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than the laterals instead of the same size, and the row recurved 
from above instead of straight; the clypeus broader. The 
abdomen also is broader in comparison with its length, and there 
are only two teeth on the outer falx-sheath (one quite long) 
instead of four small ones. The epigyne also differs from 
L. Koch’s drawing. 
The colouring is very close to Dr. Kulezyski’s Z. vicina, from 
New Guinea, but this species is smaller: the epigyne differs ; the 
rear middle eyes are farther apart; the mandibles longer, two 
and three teeth respectively, instead of four, on each max gin ; 
spots on first pair of legs instead of. none; no spots on “the 
back instead of six pairs. The abdomen is also wider in pro- 
portion to length. 
L. montagui is also very close in most respects to Von 
Keyserhing’s Larinia (Hpeira) talipedata, but in the latter the rear 
median eyes are as large as the front median, and twice their 
diameter apart, instead of close together. 
This species differs in many points from M. Simon’s L. eburnei- 
ventris, from 8.W. Australia. 
Group ARANE#. 
Genus ARANEUS Clerek. 
ARANEUS REVERSUS, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 5.) 
This spider belongs to L. Koch’s and H. Simon’s first. series, 
with shoulder-humps, the abdomen rounded in front and 
obtusely pointed at the rear. 
The cephalothorax, mandibles, and sternum are black-brown 
with long coarse white hai and white spinous bristles. 
The lip and maxille are black-brown with wide greyish-yellow 
margins and red-brown fringes. 
The coxee and femoral joints of the legs and palpi are dark 
dingy yellow-brown, the patella and tibia nearly black-brown, 
thickly covered with white hair and numerous spines brown 
just at the base, but white from there to the point. The 
metatarsus and tarsus dark dingy yellow-brown with white hair 
on the basal half of the former, but brown bristles and yellow 
spines on the anterior half and on the tarsus. 
The upper side of the abdomen is at the base yellow mottled 
with brown spots. Running from this to about halfway down 
the back is a black-brown median stripe, bordered with yellow 
and scolloped at the edges into three divisions, and each side 
of this is a black transverse streak, separated from it by a 
short longitudinal yellow streak, reaching to the shoulder- 
humps. From each of these a dark brown scolloped line runs 
along the side, meeting at the rear end. The latter enclose 
another scolloped triangular area of brown and yellow inter- 
mixed, the straight upper side touching the end of the anterior 
median stripe. The front part is thickly set with upstand- 
ing white spines on brown bases. On the under side a pale 
