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Show 588 MR. H. R. HOGG ON [Dec. 12, Two females brought by the Horn Expedition from the MacDonnell Ranges. This species rather closely resembles L. Koch's L. crispipes from Rockhampton, though larger. It is more faintly marked on the cephalothorax, and is without the pattern on the back of the abdomem. The lower edge of the front row of eyes is straight instead of procurved, and the epigyne is broader at the base, which curls round instead of ending at the base of the horseshoe parts. In this species the cephalothorax is as long as patella cum tibia iv. L. Koch says that in L. crispipes it is longer than tibia iv. D o l o m e d e s h a b i l i s , sp. nov. (Text-fig. 89.) Cephalothorax chocolate-brown, with a narrow pale yellow-brown stripe reaching from the second row of eyes to the rear slope, and a similar stripe on each side of the cephalothorax at about one-third of the distance from the margin to the middle line. Text-fig. 89. Dolomedes habilis. a, eyes from front; b, epigyne. The mandibles are black-brown, thickly covered with long yellow-brown liaii'. The lip and maxillae yellow-brown ; sternum rather more yellow. Legs and palpi yellow-brown all over, brighter underneath. The abdomen is yellow-brown, of the same shade as the upper side of the legs. The sides paler yellow-brown in the front half, merging into the same colour as that of the back towards the rear, the paler part being divided from the back by a |
