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testaceous ; male palpus with a clavus resembling the head of 

 a vulture, covered with long bristles ; falces subcylindrical, 

 testaceous, about nine teeth on their inner margins ; pectoral 

 plate pentagonal scutiform, testaceous. Length of body 6 

 millims. ; relative length of legs 1, 2, 4, 3. 

 (Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Genus Tetragnatha. 

 Tetragnatha Nero, n, sp. 



^ $ . Ceplialothorax fusiform, truncate at each end, nar- 

 rowed in front, with a slender marginal ridge ; caput ascending, 

 bounded behind by one or two depressed diverging lines, and 

 with a central depressed spot ; centre of thoracic region de- 

 pressed ; eyes black ; palpi long and slender, of the male with 

 a globose clavus with white cap, and held by finger-like pro- 

 cesses ; falces with ten central teeth on each inner margin, and 

 two terminal teeth, the longer one of which projects forwards on 

 each side of the movable fang, the latter black ; but the re- 

 mainder of the ceplialothorax and its members tawny ; the 

 palpi, coxge, and trochanters pale ; pectoral plate deep casta- 

 neous ; abdomen pale brown, irrorated with feneous, subcylin- 

 drical, a darker dorsal line. Length of body, ^ 8 millims., 

 ? 12 ; relative length of legs 1, 4, 2, 3. 

 (Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Genus Nephila. 

 Nephila instigans, n. sp. 



$ . Cephalothorax oblong, wider behind than before, laterally 

 convex, contracted behind the caput, dull mahogany-red, but 

 the back of thoracic region shining black, with a deep central 

 depression ; caput ascending, covered with black bristles, which 

 also form a central longitudinal line ; legs bright ochre-yellow, 

 sprinkled with black spines; the tarsi and metatarsi castaneous, 

 clothed with brown hair ; proximal extremities of the femora 

 blackish ; basal half of palpi yellow, nearly smooth, apical 

 half castaneous, clothed with black bristles ; falces dark reddish 

 castaneous, with three teeth on each inner margin ; pectoral 

 shield heptagonal subpyriform, black, with central orange 

 longitudinal streak ; abdomen sandy brown, with a quadrangle 

 of four punctures ; region of epigyne blackish. Length 19 

 millims. ; relative length of legs 1, 2, 4, 3. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



This species does not possess the usual tufted legs. 



