146 Tmiisactioiis. — Zooloijy. 



Abdomen oviform ; dorsal area light stone-colour, flecks 

 rather large, lobate, creamy-white ; somewhat ill-defined black 

 lanceolate figm-e on fore-part, haft extends midway to spinners ; 

 black spot on either side near base of lance-head ; lateral 

 borders display two broad bands, superior band greenish-black, 

 inferior stone-colour ; ventral surface brown ; corpus vulvce 

 pale-brown, mottled with greenish-black; transverse oval area, 

 projects over the rima genitahs, indented by two yellowish 

 fovese ; lateral margins sliortly involute, red-tipped ; centrally 

 produced into a yellowish, moderately broad and long, emar- 

 ginate, upcurved scapus. 



Stratford, A. T. U. 



Linyphia pellos, sp. nov. Plate XXI., tig. 10. 



ilffls.— Ceph.-th., long, 2-5; wide, 1-8. Abd., long, 2-9; 

 wide, 1-8. Legs, 1, 2-4, 3 = 9-8, 7-5, 6-8 mm. 



Ceplialothorax creamy stone-colour, base of caput displays 

 oval patches of a gamboge hue, with rather faint blackish 

 margins on outer side, prolonged forwards into angular marks; 

 narrow streak intersects hind-central eyes ; darkish line ex- 

 tends backwards from each lateral eye ; red thoracic indenta- 

 tion, enclosed by a broad, gamboge-coloured patch ; radial 

 striaB and marginal zone faintly defined by blackish streaks : 

 two spots of a similar shade occur on each side on fore-half ; 

 almost glabrous ; oval ; pars cephalica large, nearly squarely 

 truncated ; lateral index less than facial ; convex, sides abrupt ; 

 pars thoracica convex, normal grooves slight ; medial indenta- 

 tion longitudinal ; profile-line rises from thoracic junction at 

 an angle of 60°, runs nearly horizontally to base of caput, 

 from thence slightly arched ; clypcus vertical, depth about 

 equal to space occupied by anterior central eyes. 



Posterior row of eyes rather strongly procurved, of fair and 

 nearly equal size ; central pair on dark-brown oval spots, rather 

 the largest, and placed somewhat closer together ; anterior row 

 slightly recurved, of about equal size, less than two-thirds 

 smaller than hind-centrals ; median pair on dark rings, sepa- 

 rated by an interval exceeding their diameter, scarcely one- 

 fourth more than that space from side-eyes ; laterals divided 

 by an interval surpassing breadth of a fore-eye, posited on 

 separate low, brown, tubercular eminences, posterior strongest. 



Fakes mahogany-brown; transversely rugulose ; conical, 

 vertical, perceptibly exceed humeral joint of palpus in length ; 

 rather stouter than a femoral joint ; coarse black hairs. 



MaxiUce linear, rounded, perceptibly truncated on su- 

 perior side; slightly inclined towards labium, which is oval, 

 apex emarginate ; rather narrow, one-half length of maxillae ; 

 organs yellowish-brown, clouded with a deeper shade. 



