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ME. H. E. HOGG ON SPIDEES 



Family PsECHRiDJi;. 

 Genus PsECHRUS Thor. 



FSECHRUS CASTANEUS. (Text-fig. 22.) 



Psechrus castaneus Hogg, Abstract P. Z. S. 1914, p. 56 (Nov. 17). 

 One female, Setakwa River. [Type of the species.) 



The cephalothorax is rather dark yellow-brown, with recumbent white hair, mixed 

 with a few finer orange, slightly paler in the median streak, and a streak of white 

 round the margin. There is white hair mixed with orange in the middle, and at each 

 side of the eye-space, and a broad white streak in the middle of the clypeus, but it is 

 brown on each side. 



Text-figure 22. 



Pseihrus castaneus, X 2. fi. Eyes. b. Underside of abdomen, c. Epigjne. d. Spinnerets aud oribeUum. 



The mandibles are dark brown on the outer side, pale yellow-brown on the inner 

 and at the anterior end. Bi'own bristly hair on the dark part and reddish-yellow on the 

 lighter, fringes reddish-yellow, fangs dark brown. 



The lip and maxillae are dark brown, with dark brown hair, but paler yellow-brown 

 fringes. The sternum is dark brown with a fillet of white hair along each side to the 

 posterior end, and some white hair-spots on the median line. 



The coxae are dark brown with a light yellow-brown patch covered with white hair 

 at the base of each. The trochanters are dark brown, with a patch of white hair on 

 the front side. 



The femora on the upperside have alternate rings of yellow- brown and dark 



