1901.] 



AUSTRALIAN" SPIDEBS. 



Synopsis of Species. 



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Line joining centres of front row of eyes straight. 



Eyes in same about equal in size. Legs whole- 

 coloured throughout S. stirlingi, n. sp. 



Line joining centres of front row of eyes proeurred. 2. 



(Male.) First and fourth pairs of legs about equal 



in length. Inthe front row of eyes a line touching 



the lower part of the middle pair passes through 



the centres of the laterals. Femur i. it ii. chocolate- c . , . 



, j ., I ■>. vu/pina, n. sp. 



brown underneath I 9 <? -" T K h 



(Female.) First pair of legs distinctly longer than *■ * ^ J - 



the fourth. Front row of eyes so far procurved 



that a line touching the lower points of the middle 



pair passes above the side-eyes (sec. Thor.) S. strenua Tbor. 



Selexocosmia crassipes L. Koch. 



Phrictus crassipes L. Koch, Die Arachn. Austr. (1874) p. 490. 

 Phlogius crassipes E. Simon, loc. cit. 



Selexocosmia stirlingi, n. sp. (Text-fig. 27.) 



Text-fig. 27. 



Sclcnccosmia stir'ingi. a. Male palpal organ : h, extremity, enlarged 

 from upper and under sides, c. Eyes. 



This species has a wider range over Australia apparently than 

 any other of the group. I haw met with specimens from New 

 Guinea through Queensland to about the northern border of New 

 South Wales, through Central and Soutb Australia, to lat. 25°30', 

 and in Western Australia from the latitude of Perth. Until the 



