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Show 1 9 0 5 .] SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 5 7 3 Measurements in millimetres. Long. Broad. Cephalothorax ... Abdomen ........... Mandibles........... i o J 6 in front. { 10 1U 9 Trochanter Patella Metatarsus Coxa. & femur. & tibia. & tarsus. Legs 1. 5 11 11| i i 2. 4| 10| 11' 101 3. 4| 10 9 10 4. 5" 12 121 14 381 36i 33i 43i Palpi. 21 6 5 4 11 7‘ 12 One female sent by Mr. Dove from Table Cape, Tasmania. It may be worth noting that this Tasmanian species conforms to the type of three species of my Venator class from Macedon, 40 miles north of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. It was at Macedon that I discovered a species of Peripatus new to Victoria, which subsequently turned out to be the normal Tasmanian species. L ycosa p h y l l is , sp. n. (Text-fig. 81, p. 574.) Cephalothorax dark brown, with chestnut-brown downlying hair. No distinctly marked median or marginal stripes, but the haii- is rather thicker there. The side streaks nearly bare, showing the under surface. Mandibles black-brown, covered all over with thick matted buff-coloured hair. Lip, maxillae, sternum, and coxae dark reddish-brown with brown hairs, the sternum thickly matted. The abdomen on the upper side has a dark brown hair-pattern of usual type on paler ground. Angular transverse stripes, six or seven in number, with pale spots at each end. The sides pale yellow-brown ; on the under side a broad shield-shape black-brown field extends from the genital fovea nearly to the spinnerets, where the buff ground of the sides comes across. Anteriorly of the genital fovea clearly paler than the field, but still dark brown. Spinnerets dark brown. The legs and palpi are of a medium yellow-brown; the under side of the femora more red-brown. The cephalic fovea is short and shallow. The eyes of the front row are one-half the diameter of the median apart, and the same distance from the maigin of the clypeus and those of the second row. The laterals are three-fourths the diameter of the median ; whole row slightly procurved. The eyes of the second row are distant from one another four-fifths of their diameter, which is 2± times that of the front median. The mandibles are longer than the front patella. There are |
