and under sides, including the Spinnerets; it is sparsely clothed with short 
flat white hairs. On the underside are two longitudinal rows of impressed 
spots. 
The Cephalothorax is glabrous, as broad as long, tapering to a bluntly 
rounded front, it is strongly convex, much rounded at the sides of the thoracic 
part, a very distinct broad fovea separating the cephalic part from the 
thoracic. Viewed from above both rows of Eyes are recurved and all about 
equal in size ; the front median are twice their diameter apart and rather more 
than their diameter from the laterals. The rear row is longer than the front. 
The median eyes are four times their diameter apart, and more than half that 
distance from the laterals. The two rows are three diameters apart, and the 
Clypeus as wide as a back and front median eye and the space between. 
The Mandibles are conical with thin weak fangs. The Lip is as broad as 
long, tapering from the base to a rounded point, and more than half the length 
of the Maxillae which lean over it. The Sternwm is as broad as long, straight 
in front, and passing with a straight stem between the rear coxae, which are 
widely separated. 
The Abdomen is ovate, smallest and nearly straight in front, and almost 
circular at the rear. 
The Legs are long and fine. Scopulae on all tarsi, two spines above on 
the femora of the rear two pairs. 
The measurements in millimetres are as follows :— 
Long. Broad. 
Ceph. I 1 (4 in front). 
Abd. 2 2 
Mand. 4 
Coxae. Tro. & Fem. Pat. &Tib. Metat. & Tar. 
Legs I it ax 29 2¢ = 84 
2 4 2% 3 3 =" a 
3 4 1} 1} 1) 
4 + 2 1 1g Sa oe 
Palpi $ é 4 = Sy as 
Two females from Yiin-t’ing Shan, Shansi, North China, ninety miles 
west of T’ai-yiian Fu. 
This species resembles in size and some points the Rey. O. P. Cambridge’s 
Diaea subdola from Tarkand (loc. cit.), but his description is too meagre to 
render it certain. 
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