224 Mr. E. I. Pocock on 



the Afro-Mascarene continent from nortliern sources, it is 

 important to bear in mind that, judging from the arrange- 

 ment of the eyes, DiplotMe is a more primitive type than 

 Forsyihula. 



Hitherto no genus of Barychelidte, the almost cosmopolitan 

 family to which the two genera here discussed belong, has 

 been recorded from Madagascar. In fact, the only members 

 of the Mygaloniorphse known from this continental island 

 were Encyocrates (a genus of Aviculariidoe related to the 

 other genera composing the tropical Afiican, Sokotran, and 

 South Arabian group of tlie Eumenophorinffi), tu'O generaof 

 Dipluridffi related to S. African forms, one of Ctenizidte allied 

 to an Australian genus, and some genera of tree trapdoor 

 spiders of the group Migidse — a group which at the present 

 time is confined to Southern Africa, Madagascar, and Austral- 

 asia (Tasmania, New Zealand) *, and must be regarded 

 as affording evidence of a former land-connexion between 

 these countries. 



Forsytliula Mnjori, sp. n. 

 2 a^. — Colour. Carapace castaneous ; legs and sternum 

 yellowish brown ; abdomen ashy black, without pattern. 



Carapace raised and longitudinally convex in front of the 

 fovea, considerably longer than patella + tibia or than tarsus + 

 protarsus of fourth leg; anterior lateral eyes a little more 

 than their long diameter apart ; anterior medians scarcely a 

 diameter apart, and rather more than their diameter from the 

 anterior and posterior laterals; outer edge of the posterior 

 medians about on a level with that of the anterior laterals, 

 the four forming a quadrilateral which is, if anything, slightly 

 wider behind than in front. 



Mandil'le with rastellum composed of straight, not curved, 

 spines ; armed below with a single inner row of seven or 

 eight teeth and at most a few denticles towards the basal 

 extremity. Labium unarmed; maxillae with about nine to 

 eleven small irregularly arranged cusps. Sternal sigilla 

 small, marginal. 



Falpi and anterior two pairs of legs unspined, only one or 

 two stout setse on the tibia of the palp beneath apically ; 

 tarsi and protarsi of the legs subequal, scopulate, the protarsi 

 scantily so, no clavate spines on the tarsi ; third leg with 

 some small short spines on the anterior side of the patella and 

 tibia, protarsus uuscopulate, with two or three strong and 



* I have recently learnt from ^Ir. TI. "H. ITo.ag that M. Simon has a 

 penus of this group from Chili. 



