46 MR. H. R. HOGG OX 



The legs are only moderately stout, tarsi and metatarsi cylin- 

 drical ; long stout spines on the metatarsi and tibiae of all legs. 

 A brush of short bristles, not amounting to a scopula, on the 

 under side of the tarsi. 



The superior claws are long and rather straight, with a few 

 pectinations at the basal end only. 



The tibial joint of the pcdp is twice as long as the patella, and 

 the distal joiut is famished with spines and bristles. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : — 



Long. Broad. 



. j 1| in front. 



Cephalothorax... 4 < ^j 



Abdomen B 3| 



Mandibles 2 



Pat. Met at. 

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



Legs 1. 1 3A 4i ^ = 121 



2. 1 3J 4 3i = 11| 



3. 1 3| 3.i 4' = 11| 



4. 1 4 4i 6 = 15| 

 Palpi i ]i 1| 1 = U 



This agrees with M. Simon's genus Emmsnomrna from Cape 

 Horn, except as to its median eye area. It differs from E. ocn- 

 latum in this being only 11 times as long as broad instead of 

 3 times the width. 



One female only. 



Family T h o M i s i D .E. 

 Subfamily Philodromin.e. 

 Genus Petricus E. Simon. 



Petricus sigxatus, sp. n, (PI. I. figs. 1-1 c.) 



Fem.ale. Cephalothorax black-brown mottled with dai-k yellow 

 brown, and scantily covered with downlying flat white hairs ; 

 a thick band of same across the front of the clypeus. 



Mandibles black-brown, smooth at the base, with a few brown 

 bristly hairs towards the anterior end. Fangs dark yellow-brown. 

 Sbeimum, lip, and maxillae patchy dingy yellow-brown, with rough 

 white hair. Coxae of legs dingy darkish j^ellow, with dark brown 

 on the under side of the femur, patella, and tibia, and downlying 

 dark hairs and brown upstanding bristles and spines. Metatarsus 

 and tarsus paler yellow, with thick whitish scopula on the latter 

 and anterior part of the former. 



The upper side of the abdomen is b^ack-lrown with down- 

 lying flat white hairs and upstanding brown bristles ; a dark 

 longitudinal median stinpe extends from the base to about two- 



