166 RECORDS OK THE AUSTRALIAN MCSEUM. 



front lateral eyes largest of the group, elliptical, and poised obliquely ; 

 anterior medians round, once their own individual diameter apart, and each 

 separated again by about halt" that space from its lateral neighbour ; rear 

 laterals elliptical, and poised obliquely ; rear medians smallest of the group, 

 each just touching its lateral neighbour; both rows close together, and the 

 front one near the edge of clypeus (PI. xxiv., fig. 119). Leys. — Not long, 

 powerful, hairy, but displaying narrow naked areas, each limb armed with 

 short stiff spines ; relative lengths : 4, 1, 2, 3. Palpi. — Short, strong, 

 similar in colour, clothing and armature to legs. Fulces. — Strong, well 

 projected, concolorous with cephalothorax, clothed with long, coarse hairs 

 and bristles, and displaying no naked areas ; inner ridge of the furrow of 

 each falx armed with a row of nine strong teeth, and the outer with a row 

 of eleven ; in addition to these there is a thickly clustered group of minute 

 teeth running from base to apex, and forming an intermediate series ; 

 fang long, black, strong, well curved. Maxillce. — Reddish-brown, arched, 

 strong, hairy, inner angle terminating in an obtuse point, base excavated, 

 heel well rounded ; greater portion of the surface of each maxilla thickly 

 studded with small spines. Labium. — Free, concolorous, short, slightly 

 longer than broad, arched, apex fringed with long bristles, entire surface 

 thickly studded with small spines, thereby presenting a strongly granu- 

 lated appearance. Sternmn. — Concolorous also, shield-shaped, densely 

 hairy, arched ; posterior sigiUa large and marginal. Abdomen. — Ovate, 

 slightly overhanging base of cephalothorax, arched, dark brown, hairy. 

 Spinnerets. — Short, yellow, stout, clothed with dark brown hairs; superior 

 pair tapering, second joint shortest ; inferior spinners veiy small, and 

 separated from each other by a space equal to about that of once their 

 own individual transverse diameter. 



Obs. — Several sf)ecimens of this fine spider were collected by one of 

 us [R.H.P.] and Dr. T. Bancroft. Younger examples display some little 

 variation in the number and distribution of the intermediate series of 

 falx teeth. Our field note reads :- — " With expanded web ; no lid." 

 From the nest of one example an ova-sac was obtained. The sac is white, 

 large, round, flat, measuring 90 mm. in circumference, cushion-shaped, 

 closely woven, and of very strong texture. 



Hah. — Tambourine Mountain, Queensland (Ma}^ 10, and October 7, 

 1912). 



Grouj) ANEPSIADE^. 



For the reception of the following species there appeal's to be no 

 alternative but to erect a new group and a new genus. For the group 

 we propose the name Anepsiadese, and for the genus that of Anepsiada. 

 The example ujider stud}'^ agrees with Atra.v, 0. P. Cambr., and Hadroinjche, 

 L. Koch, in having both ridges of each falx armed with teeth, and also 

 by the presence of an intermediate row, but it differs from each of the 

 genera named by the sternal sigilla being marginal, and also by the 

 absence of tarsal scopiila. Like Hadroni/che the cephalic segnient is 

 large, raised, and round, though not so much so as in Mif<sule)ia, Walck. 

 The labium is not as defined and figured by L. Koch^o in his description 



-0 L. Koch— Die Arach. des Austr., i., 187:?. p. 163. pi. xxxv., fig. 66. 



