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Show 576 MR. H. R. HOGG ON [Dec. 12, The eyes of the front row are clearly procurved. The side eyes not quite | the diameter of the median, having their centres on a level with the lower part of the latter. The median pair are half their diameter apart, the same distance from the eyes of the second row and slightly less from their own laterals. The clypeus is broad, the distance to the root of the mandibles being twice the diameter of the front median, but a transverse edge marking runs across at more than half the distance away from the eyes ; the whole distance is of the same colour and covered with hair. The eyes of the second row are rather more than half their diameter apart, their total width being 1 ^ of that of the front row. Those of the third row are three times their diameter apart and 5 the diameter of those of the second row. The mandibles are ^ longer than the front patellae, are thickly covered with downlying matted hair, interspersed with upstanding bristles ; on the inner edge of the falx-sheath are three equally large teeth, and on the outer edge one similar sized large tooth between two smaller ones. The lip is straight across the front, but the edge slightly hollowed and bevelled forward ; it widens towards the base, where it narrows somewhat suddenly. It is clearly less than half the length of the maxillae, which are broadest § of the distance from the base; rounded in front and on the outside, and narrowed considerably at the basal end. The sternum is broadly ovate, almost pointed at the base, thickly covered with short coarse hair. The abdomen is a long oval, thickly covered with short fine downlying hair. The spinnerets are rather prominent, covered with thick coarse hair. The epigyne is only slightly longer than broad and not much narrower anteriorly than at its base; the median longitudinal ridge broadens out considerably from the basal to the anterior end. The legs are moderately long and stout, thickly covered with short downlying hair and upstanding bristles. There are two median spines on the upper sides of tibiae iii. and iv., none on the same of tibiae i. and ii. The palpi are clearly longer than the cephalothorax. In colouring, pattern, and size, this spider is very like L. leuck-artii Thor, from Peak Downs, Queensland, as described by L. Koch, but differs in having the pattern of the under side of the abdomen bright brown instead of black-brown. The clypeus is much wider, instead of slightly only, than the front median eyes, which are rather wider apart than they are from the side eyes instead of equidistant. The palpi are longer instead of shorter than the cephalothorax, and the lip less instead of more than half the length of the maxillae. The epigynal ridge of leuckartii is drawn by L. Koch widest in the middle, while here it certainly widens from the middle anteriorly. |
