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164 ARANEIDEA. 
order, Mr. H. H. Smith enclosed with it a specimen of an ant beaten from the same 
bushes on which the spiders were found. No other connection than that of this 
resemblance appears to have been noted. 
FLORINDA, gen. nov. (fam. Theridiide ; subfam. Linyphiine). 
Cephalothorax elongate-oval, broad, the lower margin rounded at the fore extremity ; alittle constricted on the 
marginal line at the junction of caput and thorax, moderately convex above, the profile of these showing 
a gradual slope backwards. 
Eyes unequal in size, in two transverse nearly uniform curved lines or four pairs, the anterior line strongly 
curved, the convexity of the lower line directed forwards, that of the posterior line, which is nearly straight, 
directed backwards. The four pairs are well separated, the two central ones forming a trapezoid, whose 
length is about equal to its width behind, but its fore side much the shortest. 
Legs rather long, slender, 1, 2, 4, 3, the femora shaped like the drum-stick of a fowl; thinly furnished with 
hairs, and with a few, not very strong, but distinct spines on the femora, tibiz, and metatarsi. 
Falces strong, straight, vertical, a few very minute teeth at their extremity behind the fang, with a largish 
obtuse tooth on the inner side in front of the fang, and another about halfway above it towards their 
base on the inner side and pointed (these last teeth may only be sexual). 
Mawille of large size, broad, and inclined to the labium; they are slightly curved but broadly truncate at 
their extremity, and strongly and abruptly prominent at the middle. 
Labium short, a little broader than high, rounded at the apex, and transversely impressed below it. 
Sternum longer than broad, subtriangular, and its posterior extremity drawn out into a longish tapering point 
between the cox of the fourth pair of legs. 
Abdomen elongate, cylindric, broadly and strongly constricted at the middle, the hinder extremity roundly 
prominent above, and projecting over the spinners in a somewhat hood-shape (this, again, may be only 
sexual). Anal tubercle large, prominent, and two-jointed. Spinners short, strong, compact, the inferior 
pair largest and slightly longest. There is a colulus immediately below the inferior pair of spinners, of 
considerable size, and consisting of two parts—a basal and a triangular pointed apical portion (the 
function of this part is unknown, and as yet its value for systematic classification is uncertain; its notice 
here, therefore, is not meant to imply generic value, though it may be of that significance). 
Florinda mirifica, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 1% lines. 
Cephalothorax, falces, mawille, labium, and sternum reddish-orange-yellow. The cephalothorax has some 
indefinite converging lines of a darker hue. The height of the clypeus exceeds half that of the 
facial space. 
The eyes are on strong black tubercles. Those of the hind-central pair are much the largest, and are 
separated from the hind-laterals by a diameter’s interval or rather more, but from each other by more 
than two diameters. The fore-centrals are about an eye’s diameter apart, and each is separated from the 
fore-lateral eye on its side by an interval nearly about equal to the length of the line formed by the fore- 
central pair. Those of each lateral pair are smallest, placed slightly obliquely, and are contiguous to each 
other. 
The palpi are moderately long; the radial joint is double the length of the cubital, claviform, and furnished 
(mostly above at the fore extremity) with some strong bristly hairs ; a single somewhat spine-like tapering 
bristle issues from near the fore extremity above of the cubital joint. The digital joint is not large; it 
is of a roundish-oval form, a little longer than the radial joint, and furnished with bristly hairs. The 
palpal organs are well developed and moderately complex. The humeral joints have a few minute teeth 
or tubercles along their inner side, each furnished with a pair of short minute spines or bristles, as well 
as some more numerous smaller granulosities. 
The falces have along their outer surface a series of impressed punctures or minute pock-marks, which 
