FAMILY ULOBOKLDES. 



GENUS HYPTIOTES, Walck. 



This gonus, of which only one British spocies is known, is 

 characterised by a cephalo-thorax as broad or broader than long, 

 and deprossed ; the latoral constriction, at the caput being very 

 slight. Clypeus projecting. Eyes, unoojial in size, in two trans- 

 verse curved rows across the whole width of the caput, and near 

 together (the convexities of the curvos are directed towards each 

 other), forming in fact one long line, since the fore-centrals come 

 close upon the middle of the hinder row ; the hind-lateral eyes 

 being not far in front of the hind-centrals ; those of the hinder 

 row are the largest. Maxillro short, strong, inclined towards 

 the labium, which is short and triangular. Legs short, strong, 

 1.4.2.3. Calamistra on the metatarsi of the fourth pair; and a 

 supernumerary mamillary organ in front of the ordinary spinners. 



Abdomen short, projecting greatly over the cephalo-thorax, 

 and humped on the upper side. 



HYPTIOTES PARADOXUS. 



Mithbas paradoxus, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn., and Blackw., Ann. 

 and Mag., N. H. 1862. 



Length of tho female 2£, and of the male 2 lines. 



Cephalo-thorax light yellow-brown, darker on the sides, and 

 clothed with rather coarse greyish-yellow pubescence. Legs pale 

 yellow-brown, hairy, and spinous, mostly so in the male ; palpi 

 of the male similar to the legs in colour, and long; radial joint 

 bent, and produced in front, where it is fringed with coarse bristly 

 hairs. Digital joint of enormous size. Palpal organs corres- 

 pondingly large, prominent, rather complex, and surroundod by 



