1901.] 



AUSTKALIAX SPIDEBS. 



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G-enus Aganippe Cambr. 



Aganippe Cambr. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xix. 1877, 

 p. 28 ; Simon, Hist. Nat. d. Araign. vol. i. p. 106 (1892); Pocock, 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xvi. 1S95, p. 223; id. ibid, 

 vol. xix. 1897, p. 112. 



Type, Agaxippe subtbistis Cambr., he. cit. 



Described from a dried specimen in the British Museum received 

 from Adelaide (S. Australia), and not recorded since. 



The cephalothorax and legs are bright chestnut-brown ; the eye- 

 space and mandibles darker reddish brown ; abdomen reddish brown, 

 rough and hairy. The sternum is pyriform, broadest behind. 

 The posterior sternal sigillse large and removed from the margin ; 

 a smaller pair between these and the anterior margin of sternum. 

 The sternum and coxa? are copiously pitted. 



The lip is small, as long as broad. Club-shaped spines on base 

 of maxillae, none visible on lip. 



In this the rastellum extends in three rows of teeth right across 

 the lower end of falx. 



Measurements in millimetres. 



Long. 

 Cephalothorax . . 12 



Abdomen 11 



Mandibles 8 falx. 



5 fang, 



Coxa. Ti 

 Legs 1. 5 



2. 4 



3. 4 

 Or 4, 1,2,3. 4. 5 



Palpi 5^ 



9 







91 









Tib.& 



Metat. 



'. & fern. 



pat. 



& tars. 



Q 1 

 y 2 



8 2 



54 



8 



8 



5| 



71 

 ' 2 



7 



6 



10 



H 



84 



H 



4 



4 



28 \ 

 251 



24 

 33 



23 



Genus Axidiops Pocock. 



Anidiops Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xix. 1897, 

 p. 114. 



Type, Antdiops maxsteidgei Pocock, he. cit. 



Described from a dried female specimen from Lawlers, East 

 Murchison, W.A., and not since recorded. 



The front middle eyes are yellow with black centres, their 

 diameter apart. The rear side-eyes art; largest, two thirds diameter 

 of front middle. The rear row strongly proourved. The front 

 side-eyes project beyond the margin of the carapace, aud are their 

 diameter apart, one third more than front middle. 



Rastellum along inner front of fa!\ and over rather large area 

 ehind same. 



