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ME. B. I, POCOCK ON ETHIOPIAN SPIDERS. [June 15, 



The following species of this group have been described. All are 

 unknown to me : — 



Phoneyusa belandana, Karsch, Berl. eut. Zeits. 1884, p. 347, 348 ; 

 from Niam Niam (Central Africa). 



PJioneyusa biittneri, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1886, p. 83, from 

 'Sibangefarm (Gaboon). 



. Phoneijusa antilope, Simon, Act. Soc. L. Bordeaux, xlii. p. 414 

 (1889), from Tomby (Congo). 



Phoneyiisa gracilipes, id. ibid., Landana (Congo). 



Phoyieyusa ectypa, id, loc. cit. p. 415, from Abyssinia. 



The following species also probably belongs to this genus : — 

 Selenocosmia nigroventris, Marx, Proc. U. S. Museum, xvi. p. 587, 

 pi. 70. fig. 1 (1893), from the Congo. 



Genus Htsteeocrates, Sim., 



Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 153 ( = JIysterocrates+ PJioneyusa, Sim. 

 ibid. ; not PJioneyusa, Karsch). 



The examination of a longer series of forms than Mons. Simon 

 had an opportunity of studying conviuces me that the characters 

 he relied upon to distinguish generically the two species named 

 gresJioffi, Sim., from the Congo, axiAgreefi, Karsch, from St. Thomas 

 in the Gulf of Guinea — regarded respectively as the types of 

 Hysterocrates and PJioneyusa— are merely of specific rank, practically 

 every gradation being traceable between the two. According to 

 Simon, Hysterocrates might be recognized by having the 4th tibia 

 very much swollen and the tarsus of the palp in the female not 

 tumid above. 



HXSTEEOCEATES GIGAS, sp. n. 



$ . — Colour : body and limbs covered with a dense clothing of 

 brownish or rusty-red hairs ; the bristles greyish red. 



CarajMce much longer than va ide, its width a iittie greater than 

 the length of the 4th femur, the length equalhng tlie length of 

 the patella and tibia of the same leg ; cephalic region rather high, 

 defined by conspicuous grooves ; the fovea small, crescentic, the 

 area between the horns of the crescent elevated : ocular tubercle 

 small, a httle wider than the fovea, the width equal to the length 

 + the narrow clypeal area, which is about equal to the diameter 

 of a median eye. Eyes of front series very slightly procurved, sub- 

 equal in size (the median a little larger) and unequally spaced, the 

 distance between the medians being only a little less than their 

 diameter, that between the median and lateral about equal to the 

 small diameter of the lateral ; the posterior line of eyes slightly 

 recurved, the lateral noticeably smaller than the anterior lateral, 

 tlie space between them about as wide as the space between anterior 

 lateral and anterior median. 



Sternum wide, narrowed between the 1st coxbb, widest between 

 the coxae of the 2nd legs ; the posterior impressions far removed 

 from the edge, the distance between them about equal to the 



