1899.] KEW EXOTIC AllANEIDEA. 519 



of the spider when alive, drawn by Mrs. Dimock Brown. It is 

 nearly allied to, but, I think, quite distinct from, Poltys fvrcifer 

 Simon (a Zanzibar species). The drawings (figs. 4 a, 4 6, 4 c, 

 PI. XXIX.) represent this spider suspended by the terminal tarsal 

 claws to its web, in a state of rest. 



Fam. Theeaphosid^. 



EvAGETJs PEiSTiNUS, sp. n. (Plate XXIX. fig. 1.) 



Adult male, length rather oyer 4 lines. 



General form and structure normal. 



Cephalotliorax yellow-brown, with somewhat indistinct radiating 

 stripes of a darker hue. 



Falces similar in colour, their upperside furnished with a wedge- 

 shaped area of strong prominent bristles, the point of the wedge 

 directed backwards. 



Legs also similar in colour, strong, moderate in length, 4-1-2-3. 

 Tibiae of the second pair very strong, rather prominent underneath, 

 where the larger anterior half is furnished with 11-12 strong 

 spines increasing in length backwards, the last three being dis- 

 proportionately long and strong. The metatarsi of this pair are 

 rather longer than the tarsi and are of a slightly sinuous form, 

 with two somewhat obtusely conical diffused prominences, one on 

 either side, underneath. 



Thepa?/9^ are of moderate length, and strong; the radial joint 

 is about double the length of the cubital and much stronger, 

 considerably convex and prominent on the upperside, and of a 

 somewhat oval form, clothed with long bristles and hairs, some of 

 the former, on the upper and under sides, being almost spines, 

 and others in a denser group near the hinder extremity outside ; 

 the digital joint is short, broadest at its extremity which has a 

 truncated appearance, with a largish obtuse lobe near the middle 

 of the inner side. The palpal organs are of the ordinary simple 

 Theraphosid form, consisting of a pyriform bulb, the anterior 

 portion drawn out gradually into a long tapering spine ending in 

 a fine hair-like point. The bulb is of a pale brownish-yellow 

 colour, and along its inner side is a broad, curved, very distinctly 

 defined yellow-brown band indicating the position of the seminal 

 duct. 



Labium broad, as broad as the fore extremity of the sternum, 

 low, of a somewhat semicircular or crescent form, with a slight 

 appearance of emargination at the apex, where there are a few 

 short bristly hairs but no spines. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, yellowish brown, pretty thickly clothed 

 with long, somewhat golden-brown bristly hairs. Superior pair of 

 spinners long, tapering, as long as (or even slightly longer thai^) 

 the abdomen ; the first and second joints are of equal length, the 

 third, or terminal one, much the longest. 



A single example received many years ago from Bogota. 



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