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Show 1902.] MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. 459 T y p o s t o l a m a j o r , n o v . sp . Cephalothorax red-brown, somewhat darker in front, clothed with short yellow hair, nearly white between the eyes; mandibles black-brown ; beard red-brown ; lip and maxillae red-brown, pale in front, fringes orange, beards pale yellow. Sternum and coxae orange, the front one of latter thickly covered with long yellow hair, others bare. Legs bright reddish brown. Abdomen dark brown with brown hair. The cephalothorax is very slightly longer than broad, distinctly longer than tibia iv., its square front is more than one-half its greatest breadth, and clearly broader than the mandibles are long. The median fovea and those at junction of cephalic part rather indistinct. Both rows of eyes are straight, the laterals equal; the eyes of the front row are equidistant half the diamater of the median which are four-fifths the diameter of side, and their diameter distant from the rear median; the latter are more than once and a half of their diameter apart, being three-fifths of laterals, and more than twice their diameter from the latter. The median eye-square is as broad as long. The abdomen is ovate, truncate in front, thickly covered with coarse downlying hair; three pairs of muscle-spots above and four longitudinal hair-lines on underside as in T. magnifica. The epigyne is white in the median area instead of dark-coloured as in the last, and is flat without any median ridge, the points of the horseshoe chitinous frame being well apart as in the Isopeda type generally. The legs are comparatively rather shorter than the above and thickly covered with downlying hair; the femora underneath with long upstanding bristles. The palpi are thickly covered with hair on all joints and, without the maxillae joints, are fully once and a half the length of the cephalothorax. L. Koch gives once and one-third for his T. barbata. There is only one spine above on tibia ii., instead of two as in T. magnifica. The measurements in millimetres are as follows Long. Broad. Cephalothorax ... 15| Abdomen ............. 17| 134 Mandibles............. 7£ = front patella. 1. Coxjc. 6 Tr. & fem. 2 0 Pat. & tib. 2 5 Metat. & tars. 2 3 1 = 2 . 6 22 2 8 2 5 " = 81 3. 6 17 19 18 6 0 4 . 6 18 2 0 2 0 = 6 4 4 7 (6 , 1 4 ) 8 7 26 One female from Queensland. |