176 Mr. J. Blackwall on new Species of Spiders 
curved claws, toothed at the base, and has hair-like papillz on: 
its inferior surface ; the fourth pair is the longest, then the first, 
and the second pair slightly surpasses the third; the palpi are 
short, supplied with hairs and spines, and have a curved claw at 
their extremity. These parts have a dull brownish-yellow hue, 
the lip and sternum, which are the darkest, being tinged with 
red. The abdomen is oviform, convex above, projecting over the 
base of the cephalothorax, and is thinly clothed with hairs: it is 
of a pale dull brownish-yellow colour ; at the anterior extremity, 
close to its junction with the cephalothorax, there is a transverse, 
curved, dark-coloured mark, thickly covered with long black 
hairs, whose convexity is directed upwards ; a longitudinal soot- 
coloured band, which is bifid at its extremity, and of a dull 
brownish-yellow hue in the medial line of its anterior part, ex- 
tends nearly half the length of the upper part; to this band a 
series of rather obscure, soot-coloured, angular lines succeeds, 
which diminish in extent as they approach the spinners; their 
vertices are directed forwards, and their extremities are con- 
siderably enlarged ; the sides are marked with oblique bands of 
the same hue, the anterior one being much the broadest; and 
there are a few small soot-coloured spots on the under part ; the 
two inferior spinners are rather the longest, and cylindrical, and 
the two intermediate ones, which are biarticulate, have the basal 
joints united throughout their entire length, but the terminal 
joints are free and divergent ; the sexual organs are moderately 
developed, of a dark red-brown colour, and have a short, obtuse, 
pale process connected with their anterior margin. Some indi- 
viduals are paler and less distinctly marked than others, the 
dark-coloured lines being represented by rows of spots. 
Drassus Paivani appears to occur in much larger numbers on 
the Great Salvage than any other spider. There were forty-nine 
females in the collection, either in an adult or immature state ; 
but it is a curious fact that it did not contain a single male. 
I have much pleasure in connecting with this fine Drassus the 
name of that distinguished naturalist, the Baron de Paiva, to 
whose liberality I am indebted for the interesting particulars 
comprised in this communication, relative to the spiders found 
to inhabit the Salvages. 
Drassus Bewicki, n. sp. 
Length of the female (not including the spinners) 55,ths of an 
inch; length of the cephalothorax +; breadth }; breadth of the 
abdomen 4; length of a posterior leg ,; length of a leg of the 
third pair 3. 
This spider bears so close a resemblance to Drassus Pawvani 
in the relative size and disposition of its eyes, in its colours and 
