102 SCORPION'S, PEDIPALPI AND SPIDERS COLLECTED BY DR WILLEY 



Labium armed with an anterior line of sis strong cusps and a pair of cusps 

 on one side behind : maxillae armed below and on the distal angle with 35 to 

 40 cusps. 



Palp : patella armed with two spines below, one outside, one inside : tibia and 

 tarsus covered laterally with bands of short close-set spines. 



Legs: tibiae, protarsi and tarsi of 1st and 2nd spined like the palpi, except that 

 the apex of the tibiae on the outer side has a thick subdorsal cluster of spines con- 

 tinuous with those along the posterior margin; patella of 1st with two inferior external 

 spines ; patella of 3rd leg armed with 6 — 8 anterior spines, tibia with an anterior distal 

 cluster of about four, and a posterior distal cluster of about the same number; protarsus 

 with 2 — 2 distal spines above ; and a few setiform spines below ; tarsus with about 

 five anterior distal spines and one posterior; 4th leg with a few spiniform setae on the 

 lower side of tibia ; about two slender spines on the protarsus and one or two on the 

 distal end of the tarsus ; claius of palpus with one strong basal tooth ; of 1st and 2nd 

 leg with one tooth, that on the anterior claw the larger ; of 3rd with one tooth 

 each ; the anterior claw of 4th unarmed, the posterior armed with one large tooth. 



Abdomen granular ; from each granule arises a bristle. 



Measurement in millimetres. Total length 13, length of carapace 5, of palp 9, of 

 1st leg 10, of 2nd leg 9, of 3rd leg 9, of 4th leg 10"S (measured from base of femur). 



Loc. New Britain. 



Evidently nearly related to C. doleschallii, Thorell (Ann. Mus. Genova xvn., p. 237, 

 1881). from the Fly River, New Guinea, but differing apparently at least in the spine 

 armature of the patellae of the 1st and 2nd legs, these segments in C. doleschallii being 

 described as spined both externally and internally (in utroque margine). With G. 

 malayana, Dol., from Amboina I am unable to compare it, except in so far as the 

 little that Thorell has said concerning the latter seems to apply to this specimen from 

 New Britain. Unfortunately neither in his description of C. doleschallii, nor elsewhere, 

 so far as I can learn, does Thorell mention any characters for distinguishing that species 

 from the previously described C. malayana, although a specimen of the latter was 

 contained in his collection in 1878. 



The two remaining species, namely C. birmanica, Thorell (Ann. Mus. Genova xxv., 

 p. 19, 1887), from Burma, and C. cambridgei, Thorell (Ann. Mus. Genova xxviii., p. 

 402), from Sumatra, differ from the three already discussed in having the eyes of the 

 posterior line straight and not procurved. 



A portion of the trap-door nest sent with the Spider proves that the genus 

 Conothele, like Moggridgea, Pseudidiops and Sason, constructs its domicile upon the 

 trunks of trees. It is a singular fact that in the Trap-door Spiders which have 

 adopted this habit, the mandibles have quite independently acquired a subvertical position ; 

 but although this character was known to be present in Conothele, there was no 

 direct evidence to show that it was correlated with the habit above described. Happily 

 Mr Willey has satisfactorily settled the point. The remaining genera which constitute 

 Simon's section Pachylomereae, namely, Pachylomerus, Cyclocosmia and ChoHzops retain, 

 so far as is known, the normal habit of digging their burrows in the ground. 



