Genera and Species of Araneidea. ^\ 



The Av/.s and pa/j>i nvc of a l)ri_t;lit sliinin;]^ metallic ]tiu|jlf- 

 brown colour; the inner sides of the genua of the lirst and 

 st'cond pairs (ehielly of the Jirst pair) are thickly furnished 

 Avith sj)incs, as also are the outer sides of the same joints of 

 the thud and fourth pairs. 



The ahdomen is small, haiiy, and of a sooty brown colour, 

 projecting strongly over the base of the ee])halothorax. 



This example is also from the Swan Kiver, and in the 

 l^ritish-Muscum collection, where there is likewise a third 

 specimen from the same locality; this last is (an adult d) of 

 the same ^species as that now described, but differs from it in 

 the entire falces being of a pinkish orange-red colour and tlic 

 caput slightly tinged with the same hue ; its size is also smaller, 

 being the same as that of E. insignis. 



Fam. Phoroncidides. 

 Genus Phoroncidia, Westw. 



Phoroncidia aurata, sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 9). 



Adult female, length 2] lines, breadth of abdomen nearly 

 2 lines. 



The cephnJotJtorax is round-oval and tolerably convex above, 

 the cajDut elevated and produced in a somewhat bent form, 

 the occipital ])ortion being rather gibbous ; consequently the 

 clypeus is high, deeply impressed in the middle, and jn'omi- 

 nent at its lower margin. The colour of the cephalothorax, 

 as well as of the rest of the fore part, is a bright orangc-rcd- 

 brown ; the greater part, however, of the legs of the fourth pair 

 is strongly suft'uscd with black. 



The eyes arc placed in a tolerably compact group of four 

 pairs at the extremity of the caput ; the fore and hind central 

 pairs form nearly a square, whose longitudinal is rather greater 

 than its transverse diameter; those of each lateral pair are 

 placed in almost a straight line with the fore central eye on 

 its side ; the laterals and fore centrals thus form a semicircular 

 line ; the latter are the largest of the eight, and the laterals 

 the smallest. 



The legs are short but rather strong, their relative length 

 being 1, 4, 2, 3 ; and the genual joints are rather abruptly 

 bent downwards near their hinder extremity ; their armature 

 consists of a few hairs only ; and the tarsi terminate with three 

 claws. 



The 2^(dpi are short and slender, fui'nished with hairs only, 

 and destitute of a terminal claw. 



