210 Transactiom, — Zoology. 



For an inch or two round the mouth there is spun a loose, 

 coarse web, for the purpose, probably, of entrapping beetles and 

 other insects that its occupant preys upon. This web appears 

 to be more or less continuous with the lining of the nest, and 

 makes the mouth of the tube appear sHghtly funnel-shaped. 

 "When the spider is absent on a foraging expedition, the nest is 

 left quite open, but when it re-enters the nest it generally spins 

 a few threads of web across it, at or near the top. 



Genus Migus, Khk. 

 Migus distinctus. 



Mas. — Length, 9 mm. 



Pars thoracica brownish-yellow, with the anterior and lateral 

 margins of the fovea dark brown ; pars cephalica greenish 

 brown-yellow ; sternum pale, and maxillae brownish-yellow ; lip 

 of a greenish hue at the basal half, and of the same hue as the 

 maxillae towards the frout ; falces greeuish brown-yellow with a 

 bright reddish brown fang ; the exmgumal and coxal joints of 

 the legs pale yellow, the other joints and the palpi of the same 

 colour as the falces. The abdomen above dark brown, minutely 

 speckled with pale brown spots, and having two longitudinal 

 rows of elongate, obliquely posited, spots of the same hue ; below 

 pale yellow towards the base, and of the same hue as the dorsal 

 surface towards the spinners ; spinners pale yellow. The cephalo- 

 thorax is glabrous, except at the lateral margins, where there is 

 a fringe of dark hairs directed upwards, and between the eyes and 

 the fovea where there are a few dark bristly hairs directed forwards. 

 The rest of the body and its appendages are furnished with hair. 



Cephaldthorax shorter than the patella + tibia of a leg of 

 the 4th pair, rounded at the sides, about half as wide at the fore- 

 angle of the caput as at its broadest part between the 2nd and 

 3rd pairs of legs, highest at the fore-central eyes, from whence 

 it slopes gradually to the posterior margin ; lateral slope not 

 very steep ; fovea semi-hexagonal in front and low and rounded 

 behind ; lateral indentations moderately well marked ; caput 

 distinct from the thorax, somewhat rounded in front ; clypeus 

 high, and slightly sloping forwards. 



Both rows of ei/es slightly bent forwards, and not differing 

 much in length, the posterior bent more than the anterior ; the 

 fore-centrals each in a black tubercle, round, and rather less 

 distant from each other than from the fore-laterals ; the latter 

 posited obliquely, longish, round, and somewhat larger than the 

 former ; eyes of posterior row sub-equal, slightly elongated, 

 smaller than the fore-centrals ; the laterals near the centrals 

 but not contiguous to them ; the laterals of both rows and the 

 centrals of the hind row on a common black spot. The fore- 

 centrals are the darkest in colour, and the fore-laterals are 



