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bling our Yellow-bunting of England), besides which vast numbers 

 of Caprimulgi (C. psaliirus, Azara) and ground-doves lay their eggs 

 ou the bare ground. I believe this species of Mygale feeds on these 

 animals and their eggs at night. Just at close of day, when I have 

 been hurrying home, uot liking to be benighted on the pathless 

 waste, I have surprised these monsters, who retreated \Tithia the 

 mouths of their burrows on my approach." 



Mygale Emilia. (PI. XLIII.) 



M. nigro-fusca, cephalothorace, duobusąue articulis singulorum 

 pedum IcEte flavescenti-rubris. 



Deep blackish-brown ; the basai joint of cheUcera with some scat- 

 tered red hairs in frout ; the cephalothorax of a rich yellowish-red, 

 the hairs short, close and velvet-like ; the fourth and fifth joints of 

 the legs clothed with yellowish-red hairs, the end of the fifth joint 

 with many brown hairs ; fourth joint of the first pair of legs, with 

 the curiously hooked process near the end, also eovered with red 

 hairs, the under side of the fifth and sixth joints and the tarsi 

 clothed with a close, dense, velvet pad. Body brown, with longish, 

 scattered red hairs, which are deeper in hue than on the other 

 parts. 



Nomine Emiliae dilectae filiae Henrici Verney, Eąuitis Baronetti 

 de Cleydon, in comitatu de Buckingham, araneara hanc spectabilem, 

 in America Centrali a Bertholdo Seemann, Botanico celeberrimo, 

 detectam in expeditione recenti, sub Henrico Kellett, Navarcho, in- 

 signire vult descriptor. 



The figure, which is of the natūrai size, was drawn by Miss Spooner 

 of Kentish Town. 



July 8, 1856. 

 Dr. Gray, F.R.S., in the Chair. 

 The following papers were read : — 

 1. On THE Land AND Freshwater Shells of Kashmir and 



TiBET, COLLECTED BY Dr. T. ThOMSON. 



By s. p. Woodward, F.G.S. 



These shells, which I received through Dr. J. D. Hooker and Sir 

 Charles Lyell, were collected by Dr. Thomson in 1847-8, when he 

 accompauied Major Ounningham and Capt. H. Strachey in "one of 

 the most adventurous journeys ever made in the Himalaya*." 



The shells of coutiuental ludia are nearly all distinct frora those 



* \Vestern Himalaya and Tibet ; a Jouniey through the Mountains of Northern 

 ludia. By Dr. Thomas Thomson. 8vo, London, 1852. 



