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net having made a better use of the time and opportunities, denied to my 
late friend, which his acuteness would not have failed to improve to the 
utmost. 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Your obedient Servant, 
R. T. Lowe. 
Funchal, Madeira, 
Feb. 16th, 1831. 
Class. ARACHNIDA. 
Ord. |PULMONARIA. 
Fam. ARANEID. 
Trib. INEQUITELA, Latr. 
Gen. Scytopes, Latr. 
Scytodes velutina, Hein, et nob. 
Scyt. velutina; tota sepiolina, immaculata: thorace magno, suborbicu- 
lato; posticé rotundato, elevato; anticé obsoleté sulcato: abdomine sub- 
globoso. Longit. 24, lin. 
Hab. in domibus Madere: Scytode thoracied ipsa rara mult6 rarior. 
Mare nondum capto, foeminam tantim vidi. Pred (Lepismatibus, 
Tineis, fermé) more Scyt.thoracice telam jacit. Species a Scyl. thoracicd 
omnino distinctissima. 
Trib. LATERIGRADA, Latr. 
Gen. LoxoscE Es, [ein. et nob. 
Char. gen. 
Oculi sex, equales, per paria dispositi, parvi, segmentum circulare vel 
lunatum, arcu antico, (sc. anticé convexo), delineantes: lateralibus haud 
tuberculo impositis. Masille labiumque ut in Seytode (thoracica). 
Mandibule robuste, wngue valido (ut in plerisque Araneidis). Pedes 
secundi, deinde primi et quarti «quales, longiores; tertii ceteris 
breviores. 
Oss.—Thorax depressus. Citissimé currit. Quietus pedes omnes 
obliqué in libell4 horizontali extendit, Telam pred nec jacit, nec 
ullam nisi fila quedam struit. In praedam furtim obrepit, haud insiliens. 
Affinitas cum Philodromis, Walck., summa; sed oculis tantdm sex, 
