from the South-east Reyion of Equatorial Africa. 459 
it is of a dull-brown colour, the sides and under part being the 
palest, and has two irregular yellowish-white spots on each side 
of its posterior half, and three others of the same hue disposed 
in a longitudinal row above the spinners: the sexual organs are 
well developed, rather prominent, and of a dark reddish-brown 
colour, that of the spinners being pale brown. 
The only specimen of this species comprised in the collection 
was an adult female. 
Genus Puotcus, Walck. 
Pholcus pallidus. 
Pholcus pallidus, Blackw. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. i. p. 433, 
and vol. vu. p. 444. 
A single female of this species was included in the collection. 
Both sexes of Pholcus pallidus have been received from Pernam- 
buco. 
Genus Artema, Walck. 
Artema convexa. 
Artema convexa, Blackw., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. ii. p. 332. 
Length of the female 2 of an inch; length of the cephalo- 
thorax %, breadth $; breadth of the abdomen ?; length of an 
anterior leg 2,5, ; length of a leg of the third pair 1,7. 
The sexes are similar in colour; but the male, though the 
smaller, has longer legs, an anterior one measuring 2,7, inches, 
The falces are short and irregular in figure, being hollowed on 
the inner side, and having a strongly arched, tuberculated, dark- 
brown ridge in front, which terminates in a point; below the 
ridge they are of a brownish-red hue, and their extremity is 
armed with a short, slightly curved fang, and a single, pointed 
tooth on the inner surface. The palpi are glossy, very robust, 
and their prevailing colour is brownish-yellow, the axillary joint, 
the base and extremity of the humeral joint, the remarkably 
short cubital joint, the inferior surface and extremity of the 
radial joint, and the entire digital jomt having a dark-brown 
hue tinged with red; the axillary jomt is short, and produced 
at its extremity, on the under side; the humeral joint 1s greatly 
dilated, convex on the upper side, with a pointed protuberance 
at its base, on the outer side; the radial joint is nearly hemi- 
spherical; and the digital joint is small, with a large apophysis 
on its outer side of a dark-brown colour tinged with red; this 
apophysis has a prominent process near its base, on the upper 
side, and its broad, somewhat depressed extremity is irregular in 
form; the palpal organs, which are connected with the inferior 
surface of the digital joint, are subglobose, glossy, of a brownish- 
yellow hue, and project from their outer side a large curved 
