8o RECORDS OF THE AUSTWALIAX .MUi=Er.M. 



extremity declivous, segmental groove distinct ; a narrow, but well defined 

 grey mark or line runs down the middle ; this latter commences between, 

 and just in front of, the front median eyes, at the i-ear of which it is in- 

 terrupted ; ocvlar area broader than long ; rlijpens slightly undulated, not 

 deep, precipitate. Pars tltoracirn broad, dark brown, channelled down the 

 middle, reflexed, and retreating laterally towards posterior angle, radial 

 grooves present but indistinct ; thoracic fovea deep, recurved ; marginal 

 band narrow, red. Eyes. — Small, nearly equal in size, distributed over 

 two rows of four each, and with the exception of the front median pair 

 (which are only removed from each other by a space equal to once theii' 

 indiAndual diameter), widely separated; lateral eyes elliptical, oblique, 

 inner angles raised, dark brown (PI. xxi.. fig. 33). Legs. — Long, olivac- 

 eous brown, shining, hairy, well armed with long spines, co.raj olivac- 

 eous green ; relative lengths : 4, 1, 2, 3. Falyi . — Moderately long, 

 concolorous with legs, hairy ; tibial joint, small ; genital bulb, shining, 

 reddish; style moderately long, sharjily pointed (PI. xxi.. fig. 34). 

 Falces. — Concolorous, with cephalic segment well arched, moderately 

 clothed with leather long black hairs ; rastellum consists of a single 

 transverse row of strong teeth ; inner angle of the furrow of each falx 

 armed with a row of seven teeth, of which the third and fifth fiom the fang 

 are much the longest ; outer angle armed with only one tooth ; fang long, 

 reddish, well curved. Maxilhv. — Orange-yellow, shining, arched, moder- 

 ately hairy, heel well rounded at base, upper angle acuminate at apex. 

 Labium. — Coniform, elongate, rather darker than maxillae, moderately 

 hairy, apex fringed with rather long black hairs. Stermnn. — Longer than 

 broad, arched, anterioi- angle rather deeply excavated, latei'al and pos- 

 terior angles undulated, orange-yelloAV in front, thence smoky yellow, 

 moderately clothed with rather long black hairs and a few long black 

 bristles ; sternal sigilla subraarginal, anterior pair round, median and 

 lateral pairs elliptical, the latter much the largest. Abdomen. — Obovate, 

 arched, slightly overhanging base of cephalothorax, moderately clothed 

 with long, black hairs, superior surface dull cinnamon-yellow, with a large 

 pale yellowish patch in front; sides cinnamon-yellow, hairy; inferior sur- 

 face concolorous, thickly clothed with long, black hairs. Sidnnerets. — 

 Short, haiiy, concolorous, apices yellow: int'iM'ior pair cyliiiderical, close 

 together. 



Obs. — Closely allied to, but easily distinguishable from M. insigne a.nd 

 M. rubrocapitata by eye formula, distinction of falces, and colour of 

 abdomen. 



Hab. — Keith, South Australia. 



MiSSULENA OCCAIORIA, Walclx. 



(Plate xii., figs. 1 and 2). 



Migsidena uccaluria, Walck., Tab. des Aran., 1805, p. b, pi. 2, figs. 11-14; 



Id., Ins. Apt., 1837, i., p. 252. 

 Eriodon occatnrinni, Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi-ance (4), v., 1865, p. 309, 



pi. 8; L. Koch, Die Aracli. des Austr., i., 1873, p. 457 ; Hogg, Proc. 



Zool. Soc, 1901, p. 220; Rainb., Rec. Austr. Mus., v.. 1, 1903, p. 63, 



fig. 5. 



