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 bj 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. 



Hah. ? 



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

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

 C. notJia 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 K,. I. PocoCK, of the British 

 Museum of Natural History. 



[Plate VIII.] 



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



? . Colour yellowish brown ; carapace partially clothed with 

 white hairs, which, contrasting with the yellow of the inteo-u- 

 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 



