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HORN EXPEDITION—ARANEID^E. 
Ster}i2i7?i lieart-sliaped, flat, shiny, with tliick upstanding hair round tlie margin. 
Ahdome7i rather long, sliglitly rounded at the sides, straight in front, and run¬ 
ning to a point at tlie rear, covered witli a thick mat of stiffish hair, longest on the 
upper surface and shorter on the under. 
Legs long and slender, lightly covered with hair and bespined with short stout 
and long tine spines. No .spines on the upper surface of the tibiie. A thick 
scopula on all the tarsi and metatarsi ; claws two ; at first springing out straight, 
then deeply bent; five pectinatioius, the longest towards the point of the claw 
some little distance back. 
Dimensions. 
Cephalothorax, 
length 
- 
7 mm. 
breadth 
- 
- y „ 
Abdomen, leng 
th 
- 
- 9 „ 
,, breadth 
- 
- 6 „ 
Coxa. 
Troch. and 
Patella and 
Metat. and 
Eeinur. 
Tibia. 
Tarsus. 
1. Leg - 
2 mm. 
8 mm. 
9|- mm. 
9^ mm. = 
28i mm. 
2. Leg 
0 
55 
9 „ 
- 10 „ - 
H „ = 
3oi „ 
3. Leg - 
0 
55 
7 
- ^ „ 
^ V - 
22 „ 
4. Leg - 
- 2 „ 
^ „ - 
27^ „ 
Relative length of legs : 2, 1, 4, 3. 
Locality. —Tllamurta. One female specimen (young). 
This species is not far from LL. regi7/a, L. Kocli,* but differs in colouring and 
pattern, especially on the underside of the abdomen, and has no spine on the upper 
side of the tibia ; and the front middle eyes are largest instead of equal in size to 
the side eyes. 
Sub-order CITIGRAD^. 
Lycosida^. 
Dolomedes, Latr. 
Dolo77iedes i7isial7ilis, L. Koch. 
This specimen has longer legs in proportion to the body, the third pair is also 
rather longer as compared with the first and second than in L. Koch’s specimens, 
the specimen being larger also. Sternum, lip, maxilke and shanks rather lighter. 
* Die Arach. Aust., p. 716. 
