Family Drassidae, Sub-fam Drassodinae, Group Drassodeae, 



Genus Drassodes, Westring. 



D. ? LAPSUS. O.P.Cambr. 



Female. — The Cephalothorax is bright orange yellow thickly covered with 

 downlying grey plumose hair interspersed with a few upstanding hairs or 

 bristles. The Mandibles, somewhat darker orange, are thickly covered with 

 short upstanding grey bristly hair. Fangs reddish yellow. 



The Lip, Maxillae, Sternum, and Coxae all orange yellow with rather long 

 grey bristly hair, thickest on the latter. The Legs and Palpi similar, but 

 rather paler. The Abdomen above is yellow at the base, the remainder pale 

 yellow grey with brownish grey thin short hairs. Underneath it is a pale 

 yellow, almost white at the edges, with short downlying grey hair in transverse 

 ridges. The Spinnerets darker yellow, one jointed, cylindrical. 



The Cephalothorax is convex, rounded at the sides and straight in front, 

 where it is rather more than half its greatest breadth, which is two-thirds its 

 length. 



The front row of Eyes is straight, the median pair half their diameter 

 apart, and the same distance from the margin of the Clypeus. The laterals, 

 touching them, are nearly the same diameter, but placed sideways look oval. 

 The rear row of eyes are sessile, the median, oblong, are half their shorter 

 diameter apart at the upper corners, and their long diameter away from the 

 laterals, the whole row being procurved and slightly longer than the front. 

 The front and rear median are rather more than the diameter of the former 

 apart, the long diameter of the rear ones being slightly shorter. 



The Mandibles are kneed at the base and straight at the sides, as broad 

 in the front as at the base. The fangs are broad at the base, thence tapering to 

 a fine point. There are two quite small blunt teeth on the inner margin of 

 the falx sheath. 



The Lip is longer than broad, tapering from the base to a narrow rounded 

 upper margin. It is two-thirds the length of the Maxillae. The latter are 

 rounded both at the base and in front, impressed in the middle and slope over 

 the lip. 



The Sternum is oval and flat, with thick upstanding bristles all round the 

 margin and downlying flat hairs in the middle. The rear Coxae are close 

 together. 



The Legs are short, fairly thick in the femoral joints, tapering to the 

 tarsi, which are quite fine. The front two pairs are without spines, and have 

 scopulae, thin in the middle, on the tarsal and metatarsal joints. The Tibia 



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