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HORN EXPEDITION—ARANEIDiE. 
Drassus, Walck. 
Drassus griseus, L. Koch. 
One female and one male from Palm Creek and Storm Creek. 
The six spinnerets are remarkable, the inferior pair being very long and 
conical, Ijroadening from base to apex, which is then truncate. The superior 
invertly half as long, intermediate narrowest and shortest. 
The tarsal claws, and claw tufts of short flat hairs, spring out of a hollow at 
the end of the foot. 
The middle eyes of the rear row are long, narrow and flat, of a dull grey 
colour, and are possibly rudimentary only. 
Locality .—Palm Creek, Storm Creek. Previously described from “ New 
Holland.” 
Gnaphosoides, nov. gen. 
Cephalothorax inversely cordate, back and sides moderately convex, faint side 
depressions barely distinguishing the cephalic from the thoracic part, a short 
median depression leading to hinder slope. 
Eyes eight (or six) arranged in two rows. Front and rear side eyes, about 
equal in size, ai’e farther apart than the two intermediate pairs, and much larger 
than the latter. Middle eyes of front row small and closer to the side eyes than to 
one another, the upper margins of the four being in a straight line. The lower 
margins of side eyes are close to margin of clypeus. 
The rear row broader and recurved, the nuddle eyes quite small, flat, and 
(apparently) rudimentary. 
Maxillse impressed in the middle, inclined towards the lip, their upper margins 
forming a straight line. 
The lip is tidangular, and more than half the length of the maxilla. 
The abdomen is oval; spinnei’ets six, the superior and inferior pairs nearly 
equal in size. 
Legs in proportion of 4, 3, 2, 1, furnished with spines and two tarsal claws. 
This genus difiers from Gnaphosa, Latr., in having the side eyes much larger 
than the middle, and is perhaps allied to Thysa. 
