J 899.] AXD SPIDERS mOJt TROPICAL WEST AFKICV. ^79^ 



hK Tibial process of palp stout, straightisli, hooked at 

 apex; tibire of legs with 3 pairs of spines ; "Jnd leg 

 considerably longer than 1st and about seven times 

 a^ long as carapace ; tibiae of palp with only 1 spine... rufilatus, sp. n. 



Sparassus (Olios) alhiaudi Simon (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, 

 p. 264), from Assinie, resembles -S. batesi in certain characters, for 

 example in having the carapace as wide as long and the mandibles 

 black ; but according to Simon the eyes of the anterior line are 

 procurved in -S'. aUmudi, whereas they are straight in S. hated and 

 the upperside of the abdomen is ornamented with a longitudinal, 

 lanceolate fuscous band. 



Paltstodes, gen. nov. 



Carapace about one-third longer than wide, rather low, mode- 

 rately convex, flat above longitudinally; the cephalic area not raised. 

 Ei/c's'oi posterior line nearly equidistant, very slightly recurved, 

 the medians larger than the laterals, which are sessile; those 

 of anterior line also equidistant, their lower edges on a level, the 

 medians much smaller than the laterals, their diameter less than 

 the radius of the latter ; cl\ pens low, less than the diameter ot 

 anterior medians ; quadrangle of median eyes much longer than 

 wide, wider behind than in front, the eyes subequal. 



Mandibles armed below with 3 teeth in front and 3 behind. 



Le(/s 1, 2, 4, 3, completely laterigrade, very long and slender. 



EecognizablefromPrt?^'/s^e5, to which it is most nearly related, by 

 having the carapace narrower and its upper surface flat from the 

 eyes to the posterior end of the thoracic fovea. In Pahjstes the 

 carapace is strongly convex longitudinally. 



Paltstodes pluiiosus, sp. n. (Plate LVIII. figs. 31, 31 a.) 

 S . Colour. Carapace castaneous, covered with a coating of 

 brownish hairs, mottled with darker and lighter patches ; mandibles 

 deep mahoganv, clothed with mottled greyish-yellow hairs ; labium 

 and maxillae black ; sternum black, striped with red bands, which 

 cross it transversely on a level with the coxa; ; coxae covered with 

 rich vellowish-red hairs, black in front ; legs blackish, femora spotted 

 with'white below, white spotted with black above, with tufts of 

 brownish hairs in front ; patella; white below ; tibiae with two white 

 stripes below, one median and one apical ; uppers'de of tarsi and 

 protarsi brownish, mottled with tufts of hair ; scopulse of tarsi and 

 protarsi rusty red : the colouring of the 4th leg less distinctly- 

 marked than that of the others ; apex of femora, tibiae, and protarsi, 

 especially of 4th leg, with short tufts of hair, somewhat as in 

 some species of Pandercetes : palpi black, mottled above, the hairs 

 more uniformly flavous below; tarsus covered with ferruginous 

 hairs, fuscous 'apically below. Abdomen mottled with greyish- 

 yellow above, with tufts of brown hairs, a short anterior median 

 black stripe, and on each side of the middle line a large semi- 

 circular black stripe, the anterior and posterior ends of which 



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