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Show 578 MR. H. R. HOGG ON [Dec. 12, yellow transverse stripes ; underneath, a chestnut triangular shield, broadest at base and narrowing to spinnerets, which lie at its apex ; sides pale creamy-yellow. Legs and palpi bright chestnut all over, except the under side of the femora, which are of a pale cream-colour. The cephalothorax is rather broad, being four-fifths of its length at its greatest breadth, and in front one-half of its length. The mandibles are also half the length of the cephalothorax and proportionately stout. There are three large teeth of equal size on the inner edge of the falx-sheath, and one as large between two small on the outer edge. The front row of eyes is straight, the median being 1| times as far apart as they are from the laterals. Their diameters are in the same proportion. The clypeus is as broad as the front middle eyes ; the latter are half their diameter from those of the second row, which are slightly less than their diameter apart and twice that of the front median. The lip is broader than long, straight in front, and less than half the length of the maxilla1. The abdomen is a broad oval, thickly covered above and below with short smooth downlying hair. The epigyne is of a trapezoidal outline, broader than long, with the broadest part anteriorly, where also the middle ridge is very broad, tapering to where it springs from a base of the usual type. The legs are long and powerful; and the palpi (from the trochanter) longer than the cephalothorax. There is one spine above on tibia i., two on tibiae ii., iii., and iv. Measurements in millimetres. Long. Broad. Cephalothorax 1 2 J 6 in 1 94 front. Abdomen 13 1 0 ' Mandibles..... 6 Pat. & Metat. Coxa. T:r. & fern. tib. & tars. L e g s ........... 1. 5 1 2 1 2 4 1 2 414 2 . 44 11 111 1 2 39' 3. 44 10 10I 1 2 = 37 4. 5~ 1 2 1 2 1 16 454 Palpi............... 2.1 5 54 3 1 _ 2 - 16} In measurements and pattern of epigyne and other points this species differs but slightly from L. errans, sp. nov. The coloration of the latter is, however, much darker. Its large second row eyes are only § of their diameter apart, and the median ridge of the epigyne in the female is broader anteriorly, and the base of same reaches to 3 of the length. The clypeus |