9 1 in front. 



426 MR. H. K. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. [DeC. 2, 



The front row of eyes is slightly procurved, the medians one 

 diameter apart and slightly more from the side-eyes, the same 

 from the margin of the clypeiis, and more still than that from 

 the rear median. The front side-eyes are clearly larger than the 

 median. The rear row of eyes are equal and a little smaller than 

 the front median, the middle pair two diameters apart and nearly 

 three from the side. 



On the underside of the falx-sheath are two very large, one 

 median and one small tooth, one large and one small on upperside 



The legs are rather stout, and furnished with long and powerful 

 spines on tibia iii. and iv., one each. 



The abdomen is ovate, broadest one-third distance from front 

 and tapering to spinnerets. 



Measurements in millimetres. 



Long. Broad. 



f 9? 

 Oephalothorax ... 14 \ -^^'■ 



Abdomen 15 12 



Mandibles 7 



Pat. & Metat. 

 Coxfe. Tr. & fern. tib. & tars. 



Legs 1. 5 15 17 16 = 53 



2. 5 16 18 17 = 56 



3. 4 13 13 12 = 42 



4. ^ 14 14 14 = 46| 

 Palpi 2 6 5 5 = 18 



Numerous females, but no males, brought from the Northern 

 Territory of S. Australia, by Dr. Magarey in 1880. One female, 

 and one male not fully developed, in Brit. Mus. from Port Stephen. 



Neosparassus thoracicus, nov. sp. (Text-fig. 87.) 



This powerful spider I provisionally include in this genus, 

 with which and with Thelcticopis and Isopeda it has a.nalogies, 

 but differs in the shape of the cephalothorax ; I think it ought to 

 have a new genus but that it partially links the others. 



The cephalothorax is red-brown, black-brown in front ; mandibles, 

 lip, and maxillae black- brown, sterniim and coxae bright red-brown ; 

 legs and palpi somewhat darker, with long brown hair ; the 

 abdomelf dark brown above and below. 



The cephalothorax rises steeply from the sides, is highest 

 posteriorly and slopes forwards to the eye-space, it is 2 mm. 

 longer than broad and broadly truncate in front. 



The front median eyes are about 1| diameters apart, luther 

 more from the rear median, one diameter from the laterals, which 

 are clearly smaller. The clypeus is wider than the front median 

 eyes. The rear row is procurved, the median eyes wider apart 

 than from the laterals, which are about the same size as the front 

 laterals, the median somewhat smaller. 



