516 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID.E, 



Legs rather short, strong, with yellowish and dark brown 

 annulations, thickly clothed with long hoary hairs, and armed 

 with long black spines; relative lengths 1, 2, -t, 3. 



Palpi short, strong, similar in colour and armature to legs. 



Falces long, strong, glabrous, divergent at apex; the upper 

 mai'gin of the furrow of each falx armed with a row of four 

 teeth, and the lower with a row of three; fangs dark brown at 

 base, wine-red at points. 



Maxillce strong, broad, arched, glossy; laterally, towards base, 

 obscurely coloured; apices and inner margins yellowish. 



Labium conical, broader than high, obscurely coloured at base, 

 yellowish at apex. 



Ster7iuin cordate, convex, glossy, dark brown with a median 

 longitudinal bar of yellow, becoming very slightly broader from 

 near the centre, and continuing gradually so to posterior extremity; 

 the surface moderately clothed with shortish hoary hairs. 



Abdomen ovate, convex, boldly projecting over base of cephalo- 

 thorax, slightly indented at postei'ior extremity, the superior 

 surface and sides clothed with short yellowish pubescence; seated 

 laterally, towards anterior extremity, there are two small tubercle- 

 like eminences; colours yellow, with two lateral anterior patches 

 of darkish yellow-grey; the superior surface ornamented with 

 a delicate tracery of waved lines, commencing well forward and 

 terminating at posterior extremity; in addition to these there is 

 a series of ten punctures which, with the exception of the anterior 

 pair, are distributed in transverse I'ows of two each, and of these 

 the central pair are the largest and most prominent; the punctures 

 dark brown within; sides yellow above, dark brown markings 

 below: inferior surface yellowish-grey between epigyne and spin- 

 nerets; the latter are dark brown with an irregular patch of sooty 

 black. 



Epigyne a dark brow^n, arched, moderately high protuberance, 

 having the appearance of a thick overhanging lip when viewed 

 from above. 



y/rti._ Guildford. 



