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MR. II. R. HOGG ON SPIDERS 



wide as the front row, and from Boetheus in having the femur, 

 patella, and tibia of the first pair of legs stouter than the others, 

 fimbriations of long bristles at least on the tibia of the same, and 

 the metatarsi and tarsi of all legs very fine, the former at least 

 as lonij as the tibiae. 



BOETHOPORTIA OCELLATA, Sp. n. (Text-fig. 1.) 



1 male and 1 female. {Types of the species.) 



Female. The cephalothorax is bi'ight chestnut-red, black round 

 the eyes with sparse white hairs; mandibles red-brown with pale 

 red fangs ; lip and maxillfe red-brown, paler at the front edges, 

 with yellowish-grey fringes. Sternum also red-brown with 



Text-fio-ure 1. 



Boetho;portia ocellata, gen. et sp. n., $ . 

 a., cpigj'iie; h., profile; c, male palp ; d^ mandible showing teeth. 



yellowish-grey hair. Coxae red-brown ; femora brown under- 

 neath, with yellow patches on the upper side ; tibia? brown, with 

 a yellow band in the middle and long brown bristly fringes. 

 Metatarsus and tarsus yellow, with hei-e and there patches of 

 white hair. The abdomen pale yellow at the base, the remainder 

 with large greyish-yellow spots on a brown gound ; the underside 

 is also brown with yellow spots, the hairs grayish -yellow on the 

 pale parts, brown on the darker portions- 



The cephalic part of the f^phalothorax is flat over the eye-space. 



