1902.] MR. H. R. nOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS 



Male, 



Long. Broad. 



r 4 

 Cephalothorax ... 8 s ,-, 



Abdomen 8| 5 



Mandibles 3| =less than froiat pat. 



Pat. & Metat. 



Coxa?. Tr. & fern. tib. & tars. 



Legs 1. 3 14i 18i 17 



(5, 131) 



2. 3 141 17 17 



3. 3 11 11 10 



4. 3 13 13 13 

 Palpi li 5 5 4 



Female (Brisbane). 



Long. Broad. 



Cephalothorax ... 12 -^ ^j-. 



Abdomen 13 9 



Mandibles 5 



Pat. & Metat. 



Coxae. Tr. & fern. tib. & tars. 



Legs 1. 4 14| 18i 18 



2. 4 14 18i 16i 



3. 4 11 12| 12 



4. 4 131 141 141 

 Palpi 2 5 6 5 



421 



53 



5U 

 35~ 

 42 

 151 



55 

 53 



391 

 461 



= 1^ 



Group Delene^. 



I adopt Delena as the type genus of a group in preference to 

 leaving the Australian genera incorporated with M. Simon's 

 Sparassece^ because the former genus exhibits the most complete 

 type of differentiation both in its flattened form and in the 

 Australian type of male palp. By the latter point these genera 

 and Neosparassus are, as far as we have seen the males, entirely 

 distinguishable from the type species of the genus Sjmrassics 

 Walck. (;S'. argelasms of Southern Europe), so that for the 

 Australian members of that genus I have established the new 

 genus JVeosparassus. To this, provisionally, I transfer those forms 

 recently classed as Sparassios, but, until all the males have been 

 proved to conform to it, its limits cannot be accurately defined, 

 and it further remains a moot point whether any boundary-line 

 can be drawn between it and Iso2)eda. The species at present 

 associated with the genus will be those ascribed by L. Koch to 

 Heteropoda, as above stated, erroneously. Neosj^arassus diana 

 L. K. is a good representative of the genus. Through N. salacms 

 L. K. it runs very closely into Isopeda L. K. 



The latter genus, while very constant in the respective sizes of 



