480 ME. H. E. HOGG ON SPIDEES 



the base, it rather widens out. The sternum is ovate, twice as long as broad, trun- 

 cate in front, pointed at the rear, widest between the 2nd and 3rd pairs of coxae. On 

 the front-margin, which is a little distance from the lip, is a short prominence like a 

 rudimentary second lip flanked by two apparently rudimentary maxillse, triangular, 

 pointed anteriorly. The bases of the front two pairs of coxae are close up to the 

 sternum, but there is a rather wide margin between it and the rear two pairs of coxa?. 

 This is filled up with a white flaky skin almost covering the brown oval chitinous points 

 at the bases of the coxfe and, on the margin of the sternum itself, opposite each of 

 these is another similar oval chitinous spot. The sternum is thickly covered with 

 upstanding hair. 



The legs are moderately long and thin. The fourth pair longest, and the second 

 pair rather longer than the first. 



The abdomen is ovate, truncate in front, sparsely covered with fine hair. The 

 spinnerets terminal on chitinous bases. 



The epigyne is on a slightly raised circular prominence with two small chitinous 

 spots on the anterior margin, a raised fold at the lower margin, with two still smaller, 

 but similar, spots on the upperside of the same near the middle. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as folloAvs : — 



Long. Broad. 



Ceplialotliorax 4 ^ '^ 



Abdomen 6 3j 



Mandibles 2 — 



Troolianter Patella Metatarsus 



Cos a. & femur. & tibia. & tarsus. 



Legs 1. 1 3 3i 3 = 10^ 



2. 1 3i 4 3 := lU 



3. 1 3 2i 3 = 9h 



4. 1^ Si 4 U = 13i 

 Palpi i H li 1 = 4i 



Very few specimens of this genus seem to have been collected in New Guinea. 



This specimen rather closely resembles L. Koch's C. modesta, C. vacuna, and 

 C. aheolata, from all of which it differs in the rear r-ow of eyes being straight instead 

 of procurved, the legs longer in proportion, and the rather different though generally 

 similar form of the epigyne, but particularly by the unusual growths on the front 

 margin of the sternum. 



