2 g NEW AND RARE KRlTIStt SPIDERS. 



Gen. SINTULA, Sim. 



Sin/u/a prominent, sp. n. 



Adult female, length rds of a line (i-i8th of an inch). 



Cephalothorax, broad-oval, narrow, and rounded in front, 

 lateral marginal impressions at caput distinct but gradual ; lower 

 margin of clypeus considerably produced, and much impressed 

 beneath the ocular area. Caput a little elevated and prominent 

 in front, with a strongish dip in profile behind the occiput ; the 

 beginning of the hinder slope is also rather prominent in profile. 

 Colour, yellow-brown with a broadish black margin. The sides 

 also marked and suffused with blackish, indicating the normal 

 converging grooves. 



Eyes, rather large, sub-equal, in two very nearly equal transverse 

 and equally curved rows ; anterior row slightly the shortest. 

 The convexity of the curve of the anterior row is directed 

 forwards, that of the posterior row backwards. Those of this 

 row are about equal in size, and are equally separated by little, 

 if anything, more than half a diameter's interval. Those of 

 the anterior row are separated also by equal intervals of less 

 than the diameter of the four centrals. The fore-centrals 

 form a quadrangle much longer than broad, and narrowest 

 in front. 



Legs, tolerably long, and moderately strong, 4, i, 2, 3, 

 furnished with fine hairs, and a slender bristle on the genuae, 

 and another towards the hinder end of the upper side of the 

 tibiae. Colour pale-yellow, tinged with yellow-brown on the 

 femora, tarsi of the 4th pair distinctly but not greatly shorter 

 than the meta-tarsi. 



Fakes, not very strong, a little divergent at their extremity. 

 Colour, dull greenish olive-brown. 



Maxilla and labium, normal. Colour like the falces. 



Sternum, normal in form, dark blackish brown. 



Abdomen, oval, black, clothed with short coarsish hairs. 

 Genital aperture of characteristic form, placed at the extremity 

 of a very large, perpendicularly prominent obtuse process. 



Found among heather on Bloxworth Heath. 



