1901.] 



AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 



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PoRRHOTHELE siMONi, n. sp. (Text-fig. 37.) 



Mandibles black. Cephalothorax and sternum rich shining dark 

 brown. Coxae, lip, and maxillae rather lighter brown. Legs and 

 palpi medium reddish brown, with brown hairs, bristles, and spines. 

 Abdomen dull black -brown, with small yellow spots here and there 

 and rather rough corrugations ; hair yellow-brown. Gill-covers 

 brown, edged with yellow. Spinnerets dark brown. The cephalic 

 part is only moderately raised ; fovea deep and straight or slightly 

 procurved. 



The front row of eyes is slightly procurved, the median pair 

 their diameter apart. Laterals scarcely, if any, larger, and half 

 that distance away. The rear row is recurved, the laterals the 

 same size as the front and three-quarters of the diameter away. 

 The rear median are two-thirds the diameter of the others, rather 

 square, half as far from the rear side as the front middle. 



The falx-sheath has 10 large and 2 small (1st and 6th) teeth 

 on its inner margin, with a median row of 8 small teeth at the 

 lower end. 



Text-fig. 37. 



Po7'rhothele simoni. a. Eyes. b. Profile. 



The sternum is a broad oval, flat, with thin upstanding brown hair. 

 The sternal sigillse are moderately large and quite marginal. 



The lip is rather square, straight in front, and very convex. It 

 is profusely covered with club-shaped spines from front nearly to 

 base. The maxillae are broad, with a protuberant inner front corner, 

 a thick group of club-shaped spines reaches to two-thirds the 

 length. 



The superior tarsal claws are large, with one row of 11 pectina- 

 tions, longest in the middle, running diagonally across the claws. 

 The inferior tarsal claw is smooth. The female palp-claw has 

 six pectinations. The inferior spinnerets are long, and about four 

 of their diameters apart. The superior pair have the first and third 

 joints equal and longer than the second. 



The abdomen is oval, high, and rounded at the sides. 



