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Show H eteropoda c er v in a (L. Kocli). Sarotes cervinus L. Koch, Die Arach. Austr. p. 673. Heteropoda cervina L. Koch, E. Simon, I. c. p. 50. Rockhampton, Port Mackay, Bowen, Sydney (L. Koch); Peak Downs (Keys.). H eteropoda r e g ia (Fabr.). Aranea venatoria Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. xii. p. 1035 (1758). Aranea regia Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 408. Heteropoda venatoria Linn., Dr. T. Thorell, Rag. Mai. ii. 1878, pp. 191, 205, iii. 1881, p. 274. Heteropoda venatoria Linn., E. Simon, Rev. Spar. 1880, p. 48. Heteropoda regia Fabr., E. Simon, Hist. Nat. des Ar. 1897, p. 54. All tropical and sub-tropical regions. Text-fig. 85.* (3) b (4)4 (4) 5 bi 418 MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. [Dec. 2, B Heteropoda keyserlingi. A, eyes of female; B, profile ; C, epigyne. H eteropoda k e y s e r l in g i , nov. sp. (Text-fig. 85.) The cephalothorax is a rich reddish brown, with a curved brown patch around the rear slope ; mandibles red-brown, with long pale brown bristles. Lip and maxillae paler reddish brown, with dark brown hair on outer side of latter. Sternum orange with brown hair. Legs and palpi bright yellow-brown underneath, rather redder on upper side. Abdomen orange mottled with brown, a brown irregular patch in front; underneath paler orange, with a well-defined brown stripe from below the genital fold nearly to the spinnerets. The cephalothorax is steep at the rear slope, thence runs in a straight slope to the eyes, rather narrow in front. The front row of eyes is slightly recurved, the median pair * Thu figures inserted in the diagrams of eyes represent tenths of millimetres. |
