330 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts and Letters. 



Sternum hardly longer than wide, plane. 



Abdomen long, sensibly narrowed toward the posterior. 



Palpi {$) elongated, equal in length to the first pair of legs. 



Legs spined 1, 4, 3, 2, first pair stouter than the others. Patella and tibia 

 of the third shorter than the patella and tibia of the fourth. Meta- 

 tarsus and tarsus of the fourth evidently longer than the patella and 

 the tibia. 



SCAEA L. Koch. 1879. 



Scaea L. Koca. Arachniden AustraUens, p 1142. 



Ceplialothorax longer than wide, slightly contracted behind, high and con- 

 vex, toward the anterior declining, third row of eyes high above the 

 sides. 



<^uadrangle of eyes wider than long, equally wide in front and behind, and 

 placed in front of the middle Cif the ceplialothorax. Middle row of 

 eyes as far from the lateral eyes of the first row as from the eyes of 

 the third row and placed not higher than these; eyes of the third row 

 further from the margin of the cephalothorax than from each other. 



Sternum ovate cordate. 



Abdomen broadly ovate. 



Legs patella with the tibia of the third pair shorter than the same joints 

 of the fourth pair. The metatarsus with the tarsus of the fourth 

 pair are shorter than the patella with the tibia. 



' BOOTES N. 



Syn: 1882. Hadrosoma Keyserling. Arachniden Australiens, p. 1418. 



Cephalothorax short, one-sixth longer than wide, in front not contracted, 

 behind rounded and a little contracted, scarcely wider at the dorsal 

 eyes, above convex. 



Clypeus more than half the diameter of the large eyes. 



Quadrangle of eyes wider than long, as wide before as behind, almost 

 reaching the middle of the cephalothorax. Dorsal eyes further from 

 one another than from the margin of the cephalothorax. Small me- 

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

 First row of eyes slightly recurved and the lateral eyes separated 

 from the middle eyes. 



Falces short and not diverging. 



Maxillae dilated and rounded in front. 



Labium rounded in front, not longer than wide, half as long as the maxilla. 



Steryium ova' and a little convex. 



Abdomen level, a little longer than wide. 



^ Bootes is substituted for Hadrosoma, the latter name being preoccupied. 



