1901.] AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 261 



median. The rear row is recurved. The laterals in length equal 

 the diameters o£ the front middle eyes. They are clearly separated 

 from the still smaller rear middle eyes. 



The whole eye-space is well raised up, the eyes yellow on a 

 black ground. 



The sternum is ovate, rather convex, covered with short stiff 

 bristles ; the sigillse are nearly marginal and moderately large. 



The lip is without spines, broader than long, rather straight at 

 the sides and hollowed in front. The maxillae are only slightly 

 hollowed round the lip, with a bunch of quite small spines above 

 that portion. 



The falx- sheath has one row of 7 medium-sized teeth and no 

 intermediate. 



The legs and palpi are rather long and slight, thickly clothed 

 with stout upstanding bristly hair ; the tibiae and metatarsi well 

 bespined, the front two pairs of tarsi have a light scopula which 

 does not extend along the metatarsi. 



The tarsal claws are large and have 7 or 8 pectinations on the 

 inner edge, one less on the outer. 



On the underside of tibia i. of the male are 10 irregularly 

 placed spines, but no spur. 



The thin, finely curved style of the male palp is 21 times tlie 

 length of the genital bulb. 



The abdomen is oval, sparsely covered with fine upstanding 

 bristles on round roots. The inferior mammillae are two diameters 

 apart. The superior pair have the third joint cylindrical and 

 longest, the second shortest. 



Measurements in millimetres. 



Long. Broad. 



Cephalothorax .... 6 5 



Abdomen 4^ 4 



Superior spinnerets 1, f , 1^ = 3. 



Pat. & Metat. 



Coxa. Tr. & fern. tib. & tars. 



Legs 1. 3 6 51 6-| = 21 



2. 21 51 5" 51 = 18-1 



3. 2 5 4 5 = 16 



4. 21 6 5| 7 = 21 

 Palpi 21 4 4 1 = 11^ 



A single male in the British Museum, sent by Dr. Broom from 

 Hill G-rove, New South Wales. I have named the species after 

 that industrious collector. 



Chbnistonia, nov. gen. 



Differs from Aname L. Koch in that tibia i. of the male is 

 furnished with a powerful single spur springing from an enlarge- 

 ment in the centre of the joint. The front row of eyes is slightly 



