172 Rev. 0. P. Cambridge on two new British Spiders. 



gradually from the centre to the abdomen. Colour pale yel- 

 lowish brown, with some fine black lines, or rather furrows, 

 diverging on all sides from a point near the centre, terminating 

 short of the lateral margin ; these lines are connected imperfectly 

 by another similar line parallel to the margin, and running 

 interruptedly quite round the cephalothorax, the two ends losing 

 themselves in the region of the eyes. Lateral margin bounded 

 by a fine black line. 



Eyes eight, in two parallel curved rows on edge and front of 

 the cephalothorax ; convexity of the curve directed backwards ; 

 anterior row the shortest. Colour pale porcelain, shining and 

 transparent ; the two centre ones of the posterior row largest of 

 the eight, and touching each other, the touching side flattened : 

 two exterior ones of the same row round, prominent, seated on 

 a small tubercle, and with a black rim on the inner sides ; two 

 exterior eyes of anterior row round, of intermediate size be- 

 tween those of the posterior row, and with black rims on the 

 upper side; two centre ones of anterior row smallest of the 

 eight, round and prominent. 



Legs robust, slightly paler than the cephalothorax ; thickly 

 clothed with hairs of the same hue, and a few black spines ; the 

 hairs on the last joint of the legs are nearly white. 



Palpi hairy, long, and same colour as the legs ; digital joint 

 very large, long, oval, club-shaped, brown and hairy. 



Fakes same colour as the cephalothorax; the fang red brown. 



Maxillae curved inwardly and towards the labium, and similar 

 in colour to the legs. 



Labium oval, pointed at the top, raised along the medial 

 line, and, with the sternum, which is slightly heart-shaped, 

 of a yellowish-brown colour, considerably darker than the 

 legs, &c. 



Abdomen longish oval, dark brown, with a silky gloss in strong 

 light ; thickly clothed with yellowish hairs, giving a golden cop- 

 pery hue in many positions. On the upper side, these hairs, by 

 differences of length and hue, show six elongated pale yellowish 

 spots, arranged near the upper end of the abdomen in two longitu- 

 dinal rows of three each, and curved from each other. (These 

 spots are especially visible when in spirits of wine.) Next to 

 these, towards the spinnerets, are formed in the same way 

 seven angulated lines of the same colour, the vertices directed 

 forwards. These lines do not nearly span the abdomen, but 

 decrease in length as they approach the spinnerets. The spin- 

 nerets are six in number, the two superior ones double the length 

 of any of the others, hairy, and all of same colour as the legs ; 

 as are also the plates of the spiracles. 



An immature female of this species differed only in being 



