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MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. 



[Dec. 2, 



yelloAv. The legs and palpi are red-brown above, paling to lighter 

 red below ; general hair-covering yellow, but scopulse dark grey. 

 The abdomen is a dingy greyish yellow above and below, three 

 pairs of darker spots on the upperside ; epigyne dark brown 

 all over. 



The cepJialotliorax is clearly broader than long, rounded at sides, 

 square in front, where it is as broad as the rather stout mandibles 

 are long. It is almost flat from the rear row of eyes to the rear 

 slope, but slopes rather gradually from the sides; the median 

 fovea is long and distinct. 



The front row of eyes is slightly procurved, the laterals being 

 half their diameter from the margin of the clypeus ; the medians, 

 which are a little smaller, being three-fourths. They are equi- 

 distant, less than one-third of their diameter. The rear row is 

 straight, the laterals the same diameter as front laterals. The 

 median pair are clearly smaller, four-fifths the diameter of front 

 median, from which they are distant rather more than their 

 diameter and the same distance apart, from their lateral they are 

 nearly two of their diameters distant. The median eye-square is 

 rather longer than broad. 



The teeth on the mandibular sheath are large and powerful, on 

 the inner side four large and one smaller, on the outer one large 

 and one medium-sized. 



The legs are long and powerful and somewhat cylindrical ; thick 

 scopulse to base of metatarsi i., ii., and iii., two-thirds of meta- 

 tarsus iv. ; matted hair underneath the other joints except femur. 



No spines above on tibia iii. or iv. 



The abdomen is broadly ovate, covered with a thick mat of 

 downlying hair ; on the underside four longitudinal impressed 

 lines form the indication of a shield. The epigyne is a broad 

 oval with wide chitinous margin, and well-formed longitudinal 

 median ridge dividing the inner portion, which is the same dark 

 colour as the outer. 



The measurements in millimetres are as follows : — 



Cephalothorax 



Abdomen 



Mandibles 



Legs... 1. 6 23 9,22 28 = 88 



95.1 

 681 



74 



30i 



Palpi 



The Eev. 0. P. Cambridge has one female with slightly longer 

 legs than this one, sent by Mr. D. Le Souof to "the British 

 Museum ; both are fi-om Queensland. 



