STUDIES IN AUSTIJAFJAN AKANKIH.I': KAIN'HOW. 2B5 



Maxilla'. — Powerful, divergent ; iiiiiei- aiififle of apices 

 acuminate; closely studded with toothlike spines. 



Lahinvi. — Short, broad, nearly square, apex slig'lit ly indented, 

 surface thickly studded with toothlike spines. 



Steruinii. — Somewhat shield-shaped, deeplj'^ excavated in 

 front to receive base of labium ; si(jill(( six ; two front pairs 

 small and marginal ; posterior pair large and sub-marginal. 



Abdoiiie)!. — Obovate. 



Spinnerets. — Superioi' pair tapei-ing, lliii'd joint longest, 

 second shortest; inferior pair small and close together. 



POIKILOMORPHIA MONTANA, Sp. HOV. 



(Figs. 71, 7--'.) 



9 Cephalothorax, 11.2 mm. long, S.Q mm. broad ; abdomen, 

 13.5 mm. long, 9.8 mm. broad. 



CephdJothitrax. — Obovate, truncated in front, smooth, shining, 

 reddish-brown, arched, sparsely clothed with fine hairs. Furs 

 cepjialica slightly raised, arched, compressed at sides, slightly 

 depressed behind ocular tubercle, and slo])ing backward to 

 thoi-acic fovea; ocidar area consists of a slightly raised tubercle, 

 which is broader than long, nearly black at centre, arched 

 both laterally and longitudinally ; cJypeits deep, vertical, and 

 furnished with a tuft of bristles at the middle. F((rs ilioracira 

 arched, radial grooves distinct and broad, posterior angle in- 

 dented at middle ; thoracic fovea deep, broad, procurved ; Diar- 

 (jimtJ hmid not broad, reflexed. 



Ei/es. — In two rows of four each ; front row procurved, rear 

 row recurved ; lateral eyes 



of front row elliptical, and C\r\ /^V^ 



separated from each otliei- /^^ L-^ 



by a space equal to about Vj O O ^J 



three times their individual 

 longitudinal diamter ; an- 

 terior intermediate eyes 

 smallest of the entire series, ""'''■ '"■'''■ """""""' '^^•"'^- ^^'^^- 

 round, and widely separated from each other; rear lateral e3'es 

 elliptical, rather smaller than their anterior latei'al neighbours; 



