FALKLAND ISLAND SPIDERS. 3'J 



in front, with rounded projections at each fore corner. It narrows 

 to a point posteriorly, where there are two little- round bosses, one 

 each side ; in front of each coxa it is incurved, and there is a 

 raised hump. 



The legs are moderately thick in the femoral, patellar, and tibial 

 joints, the latter being thickened at the anterior end ; the meta- 

 tarsi and tarsi are cylindrical and much finer. On tibia 1 and 2 

 are thick upstanding bristles, and a single row of six upstanding 

 spines on the under side. There are about five pectinations on 

 the superior tarsal claws, thin at the base but thickened anteriorly. 

 The femoral joint of the palpi is short ; the tibial joint is longer 

 than the patellar, and there are upstanding bristles and spines on 

 the distal joint. There are several pectinations on the palp-claw. 



The ahdovien, which overhangs the cephalothorax as far as the 

 lower end of the cephalic part, is ovate, convex, rounded in front 

 but slightly pointed. It is widest at about one-third of its length 

 from the base, where there are small corner humps which disappear 

 in some specimens, thence narrowing to a blunt rounded point at 

 the rear end. There are two pairs of large muscle-spots followed 

 by three pairs smaller and less distinct. 



The epigyne has a scape furnished with two prominent lobes 

 on the lower mai-gin, and a specially long appendix of the 

 A. productus type, 2 mm. long, which reaches more than halfway 

 to the membranous base of the spinnerets. The latter are large 

 and well developed, and of the normal type. 



The hair covering is short, fine, and downlying, but there is a 

 ring of longer bristly hairs round the base of the spinnerets. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : — 



Long. Broad. 



Cephalothorax... 41 | 1| m front. 



Abdomen 11| 10 



Mandibles 2~ 



Trochanter Patella Metatarsus 

 Coxa. & femur. & tibia. & tarsus. 



Legs 1. U 5 5-1 5 = 17 



2. ll 5 5 H = 16 



3. 1 3i 3 3 = lOi 



4. 1| 5 5 4 = 151 

 Palpi I 2 2 2 = 6| 



There are numerous specimens of females but no males. The 

 species is said to be common about the Camp. There was a 

 green-coloured egg-sac with the specimens but it was torn out 

 of shape. 



Akaneus globiger, sp. n. (PI. I. figs. 4-4 e.) 



Male. Cephalothorax dingy yellow-brown, lightest on the 

 cephalic part, darker on the thoracic, with a marginal stripe 

 again paler. The hairs are long, forward pointing, yellowish 



