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Show 450 MR. n. R. IIOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. [Dec. 2, Text-fig. 98. § 9 © 9 © 9 X T / a © 4 © 3 V j > , A ® 8 © 1 © 8 ^ 6 Isopeda tietzi. A, eyes of female; B, eyes of male. I sopeda t ie t z i , nov. sp. (Text-fig. 98.) Female. -Cephalothorax red-brown, covered with fine closely-lying yellow hair; mandibles darker red-brown, long yellowish-grey bristles; lip and maxillae dark red-brown to black-brown ; sternum black-brown, with thick velvety-black hair extending over the coxse. Legs yellow-brown, with dingy yellow hair ; silvery-white below the patella, brown at each end, and silvery-white in middle underneath the tibia of first and second pairs, fainter on third and fourth. Abdomen yellow-brown above and below, a dark stripe behind the genital fold and impressed shield-pattern. The males vary from the same colour as the females to lighter yellow-brown and rather lighter mandibles, lip, and maxillae. In one specimen the eyes are yellow on distinct black rims, in the others all yellow. The cephalothorax is moderately high, and rounded some distance from the sides, a deep and long fovea with faint side striae. The front row of eyes is slightly procurved, the side larger than the middle and only half the distance from them that the latter are from one another. The rear row are equidistant, and the distance between front and rear median greater than the diameter of the front median. On tibia iii. in the females is one spine above, in the males two on tibia iii. and one on tibia iv. Measurements in millimetres. Female (largest). Long. Broad. Cephalothorax ... 9 j cj5 ^lon^' Abdomen ............ 15 11 Mandibles............ 4| shorter than front patella. |
