new Species of Araneiclea. 345 



thorax is of a rather flattened form ; the profile line forms a 

 slightly curved slope to the eyes, the depression behind the 

 occiput being exceedingly slight. The normal grooves and 

 indentations are fairly marked, and are also indicated by con- 

 verging lines of a dusky hue. 



The eyes are of tolerable size and not very unequal ; they 

 are rather closely grouped ; those of the posterior row are 

 equidistant from each other, being separated by a central - 

 eye's diameter, each of the central eyes being also separated 

 by a similar space from the fore-central eye opposite to it. 

 Those of each lateral pair are contiguous to each other, and 

 are seated obliquely on a black tubercle ; those of the fore- 

 central pair are on a large black spot, and are separated from 

 each other by nearly half a diameter. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength (4, 1, 2, 3), 

 furnished with hairs, and a very few slender prominent 

 bristles. 



The falces are long, strong, very prominent towards their 

 base in front, a little divergent, and armed with strong sharp 

 teeth on the inner sides, a row of five (the strongest) being 

 placed along the outer edge, and three along the inner edge 

 of the groove in which the fang lies when at rest. On the 

 outer sides in front are some minute piliferous tubercles ar- 

 ranged in two or three longitudinal lines. 



The maxillae are long, strong, somewhat obtusely pointed 

 on the inner extremities, and inclined towards the labium, 

 which is of a semicircular form. 



The abdomen is oval, broadest behind, and projects over the 

 base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a pale straw-yellow colour, 

 thinly clothed with fine hairs, and marked with four small, 

 round, red-brown, impressed spots near the middle of the 

 upperside, forming a trapezoid, whose posterior is longer than 

 the anterior side ; a sooty-black broken stripe bisects the 

 upperside in a longitudinal direction, the hinder part being 

 formed of two elongate arrow-head markings, following each 

 other in close contact, the posterior one merging in a large 

 sooty-black patch some little distance above the spinners. It 

 is probable that in a series of examples some variations in this 

 pattern would be exhibited. The genital aperture is small 

 and characteristic in form, but has no prominent process con- 

 nected with it ; just in front of the spinners is a curved lip- 

 like fold in the integument, having every appearance of being 

 the aperture leading to one or two spiracles (breathing- 

 organs). 



Two examples of this fine and distinct species were com- 

 prised in the collection of spiders received for examination 



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