246 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 



ASAMONEA FLAVA N. Sp. 



Plate XII, figure 18. 



? . Length of cej)halothorax 1.8 mm; of abdomen 3.8 mm. 



Legs 11.8, 10.8, 11.6, 13. 



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

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

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

 anterior eyes. Falces weak, shorter than face, shghtly inclined back- 

 ward. MaxiUae truncated, and a little enlarged at their extremities. 

 Labium a little wider than long, less than one-half as long as maxiUai, 

 rounded. Legs 4, 1, 3, 2. Femur of the first scarcely longer than 

 femur of the second. S]3ines very few in number, and extremely 

 weak, scarcely more than hairs. The abdomen, which is somewhat 

 injured, seems to have been cylindrical in shape and "truncated be- 

 hind. . Superior si^innerets not so much elongated as is usual in this 

 genus. 



Coloration (under alcohol): Light yellow; on all the legs the tibial joints 

 have two dark brown spots at each end; the metatarsi have two 

 brown spots at the proximal end and the metatarsus of the first has 

 one brown spot at the distal end; the tarsi of all the legs have the dis- 

 tal fifth dark brown. Spines matching the legs in color. 



Habitat: Central America. 



LYSSOMANES FALLENS Blackwall. 1887. 



Lyssomanes pallens, Blackwall, Proc. Royal Irish Acad., 1877, Vol. Ill, 

 Ser. 2, p. 6. 

 Having no specimen of this species, we are unable to determine its genus, 

 although, to judge from the drawings, it belongs to the second division of 

 Asamonea. We quote the whole description as given by Blackwall: 

 '" Length of an immature male (not including the spinners), one-fifth of an 

 inch; length of the cepholothorax, one- sixteenth; breadth, one-six- 

 teenth; breadth of the abdomen, one-twentieth; length of a posterior 

 leg, one-fourth; length of an anterior leg, five-twenty-fourths. The 

 color of this spider is white tinged with yellow, particularly on the 

 sides and base of the cephalothorax. The eyes are disposed on the 

 anterior part of the cephalothorax; two, which are situated in front, 

 are much the largest, and are prominent, pellucid, and almost in 

 contact; on each side of the upper j)art of the cephalic region these 

 eyes are placed in the form of an irregular triangle, on small tuber- 

 cles seated on confluent black spots, the intermediate eye, constitut- 

 ing the vertex of an obtuse angle, being the smallest of the eight. 

 The cephalothorax is somewhat quadrate, convex, glossy, slightly 



