STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ARANEID^T: RAINBOW, 



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Fig. 16.— i^/. villosa, Rainb.. Eyes. 



close to its lateral neiglihour ; the space intervening between 

 the lateral eyes of the second row 

 is equal to five times their indi- 

 vidual diameter, and these are 

 again removed fiom their anterior 

 lateial neighbours by a space 

 equal to about once the individual 

 diameter of the latter. The en- 

 tire series of eight eyes are poised upon a slightly elevated 

 tubercular eminence, w^hich latter is decidedly broader than 

 long (fig. 16). 



Lsijs. — Long, tapering, reddish-brown, densely clothed with 

 long, coarse, grejush hairs or bristles ; the underside of each 

 tibia of the first and second pairs are provided with spines, 

 while tlie third and fourth pairs have the tibise and metatarsi 

 so armed ; none of the spines are very long or strong. At 

 apex of tibia (first pair) there are two spiirs or apophyses, of 

 these the upper one is bifurcated and the lower armed with 

 four long, strong teeth (figs. 17 and 18). These spurs stand 

 boldly out, and the intervening space between them is de- 

 pressed, and forms a large, rather deep pit. Measurements 

 of legs in millimetei'S as follow : — 



Fig. \1.—M. villosa, i . Rainb., 

 Tibia i., inner side. 



Fig.318.— jl/. vi/losa, J. Rainb. 

 Tibia i., from above. 



