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Show 1896.] SPIDERS FROM THE LOWER AMAZONS. 735 (1892). rS, long. 14 mm. Hab. Bio, Brazil. -Of this species Simon says :-" Tarsi cuncti subtus scopulati," and also " Partes oris.... (omnino muticae)." Genus HOMOJOPLACIS, E. Simon. Type. H. pentoclon, E. Simon ( $ ), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892, p. 275. 2 H'8 long. Hab. Brazil, S. Paulo de Olivenca. HOMCEOPLACIS AUSTENI, n. sp. ( 6")1. (Plate XXXIV. figs. 14, 15,16 a & b.) o*. Hab. Manaos, Lower Amazons. 12 m m . long. Type in coll. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. d.-Colour. Carapace, sternum, and legs dull orange-brown. Abdomen mouse-grey. Carapace marked on the caput with three dark longitudinal lines, the central narrower, with a central and tw o lateral series of stiff curving black bristles. Thoracic area with converging lines of black bristles. Central fovea deep, procurved. Margin of carapace fringed with stiff curving black bristles. Abdomen shorter and narrower than carapace, clothed with dark mouse-grey pubescence and black hairs. Spinners four; pale straw-yellow; shorter than abdomen. Posterior pair three-jointed, with pseudo-joint at base; basal joint longest, middle joint half its length, terminal much shorter, globular. Anterior pair half the length of basals of posterior pair, almost, contiguous. Mandibles brown; sternum pale straw-yellow, furnished with black hairs. Carapace longer than broad ; cephalic area less than two-thirds the length of carapace ; central fovea deep, procurved. Ocular tumulus low, quadrate, narrower in front. Eyes opaline, set in a black ground. Anterior centrals large, half a diameter apart, not larger than anterior laterals, these being in front and close to the margin of the clypeus, half a diameter apart. Posterior laterals a little smaller than anterior centrals, and nearly one diameter from them. Posterior centrals very small, one diameter from anterior centrals, half a diameter from posterior laterals. Mandibles dark brown, furnished at apex with a rdteau formed of five long stout teeth or modified hairs. Fang-groove fringed on the outer side with a dense line of bright rufous hair; the inner margin furnished with a row of 8 stout conical teeth ; the floor towards the base studded with a very few minute cusps. Sternum longer than broad. Sigilla i., ii., iii., iv. present, marginal, the last three pairs scarcely noticeable. Labium broader than long, globular, not furnished at its apex with cusps. I have much pleasure in associating this species with the name of Mr. H. H. Austen, to whom I a m indebted for calling m y attention to the specimen when collecting together near Manaos |
