1875.] 497 [Thorell. 



Length of the body, 5.5 millim. ; length of cephalothorax, 2.5 mil- 

 lim., breadth, 1.67 millim. ; mandibles little more than 1 millim. 

 long. First and second pair of legs nearly 5.5 millim. ; third, 5 millim. ; 

 fourth, 7.25 millim. ; patella and tibia of fourth pair, 2.5 millim. ; meta- 

 tarsi of the first pair nearly 1 millim., those of the fourth pair some- 

 what more than 1.75 millim. 



A female example was captured on Square Island, in the month of 

 July. The species is closely allied to the European C. frutetorum 

 L. Koch, but differs by an entirely different form of the vulva. 



6. Gnaphosa brumalis n. cephalothorace breviore quam 

 tibia cum patella quarti paris, obscure ferrugineo-fusco, limbo sat lato 

 nigro circumdato, pube sub-lutescenti tecto ; oculis lateralibus serici 

 ariticae majoribus quam mediis, a margine clypei spatio diametro suo 

 dimidio majore remotis, area oculorum mediorum rectangula ; pedi- 

 bus obscure luteo-fuscis, secundi paris parum longioribus quam tertii, 

 tibiis primi paris aculeo singulo in apice subter, secundi paris subter 

 duobis in apice et singulo parvo versus medium armatis ; abdomine 

 nigro, pube densa appressa nigra et sub-lutescenti tecto; vulva et 

 fovea magna sub-ovata constanti, qua secundum medium costam 

 latam, deplanatam, antice pro receptione procursus crassi retro directi 

 excavatam ostendit. — 9 ad. Long. corp. 9 millim. 



Female. — Cephalothorax longer than patella and. tibia of the 

 fourth pair, equably and rather strongly rounded in the sides; breadth 

 of clypeus equal half the breadth of pars thoracica; central furrow 

 rather short. As to the color, the cephalothorax is of a dark and 

 rusty brown, bordered with a very distinct, rather broad black 

 " hem," and having a blackish \J bordering the pars cephalica be- 

 hind, as also a few faint blackish radii on both sides; it is rather 

 densely covered with fine, short, appressed, grayish yellow hair, and, 

 moreover, strewed with longer, more erect black hairs. The sternum, 

 maxillae and labium are dark brown. The anterior eye-series is 

 rather strongly curved forwards ; the posterior is curved backwards ; 

 the fore lateral eyes are larger than the fore centrals, which are sep- 

 arated from each other by an interval as large as their diameter, the 

 interval between them and the laterals being but half as large ; the 

 area of the four centrals is rectangular, longer than broad, the inter- 

 val between the posterior centrals being much smaller than their 

 diameter, and the interval between them and the posterior laterals 

 evidently greater than their diameter. The distance from the margin 



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