Species of Oriental ^fygaloinorpliae. 183 



mcasuros 15"5 iiiillim. \o\v^ aiul l.'> wide, is rnucli flatter tliaa 

 in the fcniales. The tarsus of the |)al|) is apically truncate, the 

 bulb is furnished with a stout shortish process, which seems 

 to be seraicircularly curved when viewed from the outside, 

 its internal edfje beinci: carinate. 



Unlike the male of Omoth//muSj there is no trace of a 

 process on the tibia of the first leg. 



Genus CiTHAROGNATHUS, nov. 

 Citharo<jnathus Hosei, sp. n. (PI. X. figs, l-l b.) 



? . — Colour. Carapace, abdomen, and limbs clothed with 

 yellowish-grey hairs ; tiie abdomen and posterior legs finely 

 spotted with black spinules^the former with an obscure, median, 

 fuscous, longitudinal stripe and transverse fuscous stripes 

 parting from it : legs apically redder, the long setfe on legs 

 and abdomen yellowish red ; apices of femora, patellas, tibiaj, 

 and protarsi whitish ; lower side chocolate-brown. 



Carapace low, head-region but little elevated, much longer 

 than wide, the radiating grooves shallow ; the fovea straight, 

 conspicuous, with anterior and posterior walls nearly in con- 

 tact, not so wide as tlie ocular tubercle ; ocular tubercle about 

 one third wider than long, its front edge close to edge of 

 carapace ; the width of the clypeus not more than half the 

 diameter of anterior median eye; the anterior lateral eye 

 separated from the edge by a space which is distinctly less 

 than its long diameter. Eyes large, the anterior row pro- 

 curved, the median the largest, the distance between them 

 equalling about half their diameter and equalling the distance 

 between the median and lateral; the lateral not much more 

 than half the size of the median, elliptical ; the posterior 

 lateral about as large as the anterior lateral and the same 

 shape, the distance between them a little less than their short 

 diameter; posterior median largish and closer to the lateral 

 than to the anterior median. 



Mandible furnished below with a series of 14 teeth bound- 

 ing the internal edge of the inferior area; this area granular 

 bcliind- 



Labium small, wider than long, its sides convergino- for- 

 wards, its anterior border lightly concave, spinulose. Sternum 

 wide, a little longer than wide, as wide between the coxte of 

 the first as of the second ; distance between the posterior 

 impressions a little greater than the width of the labium. 



Abdomen large, closely covered above with short back- 

 wardly directed spinules. 



Leys 4, 1, 2, o, the patella and tibia of the hrst a little 



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