116 SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPI AND SPIDERS COLLECTED BY DR WILLEY 



are much thickened and hairy and spiny below ; protarsus slender, not half as long as 

 the tibia and spiny below. The remaining legs short, the 4th longer than the 3rd, 

 and the 3rd than the 2nd. 



Abdomen narrow and elongate. 



This genus seems to stand near Tara 1 of Peckham (= Atrytone, Keyserling 2 ) ; but 

 is certainly different in having the tibia of the 1st leg inflated. 



Tarodes lineatns, sp. n. 

 PI. XL Fig. 13. 



Colour : carapace mahogany brown with black pigment around the eyes ; scantily 

 clothed above with yellowish white hairs which form a thicker whitish stripe in the 

 middle line, a broad yellowish white band passing along the side below the eyes and 

 a white marginal band ; hair in neighbourhood of eyes with a distinct reddish tinge ; 

 abdomen covered above with yellowish white hairs ; its integument yellow with four 

 longitudinal black bands running from the fore-part past the middle, and posteriorly 

 breaking up into or giving place to short obliquely transverse black stripes. The two 

 black bands on each side united in front and closer together than are the two admedian 

 bands ; between the posterior extremities of the latter there is a median black stripe ; 

 lower side of abdomen not clothed with white hairs, blackish ; 2nd, 3rd and 4th legs 

 yellow, the 3rd and 4th distally faintly banded with black ; sternum, labium, mandibles, 

 maxillae, palpi and greater part of 1st legs piceous or mahogany ; the protarsi and tarsi 

 of 1st legs flavous ; the upper side of the femora and patellae paler than the inner 

 and lower, and clothed with yellow hairs. 



Carapace longer than patella and tibia of 4th, shorter than those of 1st. 



Mandibles short, a little longer than the front of the carapace, geniculate at the 

 base, flat in front and rugose ; fang groove armed with 2 + 2 teeth, fang short. 

 Palpi shorter than carapace ; the femur armed with 1 upper apical spine ; patella a 

 little longer than tibia ; tibia not twice as long as broad, armed externally with a broad 

 bifid spur ; tarsus nearly as long as patella and tibia, piriform, apex truncate but thickly 

 hairy ; palpal organ consisting of a somewhat oval horny coriaceous disk ending distally 

 in a small hooked process lying transversely, the apex of the hook directed internally. 



Legs of 1st pair rugose, coxae about twice as long as broad ; trochanter four or 

 perhaps five times as long as broad ; femur with upper edge strongly convex ; tibia 

 armed below with 7 internal and 5 or 6 external spines, all strong and of medium 

 length ; protarsus armed with 2 internal and 3 external spines. Femora of legs 2-4 

 armed apically with about three spines, femur of 2nd thickened, tibia of 2nd with 

 3 inferior spines, its protarsus with 2 apical and 1 further behind ; tibia of 3rd with 

 1 apical, of 4th with 2 apical ; protarsus of 4th with an apical cluster of spinuliform setae. 



Abdomen more than twice as long as broad, with a thickish tuft of upright hairs 

 on its anterior extremity. 



Measurements in millimetres. Total length 5 - 8 ; length of carapace 2 - o, width 1*8; 

 patella and tibia of 1st leg 3, of 4th 1*5. 



Loc. New Britain. A single male example. 



1 Tr. Wisconsin Acad. Sci. vi. (1886), p. 272. 



2 Keyserling, in L. Koch's Die Arachniden Australien, u. p. 1378, pi. cxvi. p. 6. 



