1899.] - NEW EXOi'IC AEANEIDEA. 529 



some indistinct lines of the same colour on the sides, and some 

 similar patches round the fore part of the ocular area. The 

 whole surface is granulose or pock-marked, and pretty thickly 

 covered with short, stout, pale, somewhat squamiform hairs disposed 

 in pretty regular lines ; but there do not appear to be any of these 

 hairs on the hinder slope. 



Eyes in two transverse concentrically curved rows, occupying 

 the whole width of the caput. The central quadrangle is much 

 broader than long, and its fore-side slightly shorter than the 

 hinder one. The interval between the central eyes of each row 

 is much greater than that between them and the lateral eyes. 

 The eyes of the lateral pairs are larger than the rest ; the hind- 

 centrals being the smallest. 



Falces rather short, powerful, slightly tapering or subconical, of 

 a deep reddish-brown colour, covered with hairs similar to those 

 on the cephalothorax. 



Legs short, not greatly differing in length, robust, 2-1-4-3. 

 Spines almost entirely absent, one only beneath each of the tibiae of 

 the 1st and 2nd pairs. Colour rather pale yellow-brown, the 

 femora suffused with a deeper brown. Tarsi of the first and second 

 pairs of a somewhat elongate-oval form, terminating in a thin 

 claw-tuft, but without scopula ; tarsi of the two posterior pairs 

 •rather more of a slightly tapering form. Tarsi and metatarsi of 

 equal length. 



Palpi yellow-brown, short and strong ; digital joint large, and 

 of a somewhat flattened elongate-oval form. 



Maxillce and labium (much obscured by some foreign matter) 

 apparently very similar to those of Boliscus Sim., and of a darkish 

 yellow-brown colour. 



Sternum longer than broad, oval, hollow-truncate before or 

 heart-shaped. 



Abdomen broader than long, nearly circidar behind, a little 

 flattened in front. Colour dull brownish, somewhat marked and 

 marbled with whitish, especially on the anterior half ; an irregular 

 blackish marking occupies each side of the fore-margin, with a 

 short whitish rim between them ; and on the hinder part are some 

 broken transverse brown lines or bars. The underside is pale 

 brownish yellow with a diffused dark brown margin, and a large 

 quadrate central patch of the same colour. Spinners short, 

 compact, and enclosed or sunken within a marginal oval rim. 

 Genital aperture small, but of characteristic form. 



Hab. Ceylon, received from Mr. Ernest E. Green, to whom I 

 am also indebted for other valuable spiders now in course of 

 examination. 



MoN^SES ATTENUATUS, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 11.) 



Adult male, length very nearly 3 lines. 



Cephaloiliorax longer than broad, broadest at the caput just 

 behind the eyes, narrowing a little and gradually to the hinder 

 extremity, which is broad and a little rounded. Lateral marginal 



