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Show 1902.] MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. 449 brown stripe, yellower underneath with short pale yellow hair; darker stripe behind epigyne, more or less developed in different specimens. Legs and palpi dull reddish br own, pale yellow-grey hairs ; dark grey scopulse. . rp ie ce'phalot}iorax is moderately high, rounded rather broadly in front. Mandibles short and broad, much rounded at base. The eyes of the front row are nearly equal and equidistant, three-fifths diameter apart and same distance from the margin of the clypeus. ^ The rear row is slightly procurved, the eyes are equidistant, twice the diameter of their median apart, which are four-fifths diameter of front. The front and rear medians are distant one and a half times the diameter of the rear median. The legs are short and stout. Two spines above on tibia iii., but where sometimes missing the mark of posterior spine is not visible, none on tibia iv. The scopula on metatarsus iv. thins off towards the base. Text-fig. 97. (\ ) 8 ( T ) 8 ( 4 ) 8 ( 4^ = 4-0 6 Isopeda saundersi. A, eyes of female; B, profile. Measurements in millimetres. Long. Broad. Cephalothorax ... 9 jf 5g*2 Abdomen ............. 15 11 Mandibles............. 4 = front patella. Legs .................. 1. Coxae. 3 Tr. & fem. 9* Pat. & tib. 11 Metat. & tars. 10* 34 2. 3 10* 12 11" 36* 3. 3 8" 9 8 28~ 4. 3 8 H H = 30 1| H 312 2 - 12 Two females from Chapman River, West Australia, were sent to Brit. Mus. by Mr. W . Saunders. Proc. Z ool. Soc.- 1902, Y o l . II. No. X X IX . 29 |