1896. ] SPIDERS FROM THE LOWER AMAZONS. 739 
(1892). ¢, long. 14 mm. Hab. Rio, Brazil.—Of this species 
Simon says :—‘‘ Tarsi cuncti subtus scopulati,’ and also ‘“ Partes 
oris....(omnino mutice).” 
Genus Homa@ornacis, E. Simon. 
Type. H. pentodon, E. Simon (¢), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892, 
p- 275. @ 118 long. Hab. Brazil, S. Paulo de Olivenca. 
HOM@OPLACIS AUSTENI, n. sp.(¢)'. (Plate XXXIV. figs. 14, 
15, 16 a4 & b.) 
gd. Hab. Manaos, Lower Amazons. 12 mm. long. Type in 
coll. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
g.—Colowr. Carapace, sternum, and legs dull orange-brown. 
Abdomen mouse-grey. 
Carapace marked on the caput with three dark longitudinal 
lines, the central narrower, with a central and two lateral series of 
stiff curving black bristles. Thoracic area with converging lines of 
black bristles. Central fovea deep, procurved. Margin of cara- 
pace fringed with stiff curving black bristles. 
Abdomen shorter and narrower than carapace, clothed with dark 
mouse-grey pubescence and black hairs. Spinners four; pale 
straw-yellow; shorter than abdomen, Posterior pair three-jointed, 
with pseudo-joint at base; basal joint longest, middle joint half 
its length, terminal much shorter, globular. Anterior pair half 
the length of basals of posterior pair, almost contiguous. Man- 
dibles brown; sternum pale straw-yellow, furnished with black 
hairs. 
Carapace longer than broad ; cephalic area less than two-thirds 
the length of carapace ; central fovea deep, procurved. 
Ocular tumulus low, quadrate, narrower in front. Eyes opaline, 
set ina black ground. Anterior centrals large, half a diameter 
apart, not larger than anterior laterals, these being in front and 
close to the margin of the clypeus, half a diameter apart. Poste- 
rior laterals a little smaller than anterior centrals, and nearly one 
diameter from them. Posterior centrals very small, one diameter 
from anterior centrals, half a diameter from posterior laterals. 
Mandibles dark brown, furnished at apex with a rdteau formed 
of five long stout teeth or modified hairs. Fang-groove fringed on 
the outer side with a dense line of bright rufous hair; the inner 
margin furnished with a row of 8 stout conical teeth; the floor 
towards the base studded with a very few minute cusps. 
Sternum longer than broad. Sigilla i., ii., iii., iv. present, mar- 
ginal, the last three pairs scarcely noticeable. 
Labium broader than long, globular, not furnished at its apex 
with cusps. : 
* Thave much pleasure in associating this species with the name of Mr. H. H. 
Austen, to whom I am indebted for calling my attention to the specimen when 
collecting together near Mandos 
