"242 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 

 A.- Eyes of third row but little smaller than those of the fourth. 



MALES. 



General color light; integument covered with silvery hairs puella. 



(South Africa). 



General color dark tenuipes. 



(Ceylon.) 



FEMALES. 



I First and third legs equal tenuipes. 



\\ (Ceylon). 



( First and third legs not equal 2 



( Legs 4 1 3 3 puella. 



2-< (South Africa). 



( Legsnot4 123 3 



(Legs 4 3 2 1 punctata. 

 (Madagascar). 

 Legs 4 2 3 1 orncitissima. 

 (Madagascar). 



ASAMONEA PUELLA Simon. 1885. 



Asamonea puella Simon. Bull, cle la Soc. Zool. 1885, T. X. p. 27. 

 Having no mature specimen of this species we translate the follow^ing 



description from Simon: 



$ . Length 6 mm. Cephalothorax yellowish testaceous narrowly bordered 

 with brownish, with the cei^halic part covered with yellow hair, and 

 having on each side a large black three-lobed spot which surrounds 

 the eyes; the thoracic part, above, witli two hues covered with thin red 

 hairs which come together posteriorly. Cly pens very high , smooth be- 

 hind the f alces, above the eyes densely pubescent, in the middle silvery, 

 on each side reddish. Abdomen steeply elongate, covered with hairs 

 which are whitish testaceous and silvery white, adorned above w^ith 

 two Lines, prettily interrupted with red. Spinnerets testaceous, upper 

 ones brownish. Falces yeUow testaceous, cut transver,sely by a black 

 band in front. Sternum testaceous. Legs testaceous, femora with 

 brownish lines below; tibia of fourth from base to apex, minutely 

 dotted with brown; abundantly armed with long and delicate spines. 

 Palpi testaceous with the stout femur armed below, back of the mid- 

 dle, with an obtuse tubercle; patella short; tibia not longer than 

 patella, slightly thicker on the outside and enlarged into a keel- 

 shaped laminate apophysis which is a little thickened and obtuse in the 

 middle and very sharply prolonged above; the large tarsus longer than 

 the femur and much thicker, convex and attenuated longitudinally 

 with a large convex bulb. 



$ . Length 7 mm.. Cephalothorax with no lines on thoracic part. Cly- 

 peus, behind falces sinooth, above eyes covered all over with silvery 

 hair. Falces and legs uniform yellow testaceous without lines or spots. 

 Region of epigynum, anteriorly, with a transverse pit obtusely tri- 

 angular and much broader than long; posteriorily, a shining reddish 

 transverse spot. 



