Falconer: A New Genus a fid Species of Spider. 85 



Legs. Order of length 4, i, 2, 3, all tarsi a little shorter 

 than the metatarsi, which in turn are shorter than the tibiae ; 

 moderately long and stout, well covered with long stiff hairs, 

 many of which spring from small black raised bases ; some of 

 these hairs, especially beneath the femora and tibiae, are of a 

 more bristly nature, and form conspicuous rows of almost 

 spine-like character. Posterior coxae separated by a distance 

 rather less than the diameter of one of them ; in the male they 

 are narrowly and bluntl}^ produced on the inner side at the 

 extremity. Femora stout, swollen beneath, having below their 

 extremity two long, slender, conspicuous bristles. Geniiac 

 provided with an apical bristle, strongest in III. and IV., weak 

 in I. and II. Tibiae, spine on III. and IV. slender, and much 

 longer than the diameter of the joint, and situated in the basal 

 third ; on I. and III. two shorter and weaker spines, the addi- 

 tional one being in the apical third. They are furnished with 

 one or two (in IV. there are three) sensory setae, one situated 

 just before the middle, and the others where present, in the 

 distal half of the joint. Metatarsi also provided with one 

 sensory seta, near the middle of the joint. 



Tarsal claws w^eak and slender. 



Abdomen slender and oblong oval in the male, stouter and 

 more broadly oval in the female, clothed with long strong hairs ; 

 on the under surface, in both sexes, just in front of the spinners, 

 in a curved fold of the integument is a narrow transverse slit 

 opening into the breathing apparatus (fig. 9). 



Spinners short, stout, converging from base, four in number, 

 upper and lower pair equal in length, set in a shallow circular 

 depression and concealed from above by an outward anal 

 prolongation of the abdomen. 



Eboria possesses characteristics which make it difficult to 

 assign it to its true position. It has been considered to have 

 some correspondence with Cnephalocotes Sim, but the much 

 wider posterior termination of the sternum, the shorter and 

 less hairy legs, the spine on tibia IV. shorter than the 

 diameter of the joint, and placed beyond the basal third, and 

 the large palpal organs with a long exserted spine of the latter 

 genus will easily differentiate them. It seems more correctly 

 to belong to that sub-section of the Erigoneae, in which an 

 abdominal scutum is absent, the anterior eyes in a straight 

 line, and the posterior row curved backwards ; and to that 

 part of it in which the eyes, instead of being very minute and 



icio Feb. I. 



