54 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on new Sj^ecies of Araneidea. 



the two middle eyes are slightly the largest of the eight, and 

 nearer to each other than each is to the lateral one on its side : 

 above the central row, and further removed from it than from 

 the lower one, is the third row of two eyes, near together and 

 smallest of the eight ; height of clypeus rather greater than 

 the space between the lower and third rows of eyes. 



Legs not very long, strong, tapering, furnished with hairs, 

 and a few spines on those of the two hinder pairs. Relative 

 length 1, 4, 2, 3, but very little difference between 1 and 4; 

 femora of first pair stronger than those of the rest. Colour 

 brightish orange-brown ; femora, outer sides of genua, and 

 undersides of tibiaj striped and suffused with deep chestnut- 

 brown ; tarsi end witli three claws, the two upper ones curved 

 and pectinate, the under one simple, small, and inconspicuous. 



Palpi short, strong, furnished with hairs ; colour yellowish, 

 humeral joints chestnut-coloured. 



Falces strong, conical, inclined backwards towards sternum, 

 about equal in length to height of facial space, rather paler in 

 colour than cephalothorax ; fang small. 



MaxillcB rather strong, straight, oblong, rounded at extremi- 

 ties on outer sides, inclined to labium. 



Labium about one-third shorter than the maxillae, much 

 broader at base than at apex, which is round-pointed : these 

 parts are paler in colour than the falces. 



Sternum somewhat heart-shaped, but little longer than 

 broad, smooth, shining, furnished with hairs, and of a dark 

 chestnut-brown colour. 



Abdomen oval, very convex above, but very sparingly fur- 

 nished with hairs, nearly black, marked and variegated both 

 above and below with pale-yellow and whitish markings ; 

 these form a concurrent double longitudinal series of broken 

 chevrons in the medial line of the upper side ; the markings 

 on the sides are irregular, but they concentrate into a largish 

 bright-yellowish-white patch on either side near the fore ex- 

 tremity 5 on the underside the yellow markings form two 

 broadish longitudinal converging lines, which reach halfway 

 towards the spinners ; between these and the extremities of the 

 lines are three roundish pale-yellow spots in a triangle whose 

 apex is directed backwards. Spinners yellowish brown, short, 

 and not very strong ; those of inferior pair strongest. 



A single specimen in a small collection of spiders received 

 from the Swan River, New South Wales. 



titofena scintillana^ n. sp. 



9 . A(hih. Lcngtli a lines, 

 'i'liis species is very siinilar in form and lictieral nppeaniiiee 



