234 NEW SPECIES OF STEPHANOPIS, 



Palpi : moderate in length and strength ; color and armature 

 as in tarsi of legs. 



Falces : moderately long, strong, brownish-red, with yellowish 

 spots, hairy, inclined backwards towards the maxillce. 



MaxillcB : reddish, but lighter on the inner edges, moderately 

 long, nearly straight ; rounded on the outer sides at the apex ; 

 inclined towards the labium which is of the same color as 

 maxilla?, about as broad as long, shghtly rounded at the apex, 

 and broadest one-fourth of its length from base. 



Sternum: large cordate, narrowest at its posterior part, slightly 

 rugulose and hairy,, of a yellowish brown color, hair light grey. 



Abdomen: depressed, about 2| lines long, breadth a little less, 

 posterior broadest and thickly furnished with bluntish tubercu- 

 lated spines and bristles similar to those on legs ; color above, 

 same as cephahtJwrax, but having a dark longitudinal mark in 

 the middle ; the edges are greyish, the sides dark with two 

 darker transverse markings at posterior part ; below — rugulose 

 at the sides, centre part defined, less rugulose and of a darker 

 color. 



This insect is from Nepean Towers, where I obtained it in 

 August 1870. 



S. MONTICOLA. 



$ length a little over 4 lines. 



Cephalothorax : nearly two lines long, not quite so broad ; 

 cordate, broadest at the posterior part, in shape otherwise as in S. 

 altifrons, but not so long in proportion ; color above, greyish 

 with brown markings, caput reddish brown. Glijpeus, greyish 

 but lighter ; the whole slightly rugulose. 



Eyes : as in 8. Gamhridgei, but the cephalic protuberance is 

 not so developed. 



Legs : relative length as in S. GtDiibridgei ; color above as 

 cephahtJwrax, but there are no regular bandings ; tuberculate 

 with blunt spines ; below the coxa and femur, yellowish. 



Palpi : moderate in length, strong ; color, as legs. 



Falces : sarefe color as clypeus but a shade lighter, shape as 

 in S. Gamhridgei. 



Maxillce and laUum : form as in that species, but the color is 

 a reddish-brown. 



