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SUB-FAMILY ATOT.E. 



DIOLENIUS Thorell, 1870. 



Syn.: 1870, Dioleuiiis Thorell, on Europ. Spid. Part I, p. 203. 



1878. " Id., Ragai Malesi e Papuaui, Part II, p. 315. 



1881. " L. Koch, Arachniden Australiens, p. 1240. 



Thorell (in Europ. Spid., Part I, p. 203,) says that this genus is character- 

 ized by the long trochanters of the fore legs. 



* TARA :N. 



Syn.: 1882. Atrytoue Keyserling, Arachniden Australiens, p. 1378. 



Cephalothorax low; one quarter longer than wide, in front moderately 

 contracted, behind rounded, wider at the third row of eyes, plane 

 above, 



Clypeus very low. 



Quadrangle of eyes wider than long, as wide before as behind, placed in 

 front of the middle of th(? cephalothorax. Dorsal eyes further from 

 each other than from the margin of the cephalothorax. Anterior 

 row of eyes moderately recurved, eyes close together; small medium 

 eyes further from the dorsal eyts than from the lateral anterior 

 eyes. 



Falces wide, short, not diverging. 



Maxillae dilated in front. 



Sternum plane, longer than wide. 



Abdomen elongated, above level. 



Legs 1, 4, 2, 3, Coxa and trochanter of first pair very much elongated. Pa- 

 tella and tibia of the third shorter than patella and tibia of the fourth; 

 Metatarsus and tarsus of the fourth shorter than the patella and 

 tibia. 



LYSTROCTEISA Simon, 1884. 



Lystrocteisa E Simon. Note sur le Groupe des Diolenii; C'omptes Re:.dus 

 de la Societe Eatomologique de Belgique. 1884. 

 Related to Diolenius, but distinct by the following characteristics: ocu- 

 lar quadrangle longer than the thoracic part, much longer_thati wide, con- 

 vex in front, flattened in the middle; eyes of the third row very prominent, 

 larger and plainly further apart than the lateral anterior; eyes of the sec- 

 ond row much nearer the lateral anterior; trochanter I cylindrical, a little 



*Tara is substituted for Atrytone, the latter name being preoccupied. 



