and Metatarsus of the rear pairs are thickly bespined, with a bunch at the 
posterior end of the latter, but have no scopulae. 
The Abdomen is oval, rather flat above and below, thickly covered with 
short fine hair. The Epigyne consists of two nearly circular hollows, open on 
the outer sides and separated by a flat longitudinal bridge. The Spinnerets 
are one jointed cylindrical, the inferior pair longest three-fourths their 
diameter apart. 
The measurements in millimetres are as follows :— 
Long. Broad. 
Ceph. 24 14 (1 in front). 
Abd. 4 24 
Mand. I 
Coxae. Tro.& Fem. Pat.& Tib. Metat. & Tar. 
Legs I = 24 24 2 = 73 
2 4 2 2 ee = 64 
eae 1 rf ee ber 
4 t 2 23 29) eae 
(Palpi: Pat. longer than Tars.). 
1 female from Yii-lin Fu, North Shensi. 
FAMILY ARGIOPIDAE, GROUP ARGIOPEAE. 
GENUS ARANEUS, CLERCK. ? SP. 
Cephalothorax pale yellow on the cephalic part, dark yellowish grey on the 
thoracic, scantily clothed with short white hair. The Mandibles are yellow 
blotched with grey, similar white hair, and fangs yellow brown. Maxillae 
yellow with grey fringes. Lip and Sternum yellow brown with grey hair and 
a pale longitudinal median stripe on the latter. The Legs pale yellow with 
white hair on the upper joints, brown bristles on the tarsi, which are them- 
selves brown at the anterior end. The Abdomen is greyish green all over, the 
Spinnerets olive green. 
The Cephalothovax is convex and one-fourth longer than broad. The 
cephalic part obtusely rounded in front and straight at the sides, the 
thoracic part rounded at the sides. The rear row of Eyes is straight, the rear 
median pair equal in size to the front median are only half their diameter 
apart. The front pair are one-and-a-half diameter apart and the same distance 
from the rear, thus forming a trapezium considerably broadest in front. The 
front laterals are rather smaller than the median, and two diameters of the 
latter away from them. They are half their diameter from the rear laterals, 
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