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Show 446 MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. [Dec. 2, between cephalic and thoracic parts well marked, median sulcus rather long. The front row of eyes is straight, the laterals are larger than the median, which are half their diameter apart and the same or rather less from the side; the clypeus barely one-third their diameter; the front and rear median are barely the diameter of the latter apart, the diameter of the rear three-fourths of front; rear row straight; middle eyes two diameters apart and slightly more from the laterals. The teeth 011 the inner falx-sheath are three large and one very small. One spine above on tibia iii., none on tibia iv. Measurements in millimetres. Long. Broad. J 6 in front. Cephalothorax ... 9 j ^ Abdomen ............ 16 10* Mandibles............ 4 less than front patella. Pat. & Metat. Co\». Tr. & fem. tib. & tars. Legs ................. 1. 3* 10 4*, 9* 12 = 37| ( 12) ' 2. 31 12 13 12 = 401 3. 31 9 10 9 = 3lJ 4............ 3| 9i 10 10 = 33 Palpi ............................... l| 4 3| 3| = 12| One female from Adelaide, sent to Brit. Mus. by Rev. T. S. Lea. This species is rather close to I. frenchi, nov. sp., from Victoria, and I. saundersi, nov. sp., from West Australia, both of which have the same deep velvety-black sternum, the colour extending partly over the coxae. It differs from both in a rather smaller cephalothorax, in the eyes of both front and rear rows being nearer together, the side-eyes larger than median of front row, and closer together than in the former. ISopeda ard ro s san a, nov. sp. (Text-fig. 95.) Female.- The cephalothorax is red-brown; mandibles dark red-brown with long pale yellow hair; lip and maxillae dark brown ; sternum black-brown with long thick hair extending over coxae. The abdomen is dingy yellow-brown above, paler below, with a transverse black band behind the epigyne. The legs and palpi are bright orange with long silky hair, darker hands on tibiae i., ii., and iii., silver in between and under patella; scopulae dark grey. The cephalothorax is flatter than in 7. leai, to which also it is rather close, but the front-row eyes are equal and equidistant, two-thirds of their diameter apart; the medians rather more |