460 ME. H. E. HOGG ON SPIDEES 



spots, dingy dark yellow on the back, shading into paler colour here and there, with 

 stout yellow spines on roots. A slightly darker median line runs from a depression 

 near the front. The sides are darker brown, and there are two short, dark brown 

 lines with a pale space between them at the rear end. The underneath is quite pale 

 yellowish-grey with yellow spots. Epigyne and spinnerets yellow. 



The cephalothorax is as broad as long, convex, truncate in front, where the cephalic 

 part and especially the eye-space is moderately raised up above the thoracic ; the 

 sides of the latter are well rounded. Along the median line the cephalothorax is 

 straight, but slopes steeply to the sides and at the rear end. 



Both rows of eyes are recurved, the rear one the more strongly. The four median 

 eyes are equal in size in a trapezium, longer than broad, slightly narrower in front 

 than at the rear, the front ones being between two and a half and three times their 

 diameter apart, the rear rather over three diameters apart, and four diameters between 

 front and rear. The side-eyes are all on separate tubercles, the front-laterals twice the 

 diameter of the median, and the rear about once and a half. The front- laterals are 

 separated by twice the space covered by the front-median. The clypeus is as broad as 

 the length of the median eye-space. 



The mandibles are short and rather flat, slightly narrower at the anterior end than 

 at the base; smooth in the middle, with short fine hair at the sides and a few 

 weak bristles on roots. The fangs are short and weak, and there is a fairly thick 

 fringe on the inner as well as on the outer margin of the falx-sheath hiding any 

 teeth there may be. 



The lip is one and a half times longer than broad, rounded anteriorly, broadest at 

 about half its height, thence narrowing slightly to both front and rear. The maxillse 

 are upright, rounded anteriroly, hollowed to follow the lip on the inner side, and 

 slightly hollowed on the outer. They are one-third of their length longer than the lip. 



The sternum is broad shield-shaped, hollowed anteriorly, pointed at the rear, where 

 the coxae are contiguous. It is moderately convex, and thickly covered with fine 

 upstanding hairs. 



The front two pairs of legs are respectively twice as long and thick as the third and 

 fourth pairs. The two claws have about five pectinations. On the undersides of 

 metatarsus i. and ii. are six pairs of spiaes, and under the tibiae of i. and ii. eight 

 pairs, all rather short and stout. On the femur and patella there is smooth short 

 hair. On the third and fourth pairs there are only about five short spines on the 

 femur and one underneath. 



The abdomen is pyriform, broadest posteriorly ; it is straight, but rounded at the 

 corners in front and obtusely rounded at the rear end, where the spinnerets are 

 terminal. At the sides it is as thick as it is broad in front. Near the base in the 

 median line on the upperside is a large oval depression, and from thence to the rear 

 the abdomen is more or less divided until across tlie rear end, where the back curves 

 to each side. 



