92 Mr. J. Blackwall on new species o/Araneidea. 



rately long, provided with hairs and fine spines, and are of a 

 pale yellowish hue, with minute black spots ; the fourth pair is 

 rather the longest, the first and second pairs are equal in length, 

 and the third pair is the shortest ; each tarsus is terminated by 

 three claws ; the two superior ones are curved and pectinated, 

 and the inferior one is inflected near its base. The palpi resemble 

 the legs in colour, and have a small, curved, pectinated claw at 

 their extremity. The abdomen is oviform, thinly clothed with 

 hairs, convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo- 

 thorax ; the upper part is of a yellowish-brown colour ; at its 

 anterior part there are four short longitudinal streaks, the exte- 

 rior ones of which increase in breadth to their posterior extre- 

 mity ; to these succeed three large spots placed transversely, the 

 intermediate one being in advance of the other two ; and between 

 the latter and the spinners there is a series of short transverse 

 bars, somewhat enlarged at their extremities, which decrease in 

 length to the coccyx; these streaks, spots, and bars have a brown 

 hue; the sides and under part are of a pale yellowish colour ; 

 the former are slightly tinged with brown, and a longitudinal 

 brownish-black band occurs on each side of the medial line of the 

 latter; these bands converge to the spinners, where they meet. 

 The Rev. 0. P. Cambridge took two young females of this 

 species at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, Hampshire, in Sep- 

 tember 1858, which were transmitted to me by Mr. R. H. Meade 

 in the same year. 



Family Thomisid^e. 



Genus Philodromus, Walck. 



Philodromus elegans. 



Length of the female g^^ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax —^ ; breadth y ^ ; breadth of the abdomen ^ ; length of 

 a leg of the second pair ^ ; length of a leg of the third pair y^^. 



The legs are long, slender, provided with hairs and spines, 

 and are of a yellow-brown hue, with red-brown annuli; the 

 second pair the longest, then the first, and the third pair the 

 shortest; the metatarsi and tarsi have hair-like papillge on 

 their inferior surface, and the latter are terminated by two 

 curved, pectinated claws. The palpi are short, and resemble the 

 legs in colour. The cephalothorax is short, broad, convex, 

 compressed before, rounded on the sides, clothed with whitish 

 hairs, particularly on the lateral margins, and of a pale yellowish 

 colour ; a broad dark brown band extends along each side, a nar- 

 row longitudinal one of the same hue, which is enlarged near its 

 middle, occupies the medial line, and a short, fine, dark brown 

 streak occurs on each side of its anterior extremity. The eyes, 



