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yellowish, a narrow scarcely visible basal black band, a broad sub- 

 basal band, a still broader, middle band, and two small spots each 

 side near tip, black; spinnerets black; venter pale. Posterior eye- 

 row distinctly recurved; the P. M. E. round, fully their diameter 

 apart, and as far from the equal P. S. E., anterior eye-i"ow procurved, 

 some distance in front of the posterior row, the quadrangle of M. E. 

 being nearly twice as long as broad ; A. M. E. larger than P. M. E., 

 less than their diameter apart, and about one-half their diameter from 

 the smaller A. S. E. Metatarsi and tarsi I and II with scant scopulas ; 

 three pairs of spines under metatarsus I and II ; sternum truncate in 

 front, scarcely wider in middle, blunt behind ; abdomen depressed, 

 the male with a basal reddish horny plate extending nearly to middle 

 band. 



One male from Narboro in January. Taken from Termite excava- 

 tions in a piece of dried wood washed ashore near the northeast point 

 of the island. 



Family CLUBIONID^. 



AYSHA PACIFICA sp-. nov. 

 (PI. I, fig. II.) 



Length $ 4.5 mm. ; 9 5.5 mm. 



Cephalothorax pale yellowish brown ; the dorsal groove and an ir- 

 regular stripe each side not reaching hind margin, brown; eyes on 

 black spots; mandibles dark red-brown; legs pale yellowish, hind 

 tibiae distinctly banded with blackish near tip ; abdomen pale, marked 

 with blackish, a large elongate spot each side near base, followed 

 by a series of small and irregular spots, blackish (in the male these 

 marks nearly cover the dorsum) ; venter and sternum pale (in male 

 with three median spots on venter). P. M. E. rather larger than 

 other eyes, A. M. E. fully equal to A. S. E. ; clypeus very low; 

 mandibles stout, but nearly vertical ; legs of moderate length ; fold of 

 venter much nearer to base than to tip. Palpus of male small. 



Two specimens from Albemarle in January, and one from Chatham 



in May. 



Family AGALENID^. 



TEGENARIA DERHAMI Scopoli. 

 ScoPOLi, Entom. Carniolica, p. 400 (1763). 



One specimen from water cask (filled in Tagus Cove, Albemarle 

 Island) on schooner, in February. A cosmopolitan species ; the 

 specimen may have come from San Francisco, and not now belong to 

 the Galapagos fauna. 



