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two-thirds diameter apart and one-tliird from the laterals, which 

 are one and a half times the diameter of the former. The rear 

 row, also recurved, has the median pair one diameter apai-t, 

 slightly lai-ger than the front median, one and a quarter diameter 

 from laterals, which are as large as the front laterals, and about 

 the same distance from front median. The clypeus equals the 

 diameter of the front side-eyes. 



There are four teeth on the lower edge of the falx- sheath and 

 three on the upper. 



There are two spines on the upper side of metatarsi iii. and iv., 

 and a scopula to the base of the metatarsi on all legs. 



The abdomen is oval, sparsely covered with short thin down- 

 lying hair. 



The epigyne is a chitinous oval frame, the median portion 

 narrow anteriorly and widening to the base, completely filled 

 with a long convex fold of tissue much larger than in L. Koch's 

 drawing of H. cervina. 



The measurements in millimetres are as follows : — 



lit Long. Broad. 



Sn 1 1 4-1, ' Q [ 4 in front. 



aUeiihaiothorax ... o \ 71 



t Abdomen 12 8 



I Mandibles 4 (longer than patella i. ). -^^ 



Pat. & Metat. 

 Coxa\ Tr. & fern. tib. & tars. 



Legs 1. 3i 9 10 9 = 31^ 



2. ^ 9 11 9| = 33 



. 3. 3 8 9 8i = 28| 



4. 3 9 9 9 = 30 



Palpi U 41 41 41 = 15 



Two females from Peak Downs, Queensland, in Keyserling 

 Coll., Brit. Mus., mai'ked H. cervma. 



Genus Pandercetes. 



Pmulercetes L. Koch, Ar. Austr. 1875, p, 739; Thor., Ragni 

 Malesi, 1881, p. 309; E. Simon, Hist. Nat. des Ai-. vol. ii. p. 56 

 (1897). 



Type, P. gracilis L. Koch. 



Pandercetes gracilis L. Koch, loc. cit. p. 740. 



Described by L. Koch from male from Port Mackay, Queens- 

 land. 



Thorell dou.btfully ascribes to this species a male from Cape 

 York (d'Albertis Coll.), and from same collection has two species — 

 F. isojnis from N. Guinea, and P. longipes from Jobi Island, on 

 N. coast of same. 



The male of Pandercetes gracilis L. K. has {sec. L. Koch and 

 E. Simon) a long twisting flagellum on palp, but no supporting 

 stylus or drum. 



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