12 BEV. O. PICKAED-CAMBEID&E ON EXOIIO SPIDERS. [Jail. 15, 



Gren. uov. Titus. 



Veplicdothora., elongate-oval, rounded behind, broadly and a 

 little roundly truncate before ; lateral marginal impressions at the 

 caput gradual but distinct; upper surface strongly^ convex ; from 

 the fore part of the caput to the hinder slope the rise is strong, a 

 little curved and even, with a very slight dip at the thoracic 

 iunction The sides of the cephalothorax project over the bases ot 

 the le<^s, making them appear to be articulated on the same plane 

 as the sternum. The thoracic indentation is very minute, and the 

 other normal ones obsolete ; hinder slope steep; height ot the 

 clypeus, which projects, is half that of the facial space, its tore 

 margin overhanging the base of the falces. 



Eyes moderate and not greatly unequal in size ; m two trans- 

 verse curved rows ; the hinder row considerably longest, its eyes 

 are very nearly equally separated, and the convexity of its curve is 

 directed forwards, while that of the anterior row is backwards. 

 The hind-lateral eyes are larger than the hind-centrals and are 

 placed ontside a strong tubercle ; those of the anterior row on a 

 well-marked transverse prominence or ridge. The fore-centrals 

 are very nearly if not quite of equal size, the interval between 

 them being about double that which separates each from the fore- 

 lateral eye on its side. The central quadrangle is slightly broader 

 than long, and its anterior side shortest. 



Legs short, rather slender, 4, 1, 2, 3 ; the femora strongly 

 elavate or tumid at their posterior end, furnished with liairs and 

 spines; two pairs of these are beneath the metatarsi and three 

 pairs beneath tibise of the first pair. Tarsi end with 2 claws. 



Paljji ( 5 ). The digital joint is double the length of the radial, 

 rather claviform, and ending with a very minute, slightly curved 

 single claw. 



Falces moderate in length, powerful, subcorneal. 



MaxilUi rather short, strong, straight, but inclined to the 

 labium ; rounded at their outer extremity , and a little impressed 

 and obliquely truncate at their inner extremity. 



Labium short, broader than long, narrowest at the apex, the 

 outer corners of which are rounded, and the middle a little im- 

 pressed. 



Sternum longer than broad, oval, slightly hollow-truncate in 

 front, bluntish pointed behind, and its margins strongly indented 

 by the basal joints of the legs. From the hinder end a chitinous 

 plate runs between the coxae of the fourth pair of legs and 

 spreading out behind them joins in with the upperside of the 

 cephalothorax. 



Abdomen short, broad, its upper surface covered with a strong 

 kind of granulose coriaceous shield furnished with plumose and 

 other hairs ; sides, especially backwards, protuberant and tumid, 

 these parts connected behind by transverse rugse or folds, in the 

 midst of which the spinners are placed and almost hidden in a 

 circular cavity. 



