228 Prof. T. Thorell on some 
Fam. Theridioide. 
2. Theridium rufipes, Lue. 
1842*. Ther idion rr ifipes, Luc. Explor, de Algérie, Arachn, p. 268, 
pl. xvi. figs. 5-5 d. 
One adult male. 
Tribus OrBITELARI2. 
Fam. Euetrioide. 
3. Argyroepera pusilla (Thor.}. 
1878. Meta pus sila, 'Thor., Studi sui Ragni Ma-esi e Papuani, Il. Ragni 
di A mboina, &c., in Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di 
Genova, xiii. p. 97, 
Of this species, which had formerly been found in 
Amboina only, Mr. Oates has captured an adult female in 
Table Island. ‘The area occupied by the four middle eyes 1s 
in this specimen not perceptibly broader behind than in front ; 
in other respects it appears to be exactly similar in form to 
the types of the species. The colour shows but a few slight 
differences. The tarsal joint of the (yellowish) palpi is 
blackish; the middle area of the back of the abdomen has 
behind, instead of three pairs of small silver-coloured spots, 
two longitadinal, neatly parallel, close-set, silver-coloured 
lines ; the sides of the abdomen are blackish, with a long, 
somewhat oblique, and slightly sinuated silver “coloured band, 
united anteriorly with the silvery pattern of the back, and 
they show also a small spot of the same colour, situated more 
below, near the base. The vulva consists, as in the types, of 
a small, pale, almost semicircular fovea, surrounded in front 
and on the sides by a low, backward-curved callus, which is 
black on the sides and pale in the middle. 
The length of the ee ue is 33 millim.; length of cepha- 
iothorax 12, of abdomen 23 millim.; legs, I. 93, IL. 
IIf, 4, IV. nearly 62, pat. +tib. IV. nearly 2 millim. 
73 
(4) 
4, Epetra (Cyclosa) Oatesit, sp. n. 
Cephalothorace in femina fortiter, in mare viv constricto, aut fere toto 
piceo, aut fusco-testaceo et saltem in medio piceo ; sterno plaga albt- 
canti-flava occupato, que interdum, saltem in mare, in lineam anti- 
cam et maculas 5 marginales est divulsa ; pedibus testaceis, plus 
minus dastincte nigricanti-annulatis ; abdemine ante medium dorsi 
* According to Simon, 
