110 SCOEPIONS, PEDIPALPI AND SPIDERS COLLECTED BY DR WILLEY 



Oxyopes papuanus, Thorell. 

 PI. X. Fig. 7. 



Ann. Mus. Genova, xvir., pp. 395—399, 1881. 

 Loc. New Britain. 



A single female example referred to 0. papuanus agrees with the description of 

 the latter sufficiently closely to make the identification probably correct. Thorell has 

 recorded papuanus from Andai, Ramoi, and Dorei Hum in Papua, from Wokan in the 

 Aru Islands and from Cape York in Australia. 



The cocoon of this species consists of a subspherical silken sac attached to the 

 tip of the folded termination of a branch of the inflorescence of a mallow-like plant 

 probably referable to Triumfetta. 



Family. Lycosidae. 

 Genus. Lycosa, Latr. 

 Lycosa willeyi, sp. n. 

 PI. X. Fig. 8. 



Colour: carapace piceous or deep castaneous with a pale median dorsal band 

 and a lateral band of about the same width, the dark intervening area crossed by 

 narrow radiating flavous stripes ; maxillae, labium and mandibles black, the latter clothed 

 with flavous hairs ; sternum and coxae ochraceous ; legs and palpi ochraceous, covered 

 with flavous hairs ; the scopulae fuscous and the spines black ; abdomen uniformly dirty 

 yellow below ; a deeper ochre yellow finely speckled with black above, with indistinct 

 traces of a short anterior median darker stripe. 



Carapace a little longer than patella and tibia of 4th leg, slightly excelling tibia 

 and protarsus of 1st leg, and a little less than protarsus and half the tarsus of the 

 4th leg; eyes of anterior line a little narrower than those of the median, a little 

 procurved, the medians larger than the laterals and separated from the edge of the 

 clypeus by a space which slightly exceeds their diameter, the distance between the 

 medians less than their diameter; distance between eyes of 2nd line a little less than 

 their diameter. 



Palpi: femur with 1, 1, 4 spines above; patella with 1 internal setiform spine; 

 tibia with 3 and tarsus with 4 setiform spines. 



Legs: 1, 2, 3, 4 in length, 2nd and 3rd nearly equal; femur of 1st armed above 

 with 7 spines, 2 of them being internal and apical ; patella unarmed ; tibia with 2, 2, 2 

 weak spines below, protarsus armed below with 2, 2, 1 spines amongst the scopular 

 hairs and 1, 1 at the apex above the scopula; 2nd leg armed like the 1st except 

 that the 2 spines on the anterior side of the upper surface of the femur are separated, 

 not close together ; 3rd and 4th legs with patella armed with 1, 1 spine, tibia armed 

 with 2, 2, 2 spines below, 2 in front, 2 above, and 2 behind, the protarsi armed with 

 about 12 spines arranged in 4 rows of 3 each, those on the lower side of the 4th 

 protarsus not so noticeably arranged in series. 



Vulva (as in figure). 



