorax 

 less attenuated in front, both rows of eyes straight, and the rear 

 row longer than the front row (as in Gnaphosa), in the very 

 narrow clypeus, and in having no long retractile fusules on the 

 inferior mammillae, though it has somewhat similar short fusules 

 in a central bunch. 



GNAPHOSOIDES, nov. gen. 



Cephalothorax oval, convex, the fore part broad and obtuse, a 

 chitinous careniform lamination on the edges of the falx sheath, 

 a short thoracic sulcus. The eyes of the front row near together, 

 about equal in size, and in a straight line. The rear eyes in a 

 straight or slightly recurved line, longer than the front row, 

 equi-distant, or the middle eyes farther from the side than from 

 one another. The clypeus distinctly narrower than the eyes of 

 the front row. Legs (IV., I., II., II[.) stout, but metatarsal 

 and tarsal joints tine, with tine spines. 



The inferior mamillae long, near together, with a nearly round 

 truncature. The superior about equal in length but smaller in 

 diameter, and two-jointed. 



Type G. signatus. 



