238 NEW SPECIES OF STEPHANOPIS. 



Maxillce and labium : as in S. altifrons ; color, light red. 



Sternum : large ; nearly round ; clothed with short hairs ; 

 same color as labium. 



Abdomen : above, yellowish red with dark red-brown band- 

 ings " en chevron ; " slightly rugulose, and furnished with short 

 blunt spines more than three lines long and about as broad, oval, 

 slight, truncated at the front ; below, reddish-yellow. 



I obtained this insect under bark, without web or tube of silk, 

 at Tia, in February 1868. 



S. MACLEAyi. 



$ length 5 lines. 



CephalotJiorax : nearly two lines long and not quite as broad, 

 and otherwise very like S. rufiventris ; the cephalic protuberance 

 and clypeus also as in that species. 



Eyes : as in that species. 



Legs : very much similar to those of that species, but the 

 femur of the first pair is more strongly developed ; color, dark 

 reddish brown with irregular brown blotches on femur, two 

 vellow bands on tarsi of third and fourth pairs. 



Falpi : moderate in length and strength, similar to the legs 

 in color and armature. 



Falces : as in ^'. altifrons ; color I'ed, the fangs curved and 

 surrounded with thick reddish hairs. 



Maxillce : moderately long, hollowed on the inner side, 

 rounded slightly on the outer, and sui-rounding the labium 

 which is as in (S. altifrons. 



Sternum : large oval, narrowest at its fore extremity ; clothed 

 with hairs ; reddish brown, with a longitudinal hollow which is 

 darker in the centre. 



Abdomen : above 3 lines long and about 2| broad, oval, red- 

 dish-brown, a light band extending along the edges ; moderately 

 rugulose, hinder part furnished with tubercles and blunt spines ; 

 below, yellowish-brown. 



The insect I have described above I received from W. 

 MacLeay, Esq., after whom I have named it. I believe he 

 obtained it near Groulburn. 



