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genus and described the type species (of which his specimen 

 was a male) should not have observed and noted so prominent 

 a character, and which is, in fact, a generic one. 



Simon, in his great work^^ placed Arhanltig in the Nemesiese 

 group, and in his comments, saj's: — " Les caracteres des males 

 rappellent un peu ceux de ces derniers : les tibias anterieurs, 

 sauf deux exceptions {Uachias et ScaUdoy)uithus), sont pourvus 

 d'un ou de deux eperons apicaux, qui le plus souvent ne sont 

 que des epines plus fortes que les autres et un peu courbes, 

 mais qui dans certain cas {Arhanitis et (Jemjsa) prennent la 

 forme de veritables apophyses," while in his description of the 

 genus, he says : — " ^ Tibia antica calcare 

 apicali valido instructa " i''. Later, in his 

 supplement, the author last quoted removed 

 this genus from the Nemesise, and made 

 it the type of a new group for which 

 he px'oposed the name Arhu7iite(p^^. Further, 

 my friend, Mr. H. R. Hogg, made no refer- 

 ence to the tibial spur under discussion 

 in his paper " On Australian and New 

 Zealand Spiders of the Suborder Mygalo- 

 morphae." ^^ As Simon had drawn attention 

 to it, and defined it as an obvious generic 

 character, Hogg may not have deemed any 

 additional remarks upon the point in question l. Kocii.,Tibia of leg 

 necessary. For the convenience of students I '• ^'■°''" beneath, 

 give herewith a diagram of of the tibia of leg 

 i., showing the apophyses (fig. 26). That which I suspect to 

 be the female of ^-1. Jdjiyipes is herewith described : — 



2 Cephalothorax, 12.3 mm. long, 9.2 mm. broad ; abdomen, 

 14 mm. long, 9.5 mm. broad. 



('ephalothnrd.r. — Longer than broad, dark brown, arched, 

 moderately hairy ; pars cepltaJira arched, slight)}' depressed at 

 rear of ocular area, sides compi'cssed ; ocular area consists of a 

 distinctly raised eminence, which is broader than long, arched, 



i« Simon.— Hist. Nat. des Araign., i., 1892, p. 111. 



'^ Simon. — Loc. cil., p. 115. 



J« Simon.— Loo-, cit., ii., 1903, p. 903. 



19 Hogg.— Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, pp. 230 and 233. 



Fig. '>e.—A. long-tprs 



