COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 



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Family Thomisid^, 



Subfamily Misumeninae. 



Group D i se e 86. 



Genus Di^a Thor. 



Dl^A DOLESCHALLI, sp. n. (Text-fig. 28.) 



One female. {Type of the species.) 



The cephalothorax is pale yellow-brown, mottled with darker spots along a broad 

 median line reaching from the eye-space to the rear end, darker but similarly mottled 

 each side of this to the margin and on the clypeus. The short recumbent hairs are 

 white, with a few upstanding brown bristles on yellow roots. 



• " Text-figure 28. 



Bima doleschalli, x 2. a. Eyes. 6. Lip and maxillse. c. Epigyne. 



The mandibles are pale yellow, mottled with dark brown patches and fine, short, 

 erect, yellow hair on the side edges ; fangs golden-yellow. The lip and maxillse 

 are dingy yellow, darkest at the posterior ends. The sternum paler yellow. The 

 femora and patellae of the front two pairs of legs are dark brown mottled with yellow 

 spots, yellow-grey short recumbent hair, and short yellow spines. The tibiae of the 

 same are yellow underneath, brown at the base and anterior part of the upperside,' 

 yellow in the middle ; spines brown. 



The metatarsus and tarsus yellow, M'ith a few brown spots, brown spines and claws. 

 The two rear pairs of legs are yellow all over, with fewer brown spots on the 

 femur and patella and scarcely any on the other joints ; palpi dingy yellow-brown 

 without spots. 



The abdomen on the upperside is milky-white at the base with a few yellow 



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