L94 RECORDS OF THE ATSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Abdome)i. — Obovate, slightly overhanging base of cephalo- 

 thorax, strongly ai'ched, yellow-brown, pubescent, though not 

 thickly so ; a few short, black bristles present on superior 

 surface ; integument wrinkled. 



Spinnerets. — Fide descrij)tion of genus (iiiite). 



Huh. — Lismore, New South Wales. 



Sah-faniilij Ctenizin.e. 



Group AGANIPPE^. 



This group has, so far, consisted of only four Australian 

 genera, namely Idiosoma, Auss., Aga)iippe, 0. P. Cambr., 

 Anidiops, Pocock, and Blakistonia, Hogg. Of these, the first 

 three embrace one species each. BlaJiistoniu also, was only 

 known by one representative, but another is described here- 

 under. Simon, in his great work^ has given excellent diagrams 

 in elucidation of the eye-formula of each of these genera, and 

 to these the student is directed for comparison with the figure 

 (fig. 7) submitted below of a species which I propose to make 

 the type of a new genus to be known as (lidnx. A study of 

 the eye-formula? of A)tidii)px and Blalcistnnia suggests to my 

 mind that (iniiis must fall between them, and there I place it. 

 There are, of course, other generic differences, and these the 

 student -will note by comparing the descri])tions of the four 

 older genera with that defining the one now pi'oposed. 



A superficial glance at the form hereundei' described with 

 that: figured by Koch'^ would seem to suggest Aiiunte pnUidtt 

 of that author, owing to the presence of the dark, tapering, 

 median abdominal band. Such a determination, however, is 

 out of the question, not only on account of its superior size, 

 but from the primary fact that the last-named species has no 

 rastellum, which Gains has. 



'■' Simon — Hist. Nat. des Araif>-n., ii., 1903, p. 901, figs, a, b, c. d. 

 '" Kuch — Die Arach. des Aiistr. , i., 187!^, pi. xxxv., figs. 8, Sa. 



