108 TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS. 



The nest and spider drawn at figs. A and A 3 of 

 PlateXII. were first discovered by the Honourable Mrs. 

 Eichard Bo^de at Mentone, onMarcli 26th, 1872, and 

 the following is the description of the species kindly- 

 prepared by Mr. Pickard-Cambridge : — 



Nemesia Eleanora, sp. nov, Plate XII. 

 Female adult, length 11 to 12 lines. 



This spider, which has (like iV". meridionalis) probably been 

 confused with its near ally N. cce7nentaria, is yet easily distin- 

 guished from both by its deeper and richer colouring, as well as 

 by other characters. 



The Abdomen has a far more spotted appearance ; in some ex- 

 amples a similar series of dark, broken, slightly angular bars is 

 indistinctly visible on the hinder half of the upper side ; in others 

 (the more common type) the darker colouring preponderates, and 

 some transverse, broken, slightly angular, or nearly curved bars or 

 lines of pale spots constitute the pattern ; the lateral margins of 

 the thorax are not so distinctly yellow as in N. meridionalis, and 

 there is a single longitudinal strij^e on the caput, of a dull orange- 

 yellow brown, commencing directly behind the eyes and tapering 

 to the thoracic junction ; the depression or pit at this jDoint is more 

 strongly marked than in either of the two foregoing species ; the 

 ocular area is also smaller, and its transverse diameter is less in 

 proportion to its width ; the bristles on the margin of the clyjieus, 

 as also those within the ocular area and in the central longitudinal 

 line of the caput, are similarly disposed to those in N. meridionalis, 

 but are more numerous; in some details, however, of form and 

 structiu-e — viz., the Labium and Sternum — the present species is 

 more nearly allied to N . meridionalis than to N. ccementaria. The 

 Legs seemed to be rather longer and stronger than in either ; the 

 tarsi and metatarsi of the two first pairs, as well as the digital 

 joints of the palpi, are rather densely clothed a little underneath 

 on their outer sides with a kind of fringe or pad of close- set hairs; 

 in other respects the armature of the legs appeared to be similar 

 to that of the other two species, except that in the present one 

 there are three short strong red-broivn spines in a longitudinal roiu 

 on the outer sides of the genual joints of the third pair ; these spines 

 were plainly visible in all the examples found, but did not exist in 

 any one of those of the two former species. The armature of the 



