274 ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
first and the second pairs ; all the legs are scantily furnished with 
hair on the femurs and tibias, profusely on the distal joints, the 
femurs, tibias and metatarsi are armed with a few rows of strono- 
spines ; on each tarsus three claws, the two superior with a comb of 
six straight teeth diminishing in size proximad, inferior claw with 
one long curved tooth ; patellas long. Clypeus longer than broad, 
more than thrice as broad as the diameter of an anterior median 
eye. Labium scarcely half as long as the maxillary plates, oblong, 
with nearly parallel sides, apex truncate. Maxillary plates slender 
at the base, and rapidly enlarging with an inward curve into a lobe 
which is rounded on its outer superior side, and truncated obliquely 
on its inner. Chela? dark reddish-brown, long, narrowly cylindrical, 
armed with four strong teeth on the inferior margin, and one strong 
and two minute on the superior; a glabrous red spot on the base of 
the outer superior side, clothed with long bristles. 
Sternum small, oval, plane ; its edges deeply emarginate 
opposite each coxal insertion, and densely clothed with adpressed 
and erect bristles. Abdomen brown, elongate-ovoid, as long as the 
femur of the first pair, rounded and tumid in front, moderately 
convex above and below, the sides expanding to a breadth equalling 
nearly two-thirds of its length, then converging to a blunt point ; 
pedicle with the superior lorum simple, continuous, slightly 
emarginate, laterally ; inferior lorum with a short projection from 
the cephalothorax, truncated at its free extremity. Spinnerets 
terminal beneath the anal tubercle ; the superior pair longer than 
the inferior, both with a rounded niammillary apex. 
Female. — Cepli., 12 mm. long, 10 mm. broad. 
Abd., 17 „ „ 11 „ 
Coxa. Tr. & Fem. Pat. & Tib. Met. & Tars. 
Legs — 1 — 4-5 mm — 18 mm — 21 mm — 27 mm = 70-5 mm 
2 — 
4 
— 18 : , 
- 21 „ 
— 27 „ 
= 70 
3 — 
3-5 „ 
- 17 „ 
— 13 „ 
— 24-5 „ 
= 63 
»j 
4 — 
4-5 „ 
— 20-5 „ 
— 21 ,. 
- 31 „ 
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Type in Queensland Museum. 
Loc. : Ithaca Creek, Brisbane. 
This spider was taken in the act of attacking an adult Tree 
Prog — a species of Hylq which also appears to have previously 
escaped discovery, and which is described in the earlier portion of 
these Annals. 
