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ME. H, 11. HOGG ON SPIDERS 



Group S p i r a n t h i d e as. 



Genus Seramba Thor. 



Seramba sagittata, sp. □. (Text-fig. 35.) 



One male, Setakwa River. {Tyj^e of the species.) 



The cephalotliorax is red-brown, with pale grey hairs on the side-slopes, much 

 thicker in a fillet round the margin. Mandibles the same, with greyish-yellow bristles, 

 fangs dark brown, redder and paler at the anterior end. Lip, maxillse, sternum, and 

 coxae pale red with pale grey hair ; rather browner on the latter. 



■ Text-figure 35. 



Seramba sagittata, nat. size. a. Eyes. h. Lip and maxillas. c. Male palp. d. Underside of abdomen. 



The abdomen is yellow-brown above, thickly covered with coarse, long, pale yellow- 

 brown hair, a pale median longitudinal stripe has within it a darker longitudinal line 

 of fine arrow-heads, from opposite each of which a pale line extends down the sides. 

 Underneath it is a darker dingy yellow-grey ; the median area consists of a still darker 

 wedge-shaped quadrilateral, broadest at the genital fold, and half the width at the 

 posterior end, a little in front of the spinnerets. It is bordered all round with a 

 yellowish edging. 



The legs are yellow-brown, Avith fine recumbent nearly white hairs, a grey scopula 

 on the tarsi and front-half of the metatarsi of all legs, also grey claw-tufts and long 

 brown spines. 



