Rev. 0. P. Cambridge on new Species of Araneidea. 65 



these latter are small, and of a blunt conical form ; the central 

 one is large, projects backwards, and is enlarged at its extre- 

 mity, which has a small subconical elevation at each fore 

 corner and a slightly raised longitudinal ridge down its centre : 

 upperside of the whole abdomen furnished thinly with small, 

 circular, shining, red-brown tubercles ; colom- of upperside 

 reddish brown, darkest down the middle, and nearly black 

 between the two conical projections on either side ; underside 

 paler, and with a broad yellowish band down its centre. 



An adult $ of this spider is in the Hope Collection, Oxford, 

 labelled " Amazons ; Bates, 1861." It presents a remarkable 

 difference in general appearance from the four Australian spe- 

 cies above described ; and it is only after great hesitation that 

 I have provisionally included it in the same genus : the dis- 

 position and relative size of the eyes, and (as far as they could 

 be observed) the structure of the maxillae and labium, seemed 

 to designate a generic affinity with those species ; and possibly 

 the difference in general appearance may be some day bridged 

 over by the discovery of intermediate forms. The specimen 

 being dry, its colours can hardly be depended upon. 



Genus ASEMONEA (Camb. MS.). 



Lijssomanes (Hentz), Boston .Tourn. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 198, pi, 17, fig. 3, 



Lyssomanes tenuipes^ n. sp. 



(J . Adult. Length 2 lines. 



Cephcdotliorax oval, depressed, and sloping back from caput, 

 immediately behind which is a slight dip or depression ; caput 

 slightly raised and produced forwards, forming a platform 

 occupied by the eyes, from among which a few coarse hairs 

 project : colour black-brown. 



Eyes eight, in four transverse lines on front and summit of 

 caput — two in each line ; those of first line very large, con- 

 tiguous, and occupying the whole breadth of the fore part of 

 caput ; those of second line very much smaller, a little on the 

 outside of, and about their own diameter distant behind, those 

 of first line ; those of third and fom-fh lines small, and forming 

 a square close behind the second line ; the length of these lines 

 little more than half that of the second : the eyes of the third 

 line are the smallest of the eight. 



Legs long, slender, and, as far as they could be observed, not 

 greatly differing in length ; the only armature apparent con- 

 sisted of two longitudinal rows of long slender spines beneath 

 the tibia3 of the two foremost pairs, and a few still liner ones 

 on other parts. Colour of the legs dull pale yellowish brown. 

 Palpi moderate in length ; digital joint large ; palpal organs 

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