FROM THE MONTEBELLO ISLANDS. 87 
median-eye areais broader than long. The front eyes, 14 times ° 
the diameter of the rear, are the diameter of the latter apart ; they 
are the same distance from the front laterals, the row being nearly 
straight. The front and rear laterals are of equal diameter, 13 of 
that distance apart. The rear median eyes are sessile, all the 
laterals on slight protuberances and the front median still more 
protuberant. The clypeus is only half as broad as a front median 
eye. 
The mandibles are straight on the outer side, slightly kneed at 
the base, and as long at the front of the cepbalothorax as broad, 
only diverging from each other anteriorly to the extent of the 
slope of the falx-sheath. The fangs are moderately curved, slight 
and fairly long; on the inner margin of the sheath are two jequiale 
sized teeth, and on the outer, one equally long between two smaller. 
The lip is broader than long, rounded anter riorly, straight at the 
sides but narrowing slightly to the base, with the anterior margin 
protuberant. It is not more than one-third the length of the 
maxille. The latter are straight at the anterior margin, nearly 
parallel at the inner and outer sides, but just rounded at the front 
corners and widening near the base at the insertion of the palpi. 
The sternum is ov Sh twice as long as broad, narrowing to a 
point at each end. Tt is convex with deep depressions in the 
margin between each pair of coxe; the rear pair of the latter are 
contiguous and longer than the rest. 
The abdomen is not quite twice as long as broad; it is rounded 
in front, but not scutate, widest about the genital fold, whence it 
narrows evenly to the spinnerets, which are quite terminal and 
of equal length, the inferior pair contiguous, conical, with quite 
short hemispherical second joint, the superior cylindrical with a 
similar short rounded second joint. ‘There are no plumose hairs. 
The legs are short and slender, the tarsal joints flat, the two claws 
have 7 or 8 pectinations, a few long spines and bristly upstanding 
hairs on the tibial and metatarsal joints, and claw-tufts of spatulate 
bristles, 
The palpi are inserted at the lower end of the maxille, the 
femoral joint incurved and broadened at anterior end. 
The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows :—- 
Long. Broad. 
j ie initromte 
Cephalothorax... 24 Y 
Abdomen......... 34 Do 
Mandibles ...... 1 
Pate Metat. 
Coxe. Tr. & fem. & tib. & tars. 
Te ssievisena |: b 2 Le 2 1 1 ==) OF 
ae oy 1 2 as Ia — De 
A, 2 2 2 Oe —v Ge 
mlkan 1 3 1 eee) 
Pallpigseceaas§ otis: eae 42 = 4 San ete a 
There is one female specimen only (P. D. M.), and the 
epigyne is not clear enough to draw. 
