206 RECORDS OP THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Palin. — Long ; furnished with rastellum ; copulatory organ 

 large, inflated ; stigma moderately long. 



Ma^'lJlce. — Long, arched, inner angle scopulated, apices 

 widely divergent. 



Labium. — Short, free, broadest at base, apex truncated. 



Sternum. — Gently arched, truncated in front, where it is 

 narrowest ; broadest toward postei'ior extremity ; two sigilla 

 only visible, and these seated close to posterior extremity, and 

 near to outer angles. 



Abdomen. — Overhanging base of cephalothorax ; hairy. 



Spinnerets. — Four, short, not extending beyond tip of 

 abdomen ; superior pair three-jointed ; basal joint as long, or 

 nearly as long as second and third joints combined; terminal 

 joint coniform, inferior spinners very short, and placed closely 

 together. 



Megalosara villosa, sp. nut. 



(Fig, 16-22.) 



<? Cephalothorax 9.6 mm. long, 8 mm. bi-oad ; abdomen, 

 8 mm. long, 5.8 mm. broad. 



CephalothorK.v. — Piceus, not shining. I'ars lu-plndiftt smooth, 

 strongly arched, sides declivous, gently sloj)ing from anterior 

 angle to thoracic fovea, surface provided with a few scattei-ed, 

 yellowish hairs chiefly in front and at sides. /'ro-.s' t/inriii-icK 

 broad, sloping very gently to posterior angle, sides uneven 

 and deeply and irregularly impressed, radial grooves broad 

 and deep ; upper surface sparingly furnished with shoi-t, 

 yellowish hairs, while the sides and the posterior angle are 

 densely clothed with long, coarse, yellowish hairs ; ch/petitt 

 not deep, yellowish-brown ; thorncic fovpn deep, very slightl}' 

 procurved ; untnji mil hmnl thicklv fi-ingt'd \vith long, vellowish 

 hairs. 



Eyes. — As in figiii'e ; front row jirocui'ved ; outei" eyes 

 sensibly the largest ; the median pair of this row are se])arated 

 from each other by a space equal to once their individual 

 diameter, and each again from its anterioi' lateral neighbour 

 by a space equal to about one half the individual dianietei' of 

 the former ; the outer eyes of the second or posterior i-ow are 

 sensibly smaller than the median anterioi- paii'; tlu^ iniier eves 

 of the second I'ow ai'e minute and elliptical, and each is placed 



