236 RECORDS OP THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Koch's generic name, l.ralii^, was sunk as a synonym by 

 Simon, it having been previously applied foi- a mammal, and 

 the name Lvannitns substituted instead, with rurinii as the type 

 species. Later, Simon again sunk Lnnitutiii; hh a synonym, and 

 associated rariiiii witli lliijinhifltelt^, H. Lenze, but Hogg in his 

 paper " On Australian and New Zealand Spiders of the Sub- 

 ordei' Mygaloiiiorpha?,"-" re-habilitated Simon's genus, and in 

 this the distinguished author of " Histoire Xatuielle des 

 Ai-aignees" acquiesced. 



Unfortunately all trace of the specimen upon which Koch 

 founded genus and species aj)pears to be lost, otherwise, I feel 

 sure, mj' friend Mr. Hogg would have examined it when en- 

 gaged upon the task of preparing his paper just quoted. Un- 

 happih', too, Koch does not appear to have had an}- female 

 specimens, and until such, together with males, shall have been 

 pi'ocui-ed from the ty{)e locality, the matter will have to rest. 



Among the material presented bj- Dr. Thos. Bancroft, to the 

 Trustees, are thi'ee female specimens of a species of Ixnimttns 

 which 1 am inclined to regai'd as an undescribed ft>riii, and idr 

 reasons which will appeal to students who will take the trouble 

 to compare the following description with those ali-eadv 

 published, l.ianiatiis is an Australian genus, and up to the 

 present time three species have been described, and in each 

 instance the male <uily is known. These species are 1. ruriii^. 

 L. Koch, From Bowen, Queensland ; /. <jrt>(/iirii, Hogg, fi-oiu 

 Macedon, Victoria; and /. linHnnii, Hogg, from Hill<>-rove, 

 New South Wales. 



In studying the species described hereundei', 1 was somewhat 

 puzzled with the appearance of the tlmnicic foceii. Sinu)n 

 makes no reference to it in his " Histoire Naturelle des 

 Araignees," but Hogg, in his definition of tlie genus, says: — 

 "The thoracic fovea, is sti-aiglit"-^; on the succeeding page in 

 pointing out wherein his /. ijreiji'rii anil /. hniinin'i differ from 

 each other, the author observes that "the tlioracic fovea is 

 straighter " in the former species than in the latter; again in 

 his description of /. hriymn'i'^^ Mr. Hogg says: — " The fovea is 



-■ Hogg.— Proc. Zool. Soc, I'inl. p. 2: 

 -8 Hogg. — Loc. cif., Y>. 257. 

 -« Hogg.— /vor-. rit., p. 260. 



