76 ARANEIDEA. 
The legs are moderately long, rather strong, 2, 1, 4, 3. Those of the first and second pairs are of a deep dark 
rich brown; the genue and tibie black, the tibiae somewhat incrassated ; the metatarsi paler, and the 
tarsi reddish-yellow-brown. Beneath the tibia and metatarsi are several pairs of spines, those beneath 
the tibie the longest, most prominent, and slightly curved. The two posterior pairs of legs are of a 
brownish-yellow colour, with some faint traces of darker annulation. 
The palpi are very short, of a yellow-brown colour. The radial is shorter than the cubital joint ; the cubital 
has several short rather obtuse spine-like bristles in front, and the radial some longer ones, and the 
fore extremity of the latter on the outer side is produced into a short, tapering, straight, and bifid 
apophysis, the two limbs obtusely pointed. The digital joint is of moderate size, oval, and slightly 
longer than the radial and cubital joints together. The palpal organs are simple and encircled with a 
closely fitting spine. 
The mawille, labium, and sternum are of a dark yellowish-brown hue. 
The abdomen is of a flattened form, truncated before, rounded and broadest behind; it is of a deep rich 
chestnut-brown colour, marked and mottled with a paler hue, and a few small whitish-yellow spots 
are sprinkled somewhat symmetrically over its surface; it'is also sparingly furnished with short rather 
obtuse spine-like bristles. 
The female resembles the male in general colour and appearance, but the markings on the cephalothorax 
are different: the sides are marked with converging black lines, and three irregular yellowish lines run 
backwards—one from each of the hind lateral eyes and the middle one through the ocular area, meeting in 
a blotch of the same colour at the thoracic junction. The margins of the caput are also yellowish-white. 
The legs, especially the femora, are distinctly marbled on their anterior side with yellowish. On the 
abdomen a central yellow-brown stripe, with a blotch of the same hue on each side, towards the hinder 
part of the upperside, is pretty distinct. 
Hab. Guaremaua, Chiacam, Petet, Coban (Sarg). 
Runcinia signata, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 4 to 54 lines, 
Cephalothoraw rather longer than broad; colour dull orange-yellow-brown ; on each side—leaving a more or 
less definite lateral stripe margined narrowly with cream-white—is a broad longitudinal dark reddish- 
yellow-brown band. In some examples these bands become dilated and suffuse the whole of the sides, 
with the lateral paler band darkest coloured at its anterior extremity; at the thoracic junction is a pale 
cream-yellow distinctly defined patch, somewhat quadrate in form, but deeply notched in at its fore 
margin. The ocular region is also cream-white, and a line of a similar colour runs a little way back 
obliquely from beneath each lateral pair of eyes. 
The legs are moderately long and strong; their colour is yellow, washed in parts with cream-white, and (in 
some examples) the genuz, a small band at the hinder end of the tibie, and the metatarsi are more or less 
strongly suffused with dark yellowish-red-brown. Beneath the tibie of the first two pairs of legs are 
two pairs of spines, and there are five pairs of spines in two longitudinal parallel rows beneath the meta- 
tarsi. There are also several (three to five) small denticule on the anterior or upper side of the femora 
of the first pair of legs, somewhat resembling those in a similar position in the genus Ornithoscatoides 
(Cambr.), and which are, in that genus, considered to be used as a means of steadying the spider when 
lying on its back on a leaf waiting for its prey (vide P.Z. 8. 1884, p. 199). The second pair of legs is 
rather longer than the first. The colour of the coxal and exinguinal joints is dull yellowish-red-brown, 
as is also that of the maaille and labium; the sternum being yellow, broadly margined with reddish- 
yellow-brown. 
The eyes are minute, the fore laterals slightly the largest; they describe the usual crescent or segment of a 
circle; the four ceutral eyes form a quadrangle broader than long, its anterior side being shorter than the 
posterior side, but longer than the length of the quadrangle. The height of the clypeus is less than half 
that of the facial space. 
The falces are moderately long, strong, conical, dark yellow-brown, irregularly washed in front with cream-white. 
The abdomen is large, of a pentagonal form, much broader behind than in front, where it is somewhat roundly 
