520 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^, 



Cephalothorax yellowish with dark brown lateral markings. 

 Caput elevated, arched, truncated in front, normal grooves distinct; 

 colour yellowish with fine silvery pubescence; there is also a 

 a dark \-Vik^ mark commencing just below the ocular area and 

 terminating at the base of the cephalic segment. Clypeus mode- 

 rately convex, yellowish, with dark lateral markings, and clothed 

 with fine silvery pubescence; there is a deep trans^'erse curved 

 indentation at centre ; lateral radial grooves fairly distinct. 

 Marginal band narrow, yellow, iringed with short hoary hairs. 



Uyes glossy black; of the four comprising the central group, 

 the two constituting the front row are separated from each other 

 by a space equal to about twice their individual diameter, and by 

 rather more than that space from those of the second row; these 

 latter somewhat the largest of this series, and separated from 

 each other by about twice their individual diameter; lateral j^airs 

 minute, seated obliquely upon tubercles and nearly contiguous. 



Legs long, slender, yellowish, with dark brown annulations, 

 clothed with fine short hairs, and armed with rather long black 

 spines; relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3; the first pair are the longest,, 

 the second and fourth somewhat shorter and co-equal. 



Palpi short, pale yellowish, clothed with short yellowish hairs, 

 and armed with rather long black spines. 



Falces long, strong, outer margins obscure yellowish, inner 

 margins pale yellow. 



Maxilla;: outer margins dark brown, inner, pale yellow. 



Labium dark brown at base, pale yellow from near centre to 

 apex. 



Sternum shield-shaped, arched, surface uneven, dark brown 

 laterally, with a yellow longitudinal sinuous median patch. 



Abdomen oblong, moderately projecting over base of cephalo- 

 thorax, arched ; sujDerior surface pale yellowish, deepening to 

 tawny at posterior extremity; a longitudinal, uneven, and broken 

 dark brown bar runs down the centre; at the posterior extremity 

 thei^e are also two short uneven lateral bars; in addition to these 

 there is a series of ten deep lateral dark brown spots or punctures- 

 arranged in pairs, commencing near anterior, and terminating 



