58 OK NEW AK T b RARE hRltlSH ARACHNIDA. 



from Mr. Newbery, found among the contents of a returned 

 package to London from India, and so may possibly be exotic. 



Agroeea ehrysea, C. L. Koch. 



Immature female, length ij lines. 



In general form, markings, and appearance this spider is 

 much like some other nearly allied species, but its colouring is 

 brighter, the abdomen being of a bright red-brown hue, clothed 

 with short hairs, reflecting in a bright light strongish iridescent 

 hues. The normal pattern is obscure, but some yellowish spots 

 forming a somewhat quadrangular figure are more distinct near 

 the middle of the upper side. The cephalothorax has an 

 indistinct lateral sub-marginal border rather paler than the 

 rest, but no longitudinal central stripe, or band. 



The legs are without annuli and of a pale yellowish-brown 

 hue. The tibiae of the first and second pairs are suffused with 

 reddish-brown, and apparently covered with minute, pale, hair- 

 bearing tubercles. Beneath the tibiae are two pairs, and beneath 

 the metatarsi three pairs of long adpressed spines. 



Although not adult, I feel very little doubt about this spider 

 being A. ehrysea, C. L. Koch, as it agrees very closely with 

 Continental examples in my possession. It was sent to me in 

 1904 from St. Leonard's-on-Sea by Mr. Ruskin Butterfield, and 

 has not been hitherto recorded as a British species. 



THERIDIIDJE. 

 Laseola dissimilis, sp. n. PI. A, Figs. 6, 7, 8. 



Adult male, length just over i line. 



The profile of the cephalothorax forms an even and very 

 slightly curved line from the hinder extremity to the ocular area, 

 which curves over more sharply to the clypeus. This is very 

 high and much impressed at the upper side, but prominent and 

 with a curved outline below. The colour of the cephalothorax 



