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Show 762 ME. R. I. POCOCK ON ETHIOPIAN SPIDERS. [June 15, The following species of this group have been described. All are unknown to m e :- Phoneyusa helandana, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1884, p. 347, 348; from Niam Niam (Central Africa). Phoneyusa buttneri, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1886, p. 83, from Sibangefarm (Gaboon). Phoneyusa antilope, Simon, Act. Soc. L. Bordeaux, xiii. p. 414 (1889), from Tomby (Congo). Phoneyusa gracillpes, id. ibid., Landana (Congo). Phonegusa ectypa, id. loc. cit. p. 415, from Abyssinia. The following species also probably belongs to this genus:- Selenocosmla nlgroventrls, Marx, Proc. U. S. Museum, xvi. p. 587, pl. 70. fig. 1 (1893), from the Congo. Genus HYSTEROCRATES, Sim., Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 153 ( = Hysterocrates4-Phoneyusa, Sim. ibid.; not Phoneyusa, Karsch). The examination of a longer series of forms than Mons. Simon had an opportunity of studying convinces m e that the characters he relied upon to distinguish generically the two species named grcshoffi, Sim.,* from the Congo, and greefi, Karsch, from St. Thomas in the Gulf of Guinea-regarded respectively as the types of Hysterocrates and Phoneyusa-are merely of specific rank, practically every gradation being traceable between the two. According to Simon, Hysterocrates might be recognized by having the 4th tibia very much swollen and the tarsus of tbe palp in the female not tumid above. HYSTEROCRATES GIG AS, sp. n. 2 .-Colour : body and limbs covered with a dense clothing of brownish or rusty-red hairs ; the bristles greyish red. Carapace much longer than wide, its width a little greater than the length of the 4th femur, the length equalling the length of the patella and tibia of the same leg ; cephalic region rather high, defined by conspicuous grooves ; the fovea small, crescentic, the area between the horns of the crescent elevated: ocular tubercle small, a little wider than the fovea, the width equal to the length 4- the narrow clypeal area, which is about equal to the diameter of a median eye. Eyes of front series very slightly procurved, sub-equal in size (the median a little larger) and unequally spaced, the distance between the medians being only a little less than their diameter, that between the median and lateral about equal to the small diameter of the lateral; the posterior line of eyes slightly recurved, the lateral noticeably smaller than the anterior lateral, the space between them about as wide as the space between anterior lateral and anterior median. Sternum wide, narrowed between the 1st coxae, widest between the coxae of the 2nd legs; the posterior impressions far removed from the edge, the distance between them about equal to the |
