124 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



crouched under a mangrove tree (Rkizophora mucronata), at the 

 edge of the swamp, picking specimens of an Enter opneusla from 

 a puddle, so I permitted the spider, when it descended from the 

 leaves above, to drown in the water, and transferred it to formol 

 when I reached camp." 



Hyllus audax, sp. nov. 

 (Plate v., figs. 4, 4a.) 



$ . Cephalothorax, 4min. long, 3^mm. broad ; abdomen, Strain, 

 long, 3mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax somewhat shield-shaped, long, broad, high. 

 Caput dark brown approaching bistre, glabrous above, fringed in 

 front and at sides with a few rather long dark brown hairs, and 

 below the front row of eyes thickly clothed with silvery scale- 

 like hairs. Clypeus broad, arched, reddish-brown, sparingly 

 clothed with short hoary pubescence ; there is a moderately deep 

 depression seated midway between the two eyes comprising the 

 third posterior row ; immediately under each eye of the second 

 row, and seated moderately low down, there is a large and pro- 

 minent tubercle. Marginal band narrow, black. Eyes similar to 

 those of H.ferox, Rainb., except in so far as the space intervening 

 between the third row and the lateral eyes of the front series, the 

 distance in this species being one millimetre. Legs moderately 

 long, reddish-brown; the first pair much the longest and strongest; 

 each ambulatory limb is clothed with brown hairs, and armed 

 with long, black, strong spines ; relative lengths, 1, 2, 4, 3. Palpi 

 long, somewhat lighter in colour, clothed with long yellowish 

 hairs, and armed with short, strong, black spines. Falces robust, 

 moderately long, strongly arched in front, divergent at apex, 

 dark brown, clothed with a few short hoary hairs at base ; inner 

 margins rather thickly fringed with long dark brown hairs ; the 

 upper margin of the furrow of each falx is armed with a row of 

 four teeth, arid the lower margin with a row of two ; fangs long, 

 strong, reddish-brown. Maxillae and labium as in H. ferox. 

 Sternum elliptical, convex, pale yellow, moderately clothed with 

 long, yellowish hairs. Abdomen oblong-ovate : superior surface 

 thickly clothed with short, closely adpressed golden scale-like 

 hairs ; commencing at anterior extremity, and terminating near 

 spinnerets, there are two lateral sooty-black bands, the margins 

 of which are sinuous ; sides lightly grooved or furrowed longi- 

 tudinally, and thickly clothed with short adpressed golden scale- 

 like hairs ; inferior surface pale yellowish, thickly clothed with 

 silvery pubescence. Epigyne slightly elevated in front, with two 

 somewhat spherical lobes ; deeply grooved laterally and in front. 

 Spinnerets long, yellow-brown, thickly clothed with long yellowish 

 hairs. 



One specimen. 



