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Genus Heteropoda, Latr. 

 24. Heteropoda venatoria, Linn. • 

 Loc. New Georgia {H.M.S. ' Penguin^). 



25. Heteropoda (? Parhedrus) mecistopuSj sp. n. 

 (PL XIX. figs. 9,9 a.) 



Colour. Carapace mahogany-brown, with greyish-brown 

 hairy clothing (mostly rubbed), black on the posterior slope, 

 with a crescentic yellow band which extends laterally to the 

 middle of the carapace ; clypeus with faintly defined paler 

 stripe; mandibles mahogany - brown, with blackish-grey 

 hairy clothing, with indistinct paler bands ; palpi and legs 

 reddish brown, redder beneath, coxse yellowish brown ; 

 sternum, maxillse, and labium reddish brown ; tibiae and pro- 

 tarsi clothed above with silvery-grey hairs, intermixed with 

 small dark spots ; abdomen infuscate, with an anterior 

 median dorsal line extending throughout half its length ; 

 lower side behind the epigastric fold with a broad, but not 

 strongly defined, yellowish-brown band about one third longer 

 than wide. 



Carapace rather low, flat above, considerably longer than 

 broad (12*5 : 11), cephalic grooves strongly defined, a little 

 more than half the length of patella and tibia of fourth leg, less 

 than half those of first, and just about equal to patella, tibia, 

 and tarsus of palp. Eyes of posterior line a little recurved, 

 medians a little smaller than laterals and a little closer 

 together than either is to its lateral ; ocular quadrangle longer 

 than wide, narrowed in front, the four eyes subequal ; 

 anterior line of eyes procurved ; lower edge of medians, which 

 are a little smaller, on a level with the centre of the laterals ; 

 clypeus high, the lateral eyes nearly three times their diameter 

 from the edge. 



Mandibles weak, feebly geniculate; fang-groove armed 

 below with 5 posterior teeth, 4 large and 1 small one between 

 them. 



Palp (as in PI. XIX. figs. 9, 9 a); terminal portion of 

 palpus long and slender. Legs very long, 2, 1, 4, 3; tarsi 

 and protarsi normally scopulate ; patellse with anterior and 

 posterior spines. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 24; length 

 of carapace 12*5, width 11 ; length of first leg 71, of second 

 75, of third 62, of fourth 69 ; patella and tibia of first 26, 

 of fourth 24-8. 



