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Show 1899.J AND SPIDERS FROM TROPICAL WEST AFBICA. 841 SELENOGYRUS AUREUS POC. Selenogyrus aureus, Poc. op. cit. p. 768, pl. xii. figs. 2-2 a. Loc. Sierra Leone (no further history). Hapalopus africanus Simon, from Assinie (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 275), perhaps belongs to the genus Selenogyrus (see Pocock, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 774, note). Genus MIASCHISTOPUS Poc. MIASCHISTOPUS RAPIDUS POC Miaschistopus rapidus, Poc Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 770, pl. xii. fig. 5. Loc. W . Africa (Keyserling Coll.). Subfamily EUMENOPHORTNCE, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, pp. 772 & 773. Genus EUMENOPHORUS POC EUMENOPHORUS CLEMENTSI Poc Eumenophorus clementsii, Poc. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 766. Loc. Sierra Leone (Surg.-Capt, Clements). Genus PHONEYUSA Karsch. Phoneyusa, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 347 (type P. belandana Karsch). Harpaxotheria, Simon, Actes Soc. Linn. Bord. 1889, p. 413 (type, H. antilope Simon). The species of Spiders here and in my previous paper on the African fauna referred to Phoneyusa have been identified as belonging to that genus on the strength of M. Simon's statement (Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 154, 1892) that the type species of Phoneyusa and Harpaxotheria are congeneric Nevertheless it is possible that the two forms will prove gene-rically separable. If Karsch's description of P. belandana is reliable, that species differs from all the species which I refer to Phoneyusa and which doubtless belong to Harpaxotheria, in the strict sense of the word, in the following features:- a. Carapace about one third longer than broad (34: 22|); sternum also about one third longer than broad (15£ : 10£); tibia? of legs with many apical spines, 8-9 on the 1st and 2nd, 4 on the 3rd and 4th belandana Karsch. b. Length of carapace and sternum exceeding the respective widths by less than one quarter of the length ; tibia? of legs in 2 at most with a pair of apical spines antilope Sim. occidentalis, Luc, biittneri, Karsch (? spinal armature). |