122 on new species of tasmanian aeane^. 



Fam. THOMISID^. 



Sub-FAM. PniLOI/EONINiE. 



Gen. Philodromus, Wlk. 

 Fhilodromus luteo-virescens, sp. nov. 

 i^em.— Cepli. th., long, 3-5; broad, 3. Abd., long, 5; 

 broad, 3. Legs, 1—2, 4, 3=16, 125, 11-5 mm. 



Cephalothorax oclireoiis-jellow — probably tinged with green; 

 facial space ochraceous ; rather sparingly furnished with short, 

 yellowish, and black liairs ; pars cephalica moderately convex, 

 frontal line sensibly rounded ; height of clypeus equal to 

 three-fourth diameter of a fore-centre eye ; pars thoracica 

 broad-ovate, moderately convex ; indentation longitudinal ; 

 normal grooves faint ; profile line inclined and visibly arched 

 across caj^ut, dips to thoracic junction at an angle of 50 deg. 



Posterior row of eyes sensibly procurved, equi-distant — 

 centrals slightly surpass laterals in size — posited on rather 

 low, fuscous tubercles, directed somewhat backwards ; anterior 

 row perceptibly recurved; centrals fully one-third larger 

 than hind pair, closer to one another — scarcely more than an 

 eye's breadth — than they are to the latter pair ; lateral eyes 

 placed on moderate, dark tubercular eminences, divided from 

 each other by an interval nearly equalling their diameter and 

 a half; fore-eyes sej)arated from anterior centrals by scarcely 

 their radius. 



Falces light ochreous; conical, vertical, base projects beyond 

 plane of clypeus ; space exceeds breadth of hind row of eyes, 

 length equal to about three-fourths of space. 



Maxillce colour of coxse ; gradually dilated, rounded, strongly 

 convex, moderately inclined towards each other. 



Labium tinged with green ; length surpassed by breadth, 

 rounded. ^ 



Siurnum greenish-yellow ; broad- cord ate. 



Legs ochraceous, green tinge ; patellary, tibial, and metatarsal 

 joints have lake reflections ; metatarsi and tarsi longitudinally 

 streaked with lake-brown ; moderately furnished with whitish 

 and black bristle-like hairs ; slender bristles and spines on 

 femoral, tibial, and metatarsal joints; tibial spines of first 

 pair one-third length of article. Scopula rather sparse ; 

 claw- tuft moderate. Tarsal claws — 1st pair, tolerably strong, 

 about 20 somewhat even comb teeth, free end sharply curved. 



Paljpi paler shade than falces, pars cubitalis tinged with 

 lake. Palpal claw short, well curved ; 5 teeth. 



Abdomen elongate-oviform ; yellowish pea-green ; dorsal 

 streak, evanescent posteriorly, moderately wdde, defined by 

 somewhat faint yellowish flecks. Hairs sparse, short, whitish 



