COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 477 



The cephalothorax 1 mm. longer than broad, straight in front, rounded at the sides, 

 and hollowed at the rear, is strongly convex, flat on the top, highest above the very 

 steep rear-slope, whence it slopes forward to the eye-space. The cephalic part is 

 faintly marked off from the thoracic, and there is a short, deep, longitudinal fovea 

 on the rear-slope. 



The rear-row of eyes is slightly procurved, the median rather less than three of their 

 diameters apart and rather more than three of the same from their laterals, which are 

 of the same size as the others and as the front-laterals. The front-row is straight 

 along the lower edges, the median eyes being nearly twice the diameter of the others. 

 They are two-thirds of their diameter apart, the same distance from their laterals, and 

 rather more from the rear median, but less than their diameter. The clypeus is half 

 their diameter. 



The mandibles are strongly geniculate at the base, conical, diverging anteriorly; fangs 

 long and powerful. The falces are thickly covered with long coarse bristles. On the 

 inner margin of the falx-sheath are three medium-sized teeth nearly hidden among 

 thick fringes, and a long thick fringe with two larger teeth lower down on the outer. 



The lip is broader than long, straight in front, thence widening to near the base, 

 which is constricted. It is less than half the length of the maxillae. These are very 

 convex, most so at the top of the lower half opposite the insertion of the palpi and 

 thence to the base. Between the swollen portion and the inner margin is a strip of 

 a lower level passing behind the lip, from above this a short even fringe extends 

 upwards. On the upper front-slope is a thick curling fringe, and separate from this 

 again on the face is another bristly hair-growth quite away from the margin. 



The sternum is slightly convex, a broad shield-shape, straight and widest in front, 

 pointed at the rear, above the nearly contiguous rear-coxee. It is hollowed oppo- 

 site each coxa, the flat intermediate space consisting of white tissue. It is covered 

 with scattered, upstanding, bristly hairs, each on a circular root. 



The abdomen is a long oval ; the hair covering on the upperside is close and 

 thick, and consists of long, upstanding, coarse bristles on circular roots. The 

 median area of the underside is rugose and sparsely furnished with shorter, but still 

 bristly, hair. 



The spinnerets are terminal, rising from a ring of smooth skin, and a second broader 

 ring behind this covered with hair, behind which again is the groove containing the 

 posterior pulmonary apertui-es. The inferior spinnerets are close together, conical, 

 with a short conical second joint. The superior are similar, about the same height, 

 but the second joint is more cylindrical. 



The legs are only moderately stout, each joint flner than the preceding, with claw- 

 tufts, scopulse on the tarsi and three-fourths of the length of the metatarsi. They 

 are also furnished with long powerful spines. The claws are well curved, with about 

 six pectinations. The anterior curved part of the claw is striated longitudinally. 



