New Species of Araneldea. 145 



Legs not greatly different in length 4, i, 2, 3, tolerably strong. 

 Colour deep brown, especially the femora and tibiae, which are nearly 

 black. Tarsi very short, oval, and of a yellow-brown hue. Spines 

 strong beneath the tibiae and metatarsi of the first and second pairs, 

 abruptly bent or somewhat hooked at their extremities. They do 

 not appear to be quite regular or symmetrical. Metatarsi of the first 

 pair have 2 rows of spines ; tibia 3 rows varying in number in each 

 row, 2-7. The spines beneath the tibia; of the second pair are 

 neither so numerous nor so strong as on those of the first pair. 

 The fjcnuce of the first and second pairs have 4 spines at their fore 

 end. It is impossible to say, in absence of a series, whether the 

 number and position of the above spines may or may not eventually 

 afford a good specific distinguishing character. 



Palpi long ; radial joint almost double the length of the cubital, 

 very tumid along the under side, but pinched in or compressed 

 there rather abruptly near its fore extremity, beneath which it is 

 furnished with long bristly hairs. Digital joint small, cleft at 

 its anterior extremity ; palpal bulb rather large, somewhat flat- 

 tened-globular, drawn out from near the middle into a tapering 

 black spur as long as the greatest width of the palpal bulb. The 

 colour of the bulb is pale yellow-brown, encircled with a broad 

 dark yellow-brown zonal band margined on each side with black. 



Maxilla rather long, cylindrical, slightly tapering, double as long 

 as broad, divergent. 



Labium rather broader than long at base, narrowing to the apex, 

 which is rounded. Near the apex are 4-5 short tapering not very 

 strong bristles, with some rather longer and shorter hairs. 



Sternum much longer than broad, narrowing gradually to the 

 fore extremity, which is the same width as the base of the labium, 

 furnished with a few slender, tapering, bristly hairs. 



Abdomen oval ; broadest behind, of a dark purplish brown colour, 

 clothed pretty thickly with short, slightly curved, obtuse spiniform 

 bristles. 



Hab. Under stones. 



Loc. Simon's Town (Cape Peninsula), Cape of Good Hope. 



C^DMON AFFINIS, Sp. 11. (PL IX., fig. 2.) 



Adult male, length, 5 lines ; length of cephalothorax 2 lines ; 

 breadth If lines. 



This spider is very nearly allied to C. tlwracica ; its cephalothorax, 

 however, is longer than broad, and is thus of a more oblong and less 



