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Show 738 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON ETHIOPIAN SPIDERS. [Julie 15, The only other known species of this genus is its type H. honesta, Karsch, from Loango (SB. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 1879, p. 64). H. splnlpes certainly appears to differ from honesta in several points. For example, in the latter the spinnerets are shorter than the carapace (6 m m . : 7*2 m m . ) , and on the tip of the tibia of the 1st leg on the inner side there are some long strong spines. The only other known Ethiopian members of this family are:- Macrothele gabonensls, Lucas, Arch. Ent. 1858, p. 382. Gaboon (? generic position). Dlplura longip)alpis, Karsch, Zeits. Naturwiss. (3) iv. p. 564. From W . Africa. Thelechorls Icarschl, Bosenberg, Jahrb. Hamb. Anst. xii. p. 27, pl. ii. fig. 31 (1895). German East Africa. These three species are unknown to me. Their generic determination appears to be doubtful. Family BARYCHELID^E. = Barychelince, Simon, Hist. Nat. Araignees, i. p. 116 (1892). Genus EUBRACHYCERCUS, nov. Carapace oval, longer than wide ; thoracic fovea broad, deep, its extremities procurved ; cephalic area moderately elevated, compressed posteriorly, the radiating grooves deep ; ocular tubercle moderately high. Eyes of anterior line strongly procurved, laterals close to the edge of the clypeus (not including the membranous border of the plate as clypeus), their posterior angles slightly in advance of the anterior border of the medians ; distance between the medians almost equal to their diameter, distance between medians and laterals a little greater than diameter of the former; distance between the two laterals a little greater than the diameter of the anterior medians, and nearly if not quite equal to the long diameter of the anterior medians ; distance between anterior and posterior medians nearly equal to radius of the former, the posterior medians, being close to the posterior laterals, about half their size, with their short diameter about equal to the radius of the anterior medians, which are a little smaller, area for area, than the anterior laterals ; the membranous clypeus at least as long as the long diameter of the anterior lateral eyes, which are separated from each other by a space which a little excels twice their long diameter. Mandibles with rake consisting of thickened spiniform set33, intermingled with the normal setae and overhanging the base of the fang; external surface of mandible naked below; the lower margin furnished with a single row of about 9 teeth and a few granules behind. Maxlllce with a cluster of clavate granules on their basal inner angle. Labium much wider than long ; with a few (3) serially arranged clavate granules on the distal margin. |
