BY W. J. RAINBOW. 521 



Tiear posterior extremity; lateral ornamentation a broad sinuous 

 dark brown band, beneath which there are alternate wavy stria- 

 tions of white, dark l^rown and tawny; superior surface and sides 

 clothed with silvery pubescence; inferior surface dark brown with 

 white lateral bars. 



Epiyyne a broad, strongly arched process, dark brown above, 

 yellowish laterally. 



Hob. — Guildford. , 



Argiope pallida, sp. nov. 



(Plate XVII., figs. 6, <ia, 66.) 



9. Cephalothorax 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; abdomen 9 mm. 

 long, 6 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax glabrous, yellowish, with dark bi'own markings. 

 Caput high, arched. Clypeus arched, deeply indented at centre. 

 Marginal band narrow. 



Eyes black; the four comprising the central group elevated 

 upon a tubercle ; those of the front row slightly the smallest 

 of this series, separated from each other by a space equal 

 to once their individual diameter; the second row of eyes 

 separated from the first by twice their diameter, and from each 

 other by once their individual diameter; lateral eyes minute, the 

 lower ones exceedingly so ; these latter seated obliquely on 

 small tubercles, in a line with the front pair of eyes of the 

 the median group. 



Legs long, tapering, pale yellow, armed with short black sj)ines; 

 relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi short, similar in colour and armature to legs. 



Fa Ices yellow, glabrous; the upper margin of the furrow of 

 ■each falx armed with a row of three teeth, and the lower with a 

 row of two. 



MaxillcB concolorous, short, equally as broad as long, convex. 



Labium concolorous also, subtriangular. 



Sternum shield-shaped, tuberculate, dark brown laterally, 

 yellow in the median line. 



