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Abdomen ovifonn ; stoue-colour, spotted with black-browu ; 

 thickly clothed Avith white and yellowish hairs, representing, 

 with dark spots, a well-defined tabby pattern ; ventral region 

 light-brown, hairs white, thick. Corpus vnlvce, posterior part 

 fuscous, lighter tone in front ; represeiits a large transverse 

 oval orifice, dark lateral margins connected on superior side 

 by a fulvous, brown-bordered, membranous costa ; within ori- 

 fice is a semicircular fulvous lobe, convexity directed towards 

 and connected by a moderately prominent ridge with inferior 

 margin. 



Mr. T. Kirk, F.L.S., to whom I am indebted for the speci- 

 mens, says that these little spiders are hardly visible when at 

 rest on the sand amonggt small stones. 



Fam. CTENID^. 

 Gen. Cycloctexus, Koch. 

 Cycloctenus pulcher, sp. nov. 



Fcmina. — Ceph.-th., long, 4-5; broad, 4. Abd., long, 6 ; 

 broad, 4. Legs, of equal length, lo'O mm. 



.Ceplialothorax brownish - yellow, approximating to drab 

 about margins, ocular area and markings fuscous ; two streaks 

 on either side of cephalic region ; thoracic radii lighter tone, 

 somew^hat confluent, Hmited by the submarginal band ; 

 wedge-shaped contiguous figures round border-hem ; hairs 

 yellowish, short, sparse ; ceplialothorax slightly longer than 

 tibial joint ; pars cephalica depressedly convex, sides abrupt, 

 roundly truncated, breadth equal to one-half of thorax ; cly- 

 pieus scarcely equals space dividing fore-central eyes ; pars 

 thoracica somewiiat dome-shaped, rises very perceptibly above 

 plane of occiput ; thoracic groove reddish, longituchnal ; strias 

 somewhat shallow ; contour of profile rises from the stalk at 

 an angle of 45^, rounded above thorax, slopes slightly across 

 caput to second row of eyes, dips abruptly to margin of clypeus. 



Eyes light-brown, except small laterals, which have a 

 pearl-grey lustre ; first row straight, eyes about one-half size 

 of centrals of second line, rather more clistant from latter pair 

 than they are fi'om each other, an interval about equal to 

 their diameter ; second row perceptibly procurved ; median 

 pair slightly elevated, an eye's breadth apart, rather less than 

 their radius from laterals, which have a broad- oval form, 

 much the smallest of eight, posited at base of tubercles, little 

 more distant from posterior eyes than they are from centrals 

 of their own row ; hind-pair of eyes do not differ perceptibly 

 in size from median pair of second line, seated obliquely — 

 directed somewhat backwards — on well-developed tubercular 

 eminences, separated by an interval surpassing space between 

 centre pair of next row by one-tliird. 



