316 Wisconsi7i Academy of Sciences^ Arts and Letters. 



short, not thicker than cephalothorax, Cephalothorax and abdomen are- 

 closely coverel with scaly hairs above, these giving the color. The spin- 

 nerets are very short. The legs are moderately long, the first and second 

 pairs being the shortest, but the stoutest, usually having the femur 

 thickened; they are about one and a half times as long as the thorax; the 

 third pair somewhat exceeds the second in length, and the fourth is plainly 

 longer than the second; above, the first joints, and in part the tipiae are 

 covered with brightly colored scaly hairs; the hair of the other joints is 

 fine and light, and the spines very fine. 



JOTUS Keyserltng. 1881. 



Jotus Kbyserling, Arachniden Australiens, p. 1243. 



Cephalothorax about one-fifth part longer than wide, in front a little more 

 contracted than in the middle, rounded behind, above high and 

 convex . 



Clypeus less than half the diameter of the large eyes . 



Quadrangle of eyes wider than long, equally wide in front and behind and 

 not occupying half the length of the cephalothorax. Anterior eyes. 

 near together, forming a row slightly curved upward. Small me- 

 dian eyes half way between the dorsal eyes and the lateral eyes 

 of the first row. Dorsal eyes almost as far from each other as. 

 from the margin of the cephalothorax. 



Sternum slightly convex, ovate, much longer than wide . 



Falces short and diverging, in front commonly plane. 



Maxillae rather long, in front dilated and rounded. 



Labium more than half the length of the maxilla. 



Legs moderately long, spined, 4, 3, 1, 2, or 4, 1, 3, 2, or 1, 4, 3, 2. First pair 

 a little stouter than the others. Patella and tibia of the third shorter 

 than the patella and tibia of the fourth. Tlae fourth pair has the 

 metatarsus and tarsus not longer than the patella and tibia. 



Abdomen longer than wide, rounded in front, behind pointed. 



Spinnerets rather long, inferior and superior equally large and long. 



HABROCESTUM Simon. 1876. 



Syn.: 1869. Attus Sim., Monogr. d. especes Europ. de la fam d. Attides. p. 

 14 (24) (ad partem). 

 1871. " lD„ Revis. d. Attid. 



1876. Habrocestiim Id., Arachn. de France, III, p. 131. 

 1882. " Keyserling, Arachniden Australiens, p. 1401. 



