316 
HORN KXPEDITION—ARANEIDiE. 
Mandibles shorter than patella I., thick and broad, somewhat thinner in front, 
aridied at base, clothed with coarse white hair. Four teeth on outer side of falx 
head. 
Sternuui cordate, shiny, thickly covered with white bristly hair. 
Maxilhc broad as high ; rounded exteriorly ; base narrowed. 
Lip bi’oad, triangular, arched, less than half length of inaxillse. 
Palpi shorter than cephalothorax ; all joints covered with long hair and spines 
of pale brownish-yellow. 
Abdomen square-shaped, ovate, rather rounded in front, with square shoulder 
humps; behind running to a point beyond the spinnerets, the whole body thickly 
wrinkled. 
Legs stout and powerful, the shanks thickened at the front end. 
This fine spider seems allie<l to E. prodiichi and E. capitalist but has legs much 
longer in proportion than the latter, and the body is rounder and flatter than in 
the former (L. K., Group I.). Its front middle eyes are larger than instead of 
equal in size to the hinder middle eyes. Body rougher ami darker ; legs rather 
longer ; no metallic-blue silver colour on the cephalothorax \ sternum I’ather longer 
than epigyne process, which is however very unusually long. 
Dimensions. 
Cephalothorax, 
length 
- 
- 
10 mm. 
breadth 
- 
- 
8 ,, (5 in front). 
Abdomen, leng 
th - 
- 
- 
16^ „ 
„ breadth 
- 
- 
nj „ 
Coxa. 
Troch. and 
Patella and 
Metat. and 
Femur. 
Tibia. 
Tarsus. 
1. 
Leg 
- 3 mm. 
- 11 
mm. 
- 12| mm. 
- 12 mm. = 38| 
mm. 
2. 
Leg 
- - 3 „ 
- 11 
n 
- I 2 I „ 
- 11 „ = 371 
j) 
3. 
Leg 
- - H „ 
- 8 
- 7 „ 
- 6 „ = 23i 
5) 
4. 
Leg 
- - 3 „ 
- 11 
jj 
- IH n 
10 ,, = 3o^ 
llelative length of legs: 1, 2, 4, 3. 
Locality, —Stevenson River. A single female specimen. 
