152 Tran.s(iclio7is. — Zoology. 



Erycina violacea, sp. nov. Plate XXT., figs, i, li, 17. 



J/rts.— Ceph.-th., long, I'l. Abd.. long, 1-7. Legs, 1, 1. 

 4,3 = 6-9, 4-5, 4-2, 2-8 mm. 



Ccphcdothurax pale yellowish-sienna ; median band broad, 

 olive-black, bifurcated on caput, limited by the hind-centre 

 and lateral eyes ; marginal zone ratlier \vide, deeper shade ; 

 almost glabrous ; clathrate ; oval, lateral compression at 

 caput slight ; pars cephalica roundly truncated, convex, sides 

 somewhat abrupt ; clypeus perceptibly inclined towards falces, 

 depth visibly exceeds space between fore-centre eyes ; pars 

 thoracica convex, indentation somewhat large and oval ; caput 

 and radial striae faint ; profile-line represents a slight curve 

 across fore-end of caput, rises over a moderately prominent, 

 rounded hump, from thence dips to thoracic junction at an 

 angle of 60'. 



Posterior median and lateral cyc& of about equal size ; 

 hind-row moderately recurved, centrals seated on fair-sized 

 tubercles, black oval spots ; rather closer to side-eyes than 

 they are to each other, an interval scarcely equal to an eye's 

 breadth and a half, separated by about twice that distance 

 from fore-centrals ; anterior row more distinctly recurved ; 

 median pair rather smallest of eight, posited obliquely on a 

 somewhat low elevation, their diameter and a half apart, less 

 than that interval fron) side-eyes ; laterals placed obliquely 

 on cup-shaped tubercular prominences, space bet^veen them— 

 which surpasses that dividing posterior centrals— rather ex- 

 ceeds the interval separating a fore-lateral eye from the hind- 

 central nearest to it. 



Falces light raw -sienna, slightly clouded; transversely 

 rugulose ; stouter than thighs of first pair of legs, somewhat 

 linear, about twnce as long as broad. 



MaxillcB yellowish, green tinge, lightly clouded ; length 

 somewhat surpasses breadth, etdarged forwards, obtusely 

 pointed, rather wide apart. 



Lahiiaii fuscous ; broader than long, mai'gin very tumid, 

 everted. 



Sternuvt- yellowish-brown, passing into brown about mar- 

 gins ; broad-cordate, slight eminences opposite coxal joints. 



Legs paler shade than cephalothorax, faint greenish annu- 

 lations at apices of joints ; hairs somewhat sparse ; spines 

 bristle-like, 3 or 4 on femoral + tibial joints ; 1 on patellae. 



Palpi and legs concolorous ; humeral joint somewhat in- 

 crassated forwards, rather exceeds in length cubital + radial 

 joints together ; pars cubitalis convex, perceptibly dilated in 

 front ; radial joint cup-shaped, slightly surpasses former 

 article in length ; pars digitalis large, lamina placed some- 

 what beneath bnllx fulvous, suffused with reddish-brown; hairs 



