BY A. T. TJBQUHAET. 



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Mrea altieephala, sp. nov. Plate Fig. 3. 

 Femina.—G&gh. th., long, 3; broad, 2 - 5 ; facial index, 2 - 4. 

 Abd., long, 5'5 ; broad, 5*5. Legs, 1 — 2, 4, 3 = 7 - 5, 6"5, 4. mm. 



Cephalothorax lake-black about ocular area, fore-sides of 

 thorax, and lateral margins ; dark shade passes between hind- 

 median eyes tapering to limit of caput, enlarged at fovea ; 

 posterior incline of cephalic and thoracic parts fulvus, passing 

 into a brownish lake ; hairs whitish, appressed, somewhat in 

 lines ; luconose ; sub-parallel, rounded posteriorly, lateral 

 constriction slight ; pars cephalica elevated, slopes on all sides 

 rather abruptly from hind central eyes ; grooved depression 

 between latter ; fore-angles developed into very stout, sub- 

 conical projections, flatly convex above, directed outwards 

 and forwards beyond frontal line ; clypeus retreating, pointed, 

 height equal to space of anterior median eyes ; pars thoracica 

 depressedly convex, on same plane as fore-centre eyes at its 

 junction with caput ; fovea shallow, ill-defined ; caput and 

 radial stris slight, irregular ; profile-contour rises from 

 thoracic junction with a somewhat even line to posterior 

 median eyes, at an angle of 30deg, slopes rather more abruptly 

 to anterior centre eyes. 



Eyes rather small ; anterior row procurved ; line through 

 centrals intersects lateral pairs ; median eyes posited some- 

 what obliquely on small, crimson-lake, discoid tubercles, 

 separated from each other by an interval perceptibly exceed- 

 ing an eye's breadth, and from laterals of same row by nearly 

 twice their space ; posterior row straight ; forms a very 

 strongly procurved line, with eyes of second row ; eyes one- 

 fourth larger than anterior pair, seated obliquely on well- 

 developed, crimson-lake, discoid elevations, about one-fourth 

 further from fore-centrals than they are from each other, an 

 interval surpassing space of anterior pair by scarcely one- 

 third ; interval between tubercles fully equal to one-half 

 the distance dividing them from fore-pair of tubercular 

 eminences, separated from hind-laterals by their space and 

 a half; side-eyes placed obliquely on abscinded apices of 

 lateral projections, anterior eye more than twice size of pos- 

 terior, latter about equal to a fore-central, divided from eye 

 next to it by rather more than one-fourth its own diameter. 



First and second pairs of legs lake-brown, suffused with 

 chocolate-black, somewhat obscure annuli on tibise ; hind 

 pairs fulvus ; coxal joints, two distal thirds — more or less — 

 of femora and patellar suffused with dark chocolate-brown ; 

 wide basal annulations on tibial, metatarsal and tarsal 

 joints of same shade; legs, 1st pair rather stout, thighs 

 compressed ; patella and tibia sub-aplanate, former article 

 grooved, less than one-fourth shorter than tibial joint, 

 latter sub-linear ; metatarsus and tarsus of nearly equal 



