1908.] 



MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. 



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3. Some Australasian Spiders. 

 By H. R. Hogg, M.A., F.Z.S. 



[Received March 16, 1908.] 

 (Text-figures 72-75*.) 



Genus MissuLENA "Walck. 



MissuLENA (Eriodon) occatoria Walck, 



Mr. W. J. Rainbow, F.L.S., of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 

 was good enough to send me a female of the above genus, one of 

 three found by him at Enfield, a suburb of Sydney. 



Text-fig. 72. 



d 



Missulena occatoria Walck. 

 a. Eyes from above. I c. Tarsal claws. 



6. Under side of body. X 2. | rf. Profile. Nat. size. 



This agrees so closely with the description given by M. Lucas 

 in 1865 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 309, pi. 8) of the 

 specimen identified by him as the above, the type species of the 

 genus, by comparison with Walckenaer's original type, that I have 

 no doubt of its being the same. 



I give the following particulars as so little is known of the 

 species; and as the two specimens (the type and M. Lucas's) 



* Note. — The figures given in the eye-diagrams are Jy millimetre. 



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