IN NEW BRITAIN, THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, LOYALTY ISLANDS, ETC. 115 



Measurements in millimetres. Total length 15 - 5, carapace 6*8, length of 1st leg 

 20, of 2nd 19-5, of 3rd 15-5, of 4th 19 5. 



Loc. New Britain. A single $ example was obtained. 



In its small size this species approaches T. birmanica, Thorell, from Burma, and 

 T. flavipes, Pocock, from Batjan, but certainly differs from both in the form of the 

 vulva. In T. birmanica the lateral portions of this organ end postei'iorly in a pair of 

 relatively widely rounded skeletal pieces and are not narrowed and produced as in the 

 other two. Again in T. flavipes the median sclerite consists of two elongate ridges, ending 

 behind in a narrow process which projects beyond the apices of the lateral pieces. 



Family. Thomisidae. 



Genus. Thomisus. 



Thomisus pustulosus (L. Koch). 



Xysticus (Musumena) pustulosus, L. Koch, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvii., p. 220, 

 1867 ; id. Die Arachniden Austral. I., p. 531, pi. 40, fig. 6, 1874. 



Pistius pustulosus, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xvn., p. 331, 1881. 

 Loc. New Britain. 



This flower-frequenting species is evidently not uncommon in parts of Queensland, 

 the British Museum possessing specimens from Rockhampton, Herbert River, etc. L. Koch 

 has recorded it from Cape York, Bowen, Brisbane, etc., and Thorell from the Kei and 

 Am Islands and from Papua. 



Family. Attidae. 

 Genus. Diolenius, Thor. 

 Diolenius lugubris, Thorell. 

 Ann. Mus. Genova, xvil, p. 414, 1881. 



A single female of this or of a closely allied species was collected. The type 

 of D. lurjubris, a male, was obtained at Ramoi, in New Guinea. 



Tarodes, gen. nov. 



Carapace low, longer than wide, flat above, the cephalic region not or scarcely higher 

 than the thoracic, the posterior fifth abruptly sloped downwards close up to the fore-part of 

 the abdomen which is in contact with it or abuts against it ; cephalic portion a little 

 shorter than thoracic. Ocular area perhaps a little wider than long, parallel sided, 

 eyes of the 2nd row equidistant from those of the 3rd and 1st, and in the same line 

 with them ; clypeus linear ; the anterior eyes nearly in contact, the upper edge of the 

 laterals on a level with the upper edge of the medians. 



Mandibles small and vertical ; labium much longer than wide ; maxillae of medium 

 length, distally expanded. 



Sternum convex, oval but narrowed behind, with its margin strongly excavated, 

 ending posteriorly in a blunt extremity, and not passing between the 4th coxae. 



Legs: 1st pair large, with coxae and trochanter long, the coxae much longer and 

 stouter than those of the rest of the legs ; trochanter slender, cylindrical, but distinctly 

 though not much longer than the coxae ; femora much longer than trochanter, thick anil 

 curved ; patellae shorter than femora and about half the length of the tibiae, which 



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