On some new South-African Spiders. 55 



deep olive-brown, the lower third of the discoidal cell of 

 primaries sparsely irrorated with sulphur-yellow scales, the 

 cell surrounded by a series of longitudinal tapering rays, 

 sulphur-yellow irrorated with brown, the pointed extremities 

 of the first six of these rays being cut off by a stripe of the 

 ground-colour from apical fourth of costa to external angle : 

 secondaries sulphur-yellow, irrorated with brown, but with 

 the nervures and a broad external border which emits pyra- 

 midal spurs along the nervures deep olive-brown ; three 

 elongated clear yellow spots terminating the second to fourth 

 internervular streaks : under surface similar to C. ctemene £ , 

 but the yellow patch on the primaries broken up into narrow 

 streaks by the broad brown borders to the nervures. 



Expanse of wings 67 millim. 



Pucartambo, Peru (Whitely). 



Catasticta straminea, sp. n. 



Allied to C. eurigania from Ecuador, but the upper surface 

 deep buff or straw-yellow, with all the veins black ; three 

 elongated spots placed obliquely on the black apical area, the 

 middle one large, the others small : secondaries with the 

 outer border broadly black, with a deep sinus in the radial 

 interspace. 



Expanse of wings 47 millim. 



Hub. ? 



Two specimens of this species stood in Hewitson's collec- 

 tion with two of his C. eurigania from Ecuador and two of 

 C. notha from Bolivia, the label " eurigania " standing below 

 the three species. Unfortunately Hewitson neglected to label 

 the present species with its locality. 



VIII. — Descriptions of some new South-African Spiders of the 

 Family Heteropodidse. By R. I. Pocock, of the British 

 Museum of Natural History. 



[Plate VIII.] 

 Selenops Spencert, sp. n. (PI. VIII. figs. 8, 8 a.) 



? . Colour yellowish brown ; carapace partially clothed with 

 white hairs, which, contrasting with the yellow of the integu- 

 ment, gives it a mottled appearance, a fine dark line on its 

 lateral edges, and the region of the eyes deeply pigmented 

 with black. Abdomen thickly mottled above with fine brown 

 and white spots; clothed with whitish hairs below. Sternum, 



