68 ARACHN1DES OF THE 



Length, female nearly seven-twentieths of an inch. 

 Much the largest species I have seen. 



genus GONYLEPTES. Kirby. 



YeH moderate ; tarsi from six to ten jointed ; man- 

 dibles chelate ; maxillae none ; palpi unguiculated. 



Species. G *ornaturn* Ocular tubercle hardly 

 elevated, unarmed ; . hind feet remote ; two erect 

 spines behind. 



Inhabits Georgia and Florida. 



Cabinet of the Academy. 



Body ovate reddish-ferruginous, destitute of gra- 

 nules, edge slightly contracted over the insertion of 

 the fourth and fifth pairs of feet, two small acute tu- 

 bercles on the middle of the disk, and Jwo large, 

 prominent, erect, acute spines on the hind margin, 

 no impressed line before the middle, an anterior ar- 

 cuated yellow transverse line connected to a poste- 

 rior undulated one by a yellow line which is crossed 

 near the middle by two obsolete yellow bands ; ocu- 

 lar tubercle slightly raised, unarmed ; distance be- 

 tween the eyes much greater than their diameters, 

 orbits black ; clypeus abruptly somewhat acute in 

 the middle of the tip ; mandibles rather small, the 

 fingers subequal, and crossing each other at tip; 

 palpi robust, and when at rest concealing the man- 

 dibles : penultimate articulation dilated on the exte- 

 rior side and elongated and depressed; terminal joint 

 half as long as the preceding, cylindrical ; terminal 

 nail elongated, moveable, capable of being inflected ; 



