258 me. h. b. hogg on [June 4, 



The species may be distinguished as follows : — 



The front row of eyes about equally large 1. 



Side-eves of front row nearly twice the diameter of 

 middle 2. 



1. Front row clearly procurved. Palpal stigma in male 



twisted and dilated at apex /. gregoHi, n. sp. 



— Front row straight. Palpal stigma in male tapering 

 to a point and about the length of the bulb (sec. 

 L. Koch) /. varius L. Koch. 



2. Palpal stigma in male very long and attenuated 



(twice the length of bulb) /. broomi, u. sp. 



IxAMATITS VARIUS L. Koch. 



Lvamatus varim L. Koch, Die Arachn. Austr. (1873) p. 469. 



Described from a male from Boweu, Queensland : the species is 

 unknown to me. 



According to L. Kocb, the legs are much shorter in proportion to 

 the cephalothorax and abdomen than either of the other two species 

 described below ; his measurements being : ceph. 7 mm., abd. 8, 

 palpi 10 ; legs 16, 15, 13, and 18 mm. respectively. 



Ixamatus geegoeii, n. sp. (Text-fig. 33, p. 259.) 



The cephalothorax and mandibles are dark yellowish brown, 

 with down-lying yellow hair and a belt of upstanding brown 

 bristles round the margin of the former and on the front of the 

 latter. A straight deep fovea and bare side-streaks separate the 

 long and rather narrow cephalic part from the thoracic. 



The legs and palpi are the same, yellowish brown shaded in 

 places with darker brown ; the tibiae and metatarsi wholly dark 

 brown. They are thickly covered with a mixture of long yellow, 

 grey, and brown bristly hairs. The tarsi of the front two pairs 

 have pale yellow, almost white scopulse which extend half-way up 

 the corresponding metatarsi. 



The lip, maxilla?, sternum, and coxae are yellow shaded with 

 brown, and furnished with upstanding bristly brown hair, paler on 

 the coxae. 



The abdomen above is dark grey mottled with large yellow spots; 

 below yellow, with smaller black mottlings. 



The superior spinnerets are pale yellow above, greyer under- 

 neath, with yellowish-grey hairs. 



This differs from /. broomi in having the front and rear side- 

 eyes equal in diameter to the front middle, which are half their 

 diameter apart ; in having the last joint of the superior spinnerets 

 equal in length to the second and shorter than the first. The 

 legs much more bristly ; the thoracic fovea straighter ; a few 

 spines on the front of the lip ; the style of the male palp short and 

 curling, the length only of the bulb. 



The tarsi also are weak and sinuous, the front two metatarsi 

 partially scopulated, and on the anterior side of patella hi. are 

 three short stout spines as in Aname grisea described above (p. 253), 



