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showing also behind the spots two or three pure white chev- 

 rons. In these, also, the cephalothorax is red rather than gray. 

 The legs are brown, the first pair a little the darkest, covered 

 with black and white hairs. 



In this species the widening out of the cephalothorax is 

 more decided than in mucosa, but is not so marked as in famili- 

 aris. 



We have received numerous examples from Tokio, Japan, 

 through the kindness of Mr. Isao Ijima. 



BREDA GEN. NOV. 



Rather large spiders. 



The cephalothorax is rather flat, and is one-third wider 

 than long. It is moderately high ; the sides are rounded and 

 widen out plainly at the anterior end, and still more behind 

 the dorsal eyes. The thorax has a small plate above, which 

 rounds off on the sides and behind. The cephalic part is a 

 little inclined forward. The quadrangle of the eyes is one- 

 fourth wider than long, is equally wide in front and behind, or 

 a little wider in front, and occupies a little less than two-fifths 

 of the cephalothorax. The anterior eyes are large and promi- 

 nent and form a straight row. The middle are sub-touching, 

 and are barely twice as large as the lateral, which are a little 

 separated from them. The second row of eyes is slightly nearer 

 the first than the third. The dorsal eyes are about as large as 

 the lateral and form a row which is narrower than the 

 cephalothorax at that place. 



In Breda the abdomen is not flattened, as in Marptusa, nor 

 pointed behind, as in Epinga. Some of the species are much 

 like Balmaceda, but in that genus the cephalothorax is flat- 

 tened throughout nearly its whole length instead of having the 

 thoracic part rounded, as in Breda. 



Breda differs from all the allied genera, excepting Marptusa 

 and Epinga, in being so wide at the anterior end of the cephalo- 

 thorax that the second row of eyes is plainly narrower than the 

 cephalothorax at that place. This peculiarity is much more ex- 

 aggerated in milvina than in Lubomirskii. 



