728 MR. F. 0. PICKARD CAMBRIDGE ON [June 16, 
Genus Anisasprs, E. Simon. 
Type. A. tuberculata, B. Sim. (@ ), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 549. 
Hab. St. Vincent, West Indies. 4-6 mm. long. 
Types, three females in coll. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.’ (Plate 
XXXIV. figs. 3, 4, 5.) 
Having carefully examined the three specimens referred to 
above, I find that, doubtless owing to an oversight by the author, 
they do not entirely agree with the generic diagnosis given 
in Hist. Nat. Ar. i. 1, 1892, p. 78, in, at any rate, one very im- 
portant character—* Cephalothoraa humilis et fovea carens.” This 
character is certainly not distinctive of the type specimens. Being 
encrusted with grit, a feature which seems to be common to the 
females of this subfamily, and the central fovea being filled up, it 
doubtless escaped observation. From two of the three specimens 
however, this grit was carefully removed, and a distinct, deep 
fovea laid bare. The other specimen certainly to all appearance 
merits the description “‘ Cephalothorax humilis et fovea carens” ; 
but it is only in the appearance that it does so. 
There are three characters, however, in which these type 
specimens differ from the female to which I have assigned a new 
generic position (Anisaspoides), as well as from Paratropis. Simon 
says of them :—“ Mamille duce—ultimo medio multo breviore et sub- 
rotundato”’; “ parte labiali wpice arcuata et remote spinulosa” ; and 
“ nedum ungue inferiore nullo.” 
Whether the last of these characters is of any real significance 
for purposes of classification in a group in which there is evidently 
a tendency towards obliteration of the inferior tarsal claw, I am 
not in a position to judge ; but, for the present, one would scarcely 
be justified in including in a genus, of which one of the chief 
characters lies in the total absence of the inferior tarsal claw, a 
spider which possesses a distinct inferior claw on the tarsi of the 
first two pairs of legs. 
A. Mannill lee fut Pe eaascsssee: obdecnne ose f= -cen-pr-esinnnncesspaces se Paratropis, Sim. 
IB. Mami) ize tWO ae ceveakedoeccestuctscce sce arevere=sbareseausear 
Genus Acrrnorts, Perty, 1833. 
(Type, A. tarsalis, Perty.) 
ACTINOPUS WALLACEI*,n. sp. (Plate XXXV. fig. 18.) 
@. Hab. Santarem. Type in coll. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1896. 
Colour.— Carapace pale testaceous brown, cephalic area darker. 
Base and centre of thoracic area pale testaceous. Base of man- 
dibles very dark brown, clothed along the ridge and over the apex 
1 The specific name under which the type is described in op. cét. is “ tuber- 
culata,” not “ bacillifera” as quoted, no doubt by an oversight, in Hist. Nat. 
Ar. 1892, i. 1, p. 78. 
2 [ have much pleasure in connecting this species with the name of Mr. W. 
Wallace (senior), of Santarem, through whose courtesy I was enabled to spend 
a fortnight in the heart of the forest, lodging in his plantation at the Sitio 
Andirobal. 
