CHAMBERLIN: THE ARACHNIDA. 219 
family (Hist. nat. Araign., 1, p. 325) “la griffe inferieure est assez 
petite et toujours mutique; chez les Nops elle est remplacée aux 
paires antérieures par deux petites lames membraneuses.” But 
since in the case of the present species both the claw and the laminae 
are present at the same time, we cannot look upon the development 
of the laminae as such a replacing. The median claw is higher than 
usual in position, being inserted on a level with and lying between 
the paired claws so that it is easily overlooked; it is quite possible, 
therefore, that it will be found in some degree of development in 
other species. The superior spinnerets seem to be relatively consid- 
erably shorter than usual. The color-pattern of the abdomen is 
distinctive. In our present state of knowledge, it is impossible to 
give a wholly satisfactory judgment as to the position and relation- 
ships of the present form. 
DRASSIDAE. 
DRASSODES sp. 
An immature specimen of uncertain species was taken at Cuzco, 
11,500 feet, in July. (M. C. Z. 169). 
DRASSODES ARAUCANIUS,! sp. nov. 
Plate 11, fig. 4-8; Plate 12, figs. 1-2. 
/ 
Carapace light brown or testaceous; eyes, excepting sometimes the 
posterior medians, ringed with black and the intervening area in some 
dusky. Chelicerae brown to dilute chestnut. Sternum and endites 
like the carapace; labium dark dusky brown to dusky chestnut. 
Legs light brown or testaceous, the anterior pairs darker distally. 
‘Tarsus of palpus abruptly darker than proximal joints. Abdomen 
clear brown-grey without markings, paler beneath than above. Cara- 
pace clothed with numerous fine greyish hairs, a large proportion of 
which are plumose, with coarser, black, more erect hairs sparsely 
intermixed. Sternum densely clothed with similar mostly plumose 
hairs and sparsely with coarser, more bristle-like, black hairs. Legs 
clothed with finer appressed plumose grey hairs, more erect, stiffer 
1 Araucania, a tribe of South American Indians. 
