240 Rkcords ok the S.A. Museum 



MONETA VARIABILIS sp. nov. (L.H.I.) 

 (I'l. xxviii, figs. 30-34.) 



d Ccphaltitliurax. 1-2 mm. long-. 1 mm. broad; abdomen, 2-8 mm. long, 

 1 '3 mm. Ijroad. 



Cc'iihalothorax ovate, yellow, with smoky patches, obtuse in fr(.)nt, sides 

 '.veil rounded, thoracic groove distinct. Pars cephalica arched, sloping for- 

 \\ ard ; ocular area occupying almost entire width of cejihalic segment ; cly])eus 

 narrow. Pars thoracica broad, arched, radial grooves present but indistinct : 

 marginal band narrow. Legs long, yellow, with smoky annulations, tapering, 

 very finely pubescent. Relati\-e lengths. 1, 4, 2, 3. Pal])i as long as cephalo- 

 thorax, concolorous with legs, finely pubescent, genital Inilb large, i^ear- 

 shaped, complicated, hair}-. Falces pale yello\\\ small, weak, parallel. Maxillae 

 concolorous with foregoing, arched, short, wide at base, apices attenuated and 

 strongly inclined inwards. Labium concolorous with maxillae, longer than 

 wide, arched, apex attenuated . and truncated. Sternum jiale yellow, lateral 

 angles smoky-yellow, very slightly arched, pubescent. ellii>tical, lirieflx- attenu- 

 ated in fmnt, posterior extremity broadly obtuse, and terminating between 

 fourth jiair of coxae. Abdomen elongate, arched, anterior angle strongly 

 indented, not overhanging base of cephalothorax, widest just beyond the 

 middle, from whence it narrows off, tern-iinating obtusely ; superii)r surface 

 and sides vellowish-grev, spotted and streaked with yellow-brciw-n : inferior 

 surface pale-yellow, laterally with faintly distinct darker yellow markings ; at 

 the middle there is a large, suk ik\-yellow patch ; this latter commences imme- 

 diately below the rima epigasteris and terminates in an acute point in front 

 of spinnerets; the area in front of the rima epigasteris is smoky-yellow also, 

 with paler lateral and median marks ; in addition t<i these there is a somewhat 

 large and prominent Idack m,.-dirin spc ■( : petiole pale yellow. 



9 Cephalothora.x. 1 .^ nnn. long, LI mm. broad; abdomen, 3-5 mm. 

 long; anterior angle, 1 -1 mm. broad : breadth at widest point, 2-1 mm. 



Cephalothorax, falces, maxillae, labium and sternum, similar U> those of 

 the male. Lyes as in the latter. Legs long, concolon^us with those of the 

 male, but proportionately shorter. I^elative lengths, L 4, 2, 3. I'alpi short, 

 weak, concolorous with legs. Abdomen not overhanging cephalothorax. 

 narrow in front, where it is deeply indented, ascending to just beyond the 

 middle, where it is nnich the broadest, and from whence it narrows off, 

 terniin;iting in an olituse point; arched, sides declivious; sujierior surface 

 creamy-vellow, reticulated with yellow-brown; running down the middle for 

 about one-half its length there is a broad median l)ar. the outline of which is 



