96 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN AEANE^. 



passing into brownisli-ochreous, beneath ; dorsal aspect suf- 

 fused with a fuscous-brown ; series of ten large spots of the 

 lighter brown shade, enclose an oval area occupying the 

 posterior three-fourths. 

 Single example. 



FAiii, DEASSID^. 

 Gen. Lampona, Thor. 

 Lamjpona suh-aquila, sp. nov. 

 Fern. — Ceph. th,, long, 3'8 ; broad, 2'8 ; facial index, 1-2. 

 Abd., long, 4-3 ; broad, 2-8 ; legs, 1—4, 2, 3=8, 6-5, 6 mm. 



Cejohalothorax dull lake-black ; hairs fine, light brown, 

 tolerably sparse ; rugose ; oval, slightly compressed beyond 

 coxae of first pair ; cephalic part convex, truncation sensibly 

 rounded, marked with a shallow medial groove; clypeus 

 visibly shorter than breadth of a fore-centre eye; thoracic part 

 convex, indentation longitudinal ; profile-line slopes gradually 

 backwards with a slight double arch. 



Eyes from two procurved rows ; posterior line rather the 

 Ibcgest ; centrals oval, visibly less than their diameter apart ; 

 nearly twice their length from laterals, which they sensibly 

 exceed in size ; median pair of anterior row surpass side-eyes 

 in size by nearly one-third ; dark, separated from each other 

 by rather more than an eye's radius, about half that space 

 from laterals of same row, which are removed from margin of 

 clypeus by an interval equalling their own radius ; side-eyes 

 have the pearl-grey lustre of posterior centrals. 

 ' Falces lake-brown ; transversely rugose ; conical, somewhat 

 divergent, directed forwards, base projects beyond plane of 

 clypeus; length equal to digital joint of palpus; their space 

 visibly surpasses breadth of hind row of eyes. 



Maxillce yellowish -mahogany ; long, sub-linear, increasing 

 gradually in breadth, obtusely truncated, inclined against lip j 

 base free, pointed, 



Labium lake-brown, passing into a yellowish mahogany 

 colour ; twice as long as wide, conical, apex abscinded, extends 

 nearly to base of the truncated inferior angle of maxillae ; 

 organ rugose. 



Sturnum crimson-browm ; studded with small papillae pro- 

 jecting hairs ; acute oval, fore end rather sharply constricted 

 above coxae of first pair. 



Legs, two first pairs glossy, brownish-yellow ; hind pairs 

 lighter shade ; have indications of dusky annuli on all joints 

 except tarsal ; moderately stout ; tolerably well-furnished 

 ^ith light hairs ; scopula moderately developed, extends to 



