Genera nnd Species of AraneiJea. 20 



A sin;^^lc t'x;ini|tli' ot' this species is in the British-Museum 

 collection. Hah. Adehiide. 



Aganippe Jatior^ sp. n. (PI. VI fii^. 4.) 



Adult female, length nearly 11 lines. 



This spider is evidently of the same genus as the last, 

 though readily distinguishable hysomc strong differential cha- 

 racters. It is smaller, the cej)hal(>tli(jrax is shorter and ])vu- 

 portionally broader, and the falces are more powerful ; the 

 eyes also are smaller, and the figure fcn-med by them lias its 

 fore side shorter and its longitudinal less in proportion to its 

 transverse diameter. 



The whole of the fore part of this spider is of a dark, 

 shining, reddish yellow-brown colour. The cephahthorajc is 

 short, broad, and massive, the caput well and roundly elevated. 



The falces are very strong, furnished in front with hairs 

 and bristles disposed in longitudinal strijjcs, and armed with 

 a group of strong spines on the upperside of their fore ex- 

 tremity. 



The e.7/es are very minute but not very different in size ; 

 they form an area whose transverse diameter (at the hinder 

 side) exceeds its longitudinal diameter taken in the middle, 

 disposed in three transverse lines, 2, 2, 4, the foremost line 

 being equal in length to that formed by the two middle eyes 

 of the third (or hinder) row j while in A. siibtt-istis the 

 foremost line exceeds in length that formed by the two hind 

 central eyes. 



The h'l/s are short and strong, those of the third and fourth 

 pairs being the strongest; their relative length is 1, 2, 3, 4, 

 though the ditlerenee between tliose of the first and second 

 pairs is very slight ; and in their armature, as well as in that 

 of the palju, they are similar to A. siibfristis, though the 

 spines on the third pair are perhaps not quite so numerous. 



The abdomen is hairy and of a warm reddish brown colour; 

 but it was too shrunken to give any exact idea of its form. 



A single example is contained in the British-Museum col- 

 lection. JIab. West Australia. 



Genus Eriodon, Latr. 

 Eriodon insijnis, sp. n. (PI, VI. fig. 5.) 



Adult male, length 5 lines, to extremity of falces G^ lines. 



The cephahthorax of this spider is almost circular, the fore 

 part being slightly truncated; the curve of that part is flattened. 

 The colour of the caput and falces is a bright but rather 



