— 8 — 



ut the inner corner of the coxa of the first pair of legs, a characte- 

 ristic feature of a sniall group of Obisium. 



The specimens freni France are somewhat questionale; they are 

 very small and young; the tooth of the inner corner of the coxa of 

 the first pair of legs is very minute or nearly absent, but they are, 

 iiotwithstaiìdiag, probably young ones of this species. 



Subgenus Roncus with 2 eyes. 



Obisium lubficum L. Kocb. 



1873. Roncus lubricus L. Koch, Darst. europ. Chern., p. 44. 



1875. » lubricus L. Kocb, Steeker, Chern. Bòbmens, p. 12. 



1879. Obisiuni Canibridgei L. Koch, E. Simon, Arachn. France, VJI, p. 64, 



pi. xvil), i. 26. 

 1884. Roncus lubricus L. Koch, Canestrini, Cbernet. ital., fase. X, N. 4, t. 4. 

 1892. » lubricus L.Koch, Cambr., Brit. False-Scorp., p. 217, pi. B, f. 10. 

 non: 1882. » lubricus L. Koch, Toinosvàry, Mag. faun. Alsk., p. 215, t. IH, 



f. 1-4. 



Two sinall eyes, one on each side, more diameters from the front 

 margin. 



(Jephalothorax and palps reddish brown, tergites and sternites oli- 

 vaceous brown, the upper and lower surface of abdomen with numerous 

 whitish spots, giving a marmorated appearance, legs whitish. 



(Jephalothorax distinctly longer than broad, somewhat broader 

 b^hind than in the anterior part, the lateral margins siigli tly convex, 

 tatant margin somewhat convex, in the middle a little depressed with 

 a rather strong tooth; smooth and glossy with dispersed, pointed hairs. 



Abdomen smooth and glossy, with very fine, transversai stripes, 

 along the hinder margins of the sternites and tergites provided with 

 pointed hairs. The integument oi the lateral surface between the 

 upper and lower surface granulated. 



Palps about as long as the body, moderately robust, glossy. Tro- 

 chanter minutely granulated before and above, the rest smooth; femur 

 distinctly granulose on the anterior surface and most part of the upper 

 surface; tibia minutely granulated on the inner surface; hand minutely 

 granulated, except near the base; fingers smooth. The hairs of the 

 palps pointed, longer on the inner side than on the outer one. — Tro- 

 ehauter with a short stalk, a little longer than broad, the inner side 

 slightly convex, bebind with a sniall, low tuberete in the middle. 

 Femur with distinct stalk, about 3 times as long as broad, about as 

 long as cephalothorax, the inner side in the proximal half very slightly 



