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Show 1902.] NEW HARVEST-SPIDERS. 411 Mandibles (largely hidden from view) with a small tubercle on the basal segment, a much larger one on the proximal end of the second. Palpi (text-fig. 84, A) very powerful; trochanter with short superior and a long inferior spine ; femur robust, convex dorsal! y. and armed with four or five spines, externally furnished with a few tubercles, armed below externally with six long spines, its inner surface with about six longer and shorter spines; patella strongly constricted, with one short external and two long internal spines ; tibia longer than patella, armed externally with three long spines and a basal tubercular spine, internally with four spines, the distal short; tarsus long, armed with three pairs of long spines, a pair of distal, and one proximal external tubercular spine. Coxae of leys granular; of 1st spined in front, of 2nd and 4th with one external spine; the rest of the segments unspined, nearly smooth; femur of 1st weakly tubercular below. Tarsal segments 3, 10, 4 (fractured on 4th leg); first and second segments of first tarsus subequal, the sum of them rather longer than the first or proximal segment; on the third tarsus the first segment as long as the sum of the other three, the second and fourth subequal, and either of them longer than the second. Measurements in mm.:-Total length 3-5 ; palp about 6 ; of 4th leg 8*5. Loc. New' Zealand (Dr. Richardson). There is in the British Museum a second well-marked species of this genus represented by a damaged specimen without indication of locality, which, for these reasons, I refrain from naming. Genus L om a n e l l a , nov. Distinguished from the hitherto described genera of Trisenony-cliidte, with the exception of Sorensenella, by the position of the ocular tubercle some distance behind the anterior bol der of the dorsal scute; the area in front of the tubercle, however, falls obliquely downwards and forwards. Spiracles conspicuous, on a level with the middle of the distal half of the 4th coxa, which is not enlarged. Palpi weakly spined. Type, L. raniceps. L om a n e l l a r a n ic e p s , sp. n. (Text-fig. 84, B.) Colour blackish, dorsal surface (text-fig. 84, B) ornamented mesially with transverse yellow stripes, a large yellow patch above the bases of the 3rd and 4tli legs; legs and palpi variegated yellow and black ; sterna longitudinally banded black and yellow. Dorsal surface closely, finely, and evenly granular all over, the fused and free terga indicated by transverse series of coarser Granules ; anterior border of scute evenly convex, with a process arising above the base of the 2nd leg, concave above the 3rd and 4th legs, then evenly convex to the middle line posteriorly. Mandibles small, basal segment unarmed above, its distal end |
