104 Mr. F. 0. P. Cambridge on Ctemform Spiders 



<S . Total length (including mandibles) 17 mm., $ 20 mm. 



d. — Colour. Carapace orange-yellow, with two broad 

 brown bands with scalloped margins on either side of the 

 central furrow. Ahdomen dull orange-brown, mottled with 

 brown and grey pubescence ; with a broad central pale band, 

 divided longitudinally in its first half by a brown line, trans- 

 versely in its second by three A -shaped fine lines, terminating 

 in a black spot at each end. The apical half bears dorsally 

 two rows of three small tufts of fine grey hairs, with another 

 row of the same on each side. 



Legs pale orange, spinose, annulated with brown, and 

 clothed between the annulations with hoary grey pubescence. 

 Sternum and underside of abdomen dull yellow-brown. 



IStructure. Carapace with fine central line ; profile-line 

 concave, very and abruptly steep behind, and gibbous. Ocular 

 region raised, lateral impressions deep. 



Eyes. Centrals forming a quadrangle a little longer than 

 broad, posteriors larger ; laterals on a distinct tubercle ; ante- 

 riors small, their diameter less than half that of posterior 

 laterals, and more than their diameter distant from them. 

 The lateral anteriors form with the central posteriors a pro- 

 curving transverse line seen from in front. Clypeus narrower 

 than diameter of anterior centrals. 



Mandibles clothed with grey hairs. Fang-groove armed 

 with 3 teeth on lower margin, 2 on upi)er at angle. Labium 

 longer than broad, emarginate at apex, narrowed at base, 

 half as long as coxaj of pedipalp. The latter jiarallel-sided, 

 their inner margins smooth and slightly excavate, rounded at 

 apex and tufted on inner apical angle with long curved hairs. 



Legs 1,4, 2, 3, long, and somewhat similar in action to 

 those of the Laterigrades, armed with spines and clothed with 

 fine silky yellow hairs, especially the tibiw, })rotarsi, and 

 tarsi of legs i. and ii. Femora i., ii., iii., and iv. spinose 

 above, with two or three spines in front of first pair. Tibia i. 

 with 8 pairs of long spines beneath (the number varies from 

 7 to 9 in the females), and a row of 3 or 4 on each side. 

 Protarsus i. with 5 pairs of very long spines beneath, closely 

 pressed against the scojjula. Tibia ii. with 7-8 pairs of 

 spines beneath ar.d 3 or 4 spines on each side. Tibiai and 

 protarsi iii. and iv. with numerous spines. Tarsi of all four 

 pair without spines. 



Tarsal claws 2. 



Pedipalp (PI. IV. fig. iii. a, c). Femur with 5 or G stout 

 spines on tiie upjier inner side at apex. Patella with 2 spines 

 on upperside. Tibia strongly emarginate on the outer side, 

 curved, with two long spines and a tuft of long hair on the 



