Genera of the Fa mil 1/ Attidce. 303 



Falces very stout, very iride?cent, large, strong, convex in front, the sides 

 somewhat widened into a corner, standing away from each other at 

 the extremit es, with a long, strong fang. 

 This genus has a likeness to the genus Amycus; but the palpus, and par- 

 ticularly the falces are differently shaped; also the third pair of legs is not 

 so long as the last pair. The first pair was broken, in the only example 

 that up to this time has cume under my observation. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen agree with those of the above mentioned genus. 



LIGONIPES Karsch. 1878 



Ligonipes Karsch, Diagn. Attoid. aliquot nov. Novae Holl., cet., in Mittheil. 

 d. Mtinchener Entom. Ver., 1878, p. 26. 



Cephalothorax more than twice as long as v\i(^e, not high, level. 



Eyes of the third row not far in front of the middle of the ceph dothorax^ 



Legs of the first pair remarkable; femora, patellae, and ti' iae very much 

 dilated, compressed, the tibiae having stiff short hairs on the inner 

 side, their form being that of a hoe. Second, third and fourth 

 pairs mcire slender. 



Abdomen narrow. 



LIGURINUS Karsch. 1878. 



Liguriuus Karsch, Diagn. Attoid. aliquot nov. Novae Holl., cet, in Mittheil 

 d. Mtinchener Entom. Ver.. 1878. p. 27. 

 The genus Liguriuus is much like genus Hyllus C. Koch, and yet is 

 easily distinguished from it; the forehead is a little higher than the anterior 

 eyes, and is so widely ornamented with dense oblique hairs that if the 

 cephalothorax is looke 1 at from above the eyes are entirely hidden.' 



LYCIDAS Karsch. 1878. 



Lycidas Karsch, Diagn. Att: id. aliquot nov. Novae Holl., cet., in Mittheil. 

 d. Mtinchener Entom. Ver., 1878, p. 25. 



Cephalothorax high, gradually descending in three parts, cephalic part 

 level. Posterior part sloping obliquely, rounded on the sides. 



Eyes: quadrangle wider than 1- ng; eyt s of the first row touching, the lat- 

 eral being about a quarter smaller than the middle eyes, but a little 

 larger than the eyes of the th'rd row; eyes of the second row the 

 smallest of all. 



Clypeus: middle eyes of the first row distant from the margin of the clypeus 

 by a space which nearly equals their diameter. 



Legs: anterior legs short, robust; posterior legs more slender, those of the 

 third pair longest. 



Abdomen lo iked at from above, almost triangular, pointed behind. 



' The presence of dense hairs ornamenting the forehead, would seem ta 

 be so completely adaptive a characteristic as scarcely to be a sufficien t 

 basis upon which to found a genus. 



