Genera of the Famihj Atiidiv. 333 



SUB-FAMILY LYSSOMAXAE. 



LYSSOMANES Hentz. 1832. 



Syn.: 1832. Lyssoiuaiifs Hentz. Sillitnsn's Journal of Science and Arts 



XXI pp. 99-152. 

 1844. " " Journal Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., IV pp. 



386-396. 

 1875. " " Occasional Papers Boston Soc. Nat. 



Hist. II. The Spiders of the United 

 States, Edited E. Burgess, p. 48. 

 Cheliceres moderately strong; maxillae parallel, short, rounded. 

 Lijy conical, slight'y truncated at tip. 



Eyes eight, unequal in four rows, the first composed of two very large eyes 

 the second of two smaller ones, placed farther apart, on a common 

 elevation with the two forming the third, which is narrower, the 

 fourth about as wide, composed of two eyes placed on separate ele- 

 vations 

 Feet, first pair largest, then the second, then the third, the fourth being the 

 shortest 



JELSKIA Taczanowski. 1872. 



Syn.: 1872. Jelskia Tacz , Aran, de la Guyane franyaise, Horae. Soc. Ent. 



Rossicae, VIII. 1871, pp. 128-132, 

 1878 " Id., Armeides du Perou, Ball, de la Soc. Imp. des 



Nat. de Moscou, LIII. 4, p. 373. 



Cej)lialothorax long, with the cephalic part distinct from the thoracic, and 

 higher. 



Eyes eight, in four rows; the first pair very large, occupying the entire 

 height of the face, very near together but not touching, dh-ected for- 

 ward; eyes of the second row half as large, situated above those of 

 the anterior row, a little further back, and separated from each 

 other so as to form an almost regular quadrangle with the anterior 

 eyes; like them directed forward and a little upward: the eyes of 

 the third row small, situated on the horizontal face of the back, rearer 

 to one another ihan the others, and directed upward; those of the 

 fourth row as large as those of the second, placed behind on the mid- 

 dle of the back, not <|uite so far apart as these last, directed obliquely 

 backward. 



