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Falces :—Black, shining, well domed, forward. Teeth 
of rastellum minute, shining, brown. Fang long, curved. 
Mazillae:—Warm,  yellowish-brown, furnished over 
greater part with regularly-set short dark spines, and sparsi 
thin black hairs.  Inner-margin clothed with dense long 
silky hairs or reddish-brown colour. 
Labium :— About as broad as long, beset with about 20 
short stout black spines in its central are 
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than inferior pair and about half as broad at the base. 
d. Described from dried specimen. Cephalo-thorax, 
4 mm. broad, 4 mm. long; abdomen, 4 mm. long 
Cephalo-thoraz :—More circular than in the female, 
flatter, less elevated in front. d 
Fovea :—Short, procurved, radial markings indistinct. 
Eye:—Formula identical with that of female, but eye 
area not bristled. Whole surface of thorax finely granular 
instead of polished, well-marked sinuate marginal border. 
egs:—More slender, lengths 4, 1, 2, 3; armature of 
strong spines, clothing less marked, no tibial mypophysis. 
Palpi :—Brownish-black, no tibial apophysis, tibial joint 
large and inflated, unarmed, and sparsely clothed. Bulb 
concolourous, highly polished, stigma narrow, twisted, termin- 
ating in filiform style. ; 
This is much the smallest species of Aganippe yet dis- 
Covered. Several females and one male were collected in 
May, 1919, at American River, Kangaroo Island, South 
Australia. American River, so called, is really a deep bay 
nearly dividing Kangaroo Island in two. _ : 
e species was found close to the main settlement in 
rubbly clay banks, just above high-water mark, and at high 
tides the nests must be very close to, if not in actual contact, 
the salt water. The nests are abundant and in p! 
