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merid. ; India orient.; Nova-Caledonia; America sept, et 

 merid. ; Venezuela." 



Eleleis, Simon: "Africa max. australis." 



Zimiris, Simon: "Arabia merid.; India; et fortasse 

 Malaisia.'' 



In the "Proceedings of the Calif ornian Academy of 

 Sciences/' 3rd series, i., No. 7, 1898, p. 225, Nathan Banks 

 described a Mexican species, for which he proposed the name 

 Ziniiris puhescens. This Simons considers to be the type of 

 another genus, to which he gave the MS. name NeoziinirisA^^ 



Taking into consideration the distribution of the family 

 as thus defined, it is only natural to suppose the possibility 

 of its occurring in Australia. The form described below differs 

 essentially from any of the species recorded to the genera 

 above quoted. If my determination as to its systematic posi- 

 tion be correct, then, for the convenience of classification, two 

 subfamilies will have to be created, as well as a new genus. 

 For the reception of the genera above quoted I propose the 

 subfamily Frodidominae, and for the genus hereunder 

 described Cryytoeritliino/e.. 



In speaking of the Prodidomkhie, Professor Comstock 

 says (3^ : — ''The frodidomkls are two-clawed, eight-eyed spiders, 

 with dissimilar eyes in three rows, and very robust chelicerae, 

 which are furnished with very long and slender claws'' [fangs. 

 — W.J.R.]. The species described below, while displaying 

 these points in the main, presents certain features widely 

 distinct. In all Prod id om ids hitherto known the eyes are 

 arranged in three rows, reading from the front of 4, 2, 2, while 

 in the species now under study, and for which I propose the 

 name Crypt oerithiis occtdtus, the formula is 2, 4, 2. Another 

 point of interest is that instead of six spinnerets there are only 

 four, of which two are extremely minute, and are ensconced 

 in a deep pit or depression at the posterior extremity of the 

 abdomen, and two very long, cylindrical ones situated on the 

 underside, and at some little distance from the extremity. 

 The latter pair are placed close together and almost touch each 

 other ; the minute pair, on the other hand, are decidedly 

 difficult to trace, and this difficulty is increased owing to the 

 abundance of comparatively long hairs within the cavity, and 

 which surround them. In outline the cephalothorax is some- 

 what like Eleleis, Sim. 



Simon, in his monumental work,('^^ gives a lucid outline 

 of the Prodidomidne, and to this the student is directed. I 



(2) Simon: op. cit., ii., 1897 (1903), p. 984. 



< 3) Comstock : '•The Spider Book," 1912, p. 308. 



l4) Simon: op. cit., pp. 332-330. 



