112 SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPI AND SPIDERS COLLECTED BY DR WILLEY 



Palp with tibia about as long as patella and armed externally with a quadrate 

 process, the upper edge of which is convex, the lower straight ; a spiniform process on 

 its distal margin ; palpal organ as in figure. 



Measurements in millimetres. Total length 12, length of carapace 7"2, width 5, 

 length of 1st leg 18, of 2nd 15, of 3rd 13 5, of 4th 19 2. 



Loc. New Britain. 



Easily distinguishable from G. agalenoides, L. Koch, from Gayndah, and G. agrwcoides, 

 Thorell, from Cape York, by its red coxae and sternum, absence of distinct rings on 

 the legs, and also from the former in the form of the palpal organ, etc. 



Family. Heteropodidae. 



GENUS. Heteropoda, Latr. 



Heteropoda venatoria (Linn.). 



A single specimen of this, the common large house-spider of the tropics, was 

 collected in New Britain. 



Genus. Pandercetes, L. Koch. 

 Pandercetes plumosus, sp. n. 

 PL X. Fig. 10. 



Colour: (dry) carapace and abdomen covered above with whitish hairs intermixed 

 with yellow, the hairs around the eyes tinted with brown and those on the carapace 

 behind the head with pale green ; hairs on upper side of abdomen rubbed away ; 

 hairs on legs yellowish white, developed into long fringes, especially on the femora, 

 as in P. plumipes; (in alcohol), the carapace, legs and abdomen are testaceous, mottled 

 with black, the legs being very noticeably spotted with blackish grey, the blackish 

 spines showing up strongly ; labium and maxillae and tip of mandibles ferruginous ; 

 sternum coxae and under side of legs entirely testaceous yellow ; 3rd leg with an 

 elongate black spot at base of femur and a long black line traversing the whole of 

 the lower side of the tibia and protarsus. 



Carapace about as wide as long, about as long as protarsus of 3rd leg. 



Palpi: femur armed with 4 spines; patella with 1, 1; tibia with 3 inner, 1 upper, 

 2 outer ; tarsus with 3 inner and 3 outer. Legs : femur of 1st leg with 3, 3, 3 spines, 

 patella with 1 posterior spine ; tibia with 4 pairs of long spines beneath ; protarsus 

 with 3 pairs of sjunes, one pair being situated above close to base ; 2nd leg armed 

 like 1st ; 3rd leg femur with 3, 3, 2 spines, tibia with 2, 2 spines beneath and 1 

 anterior and 1 or 2 posterior spines, protarsus with 2, 2 inferior spines and 1 anterior 

 basal spine ; 4th leg spined much as the 2nd but less regularly, femur with only 1 

 posterior spine ; tibia and protarsus with 5 spines. 



Vulva consisting of a sub-oblong plate, hairy at the sides and marked mesially 

 with a longitudinal groove which anteriorly expands into a longitudinally oval depression. 



Measurements in millimetres. Total length 14, length of carapace 6, of 1st leg 

 29, of 2nd 29, of 3rd 22, of 4th 26 ; length of femur of 2nd 8-6. 



