22 ON SPIDEES FHOM CHILI AUD PEEU. 



c? . Colour. Carapace mahogany-brown, clothed witli fine 

 golden-brown pubescence. Legs clothed with golden-brown pu- 

 bescence. Anterior tibiae and tarsi sooiy black. Abdomen : 

 shoulders black ; anterior half with a central dorsal brown bar, 

 its three angles picked out with black, followed towards the 

 spinners by two or more small triangular black marks; on each 

 side is a row of three or more black spots, contrasting with 

 some white ones lying adjacent. Ventral surface unicolorous 

 pale golden grey. 



2 ■ Colour similar to that of the male, except that the golden 

 pubescence has a deeper yellow-olive tinge. Abdomen entirely 

 clothed on the upper side with golden brown pubescence, with a 

 central dorsal suffusion of rnst-red. Shoulders slightly tinged 

 A\ith brown, anterior dorsal mark very obscure, followed towards 

 the spinners by two or three very obscure pale A -shaped marks. 



S . Structure. Palpus & organs. See Plate 2. fig. 11. 



2 . „ Vulva. See Plate 2. fig. 12. 



Tour females and one male of this species, belonging to the 

 Trochosa group, were taken by Dr. Plate in the island of Juan 

 rernandez. 



LicosA AirsTEALis, E. Slmon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1884, p. 3. 



A single adult male, most j)robably belonging to this species, 

 w^as taken at Tellenika on the Palse Cape Horn. M. Simon's 

 type was taken on the He Hoste. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 2. 



Fig. 1. Sparassiis homhilius, sp. n. Adult male. Right paljjus from beneath. 



2. „ „ ,, ,, Full figui-e. 



3. Amaurohius Platei, sp. n. Eight palpus. 



4. Meta nigrohumeralis, sp. n. Adult female. Full figure. 



5. „ „ Vulva. 



6. Tmeticus Befoei, sp. n. Adult female. Full figure. 



7. „ „ „ „ Vulva. 



8. „ Platei, sp. n. Adult female. Full figure. 



9. „ „ „ „ Vulva. 



10. Bubrius anmdatus. Adult female. Vulva. 



11. Lycom jernandezi. Adult male. Palpal bulb. 

 13. „ ,, Adult female. Vulva. 



13. Citharoscelus Koehii. Female. Coxa of leg i., inside, showing stridu- 



lating spines. 



14. „ „ „ Coxa of pedipalp, outside, showing 



stridulating spines. 



15. „ „ „ A single stridulating spine, enlarged. 



