SPTDEES FSOM CHILI AND PERU. ]7 



recognized, the name tliomisoides was given wlieu lie gave 

 the name Sicarius to the genus. S. tliomisoides, Wlk., is there- 

 fore the type of the genus Sicarius. If we regard Sicarius as the 

 proper generic title on the ground that, at the time of its publi- 

 cation, Tliomisoides existed only in manuscript, or, if in type, as 

 an unpublished name, as M. Simon has dooe in Hist. JSTat. Ar. 

 2 ed, p. 271, we must also regard tliomisoides as the proper 

 specific title, which M. Simon has however not done in the place 

 mentioned. 



Several females and a male of this species were taken by 

 Dr. Plate at Coquimbo and Iquique. 



Family DrsDEPtiD^. 



AuiADKA MAXIMA (JSTicolet). 



Di/sdera f>uLvim:t, Nic, Gay, Hist, de Chile, Zool. iii. p. 341, plate ii. 

 fig. 6. 



Two examples were taken by Dr. Plate in the island of Juan 

 Fernandez. 



DvsDEBA OROCOTA, C. K., Die Aracliiiiden,3d. v. p. 81. 

 Three adult males of this species were taken in Jaau Fernandez 

 by Dr. Plate. 



Family Clubionidje. 



Spaeassus bombilius, sp. n. (PI. 2. figs. 1 & 2.) 



J. Total length 15 mm.; carapace 7x7; legs, i. 3i — 

 ii. 30— iii. 27— iv. 28. 



Colour. Carapace mahogany-brown clothed with golden-grey 

 hairs. Mandibles black, clothed with lung golden-grey hairs. 

 Fang-groove fringed with ferruginous-red hairs. Legs very dark 

 mahcgauy, almost black, hirsute with stiff golden-grey hairs ; 

 abdomen clothed with rough golden-grey hairs, a trausverseband 

 across the shoulders black, continued indistinctly down the dorsal 

 line, with a second narrower transverse dark baud just before the 

 middle, followed towards the spinners by a narrow central hand 

 having veiy short indistinct oblique lateral rays. Lateral area 

 dark brown; sub-veutral area golden-grey, embracing the spinner?; 

 central ventral area black. Sternum deep brown, clothed with 

 short golden-grey hairs. Palpi : femora and patellge orange, tibiae 

 and tarsi deep brown or black. 



Structure. Carapace almost circular, convex. Anterior row of 

 eyes procurved, posterior row straight. Central anteriors 



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