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Mouthparts as in Heteropoda, mandible with 4 posterior teeth and 3 anterior. 
Abdomen depressed, expanded posteriorly. 
Type O. spinipes sp. n. 
According to Simon’s latest elassification of the Sparassinae, this genus falls into the 
section Heteropodeae, approaching the genera Heteropoda and Pandercetes. From Pandercetes, 
however, Oliophthalmus may be recognised by the flatness of the head and the weakness of 
the cephalie sulei, by having the upper edges of the eyes of the front row on the same 
level as in Heteropoda, whereas in Pandercetes the centres of the eyes are in the same 
straight line. In the latter again the posterior lateral eyes are much higher above the 
subjacent edge of the carapace. 
From Heteropoda, Oliophthalmus differs in having the eyes of the posterior line as 
wide as the head, the elypeus very low, the 4!" leg shorter than the third, the posterior 
median eyes smaller than the anterior median, etc. 
Oliophthalmus murinus sp. n. 
Pl. XXWVI, fig. 23. 
Colour of carapace and legs deep reddish black, the latter blacker than the head; 
mandibles black polished, sternum and coxae reddish black; the hairy elothing mostly rubbed 
from the dorsal side of the carapace and legs, but apparently yellowish grey in tint; ab- 
domen blackish-grey without a definite pattern except for a transverse greyish patch with a 
sinuous anterior border above the apex; the legs very indistinetly annulate. 
Carapace about as long as broad, the length about equal to that of the tibia of 
the 1% leg and less than one quarter of the length of the 224 Jeg. 
Palpi: Femur armed apically above with some 4 spines; patella with one external 
and one internal; tibia with 3 internal, 1 superior and 2 external long spines; tarsus witl 
three internal and three external spines. 
Legs: Femora of 1%, 224 and 32 armed above with 3, 3, 3 spines, the arrange- 
ment less regular on that of the 1 * than of the others; two of the spines missing on the 
posterior surface of the femur of the 4*; patellae with a single posterior basal spine; tibia 
of 1*, and 224 with 4 pairs of inferior spines, and one anterior and one posterior spine; 
tibia of 3°4 and 4*% with 2 anterior and 2 posterior spines and 3 pairs of inferior spines — 
the total for each tibia being 10 spines; protarsi armed below with two pairs of long spines, 
protarsus of 4% also with a pair at the apex, a little higher than the others. Protarsus 
