ON SOME NEW AND RARE SCOTCH SPIDERS 21 



extremities with some fine sharp teeth. Maxillcc, rather long, 

 strong at the base, somewhat narrowing to their extremities, which 

 are strongly inclined, but do not meet over the labium. Labiuw, 

 short, somewhat semicircular, with a transverse groove or impression. 

 Sternum broad, heart-shaped, and convex, its hinder extremity 

 obtusely pointed. 



CALEDONIA EI'ANSII, sp. nov. 



Plate I. Fig. 4. 



ADULT MALE (abdomen wanting). Length of cephalothorax, \ 

 of a line. The cephalothorax and fakes are yellow-brown, the legs, 

 palpi, and fakes of a paler hue, and the sternum dark brown. The 

 eyes are in two transverse rows, or four pairs, on small black spots ; 

 the posterior row (looked at from above and on the side) is straight, 

 or if anything it has a very slight curve, whose convexity is directed 

 forwards, the anterior row greatly curved forwards. Those of the 

 hinder row are divided by equal intervals. The lateral pairs are 

 placed on a very slight tubercle, quite on the side of the caput, and 

 almost squarely to the line of the hind-central pair ; and the fore- 

 central pair is placed far below, its eyes being not quite contiguous 

 to each other. IL\\Q. palpi are short, similar to the legs in colour; 

 the radial and cubital joints are very short the former has its 

 fore extremity on the upper side produced into a tapering, rather 

 hooked, sharp-pointed apophysis directed downwards. The digital 

 joint is rather large. The palpal organs complex, with prominent 

 lobes and processes, and a tolerably strong, coiled, prominent spine 

 near their extremity. 



Although strongly averse to the needless multiplication of the 

 genera of these minute spiders, I cannot at present find a place 

 for the one here described in any genus yet characterised. It 

 appears to come nearest to Tapinocyba, Sim., but the position of 

 the eyes is peculiar and very different from that genus, and there is 

 no longitudinal groove or indentation running backwards from the 

 lateral pairs of eyes, as in all known males of Tapinocyba. The 

 fragment from which the above description has been made (destitute 

 of several legs, one palpus, and the abdomen) was sent to me, through 

 Mr. G. H. Carpenter, by Mr. William Evans, by whom the spider 

 was found on the Pentlands in Scotland, and whose name I have 

 great pleasure in connecting with it. 



Gen. GONGYLIDIUM, Menge (Neriene, Bl., ad partcui). 



GONGYLIDIUM MORUM, Sp. nOV. 



Plate I. Fig. 2. 



ADULT FEMALE. Length, y^th of an inch. Cephalothorax, 

 oval, much longer than broad, obtuse, and narrowest in front; lateral 



