104 Mr. R. I. Pocock on 



PhryxotricJias auratus, sp. n = 

 ? P/iry.iotrichus roseus (Walck.), Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. i. p. 1G9 



(1892). 

 ? Orthotrichus vulpinus, Karscli, Zeits. ges. Naturwiss. Ini. p. 390 

 (1880). 



$ . — Colour. Integument Llack or deep blackisli brown 

 nnd clothed with short black woolly hair; the margin of the 

 carapace, the upper surface and sides of the abdomen, and tiie 

 legs clothed witii bright golden-yellow bristles ; a sooty- 

 black tarsal and piotarsal stripe ; the carapace, sternum, cox^e, 

 and lower side of the abdomen black. 



Carapace nearly circular, about as broad as long; the 

 length almost equal to that of patella and tibia of fourth or of 

 second leg, considerably less than those of first, less than 

 protarsus and tarsus of fourth, exceeding those of first; head 

 broad and high ; ocular tubercle a little wider than long. Eyes 

 email, those of anterior Tne procurved, subequally spaced, 

 distance between the medians greater than their diameter ; 

 anterior laterals a little larger than anterior medians, posterior 

 medians almost as large as anterior medians and smaller than 

 posterior laterals. 



Leys 1, 4, 2, 3 in length, almost without spines, the tibijB 

 with at most a pair of inferior apical and tiie protarsi (except 

 of fourth) with one (on third leg two) at base and one at 

 apex of scopula, the latter being not always visible, the pro- 

 tarsus of fourth armed in addition with four internal and one 

 external spine. Palp with three inferior apical tibial spines; 

 tarsus of fourth as long as of first ; claws untoothed ; pro- 

 tarsal scopulse of first and second covering two thirds the 

 lower side of the segment. Labial teeth about 6-12 (?(?). 



J . — Like the female in colouring and spine-armature 

 of legs. 



Caro2'>ace as long as patella and tibia of third leg, a little 

 longer than tibia of first, shorter than tibia and protarsus of 

 first or fourth. 



Legs 1, 4, 2, 3 ; tarsus of fourth slightly shorter than that 

 of first, protarsal scopulas of first and fourth covering about 

 one half the segment. 



Tibial spurs of first leg small, the upper cylindrical, 

 unarmed ; the lower directed nearly vertically downwards 

 and inwards, relatively straight but bent quite at the apex, 

 where it is tipped with a single long spine. 



Palpal organ with bulb piriform and spine attenuate, 

 apically pointed, with slight spiral twist and spirally crested. 



Measurements in millimetres. — ? . Total length 33 ; cara- 



