132 PECKHAM. [Vol. 2, 



This species, of which we haA-^e one male and several fe- 

 males, from Madagascar, is much like Padilla cornuta in the 

 shape of the cephalothorax and in the ttiickening of the first 

 legs. In cornuta, however, the abdomen is much more slender 

 and graceful and is marked with longitudinal bands instead of 

 with spots ; and the horns are almost straight, while in armata 

 the}' have a double curve. 



SADAL.l PECKHAM. 

 Plate XIIL, Figs. 4—46. 



Small, flat spiders, with long, pointed abdomens. 



The cephalothorax is rather low, and is wide in proportion 

 to its length. It is flattened above and is widest behind the 

 dorsal eyes. The sides are not quite vertical. The quadrangle 

 of the eyes is from one-fourth to one-third wider than long, is 

 equally wide in front and behind, or wider in front, and occu- 

 pies at least two-fifths of the cephalothorax. The anterior eyes 

 a;re in a straight or slightly curved row, the middle being from 

 two-and-a-half to three times as large as the lateral eyes. The 

 middle eyes are close together, the lateral a little separated from 

 them. The second row is plainty nearer the first than the 

 third. The third row is nearly as wide as the cephalothorax at 

 that place. I'he eyes of this row are further from each other 

 than from the lateral borders. 



This genus is very near Anoka, but Anoka is wider and 

 not so flat. It is not so low, nor so long in proportion to its 

 width as Goleta ; in this latter genus, moreover, the cephalic 

 part occupies only one-third of the cephalothorax, and the 

 cephalothorax is twice as long as wide ; and the first row of 

 eyes is curved downward. 



Sadala is most easil)' distinguished from Balmaceda and 

 Omura by the greater relative size of the middle eyes of the 

 first roM'. The cephalothorax is flatter, as a whole, in Balma- 

 ceda, almost the whole thorax being on the same plane with the 

 cephalic part. The abdomen is flattened in Balmaceda and 

 cvlindrical in Sadala. 



