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Show 1902.] MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. 419 two-thirds diameter apart and one-third from the laterals, which are one and a half times the diameter of the former. The rear -w , ^ so recurved, has the median pair one diameter apart, s lghtly larger than the front median, one and a quarter diameter from laterals, which are as large as the front laterals, and about the same distance from front median. The clypeus equals the diameter of the front side-eyes. There are four teeth on the lower edge of the falx-sheath and three on the upper. There are two spines on the upper side of metatarsi iii. and iv., and a scopula to the base of the metatarsi on all legs. The abdomen is oval, sparsely covered with short thin down-lying hair. The epigyne is a chitinous oval frame, the median portion narrow anteriorly and widening to the base, completely filled with a long convex fold of tissue much larger than in L. Koch's drawing of II. cervina. The measurements in millimetres are as follows:- Long. Broad. Cephalothorax ... 8 { f fronk Abdomen ........... 12 8~ Mandibles........... 4 (longer than patella i.). Pat. & Metat. Coxas. Tr. & fem. tib. & tars. Legs ........... 1. 3| 9 10 9 = 3U 2. 3| 9 11 91 = 33" 3. 3 8 9 8i = 284 4. 3 9 9 9 = 30 Palpi.........................U 4| 41 4| = 15 Two females from Peak Downs, Queensland, in Keyserling Coll., Brit. Mus., marked II. cervina. Genus P an d e r c e te s . Pandercetes L. Koch, Ar. Austr. 1875, p. 739; Thor., Ragni Malesi, 1881, p. 309; E. Simon, Hist. Nat. des Ar. vol. ii. p. 56 (1897). Type, P. gracilis L. Koch. P an d e r c e t e s g r a c il is L. Koch, loc. cit. p. 740. Described by L. Koch from male from Port Mackay, Queensland, Thorell doubtfully ascribes to this species a male from Cape York (d'Albertis Coll.), and from same collection has two species- P. isopus from N. Guinea, and P. longipes from Jobi Island, on N. coast of same. The male of Pandercetes gracilis L. K. has (sec. L. Koch and E. Simon) a long twisting flagellum on palp, but no supporting stylus or drum. |