Falconer : .1 New Genus and Species oj Spider. 87 



Sternum dark brown, with a few long unequal scattered 

 hairs and a number of widely spaced small, shallow, punctate 

 impressions (fig. 3). 



Eyes all situated on black spots. Posterior centrals slightly 

 but clearly nearer to each other than to the laterals of the 

 same row, being less than i-^- times their diameter apart. The 

 anterior centrals less than once their diameter apart, and i-J- 

 times that distance from the laterals. 



Palpus dull yellow brown, and, with the exception of the 

 tarsus, very scantily supplied with hairs. Patella with a weak 

 apical bristle ; tibia, produced edge squarely truncate above 

 with a stiff bristle at the outer angle, more pointed beneath, 

 inferior surface of joint provided with one short, strong, curved 

 bristle, and the external margin with two long, slender .sinuous 

 bristles, one nearly twice the length of the other (figs. 5 and 7). 



Palpal Organs composed of various lobes and processes, 

 the chief of which are — 



1. A dark brown C-shaped process at the base on the- 



outer side (iig. 5c). 



2. A small process at the apex ending in a short dark 



blunt projection, the whole forming a rough 

 representation of a lepidopterous scale (fig. 5B, 

 projection visible only ; fig. 6, an enlarged view of 

 process). 



3. Also at apex in close proximity to (2) a lobe with an 



emarginate keel-like termination (fig. 5A). Careful 

 focussing is required to separate the two last. 



Legs. Yellow brown, becoming a duller dusky brown 

 towards the extremities'. 



Abdomen black, and much narrower than the cephalothorax. 

 rounded behind and squarely truncate in front ; in spirit, two 

 rows of round depressions, the posterior pair the largest and 

 most widely separated, are visible on the anterior half of the 

 abdomen (fig. i). The epigastric fold on the under surface is 

 thickened and distinct. 



Spinners black (dusky brown in the female), with pubes- 

 cence similar to that on the abdomen. 



The Female agrees with the male in colour and other general 

 characters. The eyes are, however, more closely grouped, 

 and the intervals not quite so great ; the posterior eyes are 

 equidistant or nearly so. The cephalothorax (fig. 2) is less 

 wide in proportion and the markings not quite so distinct ; 



1910 Feb. I. 



