148 TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS. 



Of this description the following is, I hope, a tolerably 

 correct translation : — ■ 



Nemesia Manderstjemrp^ L. Koch. 



$ Passing over the precise description of this pretty species 

 by its author, Herr Dr. L. Koch, let us note here some of the 

 essential characters which distinguish this species from its 

 relations. Cephalothorax fairly (schuu) rounded, with small, 

 moderately prominent head. Eye eminence (Augenhiigel) 

 prominent, steeply inclined in front and behind. The front 

 and rear row of eyes form two nearly parallel curves with the 

 concavity in front. The foremost central eyes stand so high 

 that a line (eine Gerade) drawn from their base to the lateral 

 eyes would pass just above them, although they are not 

 separated from the lateral eyes by a distance greater than 

 that of their own radius. Eyes of front row almost twice as 

 large as those of hind row. Teeth of rake (Rechens) long and 

 sharp. Palpi moderately long, the last and penultimate 

 joint armed as in N. cellicola* Bulb pear-shaped, with a 

 rather shorter, more slender point. All the tarsi of the legs, 

 and even the metatarsi I and II, with a slender scopula, 

 although the tarsi are unarmed. Tibia I enlarged into a 

 wedge-shape, (having) beneath the apex a stout pointed tooth 

 bent upwards and inwards, in front of which (is) a truncated 

 prominence (ein oben gerade abgestutzter Hocker). Femur 

 (Schenkel) (having) dusky longitudinal stripes above within. — 

 Cephalothorax 6-5''''^. 

 Nice. 



G. 



Od Nemesia meridionalis and N. Eleanora, Capiive 

 in Company with their Young. 



I have tried the experiment of keeping specimens of 

 Nemesia inieridionalis and N. Eleanora captive iu flower- 



* Description of palpi of N. cellicola : — Palpi, short, strong. Femoral joint 

 furnislied with spines above; iienultimate joint armed with four stout rather 

 short spines above the apex, the terminal joint also having some very small 

 spines. Bull) shortly pear-slia])ed, running out into a fine, moderately long 

 point, which is slender as a thread, and not split in front. 



