STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ARAXEID/l': KAIXHOW, 



197 



fjeijs. — Short, robust, concolorous witli cephalothorax, 

 densely liairy, but having long naked areas on all joints save 

 metatarsi and tarsi ; the last named joints of legs i. and ii. 

 thickly seopulated ; scopula> obscuring claws ; metatarsi and 

 tarsi of legs iii. and iv. thickly clot lied, but not pi-ovided with 

 true scopulje ; ungual tufts extending beyond tips of claws 

 and obscuring them; tibia? i. and ii. have each eight long 

 spines on the underside ; tibia iii. armed with four, while tibia 

 iv. has about a dozen bristle-like spines; metatarsus i. has 

 four strong spines, and metatarsi ii. and iii. have each nine, 

 and metarsus iv. about a dozen long, bristle-like spines ; all 

 tarsi armed with a few short stiff spines mingled with and 

 obscured by the hirsute clothing. Leg iii. is not onl}- the 

 shortest, but the stoutest ; and leg iv. the most tapering. 

 Superior claws have two very long teeth at their base. 

 Measui'ements in millimeters as follows : — 



Palpi. — Concolorous with legs, hairy, seopulated, and ter- 

 minated with a single claAv ; tibia armed with about a dozen 

 long spines. Measurements in millimeters as follows : — Coxa, 

 7.7; trochanter and femur, 10.7; patella and tibia, 8.10; 

 tarsus, 5.9 ; total, 33.9. 



Falces. — Concolorous with cephalothorax, shin- 

 ing, ])owerfnl, porrected, curving dowmvards, 

 smooth near clypeus, but (>therwise thickly clothed 

 with hairs and bristles. Outer margin of the 

 furrow of each falx armed with five strong teeth 

 and four small ones, the latter near the fang ; 

 the inner margin has six strong teeth ; in addition 

 to these there is a short intermediate row of four 

 smaller teeth near the base (fig. 8) ; margins fringed 

 with long, reddish hairs; fangs black, shining, ^'"'^"''-^- i^a'"t'. 

 long, and powerful. 



Firt.8.— G^. 



