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Show 4 3 2 MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. [ ^ e c . 2 , ft12. Cephalothorax low, or if raised at sides, quite flat above. a18. Front row of eyes straight or slightly procurved; eyes about equidistant. a19. A dark stripe reaching from front of abdomen two-thirds of distance to rear; front and rear middle eyes not more than the diameter of front median apart ................................................. 619. No dark stripe on back of abdomen but irregular darker transverse bands; front lateral eyes larger than median, front and rear median farther apart than diameter of front ey es.................................................................................. ~ , . C dolosa L. K. Doubtful species . . .| suhlMa Thoi.. Males. A. Sternum deep jet-black. A 1. No transverse black band behind genital fold. a1. Eyes of front row equidistant, laterals larger than median. a2. No spines on tibia iii. or iv....................................... montana, nov. sp. b-. Spines on tibia iii. at least. a6. Two spines on tibia iii. above, one on iv. ... leishmanni, nov. sp. P. One spine on tibia iii. only; eyes black with orange rims .................. .............*........................ pococki, nov. sp. bl. Median eyes of front row about twice as far apart as they are distant from the laterals. a4. Median eyes of front row less than their diameter apart; two spines above on tibia iii. and on tibia iv.............................................................. tepperi, nov. sp. /;•*. Median eyes of front row about one and a half diameters apart; pale green with black rims. One spine each on tibia iii. and iv. above........ flavida L. K. B1. A transverse black band behind genital fold. a5. Eyes of front row equidistant, equal in size; mandibles bare in front. One spine 011 tibia iii. above ................................................................................. vasta L. K. br>. Eyes of front row not equidistant. Median eyes nearer to side-eyes than to one another. <z6. One spine above on tibia iii. and iv....................... pessleri Thor. bG. Two spines above 011 tibia iii., one on iv............. tietzi, nov. sp. B. Sternum not black-red or yellow-brown. No spines above on tibia iii. oriv. Front row of eyes equal and equidistant; front and rear median nearer to one another than diameter of front. a1. No stripe on back ............................................................... insignis Thor. b~‘ . Longitudinal stripe on back ............................................. immanis L. K. I so p e d a in s ig n is (Thor.). (Text-fig. 88, A-C.) Voconia insignis Thorell, Ar. nonnulla; Nov. Holl., Ofv. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1870, n. 4, p. 383. Voconia insignis Thor., L. Koch, Arach. Austr. 1875, p. 645. Holconia insignis Thor., E. Simon, Rev. Sparass. p. 25 (1880); Hist. Nat. d. Ar. 1897, vol. ii. p. 44. This fine species except in the flatter cephalothorax, differs in no way from the rest of the Isopedce, and therefore I find no use for the genus Holconia Thor, as a distinction. In the female the front lateral eyes are distinctly larger than the median, which are distant from the rear median not less than the breadth of their diameter, more often rather more. In the immanis L. K. insignis Tlior. |