98 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN AEANE^. 



Falces greenisli coffee-brown ; hairs bristly, black, trans- 

 versely rugose ; conical, vertical, base turgid, projects beyond 

 plane of clypeus, lengtli equals metatarsus of second leg ; 

 stout, space exceeds breadth of ocular area. 



Maxillse light olive-brown, inferior margin streaked with 

 chestnut-brown; armed with coarse erect black hairs; strong, 

 gradually dilated, round pointed, straight. 



Labium light olive-brown, clouded with red chestnut; 

 conical; apex emarginate, three-fourths length of maxillse. 



Sturnum olive-brown ; hairs whitish and black ; ovate. 



Legs light raw-sienna ; armature, hairs whitish and black, 

 latter most numerous, 4 or 5 rather slight ; black spines on 

 superior aspect of femora ; patellae project a bristle ; tibial 

 joints of first pairs, 8 slender spines on inferior surface ; 

 tibise of hind pairs, 5 ; metatarsal joints have about 12, 

 including distal ring ; scopula moderate, claw-tuft slight. 



Palpi brownish-yellow, pars digitalis red-chestnut ; mode- 

 rately slender ; furnished with black and light hairs ; spines 

 bristle-like, long and strong on digital joint. 



AMomen elongate-ovate ; rather light olive-brown, pattern 

 ill-defined — apparently a wide chocolate-brown stripe on 

 basal half, double row of spots, similar shade, on posterior 

 haK. Corpus vuIvcb brownish dark, chrome -yellow^; posited on 

 a large, somewhat triangular, elevation ; rather more than 

 half of the posterior side is occupied by a large, deep, trapi- 

 zoidal pit, widest in front, posterior side, which exceeds the 

 lateral in length, produced into a broad ) ( shaped septum ; 

 lateral and fore-margins prominent, beaded, centre-third 

 of fore-margins produced into a lip-like projection repre- 

 senting a segment of a circle ; curving round from angles 

 of cavity towards the lij) are two brown tipped, pointed, 

 membrrinous processes, margins subclosed above ; base of 

 corpus turgid, wide and rounded in front, divided beneath 

 lip by a broad, somewhat impressed, greenish-brown area. 



Single specimen. 



Brassus hrunneolus, sp, nov. 



Jfas.— Ceph. th., long, 6; wide, 4*5; facial index, S'l. 

 Abd., long, 7; wide, 4-5; legs, 1, 2, 4, 3=23-5, 187, 17% 

 15 mm. 



Gephalothorax fuscous; hairs light-yellow, adpressed, mode- 

 rately thick, few blaek on caput ; oval, constricted beyond 

 coxse of first pair ; pars cephalica convex, lateral margins 

 moderately arcuated, frontal margin sensibly rounded ; depth 

 of clypeus"^ fully equals diameter of a fore-centre eye ; pars 

 thoracica convex, groove longitudinal ; radial and caput strice 



