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Show 458 MR. H. R. HOGG OX AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. [Dec. 2, yellow. The legs and palpi are red-brown above, paling to lighter red below; general hair-covering yellow, but scopulse dark grey. The abdomen is a dingy greyish yellow above and below, three pairs of darker spots on the upperside; epigyne dark brown all over. The cephalothorax is clearly broader than long, rounded at sides, square in front, where it is as broad as the rather stout mandibles are long. It is almost flat from the rear row of eyes to the rear slope, but slopes rather gradually from the sides; the median fovea is long and distinct. The front row of eyes is slightly procurved, the laterals being half their diameter from the margin of the clypeus; the medians, which are a little smaller, being three-fourths. They are equidistant, less than one-third of their diameter. The rear row is straight, the laterals the same diameter as front laterals. The median pair are clearly smaller, four-fifths the diameter of front median, from which they are distant rather more than their diameter and the same distance apart, from their lateral they are nearly two of their diameters distant. The median eye-square is rather longer than broad. The teeth on the mandibular sheath are large and powerful, on the inner side four large and one smaller, on the outer one large and one medium-sized. The legs are long and powerful and somewhat cylindrical; thick scopulte to base of metatarsi i., ii., and iii., two-thirds of metatarsus iv .; matted hair underneath the other joints except femur. No spines above on tibia iii. or iv. The abdomen is broadly ovate, covered with a thick mat of downlying hair; on the underside four longitudinal impressed lines form the indication of a shield. The epigyne is a broad oval with wide chitinous margin, and Avell-formed longitudinal median ridge dividing the inner portion, which is the same dark colour as the outer. The measurements in millimetres are as follows:- Long-. Broad. Cephalothorax ... 17| 1 16i Abdomen 22 17| Mandibles 9 Pat. & Metat. Coxa;, Tr. & fem. tib. & tars. Legs ............. 1. 6 23 9, 22 28 88 2. 6 (31) 251 35 29 95.1 3. 6 19 231 20 G84 4. 6 20 7,174 24 74 Palpi................. (241)" 4 9 9 II 00 301 The Rev. 0 . P. Cambridge has one female with .slightly longer legs than this one, sent by Mr. D. Le Souef to the British Museum; both are from Queensland. |