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Labium rather more than half the length of the maxille, narrower at the apex, where it is truncated, than at 
the base. 
Sternum oval, truncated in front. 
Abdomen rather elongate-oval, the spiracular plates forming two large, very convex, oval or circular humps or 
eminences ; on the middle of the underside is a large kite-shaped black marking enclosing a crescent-shaped 
area, in or near which is (apparently) an opening to a spiracular organ, somewhat like that characteristic 
of the genus Anyphena ; immediately in front of the spinners are two transverse slits in a longitudinal 
line, probably the openings of other spiracular organs. Spinners moderate in length and strength, those 
of the inferior pair strongest. In general respects and appearance this genus is nearly allied to Clubiona. 
It is also allied to the Sparassidee. 
Wulfila pallidus, sp. n. 
Adult female, length nearly 2 lines. 
Cephalothorax, falces, maxille, labium, and sternum pale yellow. Legs and palpi rather brighter and darker ; 
abdomen of a dull luteous yellow ; beneath the abdomen in the centre is a largish central black patch, semi- 
circular in front, pointed and produced behind, and with a clear crescent-formed area in the middle, with 
which there appears to be connected the opening to a breathing-organ ; the genital aperture is just in 
front of and between the round humps covering the ordinary spiracular openings, and is of large size and 
very characteristic form. Beneath the two terminal tarsal claws of the legs, springing from a minute 
supernumerary claw-joint, are two claw-tufts. Just at the base in front of the labium there appears to 
be another labium adhering to it, of much smaller size, a little longer than broad, with parallel sides and 
circular apex. The falces have numerous strong bristly pale hairs in front at their inner extremity, with a 
group of others less strong on the inner extremities of the maxille. The sternum hasa black patch at the 
posterior extremity between the coxe of the fourth pair of legs. The height of the clypeus is only equal 
to the diameter of the fore-central eyes. The eyes of the hinder row are separated by equal distances 
from each other, as are also those of the front row, of which the laterals appear to be largest of the eight. 
The palpi are long, slender, like the legs in colour, and furnished with hairs and long spine-like bristles ; 
the digital joint is longer than the radial and cubital together. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (/7. H. Smith). 
‘In a thin loose web on the lower side of a cacao-leaf in a shady place.” 
Wulfila proximus, sp. n. 
Adult female, length nearly 2 lines. 
In size, general characters, and colouring this species is very closely allied to the foregoing, W. pallidus, but it 
may be distinguished at once by the broad central longitudinal black stripe on the sternum, which extends 
over the base of the labium, and by the abdomen being margined underneath with a black stripe, indented 
and joining in with the central kite-shaped marking, and reaching to the spinners, the inferior pair of 
which are also of a dusky black hue. The two central eyes of the hinder row are also a little further 
from each other than each is from the hind-lateral eye on its side. The humped spiracular plates are 
oval and less strong thanin W. pallidus, and the genital aperture is rather further removed behind them, 
being also of a different form. 
Hab. Muxico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
Wulfila diversus, sp. n. 
Adult female, length slightly over 2 lines. 
Nearly allied to the two foregoing species, but may be readily distinguished from both by the cephalothoraa 
being suffused, especially on the sides, with dusky black. The tibie of the first pair of legs are 
marked with a single longitudinal line of minute black spots, the most conspicuous of which is at the 
anterior extremity ; a similar spot also marks the same extremity of the tibie of the second pair. The 
