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is very much smaller than S. lanipes Auss., which it somewhat 

 resembles, the cephalothorax being only two-thirds the length. 

 The colouring is apparently lighter, no bare streaks on patellae 

 and femora nor on inner side of rear femora. 



The 1st and 4th pairs of legs are about equal in length, instead 

 of 4th much longer, and 3rd shorter than 2Qd instead of slightly 

 longer. The process of the palp is not so much curled though the 

 end is about the same in shape. 



Coraing from the same neighbourhood, this may prove to be the 

 male (unknown) of L. Koch's S. crassipes. 



Genus Selenottpus E. I. Pocock. 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xv. p. 176 (Feb. 1895). 



For a Spider, a female, from Major's Creek, Towusville, 

 Queensland, Mr. Pocock rightly constituted a new genus. 



It differs from Selenocosmia Auss. in having the cephalic part not 

 so much convex, the fovea deeper and more procurved, the front 

 row of eyes recurved, the oval laterals of same not more than 

 three-fourths the diameter of the median, the rear median nearly 

 as large as the front lateral and larger than the rear, the whole of 

 the clearly recurved rear row rather widely separated one from 

 the other, and the 4th pair of legs much longer as well as stouter 

 than the 1st. 



Type, S. plumipes Pocock. 



Sblenotypus plumipes Pocock. (Text-fig. 29.) 

 Selenotypus plumipes Pocock, loc. cit. 



This fine species is the largest of all our Australian Spiders, 

 having a total length of 59 mm. It is much more thickly covered 



Selenotypus plumipes. Eyes. 



with hair than is Selenocosmia crassipes L. Koch, or indeed than 

 any others of the group. 



I make the measurements as follows, but from a dried specimen 

 it IS difficult to take them with perfect accuracy. 



