FROM THE MONTEBELLO ISLANDS. 81 
those of the median, are so placed that the line touching their 
lower edges is the breadth of a median eye from the line 
across the upper edges of the latter. 
The median eyes of the rear row are the same size as the front 
median, 24 times their diameter apart, 6 of same from the front 
median and 8 from the laterals, whose diameter is 13 times that 
of the former. This row is more recurved than the front, and 
about 4 times the diameter of the median eyes wider than the 
front row. 
Hach eye is on a separate white tubercle, the side ones being 
much higher than those of the median. The clypeus is as broad 
as the area of the median quadrangle is long. 
The mandibles are short and broad, kneed at the base, thence 
divergent, the fangs being particularly short and weak. 
The lip is straight at the sides, curving to a blunt point 
anteriorly, longer than broad, and more than half the length of 
the maxille, which are upright, the inner edges parallel and 
straight ; from a rounded fore corner they slope downwards with 
a straight edge, thence rounded at the back for about halfway, 
where they curve in for the reception of the base of the palpi. 
The sternum is shield-shaped, as broad as it is long, truncate 
in front, flat in the middle, but sloping off in front and where it 
narrows at the posterior end. 
The abdomen is rounded in front, gradually widening to about 
one-third of its length from the base whence, to halfway, the 
sides are straight; from half its length it narrows to the rear 
end, where it is just the breadth of the space occupied by its 
spinnerets. The latter are quite terminal, of equal length, and 
they havea short second joint. The superior are cylindrical, 
about two-thirds the thickness of the inferior, which are conical, 
flattened in front. The epigyne is of a horseshoe pattern, inside 
of which is a long oval longitudinal depression flanked by two 
shorter oval hollows in the upper half. The base is a transverse 
semicylinder. 
The femoral joint of the legs is moderately stout, but the 
latter taper considerably and the tarsal joint is very fine. There 
are Claw-tufts of flat bristles and a few scattered hairs on the 
tarsus and metatarsus. On the under side of the tibia are four 
pairs, and one odd one, of long spines, and four pairs of similar 
long spines on the under side of the metatarsus; otherwise the 
Jegs are smooth. 
The palpi are short, the femoral joint incurved, the patella as 
long as the tibia, and the distal joint, thickly covered with short 
bristles, as long as the two preceding. 
The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows :— 
Long. Broad. 
Cephalothorax... 12 | . Oe 
Abdomen......... 44 iz 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1914, No. VI. 6 
