6Q TULLGREN, SPIDERS COLLECTED IN SOUTH-CHILE BY P. DUSEN. 



Liparotonia Simon. 



SiJiON, EuG., BulL Soc. Zool. Fr. 188i p. 137. 



To this genus I connt a single ad. female from the npper 

 part of the valley. 



L. villosa n. sj). 



Female. — Cephalotliorax very convex, oval and very 

 little tapering towards the front. The pars cephalica is very 

 large, the side-furrows distinct. There is a short and distinct 

 central-furrow. The colour is dark red-brown and it is densely 

 clothed by short adpressed white hairs and has över the 

 whole surface scattered long uptnrned iine light-coloured 

 bristles. The clypeus is abont as high as the diameter of 

 the anterior lateral eyes. 



E^Jes. — The front-row is nearly straight (very little 

 recurved) and the distances between the eyes are equal in 

 length about as broad as the diameter of the eyes, which 

 are nearly equal in size. The two lateral eyes separated by 

 an interval a little broader than their diameter. The hind- 

 row is very little procurved, the eyes are eqiial in size; the 

 interval between the two middle-eyes is about thriee as long 

 as their diameter and much shorter than the distance from 

 the lateral eyes. The area of middle-eyes is broader behind 

 and is about as long as broad. The eyes are surrounded by 

 black rings. 



Cheliceres are very strong, a little broader than the first 

 femur, very swollen on the front-side towards the base. The 

 colour is dark red-brown and they are clothed with long and 

 short whitish hairs. The inner margin of the claw-furrow 

 with two very strong teeth. 



Maxillce and lahium red-brown with paler tips. The la- 

 l)ium is much more long than broad and longer than the half 

 maxilla. 



Sternum is oval, much more long than broad, dark red- 

 brown and clothed with very long bright white hairs. 



Legs 1, 2, 4, 3, very thick and comparatively short. They 

 are red-brown in colour and clothed with whitish hairs. On 

 all tarsi and metatarsi they have a dense scopula. The two 

 lirst pairs of legs are without spines, except on the metatarsi 



