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MR. H. E. HOGG ON SPIDEES 



covered with yellow-grey bristly hair. The legs are dark brown with similarly coloured 

 hair ; spines and claws nearly black-brown. The abdomen, both upper- and undersides, 

 dark brown, with dingy grey bristles and rows of bare brown spots. The epigyne 

 shiny yellow-brown. 



The cephalothorax is one-sixth longer than broad, truncate in front, where it is one- 

 half its greatest breadth, rounded at the sides and hollowed at the rear. The cephalic 

 part is slightly raised up in front, depressed behind the eyes, thence rising again towards 

 the thoracic part. It slopes steeply to the side margins, and is bounded by broad 

 shallow depressions. The thoracic part rises gradually to the rear, whence it slopes 

 steeply, as also at the sides, to a short distance from the margin ; it then flattens, but 



Texfc-fisure 29. 



Regillus divergens, nat. size. 6. Profile, c. Spinnerets, d. Epigj-ne. 

 e. Leg of front pair. /. Tarsus ii. showing claws. 



falls again steeply from a narrow ledge. In the median line are two protuberances, 

 ■one behind the other, the rear one being the largest. There is no fovea. The whole 

 surface is thickly covered with recumbent, short, thick, tapering scales, but there 

 are long upstanding bristles on the clypeus and two especially long ones between 

 the front-median eyes. 



The eyes are about equal in size, both front- and rear-rows being recurved, the rear- 

 row slightly more so than the front, the laterals standing just clear above a line 

 touching the upper edges of the median. The laterals of each row are on separate 

 prominences, the anterior more pronounced. In the front-row the eyes are equi- 



