174 Mr. J. Blackwall on new Species of Spiders - 
This beautiful little species was received by me from M. 
Chevrolat’s collection. The locality is unrecorded. 
29. P. flavo-sparsa, n. sp. 
P. elongato-ovalis, punctato-striato, eneo-nigra, maculis flavis notata, 
nitida; capite transverse arcuato, etiamque longitudinaliter foveo- 
lato, punctato, zneo-nigro; thorace lateribus angulisque anticis 
rotundatis, ad discum subtilissime et sparse, ad latera fortiter 
- punctato, eneo-nigro; scutello levi, nigro; elytris subcon- 
vexis, punctato-striatis (punctis distinctis eequaliter ordinatis et 
distantibus), eeneo-nigris, maculis 8 undique instructis,—1™* ad 
scutellum inter strias 1—4., circularis ; 2° ad humerum inter striam 
7. et marginem, oblique ovalis ; 3"* antemedia, inter strias 4—7., cir- 
cularis ; 4", 5 et 6 medize vel paulum postmedie, inter strias 2—5, 
(transversa, irregularis), 5-7. (subcircularis) ; 8° ad marginem 
~(subquadrata), 7° et 8° apicales, inter strias 3-6. et 7-10. (illa 
ad apicem affluens) ; margo quoque flavus: corpore subtus pedi- 
busque nigris ; antennis rufo-fuscis, ad basin rufis. , 
Long. corp. lin. 3; lat. lin. 13. 
The above diagnosis is taken from a single specimen. It is 
possible that the three medial markings may in some cases be 
merged into one irregular transverse band. In pattern the 
species reminds us somewhat of an aberrant P. multifida; it is 
much smaller, however, and the punctures on the elytra are 
coarser and deeper. 
From M. Chevrolat’s collection, from the Cape. 
30. P. vulpina, Fab. Ent. Syst. 1. 821; Syst. El. 1. 437 : 
Oliv. Entom. v. 534. 
The smallest species of the genus, and variable in pattern. 
It would seem to be not uncommon at the Cape. I have re- 
ceived it from M. Deyrolle, from Karoo, Kaffraria. 
It will be seen that I have omitted for the present notices or 
descriptions of five of the species recorded at page 116 of this 
volume : these I hope to refer to on some future occasion.—H. C. 
XVIII.—Notice of Spiders, indigenous to the Salvages, received 
from the Baro do Castello de Paiva. By Joun Buackwatt, 
E.L.S. 
Tue following spiders collected on the Great Salvage, the chief 
of a group of small rocky islands, difficult of access, situated 
between Madeira and the Canary Islands, were transmitted to 
me by T. Vernon Wollaston, Esq., at the request of the Baron 
de Paiva; and, independently of the probability that they are 
