84 Falconer : A AVu' Genus and Species of Spider. 



Eyes rather small, and eight in number, arranged in two 

 rows. Those of the posterior roiv equal in size, and, when 

 viewed from above, forming a line distinctly curved back- 

 wards, the centrals clearh- closer to each other than to the 

 laterals, the intervals being wider than the diameter of an eye. 

 In the female, the laterals are brought nearer to the centrals, 

 so that they become equidistant or nearly so. The anterior 

 eyes viewed from the front, in a straight line ; the centrals 

 decidedly the smallest of the eight, and very close together, a 

 much greater interval separating them from the laterals, which 

 are equal in size to the eyes of the posterior row. 



Central eye space much longer than wide, and much 

 narrower in front than behind. 



Lateral eyes on each side in contact, and situated on fairly 

 strong oblique prominences, the anterior portions of which are 

 more raised than the posterior. 



Falces moderately stout, about equal in length to the 

 facial space ; obliquely truncate on the inner side, somewhat 

 attenuated and slightly divergent towards the extremity, a 

 little angular in the $. Upper margin of fang groove furnished 

 with three short, equal, equidistant teeth. Loioer margin 

 without teeth. Fang long and very slender. 



Maxillae very short and wide at the base at the point 

 where the palpi are inserted, their length and ba§al width being 

 about equal. At first parallel, then in the apical half a little 

 inclined to each other in front of the labium ; truncate at the 

 extremity, the upper angle of which is shortly and obtusely 

 produced. 



Labium small, at least twice as wide as long, thickened and 

 reflexed at the apex in somewhat triangular form ; deeply and 

 transversely impressed at the base. 



Sternum broadly heartshaped, very little longer than wide, 

 slightly convex, terminating between the coxae of the posterior 

 pair of legs in a moderately wide, parallel sided prolongation 

 which is truncate at its extremity and inflexed. 



Palpus slender ; palpal organs and tarsus small. Femur 

 long, incurved, and enlarged upwards. Patella slenderer than 

 the femur, short and enlarged at its distal end. Tibia short 

 and wide, produced all round (most so above and beneath), 

 forming an irregular margin but without apophyses, very little 

 shorter than the patella. Palpal organs fairly complex, and 

 devoid of along circular or rolled exserted spine at the extremity. 



Naturalist. 



