274 ARANEIDEA. 
Abdomen somewhat oblong, truncate before and a little rounded at its hinder extremity and flattish above, 
clothed with short coarse hairs and numerous bristly ones at the fore margin; colour dark mouse-coloured, 
with a pale ill-defined patch on the upperside at the middle of the fore end. Inferior spinners double the 
length of the superior ones, cylindrical, and furnished with a very short second joint. Genital aperture 
of large size and characteristic form. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula (fH. H. Smith). 
CLUBIONA, Latreille. 
Clubiona mordica, sp. n. 
Aduli female, length very nearly 4 lines. 
The general structure and appearance of this species is quite normal. 
The cephalothorax is of an orange-yellow-brown colour, clothed with fine hairs and grey pubescence. The 
height of the clypeus is equal to the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. 
Eyes in the normal position, forming a segment of a circle ; the curve of the posterior row is very slight, and 
its convexity directed backwards ; the shorter anterior row is more curved, and its convexity directed 
forwards. The intervals between the eyes of the posterior row are equal; that between the fore-centrals 
is slightly greater than that between them and the fore-laterals, which last are largest of the eight. 
Central quadrangle a little longer than broad, and its anterior shorter than its posterior side. 
Legs short, strong, 4, 1, 2,3; colour lighter than that of the cephalothorax. Beneath each of the tibiw and 
metatarsi of the first and second pairs are two pairs of spines of unequal length ; a scopula beneath the 
tarsi and metatarsi of the first and second pairs, that beneath the tarsi of the third and fourth pairs 
thin, and beneath the fore extremity of the metatarsi of those pairs the hairs culminate in a kind of tuft 
or brush. A strongish compact claw-tuft beneath all the terminal claws. 
Falces powerful, well arched or prominent in front towards their base, and furnished with numerous strong 
bristly hairs ; similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 
Palpi similar in colour to the legs. Digital joint furnished beneath with a strong tuft of bristly hairs. 
Maxille and labiwm normal, and similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 
Sternum oval, slightly hollow-truncate in front and pointed bebind; colour brownish-yellow. 
Abdomen dull pale yellowish-brown, with a central longitudinal dark brown bar in front on the upperside, 
followed to the spinners by five or six dark brown angular bars or chevrons and several well-marked 
curved oblique stripes of the same colour on the sides. Spinners short, compact, yellow-brown. Under- 
side with three longitudinal brown lines or narrow stripes converging from the genital aperture (which 
is small and inconspicuous, though characteristic) to the spinners. 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 9500 feet (7. H. Smith). 
PEDO, Cambridge. 
Pedo plorans, sp. n. 
Adult male, length 2% lines ; adult female, length 34 to 32 lines. 
Cephalothorax (male) deep reddish-brown, obscurely veined with black and thickly clothed with white plumose 
hairs. 
Eyes of the hind-central pair smallest and distinctly further from each other than from the hind-laterals ; central 
quadrangle longer than broad, and its anterior side rather shorter than the posterior. The height of the 
clypeus is about double the diameter of the fore-central eyes. 
Legs of the first two pairs yellow; femora black-brown, clothed with white plumose hairs; two pairs of 
spines beneath each of the tibia and metatarsi. A thin scopula beneath the tarsi and a part of the meta- 
tarsi and the third and fourth pairs are deep brown; femora darkest, a small portion (scarcely an 
annulus) at the fore extremity of the tibie reddish-yellow-brown: these legs are also more or less 
furnished with white plumose hairs. All the legs have a small compact terminal claw-tuft, and all the 
femora are considerably incrassated. 
Palpi short, dark yellow-brown. Radial joint somewhat longer and more robust than the cubital; at its outer 
