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MR. H. R. HOea ON 



[June 4, 



IxAMATUS BROOMi, n. sp. (Text-fig. 34.) 



The cephalothorax is dull reddish brown ; the mandibles, which 

 are paler and more yellow-brown, have a bare streak along the 

 outer edge and long brown bristles over the remainder. The 

 legs and palpi are reddish brown above, deep yellow underneath, 

 with brown hair, bristles and spines. The lip, maxillae, sternum, 

 and coxse are bright golden yellow. 



Text-fig. 34. 



Ixamatus broomi. 



a. Male palp. , . . 



c. Eyes, 



I. Tibial joint of first pair of legs. 



'es. 



On the underside of the abdomen the chitinous shield forward 

 of the breathing-slits is bright golden yellow, the gill-coverings 

 and the spinnerets are the same colour, behind the breathing- 

 slits pale yellow mottled with black. Along the back is a dark 

 median stripe, on each side of M'hich large yellow spots are 

 irregularly distributed on a black ground. 



The cephalothorax is a short oval, the cephalic part only slightly 

 higher than the thoracic. The fovea is rather long and deep, and 

 clearly recurved. 



The front row of eyes, seen from the front, is slightly procurved; 

 the median pair half their diameter apart, and rather less from the 

 laterals, of m hich the long diameter is once and a half that of the 



