240 ME. H. R. HOGG ON [June 4, 



Idiommata black walli Cambr. 



Idiommata blacJiwalli Eev. O. P. Cambridge, he. cit. ; L. Koch, 

 Joe. cit. ; E. I. Pocock, he. eit. ; Ausserer, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. 

 Wien, Band xxv. 1875, p. 164. 



Described from male only. 



Herr Ausserer states {he. cit.) tliat the cephalothorax and back 

 of abdomen are thickly clothed with silver hair. Legs and palpi 

 dark, nearly black. 



Genus Enotocrypta Simon. 



Encyoevypta Simon, li. I. Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, 

 vol. svi. 1895, p. 225. 



Eneyoerypta E. Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 1888, p. 247. 



Idiommata Auss., E. Simon, Hist, Nat. d. Araign. vol. i. (1892) 

 p. 121. 



Type, E. meleagris. 



This genus was created by M. Simon for a New Caledonian 

 member of the group {meleagris), but was subsequently merged 

 by him in the genus Idiommata Auss., from which, under the 

 circumstances above detailed, it was again resuscitated by Mr. 

 Pocock. 



Erom Herr Ausserer's synopsis of species (Verb. k.k. zool.-bot. 

 Ges. Wien, Band xxv. 1875, p. 164) I translate the following : — 



1. Cephalothorax and upper side of abdomen not clothed 



■with silver hair 2. 



2. Front middle eyes of second group at least their 



diameter apart ; cephalic fovea deep half-moon 



shape with the opening in front E. fusca L. K. 



Front middle eyes of second group less than their 

 diameter apart ; thoracic fovea sti-aight 3. 



3. Abdomen brownish yellow, with a dark reddish-brown 



network spread on it E. reticulata Jj. li. 



Abdomen black-brown, with yellowish-brown hairs 

 without any network marking E. aussereri L. K, 



Encyocbtpta beticulata L. Koch. 



Encyocrypta reticulata E. I. Pocock {he. cit.). 



Idiommata retieidata L, Koch, Ai'achn. Austr. 1874, p. 47. 



Erom British Museum specimens (three females from Eock- 

 hampton) labelled E, retieidata, I take the following particulars : — 



The colour is chestnut-brown to lighter yellow-brown all over. 

 The abdomen is clothed with thick short brown hair, intermingled 

 with bristles and some spines. The six rear eyes yellow, the two 

 front black. 



A light rastellum of spinous bristles. 8 large teeth on inner 

 margin of falx-sheath ; 12 quite small intermediate at lower end ; 

 1 large at lower end of outer edge. Thoracic fovea procurved (?). 



Sternum a broad oval. Of the sternal sigillse the three pos- 

 terior pairs are moderate in size and marginal ; the anterior pair 

 under the lip very large. 



