160 PECKHAM. \\o\. 2, 



quadrangle is always plainly, and usually very much, wider 

 behind than in front. In the third genus, Anamosa, the lateral 

 ej^es of the first row are well separated from the middle eyes, 

 as in Homalattus, while the quadrangle is plainly, or very 

 much, wider behind, as in Rhene. 



Most of the Australian species described by L. Koch under 

 the genus Homalattus would seem, from the drawings, to be- 

 long to Rhene. Of Thorell's species, two, Homalattus margar- 

 ops and Homalattus hirsutus, seem to belong to Anamosa, 

 while the others would probably fall into Rhene. 



HOMALATTUS MAOCUNI SP. NOV. 



Plate XV., Figs. 1— Ic. 



9 . Length, 5. Length of cephalothorax, 2.5 ; width of 

 cephalothorax, 2.5. 



Legs, 1423. 



The quadrangle of the eyes is one-sixth wider behind than 

 it is in front. The first row is very slightly curved. The cly- 

 peus is somewhat depressed between the middle eyes of this row 

 and the falces, which are prominent, stout and vertical. The 

 lateral eyes of the first row are plainly more than half as large 

 as the middle eyes. The sides of the cephalothorax are ver- 

 tical. 



The whole spider is dark brown, with a covering of white 

 hairs, which grow long on the clypeus and on the anterior end 

 of the abdomen. There is sometimes a tinge of red discerni- 

 ble in the hairs just above the middle eyes of the first ^ow^ 

 The face is covered with short, white hairs. On the back of the 

 abdomen are six indented dots, and over these the hairs in un- 

 rubbed specimens form snowy white spots ; near the spinnerets 

 is another pair of white dots, and below these and extending 

 around on to the lower sides is a series of more or less distinct 

 white bars. The metatarsi and tarsi of the legs are paler in 

 color than the other joints. 



One specimen in our collection has the integument almost 

 black and the hairs of a much purer white than the others. 



