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MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. [June 3, 



the third joint of the spinnerets only slightly shorter than the 

 second ; stouter legs, the metatarsi of the front two pairs scopu- 

 lated, all tarsi bespined, and different type of apophyses on tibia i. 

 of male. 



Type species, B. aurea. 



Text-fig. 25. 



Dyarcyops andreiosi («) and BlaMstonia aurea (h-e). 



a, b, profiles (nat. size) ; c, male palp from inner side ; d, male palp from 

 oiiter side ; e, tibia i. of male from under side. 



Blakistonia aurea, sp. nov. (Plate XIII. figs. 1, 2, & text- 

 fig. 25 6-e.) 



Female. Cephalothorax dingy yellowish brown, mandibles brown, 

 rastellum neai'ly black, lip and maxillfe yellowish brown ; sternum 

 pale yellow, with deeper orange spots ; legs yellowish brown, with 

 dai'k grey hair on patella, tibia, tarsus, and metatarsus ; abdomen 

 bright golden yellow, with pale yellow hair on both upper and 

 under side. 



The cephalothorax is longer than broad by nearly one-fourth, 

 and only one-fourth narrower in fi'ont and rear than in the 

 widest part. The cephalic part is well raised up from the slightly 

 procurved thoracic fovea, bounded by side depressions and highest 

 behind the eye-space. The mandibles are prominent, more than 

 one-third the length of the cephalothorax horizontally. Teeth as 

 in male. 



The eye-space is unusually depi'essed, in fact barely raised up 

 at all. The front median eyes are theii- diameter apait ; the 

 laterals, which are Ig diameters of same, are two of their own 

 diameters apart, two diameters of the median away from the 

 latter, and situated on the margin of the clypeus, thus forming an 



