COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 471 



In the rear row the eyes are rather closer together than in the normal form, and 

 straight along the anterior edges instead of slightly recurved. 



HeTEEOPODA SUMATRAJfA. 

 Heteropoda sumatrana Tliorell^ Ragni Indo-Malesi, part iv. vol. 2, 1891-2, p. 26. 



One male, five females (one non-adult), Setakwa Kiver. 



One female has more pronounced spots on the back and the maxillse more truncate 

 at the upper edge, but they all agree closely with Thorell's description of the above 

 from Sumatra and Celebes. 



Genus Paxdercetes L. Koch. 



PaNDERCETES ISOI'L'S. 



Pandercetes isoptis Thorell, Ragni Iiido-Malesi, part iii. 1881, p. 309. 

 Three females, Setakwa River. 

 These agree closely with examples collected by d'Albertis on the Fly River. 



Group P a 1 y s t e 8e. 

 Genus Palystes L. Koch. 



Palystes DASYURiyus. (Text-fig. 33.) 

 Palystes dasyurinus Hogg, Abstract P. Z. S. 1914, p. 57 (Nov. 17). 



One female, Setakwa River. {Tj/pe of the species.) 



The cephalothorax is bright yellow with recumbent white hair and brown upstanding 

 bristles. The mandibles are black-brown, with yellowish-white hair quite at the base 

 and upper part of outer side, long brown bristly hair on the lower and inner parts. 

 Lip and maxillae black-brown, with a dark brown area on the lower (raised) part of the 

 latter, fringes pale orange. The sternum is dingy yellow-brown, thickly covered with 

 long yellow-brown hair. The legs and palpi pale yellow-brown, with dark grey scopuhe 

 and a pair of dark spots at the base of each tibia. The abdomen above is yellow- 

 brown with a mixture of yellowish-white and brown hairs, and two pairs of black- 

 brown spots. On the underside is a broad black shield reaching from the genital fold 

 to the spinnerets ; on this black area are twelve white hair-spots in four transverse 

 rows — 4, 4, 2, and 2. The spinnerets are pale yellow-brown, with dark grey hair on the 

 outer sides. The epigyne dark yellow-brown, dark brown in the median area. 



The cephalothorax is convex, straight along the median line to the top of the rear 

 slope, which is steep. It is 1 mm. longer than broad, straight in front, rounded at and 

 sloping evenly to the sides, slightly hollowed at the rear. The cephalic part, marked 

 off' by depressions from the thoracic, is very long, reaching nearly to the rear slope. 

 There are no radial striations and only a rather indistinct fovea at the upper part of tiie 

 rear slope. 



