300 MR. H. R. HOGG ON SOME 



above that touching the tops of the rear median and front 

 laterals. 



The lip is as broad as long, slightly hollowed in front, I'ounded 

 at the sides, and narrowed at the base. It hardly reaches to one- 

 half the height of the maxillse. The latter are convex, upright, 

 rounded on the outer side,, the anterior margin furnished with 

 thick heavy fringes. 



The sternum is a broad shield -shape, convex, narrowed in front, 

 rounded at the sides, and, rather finely pointed at the rear, it 

 terminates in front of the rear coxfe. The legs are modeiately 

 stout, with five pairs of spines under tibia i. and ii. and three 

 pairs under metatarsus i. and ii. 



The tarsi have thick claw-tufts, no scopulas, but rather thick 

 bristles, along tarsus iv. The claws are well curved, stout, with 

 three teeth near the base. 



The abdomen is ovate, broadest posteriorly, with a broad 

 pedicule, visible from above ; the surface is smooth, with only 

 scattered hairs and bristles. The inferior spinnerets are short 

 and conical, broad at the base, with a hemispherical 2nd joint. 

 The superior are similar, but much smaller still, rather wide 

 apart, standing behind the outer margin of the inferior. 



The measurements in millimetres are as follows : — 



Long. Broad. 



n ■, ^ ,1 ^1 ] 2i in front. 



Oephalothorax ... 4^ -i ^ 



Abdomen 5k 4 



Mandibles 1| 



Pat. Metat. 



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



Legs 1. U 4 4 m = 13 



2. 1| 4 4 3| = 13 



a Ii 3 3 3~ = 10^ 



4. Ii 5 U 5 = 16 



Palpi i U U U = 5 



I have described this non-adult female from Dran, Langbian 

 Mountains as a new species only. The position of the lateral 

 eyes of the front row, as far to the rear as the tops of the rear 

 median, was L. Koch's grounds for constituting his genus 

 Pycnoctenns and removing a single species from Walckenaer's 

 genus of Ctenus. In the narrowness of the clypeus, however, 

 the above-described differs from both genera. The shape of the 

 cephalothorax and abdomen agrees with L. Koch's genus, but I 

 am unable to distinguish any third claw, and in his the lip is 

 manifestly more than half as long as the maxillse, while here it 

 is the opposite. 



I therefore leave it as a Ctenus, in spite of the narrow clypeus 

 and the front laterals, because it follows that genus in too many 

 other points. 



