572 REV. O. p. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIDEA. [June 19, 



PODOPHTHALMA DIVERSA, Sp. tl. (Plate LVII. fig. 9.) 



Immature female, length 6 lines. 



This Spicier is nearly allied to P. incertUf Camb. 



The cephalothorax is broad, round, oval behind, greatly constricted 

 laterally at the caput, which is rather produced and truncated in 

 front. Although closely resembling in its form that of the typical 

 Podophthalma, the cephalothorax is perhaps more nearly like that 

 of Agelena and Textrix, with which genera there is no doubt an 

 aflBnity, although in a linear arrangement these genera are removed 

 at a great distance from Podophthalma (see introductory remarks, 

 p. 5.o8). The colour of the cephalothorax is yellow-brown, pretty 

 thickly clothed with greyish-yellow pubescence. 



The eyes are in the same position as those of P. incerta. The 

 exterior ones, however, of the foremost row are not so near to the 

 exterior (lower) corners of the clypeus ; and the central pair of this 

 row are distinctly (rather considerabIy,[in fact) smaller than the rest. 

 In this Spider, as well as in the last, P. incerta, the ocular area, 

 looked at in profile, is less flattened, and thus the eyes of the third 

 row project more forwards. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength ; their relative 

 length is 4, 1, 2, 3. They are of a pale yellow-brown colour, fur- 

 nished with hairs, bristles, and slender spines ; and each tarsus ter- 

 minates with three curved claws, of which those of the superior pair 

 are strong and pectinated, and the inferior one is small. 



The palpi are slender, of moderate length, and similar to the legs 

 in colour and armature, terminating with a single, curved, pectinated 

 claw. 



The falces are straight, perpendicular, moderate in length and 

 strength, similar to the cephalothorax in colour, and furnished in 

 front with numerous bristles. 



The maxillcB and labium are of normal form ; the former are dull 

 pale yellow, and the latter is tinged with yellow-brown. 



The sternum is yellow-brown, darkest along the middle, of an 

 oval heart-shape, and clothed with numerous erect bristly hairs. 



The abdomen is of an elongate-oval form, pretty densely clothed 

 with grey and other hairs intermixed with some prominent dark 

 bristly ones. It is of a yellowish-brown colour, with a broad central 

 longitudinal band on the upperside, the margins indented, and each 

 indentation marked conspicuously with a patch of white hairs, and 

 joined to the corresponding indentation on the opposite side by a 

 slightly curved line of similar hairs ; these transverse curved white 

 lines are most conspicuous on the hinder half. The sides are closely 

 marked with parallel broken lines of dark-brown elongate spots ; and 

 the underside is tinged with darker yellow-brown, which, however, is 

 obscured by the clothing of short yellow-grey pubescent hairs. 



The spinners of the superior pair are rather longer than tliose of 

 the inferior, though less strong. 



Several examples (all immature females) were collected by Mr. 

 Henry Rogers, in Minas Geraes, Brazil. 



