HOUN EXPEDITION—ARANEIDif:. 
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the side eyes one-and-a-half of longer diameter from the middle eyes; the front row 
recurved ; the side eyes the same size as the near side eyes, one-half diameter 
distant; the middle eyes one-and-a-half diametei-s only from the side eyes, two 
diameters of the hinder middle eyes distant from the hinder middle eyes, all of a 
bright yellow colour. 
Mandibles conical, smooth, fangs small, reddish brown. 
Maxillce parallel, dilated at the anterior portion, truncated, square at the top 
on a narrower cylindrical base. 
Lip free, triangular, arched at the sides, two-thirds the length of the maxillaj; 
yellowish fringe; thin white hairs on lip and maxilhe. 
Sierniim ovate, truncated anteriorly, pointed posteriorly, smooth, with thin 
white hairs at the margins. 
Legs long and slender, a few thin white hairs on the upper joints, thickening 
on the tarsus and metatarsus ; tine brown spines on the upper side of the femur, 
tarsus and metatarsus, about five pectinations on the two upper claws extending 
two-thirds of the distance from the base to the point. 
Male palpi of large size, furnished with very long pointed process, from a 
bulb underlying a hairy covering or sheath ; bulb shiny and black ; process long 
and leathery, pointed like a fang or tongue; wdiite hairs on sheath. 
Dimensions. 
Cephalothorax, 
length 
- 
1^ mm. 
breadth 
- 
- li n 
Abdomen, leng 
th - 
- 
- 2 „ 
,, breadth 
- 
- u » 
Coxa. 
Troch. and 
Patella and 
Metat. and 
Femur. 
Tibia. 
Tarsus. 
1 . 
Leg - 
- 1 mm. 
3 mm. 
2j mm. 
1 
CO 
11 
9| 
mm. 
2. 
Leg - 
. 1 
0 1 
2 „ 
- 3 „ = 
8 
)3 
3. 
Leg - 
_ i 
u „ 
1 „ 
- 4 „ = 
3) 
4. 
Leg - 
1 
2 ” 
2 „ 
U „ 
- 2i „ = 
H 
33 
Relative length of le 
gs: 1 , 2, ^ 
t, 3. 
Locality .—Tempe Downs. One male specimen. 
