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yellow; underside hairy; dull brown colour along the middle, 

 yellowish at sides. 



Ejngyne a short blunt process. 



Hah. — Buugendore. 



Epeira pronuba, sp.nov. 

 (Plate X. figs. 2, 2a, 26, 2c, 2d.) 



9. Cephalothorax, 2 mm. long ; abdomen, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 broad. 



Cephalothorax pale yellow, moderately convex, longer than 

 broad. Cajntt slightly elevated, somewhat darker at base than at 

 apex, rounded on the sides and upper part ; normal grooves and 

 indentations distinct. Clypeiis moderately convex, pale yellow, 

 with faint lateral striations radiating from near centre. Mar- 

 ginal hand narrow and rather darker than clypeus. 



Eyes glossy black ; the four comprising the central group 

 forming a square or nearly so ; lateral pairs minute, placed 

 obliquely on tubercles, and not contiguous. 



Legs pale yellow, slightly darkest at tarsal joints, long, mode- 

 rately strong, and tapering, furnished with short hairs and 

 numerous long spines ; each tarsus terminated with four claws, 

 those of the posterior pair with sustentacula ; relative length of 

 legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 ; those of the first pair the longest, the second and 

 fourth pairs of equal length, the third pair much tlie shortest. 



Paljn moderately long, similar in colour and armature to the 

 legs. 



Falces strong, pale, yellow, furnished with a few long black 

 bristles and armed with teeth along the margins of the furrow 

 of each falx ; fangs pale yellow also, but deepening to reddish- 

 brown at the points. 



Maxilloi somewhat club-shaped, pale yellow, inclining inwards 

 towards labium, furnished with a few rather long yellowish 

 bristles. 



Lahium also pale yellow, short, broad, rounded off at a^iex, 

 where it is fringed with coarse black hairs or bristles. 

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