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VI. Descriptions of some New Species, and Characters of Three 

 New Genera, of Araneidea from South Africa. By the Eev. 

 OCTAVIUS PICKARD-CAMBKIDGE, M.A., F.K.S., &c. 



(With Plates IX., X., XL, XII.) 



THE spiders included in the following pages can only be considered 

 a very scanty representation of the order Araneidea in the locality 

 whence they hail. They are, however, of much interest in being, 

 most of them if not all, good species, and not, I think, before 

 described. Mr. W. F. Purcell, of the South African Museum, Cape 

 Town, to whom I am indebted for these examples, tells me that 

 he intends to take up this order seriously, and I will only say in 

 addition to a strong commendation of this praiseworthy resolution, 

 that I sincerely hope he will add copious illustrations to the descrip- 

 tions and diagnoses he may give to the scientific world. 



THERAPHOSID^;. 

 SUB-FAMILY MIGIN^E. 



GEN. Nov. CJEDMON.* 



Moggridgea, Cambr. : ad partem. M. abrahamii, Cambr. 



Migas, L. Koch-Sim, ad partem. 



Closely allied to Moggridgea, but differs in the position of the 

 eyes. These in Ccedmon are (like those of Moggridgea) in two 

 transverse rows, but the anterior row is very nearly straight, the 

 slight curve, if any, having its convexity directed either forward or 

 backward; the two rows are thus almost parallel, while in Mog- 

 gridgca the convexity of the anterior row is very strongly directed 

 backwards, the lateral eyes on either side (of the two rows) being 

 in that genus also very widely separated. The laterals of the anterior 

 row are larger than the central, and the type of Moggridgea is 

 If. dyeri, Cambr., that of Ccedmon is M. abrahamii, Cambr. Of 

 neither species, so far as I know, has the male been described. 

 M. Simon considered that M. abrahamii belonged to the genus 



* Norn, propv. 

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