Mr. J. Blackwall on new species of Madeiran Spiders. 257 



Specimens of this Clubiona were taken among plants growing 

 in a garden 200 feet above the level of the sea. 



Clubiona virgulata. 



Length of the female A ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax T \ ; breadth -^ ; breadth of the abdomen T ^ ; length of 

 a posterior leg fo ; length of a leg of the third pair £. 



The eyes, which are nearly equal in size, are disposed on the 

 anterior part of the cephalothorax in two nearly straight trans- 

 verse rows, the anterior row, which is the shorter, being situated 

 immediately above the frontal margin ; the intermediate eyes of 

 both rows almost form a square, the anterior side being slightly 

 the shortest, and the lateral eyes are rather the largest of the 

 eight. The cephalothorax is convex, glossy, compressed before, 

 and rounded on the sides, which are marked with furrows con- 

 verging towards a slight narrow indentation in the medial line : 

 the falces are conical, rather prominent, and armed with a few 

 teeth on the inner surface : the maxilla? are straight, convex near 

 the base, and somewhat enlarged and rounded at the extremity : 

 the lip is nearly quadrate, the base being rather broader than 

 the apex : the sternum is heart-shaped, with small eminences on 

 the sides, opposite to the legs ; the legs are long, provided with 

 hairs and fine sessile spines, and each tarsus is terminated by 

 two curved, pectinated claws. These parts, with the palpi, are 

 of a yellow-brown colour, the lateral margins of the cephalo- 

 thorax having a yellowish-white, and the space between the two 

 rows of eyes a brown hue. The abdomen is of an oblong ovi- 

 form figure, moderately convex above, and projects a little over 

 the base of the cephalothorax ; it is clothed with short hairs, 

 and of a pale yellow-brown colour ; a dark-brown band, which 

 is palest in the medial line, extends from the anterior extremity 

 of the upper part, along the middle, more than one-third of its 

 length ; this band tapers to its posterior extremity, on each side 

 of which there is an oblong spot of the same hue ; to these suc- 

 ceed three oblique dark-brown bars situated on each side of the 

 medial line, whose enlarged outer extremities coalesce ; and 

 between these bars and the spinners there is a longitudinal row 

 of minute contiguous spots of the same colour; the sexual 

 organs are well developed, with a longitudinal septum in the 

 middle, and have a dai'k red-brown hue. 



Specimens of this species were discovered under stones near 

 Funchal. 



Genus Clotho, Walck. 



Clotho lepida. 



Length of the female T x ? th of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

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