150 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MDSEUM. 



and rear median eyes have coalesced, and so form one large, somewhat 

 uniform eye. The front row of eyes is perfectly normal, and the ce{)hal- 

 otliorax is not injured in any way (PI. xxiii., fig. 100). 



Hah. — Clifton Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales. 



AnAME AKiMKiEKA, sp. IWV. 



(PI. xxiii., figs. 102 and 103.) 



9- Cephalothorax, 8*8 mm. long, 7"3 mm. broad ; abdomen, 9 

 mm. long, 6'2 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax. — Obovate, arched, yellow, moderatel}' clothed with 

 fine, short pale yellowish hairs. Fars cephalica ascending, truncated in 

 front where it is furnished at the middle with a tuft of stiff black 

 bristles, sides compressed, somewhat declivous, segmental gi'oove distinct ; 

 ocular area broader than long, raised ; dypeus narrow, hyaline, slightly 

 excavated at middle. Pars thoracica br"oad, radial grooves moderately 

 distinct; thoracic fovea profound, slightly procurved ; marginal baud pale, 

 broad, fringed with dark, moderately strong bristles. Eyes. — Distributed 

 over two rows of four each, the front row being procurved, and the rear 

 recui'ved ; fi'ont laterals largest of the group, elliptical and poised 

 obliquely ; front medians round, separated from each other by a space 

 equal to one-half their individual diameter, and each again from its 

 lateral neighbour by about the same space ; posterior lateral eyes smaller 

 than their anterior lateral neighbours which they just touch, elliptical, 

 and poised obliquely ; rear medians smallest of the group, widel}- separated, 

 elliptical also, each touching its lateral neighbour (PI. xxiii., fig. 102). 

 Legs. — Moderately long and strong, concolorous with cephalothorax, 

 clothed with short, fine yellowish hairs and long coarse black bristles, 

 but displaying naked areas ; each well ai-med with long sti'ong black 

 spines, those on tibial and metatarsi i. and ii. being the most numerous, 

 and the longest and strongest ; metatarsi i. and ii. partially scopulated, 

 the tarsi fully so ; relative lengths : 4, 1, 2, 8. J'alpii. — Moderately long 

 and strong, similar in colour and clothing to legs, and armed with 

 long, strong, black spines ; tarsi scopulated. Falr.es. — Concolorous with 

 cephalothorax, long, strong, arched, projected well forward, clothed 

 with short, fine, silky pubescence and coarse, black bristles, but displaying 

 naked areas ; the upper inner angle of eacVi falx is armed with moderately 

 loiig and strong black spines similar to those on the legs (PI. xxiii., 

 fig. 103) ; inner lidge of the furrow of each falx armed with a row of 

 seven strong teeth, in addition to which there is also present at tlie base 

 an intermediate series of five mici'oscopic teeth ; fang long, dark brown, 

 shining, well curved. Maxilla'. — Clay yellow, surface rather ttal, clothed 

 with long, dark hairs and bristles, heel well rounded, base thickly studded 

 with small spines, beard yellowish. Labi ion. — Short, free concolorous, 

 submerged, broader than long, arched, clothed with a few long black 

 bristles, apex slightly excavated, and fringed with black bi-istles ; near 

 apex thei-e are three small spines. Stcrnnni. — Concolorous also, broad, 

 rather flat, well clothed with black bristles, of which the marginal ones 

 are much the longest and strongest; sigilla ncil distinct, small, niarginal. 



