Rainbow — Akachnida 269 



reflections, clothed with long dark hairs, sides declivous. Pars thoracica 

 liroad, sloping sharply to ])Osterior extremity, clothed with hoary hairs, median 

 area yellow, posterior area fuscous. Legs yellow, clothed with dark hairs 

 and armed with long, strong, dark spines, coxae and trochanters pallid: legs 

 i and ii robust. Relative lengths, 4, 3. 1, 2. Pal])i short, hairy, coxa, 

 trochanter, femur and (latella pallid : tibia and tarsus yellow : tibia furnished 

 with an acutch' jiointed apophysis: bulb elongate, obtuse. Falces yellow, 

 arched: inferior ridge of the furrow of each falx furnished with one broad, 

 wedge-shaped tooth: onl}- one small isolated tooth visible on superior ridge; 

 fang, short, strong. Maxillae club-shaped, arched, lateral angles obtuse, pale 

 \ellow, inner angles pallid. Labium rather longer than broad, arched, mellow, 

 apex pallid ; at the base there is, on each side, an oblique groove, shaped some- 

 what like an isosceles triangle. Sternum pallid, elongate, arched, attenuated 

 i-ti front. Abdomen oval, slightly overhanging base of cephalothorax, arched, 

 hairv, vellow : superior surface and sides pencilled with dark-brown : pos- 

 terior extremit\- obtusely acuminate : inferior surface pale-yellow, unmarked. 

 Spinnerets vellow, hairy, cylindrical. Type. I. 11545. 



SIMAETHA TENUIDENS Keys. (N.L) 



PSEUDOMAEVIA gen. nov. 



Ce]ihal(ithorax elongate, flat, sides curved, somewhat declivous. 

 Pars ce]ihalica elongate, narrow in front. I'ars thoracica short, narrowest 

 posteriorlv. T^ves in three rows of 4. 2, 2. Front row recurved, contiguous, 

 lateral eves smaller than the medians, second row minute, and i)laced nearest 

 to anterior row : third row placed well back, and larger than the anterior 

 laterals. .Awterior ]iair of legs robust and armed with powerful s])ines : no 

 spines on legs ii. iii, and \v. Relatix'e lengths, 1, 4, 2, 3. Palpi short, not 

 strong: genital bulb simple. Falces short, strong, arched: inferior margin of 

 each falx fissidentate. Maxillae club-shajied, elongate. Pallium elongate, 

 narrow, coniform. Sternmn elongate, narrow, truncated in front, acuminate 

 posteriorly ; lateral angles excavated in front, and at rear to receive anterior 

 and posterior coxae, .\bdomen elongate. 



PSEUDOMAEVIA COGNATA sp. nov. (L.H.I.) 

 (PI. xxxi, figs. 123-127.) 

 d Ce]5halothorax, 4 2 mm. long, 2 -5 mm. broad ; abdomen, 5 -4 mm. 

 long. 2 -3 mm. broad. 



