244 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts and Letters. 



ASAMONEA PUNCTATA N. Sp. 



Plate 12, figure 20. 



? . Length of cephalothorax 2.8 mm* of abdomen 5 mm. 



Legs 8.7, 9, 9.5, 10.5. 



We have also an immature S of this species. 



Cephalic part a little more than one-half as long as thoracic. Quadrangle 

 of eyes more than twice as wide as long. Eyes of fu-st row three 

 times as large as those of second row. Clypeus fully one-half as 

 high as anterior eyes. Falces weak, vertical, parallel, as long as 

 face; fang weak. Masillse rounded, a little enlarged at their ex- 

 tremities. Labium rounded, S wider than long, $ as wide as long; 

 less than one-half as long as maxillae. Legs 4, 3, 2, 1; femur of the 

 first shorter than femur of the second. Spines unusually long and 

 stout. 



Coloration (under alcohol): ? . Pale yellow, with an indistinct dark 

 median line on the thoracic part of the cephalothorax, and three 

 equi- distant pairs of dark brown dots on the abdomen arranged in 

 two Unes of three dots each, the posterior pair of dots being only a 

 little behind the raiddle of the abdomen. The tips of the legs are 

 black, but the s]pines are light colored. When the spider is dried a 

 small tuft of black hairs becomes visible at the anterior end of the 

 abdomen, s . Upper surface of cephalothorax light brown, ex- 

 cepting on eye-region and anterior thoracic part, where it is pale 

 yellow; on each side of the posterior thoracic part are two dark 

 brown dots. Abdomen with four pairs of dark brown dots at equal 

 distances between the two ends, the first three pairs converging 

 toward the posterior end, the two dots of the fourth jiair being 

 placed further apart than any of the others . Probably a fourth pair 

 of dots has been effaced from the abdomen of our female specimen. 



Habitat: Madagascar. 



ASAMONEA ORNATISSIMA N. Sp. 

 Plate XII, figure 22. 



9 . Length of cephalothorax 2 mm; of abdomen 3 mm. 



Legs6.2,6.6, 6.4, 7. 



Cephalic part a little more than one-half as long as thoracic. Quadrangle 

 of eyes twice as wide as long. Eyes of first row about two and one- 

 half times as large as those of second row. Clypeus nearly one-third 

 as high as anterior eyes. Falces weak, parallel, vertical, as long as 

 the face, fang weak. Maxillae rounded and very httle enlarged at 

 their extremities. Labium rounded, wider than long, less than one- 

 half as long as maxillae. Legs 4, 2, 3,1; femur of the first about as 

 long as femur of the second. Spines growing more slender from 

 the first leg to the foiirth. 



