COLLECTED lA^ DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 483 



but the tarsi are not filiform or flexible. The tibial joint of the palpi is longer 

 than the patellar, and the metatarsal as long as these two. 

 The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows: — 



Long. Broad. 



^, , 1 ,, „ f 2 & 3 in front. 



Cepoalothorax 6 i 



Abdomen 8 4 



Mandibles 'Z — 



Trochanter Patella Metatarsus 



Coxa. & femur. & tibia. & tarsus. 



Legs L 2 8i 9 9 = 28^ 



2. 2 9 10 10 = 31 



3. 2 8 81 8i = 27 



4. 2 9i 11 in = 34 

 Palpi 1 2i 21 21 = 8^ 



This specimen rather closely resembles D. albicomus L. Koch from Queensland, but 

 according to his description it is readily distinguished therefrom by the spacing and 

 curvature of the eyes, the proportions of the legs, and the longitudinal line on the 

 cephalo thorax. 



It differs still more from D. dolomedes and D. alhocinctum of Doleschall and 

 D. albolimhata Thor. from New Guinea and the adjacent islands, all of which have 

 the same very distinctive white band round the sides of the abdomen found in the 

 present species. 



Family O x Y o P i D ^. 

 Genus Oxyopes Latreille. 



OXYOPES PAPLTANUS. 

 ? Oxijopes (Sphasus) striatus Doleschall, Nat. Tijd. v. Neerl. Itid. vol. xiii. 1857, p. 430 ; id. 



Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl. vol. v. pi. 5. fig. 9. 

 Oxyopes striatus Dol.; Thorell, Ragni di Amboina, 1878, p. 211. 

 Oxyopes papuanus Thorell, Ragni Austro-Malesi, 1881, p. 395. 



One female. 



The description given by Thorell [he. cit.) of the species he considers to be Oxyo])es 

 striatus Dol. and his own P. faimanus are so remarkably alike that, as he says him- 

 self, they may be the same. Doleschall's original description does not help very 

 far, but his drawing is very good and like both of them. He, however, describes four 

 longitudinal stripes on the cephalothorax of the female instead of two, and Thorell 

 says that the epigyne is black and shiny, which is the case here. I have little doubt 



