240 Transactions. — Zoolony. 



lowisli, sparse ; spines yellowish ; moderately numerous ; 

 tibial sj^ines of 1st pair scarcely equal diameter of article in 

 length. 



Palpi yellow-brown, terminal joints tinted with olive-green; 

 rather exceeds tibial joint of 1st pair in length. 



Falccs colour of cephalothorax ; vertical, conical, project 

 at base in front. 



Maxillce yellow-brown ; scarcely as long as broad, trun- 

 cated. 



Labium yellow-brown; rather broader than long, some- 

 what pointed, everted, less than one-hbilf length of maxilkc. 



Stcnmm yellow-brown ; cordate, slight eminences opposite 

 coxce. 



Abdomen oviform, somewhat depressed above ; integument 

 dull slaty-brown, thickly speckled with light stone-coloured 

 yellow-spotted flecks ; three pairs of impressed spots — two 

 oblique, somewhat pyriform, slaty-brown marks enclose the 

 first pair ; between the hind pair is a swallow-like figure of 

 similar colour ; close to it, on posterior side, is smaller and less 

 defined figure, similar in form ; from the latter four parallel 

 yellowish lines extend to spinners ; ventral surface less thickly 

 flecked. Vulva amber-colour; hood rather broader than long, 

 moderately convex, transversely wrinkled ; length of scapus 

 vulvce exceeds depth of hood by one-third, about two-thirds 

 less than it in breadth ; transversely rugose ; apex calceolate ; 

 attached to the scapus, inferior end, are two dark-tinted, sub- 

 conical, wing-like projections. 



h. single example of this species was contained in a col- 

 lection kindly sent me by T. Kirk. Esq., F.L.S., from Wel- 

 liuffton. 



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Epeira alho-slricht, sp. iiov. 



Female. — Ceph.-th., long, 3-2 ; broad, 2-8 ; fcxcial index, 1, 

 Abd., long. 7; broad, (ro. ' Legs. 1, 2, 4, 3 = 12, 11-5, 11, 

 7 mm. 



Caput sienna-brown clouded with brown, tlioracic part 

 light olive-brown, margins suffused with olive-green ; almost 

 glabrous ; oval, moderately compressed forwards ; pars 

 cephalica slightly convex, roundly truncated, ocular eminence 

 moderately developed ; lateral index equals facial ; pars 

 thoracica moderately aonvex ; fovea not deep ; normal 

 grooves slight ; profile-contour rises from thoracic junction at 

 an angle of 40 ', slopes forwards with an even line, rising 

 slightly at eye-eminence ; clypieus in depth exceeds diameter of 

 a fore-central eye. 



Posterior row of eijes perceptibly recurved, median pair on 

 dark spots ; separated from each other by an interval visibly 

 exceeding an eye's breadth ; neai'l_\' their space and a half from 



