Spiders of Victoria. 93 



Gnaphosoides signatus, nov. sp. (PL XIV,, Fig. 2). 



The Cephalothorax is reddish brown, the mandibles, lip and 

 maxillae rather darker and redder, with dark brown hair. The 

 sternum, palpi, and legs brighter yellowish brown, but the tarsi, 

 metatarsi, and tibiae of the two front pairs distinctly redder, 

 with pale yellowish grey hair. 



The abdomen above is black, with two longitudinal rows of a 

 pale brown scalloped pattern. In the female, the anterior end is 

 almost yellow. The underside is grey, with spinnerets a bright 

 brown. 



The Cephalothorax is convex, rather long oval, truncate in 

 fi'ont, where it is two-thirds the greatest breadth. From the 

 median line it slopes gradually to the margin at sides and rear. 

 The cephalic and thoracic parts are not separated by depressions. 

 The median sulcus is short and shallow between the second and 

 third pairs of legs, the hair is fine down-lying and directed 

 inwards from the sides. Both rows of eyes are straight, the 

 posterior longer than the anterior. In the front row they are 

 close together, the two middle being round and the side oval, 

 their longer diameter the same as the middle. The rear eyes are 

 half the diameter of the front middle (the middle pair rather 

 square, the side round), two of their own diameters apart. The 

 two rows are the same distance apart, and the clypeus not more 

 than one-fourth the diameter of the front middle eyes in depth. 



The Mandibles are knee-formed at base, longer than the front 

 patella, and not so thick as front femur. They project forward 

 somewhat, and are thickly c]pthed with short down-lying hair and 

 longer upstanding bristles. On the inner edge of the falx sheath 

 is one rather stout tooth not, however, connected with the chiti- 

 nous margin of the falx, which has a wavy edge, but with no 

 regular teeth. 



The Lip is rather large, longer than broad, and two-thirds the 

 length of the maxillae, from the base it tapers slightly with 

 straight sides towards the front, where it is truncate, the side 

 edges are depressed, but the middle rather convex. It springs 

 from a prominent fore part of the sternum, the base beginning 

 before the maxillae. 



