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being broad and heavy and furnished with heavy spines 

 and hairs. For a drawing of the epigynum of Chirothecia 

 L'laTOnana, see Plate XVI., Fig. 2. 



HARMOCHIRUS SIMON. 



The cephalothorax is liigh, and is a Uttle longer than wide. 

 Its widest point is at the dorsal ej^es, and from there it contracts 

 strongly in front and behind. The sides are nearly vertical. 

 Behind, it slopes very steeply from just behind the dorsal eyes. 



The quadrangle of the e3'es is only one-fifth wider than 

 long, is much wider behind than in front, and occupies two- 

 thirds of the cephalothorax. The anterior eyes are in a slighth^ 

 curved row, and are close together ; the middle are less than 

 twice as large as the lateral. The second row of eyes is a little 

 nearer the third than the first. The third row is as wide as 

 the cephalothorax at that place. 



The first legs and the long cephalic part of this genus at 

 once recall Chirothecia. The latter genus, however, has a low, 

 flat cephalothorax, which is plainly longer than wide. 



Harmochirus is, perhaps, most likely to be confused with 

 Zygoballus, but in this genus the quadrangle occupies but little 

 more than half of the cephalothorax. Zygoballus, moreover, 

 is found in North America, Centi'al America, and the West 

 Indies, Chirothecia in South America, and Harmochirus in 

 Asia and Africa. 



The type of this genus is Harmochirus malaccensis Simon, 

 Faune Arachnologique de I'Asie Meridionale, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 de France, T. X., 1885, p. 5. The onl}^ species which we have 

 was sent to us by M. Simon, named Harmochirus albi-barbis, 

 but Ave believe that it is now published for the first time. 



HARM0(3HIRUS ALBI-BARBIS SP. NOV. 



Plate XVI., Figs. 3—36. 



S. Length, 3. Length of cephalothorax, 1.7; width of 

 cephalothorax, 1.5. 



Legs, 1423 ; those of the first pair much enlarged, a good 

 deal like tliose of Chirothecia, the tibia having a 

 row of stiff bristles above and below. 



