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cephalothorax, as a whole, are longer in proportion to their 

 width. 



Hispo and Holcolsetis are near Holoplatys, but we have no 

 representatives of these genera in our collection. 



Of this genus we have (Marptusa) planissima L. K., Arach- 

 niden Australiens, p. 1100, which was made the type of 

 Holoplatys by Simon in 1885, and (Marptusa) lencocomis L. 

 K., loc. cit., p. 1096. This latter species, although not so ex- 

 tremely flat and thin as planissima, agrees with it in its other 

 characteristics. 



GOLETA GEN. NOV. 

 Plate XII., Figs. 7—76. 



Goleta equals Ganesa P. 1885. The name Ganesa was 

 preoccupied. 



Small, low, flat spiders. 



The cephalothorax is flat and very low, and is nearly twice 

 as long as wide. It is a little contracted in front and behind, 

 but the sides are nearly parallel. The sides are vertical in 

 front, but widen out a little in the thoracic part. The abdomen is 

 long, slender and pointed. The first legs are much thickened. 



The quadrangle of the eyes is one-fourth wider than long, 

 is equally wide in front and behind, and occupies one-third of 

 the length of the cephalothorax. The first row of eyes is a lit- 

 tle curved downward. The middle eyes are more than twice as 

 large as the lateral, and they are all close together. The 

 second row is half-way between the first and the third rows. 

 The third row is not quite so wide as the cephalothorax at that 



place. 



Goleta is close to Hyctia, but diff'ers from it in having the 

 cephalothorax lower and twice as long as wide, and in having 

 the first row of eyes curved downward and the middle eyes of 

 this row more than twice as large as the lateral. Itata has the 

 first row straight or curved upward and is higher, not lower, 

 than Hyctia. Goleta, moreover, is much flatter than Itata. 



Goleta is nearest to Sadala, but has the cephalothorax 

 lower, and longer in proportion to its width, and is also dis- 

 tinguished by having the first row of ej^es curved downward. 



