Mr. R. H. Meade on the British species 0/ Phalangiidse. 405 



5. Phalangium minutum, n. s. 



Canum vel murinum, nigro variegatum, vitta dorsali lata et an- 

 gulata signatum. Eminentia ocularia ampla, tuberculis ob- 

 tusis cristata. 



Long. I lin. .: 



Body rather short and wide ; eephalothorax large, with a co% 

 siderable-sized eye-eminence, crested with bluntish tubercles. 



The colour is whitish or yellowish gray. The front and sides 

 of the thorax are variegated with a few irregular- shaped black 

 spots, and the back of the abdomen is traversed longitudinally 

 with a widish dorsal band having one triangular projection on 

 each side. It is of a dark gray colour, mottled or variegated in 

 a transverse direction with white. The palpi are furnished with 

 a projecting process on the third joint, and together with the 

 legs, which are rather short and stout, are of a yellow or brown- 

 ish colour. '/ 



I have seen but two specimens of this very minute Phalan- 

 gium, one of which was immature. I was doubtful about the 

 sex in both of them, and their habitat was unknown to me. j:' 



Genus 2. Megahunus^j mihi. 



Eye-eminence very large, furnished with a projecting double 

 crest and large eyes. Palpi branched, and spiny on the under 

 surface. Legs of moderate length and slender. Body rather 

 short, and eephalothorax large in both sexes. 



1. Megabunus cormger, Herm. PL X. fig. 4. 



Testaceus vel luteus, vitta dorsali, et lateribus abdominis ferru- 



gineis. 

 Mas, falcium articulo secundo, ante apicem chelas prope, in 



cornu superne elevato. 

 Long. foem. 3, maris 2 lin. ^^ ^oio-itKi^i lao'ii 3->-J 



Phalangium cornigerum, Herm. Mem. Apt. p. 10^. pi.' 8. f. 2;' "Walilk: Hist. 



Nat. des Ins. Apt. t. iii. p. 119. 

 Opilio corniger, Koch, Die Arach. B. iii. p. 87- pi. 102. 



Cephalothorax nearly as wide as the abdomen. Eye-eminence 

 large and broad (fig. 4 a) ; the crests separated by a deepish 

 groove, and each armed with seven or eight large but bluntish 

 tubercles {b). Eyes large, and surrounded by black rings. 

 Colour of the cephalothorax pale brownish-yellow, marked 

 with irregular brown spots. Abdomen convex, oval, and rather 

 pointed at the apex, similar in colour to the cephalothorax, 



aomraob * From fieyas, great, and ^ovposy eminence. ,q;>^ eAiii 



