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extremity of the abdomen, 1 inch and /^ths ; length of the 

 cephalothorax \ ; breadth f ; length of an anterior leg 2 J ; 

 length of a leg of the third pair 1/^. 



The specimen from which the foregoing description was 

 taken is from the Gold Coast, Upper Guinea, on the western 

 coast of Africa. It was obligingly submitted to my inspection 

 by Mr. J. A. Turner, of Manchester, a zealous and skilful en- 

 tomologist, in compliment to whom I have named the species. 



Tribe, Tubitelte, Latreille. 

 Genus, Agelena, Walckenaer. 

 Agelena brunnea. 



Cephalothorax oval, compressed before, convex above, 

 rather hairy, with depressed sides marked with furrows di- 

 verging from the upper part towards the margins ; it is of a 

 red-brown colour bordered by a fine, black line ; on each side 

 are black lines forming several diverging narrow triangles, 

 whose vertices are directed towards the upper part of the ce- 

 phalothorax, the small area inclosed by each being red-brown. 

 Eyes disposed on the anterior part of the cephalothorax in 

 two transverse, curved rows, whose convexity is directed back- 

 wards ; the eyes of the anterior row are somewhat larger than 

 those of the posterior row, the two intermediate ones being 

 the largest of all. Mandibles strong, conical, vertical, rather 

 prominent at the base, and armed with a few teeth on the in- 

 ner surface. Maxillae short, powerful, convex underneath, 

 rounded at the extremity, and inclined towards the lip, which 

 is short and nearly square, being rather narrower at the apex 

 than the base. Pectus heart-shaped. Legs and palpi mode- 

 rately long and robust, and provided with hairs and spines. 

 These parts are of a red-brown colour, the lip being the 

 darkest. Fourth pair of legs the longest, then the first, the 

 third pair being the shortest. Each tarsus is terminated by 

 two pectinated claws, and the palpi have a single pectinated 

 claw at their extremity. Abdomen oval, rather larger at its 

 posterior than its anterior extremity, projecting over the base 

 of the cephalothorax ; its colour is yellow-brown, with indi- 

 stinct, angular lines of a lighter shade, whose vertices are di- 

 rected forwards, extending along the middle of the upper part, 

 which, with the sides, is obscurely spotted with black, an 

 irregular spot of a larger size occurring on each side of the 

 spinners ; on the under side are three very faint, longitudinal 

 bands of a dull brown colour, which meet at the spinners. 

 Plates of the spiracles yellow. Spinning mammulae small. 



Length, from the anterior part of the cephalothorax to the 



