FROM DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 



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side it is brown at the sides and yellow-grey in the central area 

 with the same pale squamules. The femora, patellfe, and tibiee 

 of the legs are brown thickly covered with greyish squamules : the 

 metatarsi are dark brown at the base and in front, with a yellow 

 ring in the middle, and the tarsi yellow. The palpi are likewise 

 brown, with white squamules on the upper surface, and long 

 white bristly fringes on the sides of the patellar, tibial, and 

 distal joints, smooth underneath. 



The epigyne is greenish-grey in the central area, pale bi'own 

 round the sides. 



The spinnerets are pale brown, and spring from a conjoined 

 chitinous base as high as one-half of their length. The bifid 

 tooth on the inner falx-sheath stands out high, hollowed in the 

 centre, the two ends form large flat conical teeth. There are 

 three medivim-sized teeth on the outer margin. The lip is 

 convex, rounded anteriorly, but is hollowed out from nearly 



Text-figure 11. 



Cytcea laodamia, sp. n., $ . 



a., lip and maxilla ; h., mandibular teeth and fang of male ; c, epigj'ne; 

 d., male palp ; e., inner mandibular teeth of female. 



halfway down to the lower corners ; this part being continuous 

 with the rest, leaves it as wide at the base as it is high — it is 

 rather more than half the length of the maxillae. The sternum 

 is oval, and while it narrows to the width of the convex portion 

 of the lip, the front coxae are as far apart as the full distance 

 between the next pair. 



Male. Similarly coloured to the female, but the upper side of 

 the patellar and tibial joints are paler red-brown, and the 

 fringe on the under side of the palpal distal joint darker brown. 



