FROM DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 521 



lancet-shaped scales spread here and there. The mandibles 

 black-brown with red-brown fangs and brown fringe. A paler 

 patch just below the lower corner of the falx-sheath. The lip 

 and maxilhie are dark yellow-brown with paler edgings. The 

 sternum pale yellow-brown, with upstanding brown bristles and 

 pale yellow-grey hair. The coxse bright yellow. The whole of 

 the palp the same, with upstanding yellowish-grey bristles. The 

 basal half of the femora of all the legs is bi'ight yellow-brown, 

 the anterior half brown; patella and tibia yellow-brown, meta- 

 tarsus and tarsus orange-yellow. 



The abdomen is black, with a fillet of white squamous hairs 

 i-ound the base reaching along each side to half the length of the 

 abdomen. From, the end of this on each side are three large 

 white spots continuing the line to the spinnerets ; on the under 

 side it is plain greyish-yellow ; the hairs all ordinary, very fine, 

 pale yellow. The spinnerets rather long, conical, and darker 

 brown, on a white chitinous base half their length, have long 

 straight brown hair and a short cylindrical second joint. 



The inner margin of the falx-sheath is cut away and hollowed 

 out to the outer margin, at the lower end of which are two 

 moderate-sized teeth. The inner side of the falx-sheath itself is 

 also hollowed out, most deeply about the middle. 



The lip is as broad as long, truncate and slightly hollowed 

 anteriorly, half the length of the maxillae, which are convex, 

 upright, rounded anteriorly. The front coxae are farther apart 

 than the lower margin of the lip is wide. The sternum ovate, 

 truncate, and narrowest in front, is flat at the anterior end for 

 one-third of its length and thence to the posterior end convex. 



The epigyne consists of two oval hollows resting against the 

 upper part of a broad longitudinal convex septum ; below these 

 hollows and fitting into the lower part of the same central 

 septum are two chitinous triangular cushions. The whole inside 

 an oval frame. 



Arrangement of spines on the legs : — 



On femur i. & ii. above are single spines 1 1, and a row of 



three small on the inner side at the anterior end. 

 On patella i. & ii. a short spine on the inner side and a very 



long bristle at the anterior end. 

 On tibia i. & ii. three pairs on the vinder side. 

 On metatarsus i. & ii. two pairs (very stout) on the under 



side. 

 On patella iii. & iv. one small on inner side and a very long 



bristle at distal end. 

 On tibia iii. & iv. one small pair below at the anterior end, 



and two single on inner side. 

 On metatarsus iii. &, iv. one small underneath about the 



middle, and bunch at anterior end. 

 On metatarsus iii. two single at the side, but none on iv. 



