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pitted with minute impressions. Generally the two sexes 

 agree in colour, but some males have the thorax nearly dead 

 black. 



Killhope Law, July, 1910, 1 female; October 5th, 1910, 

 several females; July, 191 1, half-a-dozen females; August 

 15th, 1911, 1 male, 1 female; September 7th, 1911, n males 

 and about 40 females. All these were taken in the same 

 swampy patch just above the old mines on the western side of 

 the watershed between East and West Allen, and nearly all 

 of them within a very restricted area on the western edge of 

 this swamp. On the last date named, the rushes on this very 

 spot had been mown and lay in two heaps. One of these 

 yielded a male and a female. After trying all over the swamps 

 (unusually dry after the long drought) and obtaining four 

 females only, I returned to this spot, and in half an hour ob- 

 tained the total number recorded above. The male would seem 

 to attain maturity about the middle of August, so that its 

 adult period probably coincides with that of H. excisa Cb. 

 The present species, however, belongs to the Arctic group, 

 distinguished by the peculiar metatarsus of the first pair of 

 legs (in the male), which includes glacialis Thor., incondita 

 L. K., consimilis Cb., and mirabilis C. L. K., all of which it 

 considerably exceeds in size. In this respect the two sexes 

 are about equal, the total length ranging from 4 mm. to 

 4-4 mm. 



Scleroschema reginaldi n. sp. 



Adult female. Total length i*6 mm. 



On the strength of the following generic characters I assign 

 this spider to the genus Scleroschema : — 



Sternum broad, with a wide termination behind ; cuticle of 

 the abdomen coriaceous ; inner teeth three ; hairs of the legs 

 long and tibial setae pretty strong, longer than the diameter of 

 the joint; tarsi and metatarsi of the first pair of legs equal; 

 the spiracular fold just reaching the margin of the mamillary 

 cavity ; front line of eyes recurved ; epigyne more than twice 

 as broad as its median length. 



