AETHEOPOD EAUNA OE THE WEST INDIES. 405 



Tarantula reniforme, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 432. 



? Phalangium reniforme, Licht. 8f Herbst, Natursyst. ungefliig. InseUeriy 

 p. 79, pi. V. fig. 1 (not pi. vi. K.) 



? Phalangium palmatum, iid. ibid. p. 82, pi. iv. fig. 2. 



Phrynus margine-maculatus, Koch, Die Arachn. viii. p. 6, fig. 597. 



Phrynus palmatus, id. ibid. p. 13, fig. 601. 



Phrynus pumilio, id. ibid. p. 15, fig. 602. 



Phrynus reniformis, variegatus, palmatus, fuscimanus, Butler, Ann, 

 N. Hist. (4) xii. pp. 118, 119. 



Phrynus Goesii, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Gen. (2) vii. p. 530. 



Not Syn. Phalangium reniforme, Pallas, Spic. Zool i. pt. ix. pp. 34, 35, 

 pi. iii. figs. 3, 4. 



Tarantula reniformis, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892, p. 51. 



Colour. Carapace reddish brown or almost black, with some 

 faintly indicated lateral marginal flavous spots and some fine 

 stripes of the same colour radiating from the fovea externally 

 and posteriorly ; upper surface of the abdomen iu well coloured 

 specimens ornamented with black or deep brotvn and reddish or 

 flavous spots, the spots alternating like the pattern of a chess- 

 board, each tergite bearing 10 spots, 5 anterior and 5 posterior, 

 the anterior row consisting of 3 black and 2 yellow spots and 

 the posterior of 2 black and 3 yellow spots ; palpi the same 

 colour as the carapace ; legs ferruginous or fuscous, with a 

 faintly defined flavous spot on the external surface of the femur. 

 Lower surface ferruginous or fulvous. 



Carapace coarsely but not closely granular, its anterior border 

 lightly emarginate and conspicuously dentate, the rest of the 

 border denticulate. 



The upper surface of the abdomen granular like the cara- 

 pace. 



Palpi rather short, but varying in length from about three 

 times the length of the carapace to only a little more than twice 

 the length ; the brachium a little longer than the humerus, 

 longer than the length of the carapace but shorter than its 

 width. The humerus granular above and below, more weakly 

 granular in front, its upper edge armed in its proximal half with 

 from 5 to 6 (8) larger spines and some smaller ones ; the second 

 and third are the largest and the first rises from the base of the 

 second ; its inferior edge armed with about 8 larger and smaller 

 spines, of which the first and second are considerably the largest. 

 Srachium granular like the humerus, its upper edge armed in its 

 distal half with 7 spines, of which the first and seventh are the 



