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narrow, naked area ; each limb armed witli moderate!)^ long and strong 

 black spines ; all tarsi scopalated, and a portion of metatarsi i. and ii. ; 

 relative lengths ; 4, 1, 2, 3. Palpi. — Long, moderately strong, similar in 

 colour, clothing and armatui'e to legs; tarsi scopulated. Fnlces. — 

 Concolorous with cephalothorax, projected well forward, moderately 

 strong, clothed with short tine hairs and long coarse bristles, but display- 

 ing naked areas ; inner ridge of the furrow of each falx armed with 

 a row of eight strong teeth ; in addition to these there is at the 

 base an intermediate series consisting of four small teeth, and several 

 minute ones; ftuig long, reddish-brown, well curved. Mdxilke. — Yellow, 

 hairy, arched, excavated at base, where it is thickly studded with small 

 spines ; heel well rounded ; beard yellowish. Labium. — Concolorous, 

 ai'ched, moderately hairy, free, submerged, not spined, short, broader 

 than long, apex slightly excavated and fringed with long hairs. Sternmn. — 

 Concoloi'ous also, nearly round, arched, hairy ; si(jilla rather small, 

 marginal. Abdomen. — Obovate, very slightly overhanging base of 

 cephalothorax, arched, clothed with long golden-yellow hairs ; superior 

 surface dark brown, spotted with yellow, the spots, however, only 

 showing when the animal is immersed in alcohol ; sides and inferior 

 surface yellow. Spinnerets. — Yellow, hairy ; superior pair tapering, the 

 third joint longest and the second shortest ; inferior spinners cylindrical, 

 and separated from each other by a space equal to once their own 

 individual diameter. 



Ql)s, — The spinnerets in the type have been unduly distended. Col- 

 lector's field note reads : " Open burrow." 



Hub. — Armadale, West Australia (May 23, 1912). 



Chenistonia villosa, sp. nov. 

 (PL xxiv., fig. 116.) 



$. Cephalothoi'ax, 10-3 mm. long, 8'4! mm. broad; abdomen, 10*9 

 mm. long, 6 mm. broad. 



Gephalotliorax. — Obovate, dark reddish-brown, arched, sparingly pilose. 

 Fars cephalica smooth, gently ascending, fringed in front of eyes with a 

 tuft of stiff bristles, segmental groove distinct ; ocular area broader than 

 long, raised ; clypeus narrow, rather dark, hyaline. Pars thoracica uneven, 

 radial grooves distinct ; thoracic fovea straight ; marginal band narrow, 

 undulated, fringed with rather long hairs. Eyes. — Distributed over two 

 rows of four each, the front row procurved and the rear recurved ; front 

 laterals much the largest of the group, elliptical, and poised obliquely ; 

 front median eyes round, separated from each other by a space equal to 

 about three-fourths their own individual diameter, and each again from 

 its lateral neighbour by about half a diameter ; i-ear laterals larger than 

 anterior median eyes, elliptical, poised obliquely, each touching apex of its 

 anterior lateral neighbour ; posterior medians almost round, smallest of 

 the group, widely separated, each just touching its lateral neighbour (PL 

 xxiv., fig. 116). Legs. — Moderately long, concolorous with cephalothorax, 

 hairy, but displaying naked areas, each armed with long, strong spines, 

 those on legs i. and ii. being the most numerous ; scopulation normal ; 



