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bearing the fore-central eyes is moderately strong, those of the 

 lateral pairs are strong. 



Legs tolerably long, 1, 4, 2, 3 furnished with hairs and bristles, of 

 which there is a patch, more thickly furnished than elsewhere, inside 

 the fore-extremity of the femora of the third pair ; colour dull yellow- 

 brown. 



Palpi short ; similar in colour to the cephalothorax ; cubital and 

 radial joints very short ; the former strongly claviform and furnished 

 with several long, strong bristles, the latter shortest and produced 

 obtusely at its extremity on the outer side and furnished with long 

 bristles. Digital joint large, oval ; palpal organs well developed, but 

 simple, divided transversely into two large lobes, anterior and 

 posterior, with a short, pointed spiny process beneath and from 

 within their fore-extremity, but not projecting beyond the point 

 of the digital joint. 



Falccs moderate in length and strength ; colour like that of the 

 cephalothorax, tinged with yellow-brown. 



Maxilla and lab him yellow, slightly suffused with pale yellow- 

 brown. 



Sternum convex, yellow, broadly and squarely truncate at the 

 hinder extremity, and furnished with a few long bristly hairs. 



Abdomen oval, pale whitish, thinly covered with long bristles. 

 There was no pattern visible above, but two or three very indistinct 

 oblique dusky lines on the sides. 



The female has the legs and palpi of a darker dusky yellow-brown 

 than the male. The abdomen is large, globular, and of a dull mouse- 

 brown colour with some indistinct oblique yellow-brownish lines. 

 The genital aperture and process are large, prominent, and very 

 distinctively characteristic. Probably a series of examples would 

 show some variation in colour, and perhaps some other markings 

 on the abdomen in both sexes. 



Hab. Durban, Natal, South Africa. 



THERIDION PUKCELLII, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 2.) 



Adult male, length 14- lines. 



Adult female, very nearly 2 lines. 



Excepting its much larger size, this pretty species is in general 

 appearance, colours, and markings, very like the English species 

 Tlieridion familiare'G-AmbTi, The structure of the palpi is, however, 

 very different. 



