1901.] 



AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 



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G-enus Aganippe Cambr. 



Aganippe Cambr. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xix. 1877^ 

 p. 28 ; Simon, Hisfc. Nat. d. Araign. vol. i. p. 106 (1892) ; Pocock, 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xvi. 1895, p. 223 ; id. ibid, 

 vol. xix. 1897, p. 112. 



Type, Aganippe subtristis Cambr., loc. cit. 



Described from a dried specimen in the British Museum received 

 from Adelaide (S. Australia), and not recorded since. 



The cephalothorax and legs are bright chestnut-brown ; the eye- 

 space and mandibles darker reddish brown ; abdomen reddish brown, 

 rough and hairy. The sternum is pyriform, broadest behind. 

 The posterior sternal sigillse lai'ge and removed from the margin ; 

 a smaller pair between these and the anterior margin of sternum. 

 The sternum and coxae are copiously pitted. 



The lip is small, as long as broad. Club-shaped spines on base 

 of maxillse, none visible on lip. 



In this the I'astellum extends in three rows of teeth right across 

 the lower end of falx. 



Measurements in millimetres. 



Long. 

 Cephalothorax . . 12 



Abdomen 11 



Mandibles 8 falx 



5 fang. 



Coxa 

 Legs 1. 5 



2. 4 



3. 4 

 Or 4, 1,2, 3. 4. 5 



Palpi 5i 



Broad. 











9 











n 



Tib. & 



Metat. 







•. & fern. 



pat. 



& tars. 







H 



81 



5i 



= 



28|- 



8 



8 



5i 



^ 



251 



71 



7 



6 



= 



241 



10^ 



9i 



8i 



= 



33 



^ 



H 



^ 



= 



23 



Genus Anidiops Pocock. 



Anidiops Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. ser. 6, vol. xix. 1897, 

 p. 114. 



Type, Anidiops manstridgei Pocock, loc. cit. 



Described from a dried female specimen from Lawlers, East 

 Murchison, W.A., and not since recorded. 



The front middle eyes are yellow with black centres, their 

 diameter apart. The rear side-eyes are largest, two thirds diameter 

 of front middle. The rear row strongly procurved. The front 

 side-eyes project beyond the margin of the carapace, and are their 

 diameter apart, one third more than front middle. 



Eastellum along inner front of falx and over rather large area 

 behind same. 



