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b. Patella, tibia, and distal joint of palpi dark brown, yellow- 

 brown or deep yellow. 

 a". Eye-tubercle denticulated ; carapace dark brown. 



a^. Palpi black brown iiigriypalpis Foe. &nA 



subsp. spicidosa Poc. 



h'-^. Palpi pale yellow-brown pococki, S]p. n. 



b'. E^-e-tubercle smooth. 

 a*. Spiniform tubercles on frontal area ; palpi uni- 

 formly black jenningsi Poc. 



6^. Carapace wholly smooth. 

 a''. A short spine on trochanter i. ; palpi yellow, 



banded with brown ; carapace tortoise-shell ... grayi,s'p.n. 

 6'. Trochanter i. smooth, 

 a''. Palpi yellow, blotched with grey ; carapace 



dark j'ellow-brown tasmanica Y{i)gg. 



b^. Palpi reddish brown ; red and grey stripes on 



rear segments of abdomen coronataVoc. 



c". Palpi orange ; carapace yellow-grey, with 



brown patches ; legs bright yellow-brown ... /2aWJ, sp. n. 



Pantopsalis listeri White. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 6. 

 Type species. 



Pantopsalis nigripalpis Poc. 



Pocock, " Some new Harvest Spiders," Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond. 1902, vol. ii. p. 399; id., " Some new Tropical an<l 



Southern Opiliones," Ana. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xi. 



1903, p. 438. 



A specimen with the eye-tubercle and surrounding portion of 



the carapace more strongly denticulated, Mr. Pocock has named 



as a subspecies of the above, P. spicidosa. 



Pantopsalis coronata Poc. 



Pocock, Ann. &, Mag. Nat. Hist, sujyra, p. 436. 



Pantopsalis trippi Poc, 



Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, stcjjra, p. 437. 



Pantopsalis jenningsi Poc. 



Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, supra, p. 437. 



Pantopsalis tasmanica Hogg. 



Hogg, "Some New Zealand and Tasmanian Arachnidse," 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst. vol. xlii. 1910, p. 279. 



Pantopsalis wattsi, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 3 c.) 



The cejjhalic area is dark yellow-brown in front over a median 

 space as far as and including the eye-tubercle. This is bounded 

 by a wide horseshoe belt of bright cream-colour, beyond which 



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