some new African Spiders. 325 



a-. Frontal horns absent ornaiux, sp. n.* 



b'-. Frontal horns present AncJiieffe, Brit. Cap., 



and buhalus, Sim. 

 S. — Carapace with V-shaped cephalic stripe 

 and pale stripe on lateral border ; no median 

 abdominal tubercles. 

 a^. Femur of first leg less than twice as long as 

 carapace ; palpus much shorter than cara- 

 pace cornifjera, Gerst. 



b^. P'emur of first leg about three times as long 

 as carapace ; palpus longer than carapace. 



a^. Carapace as long as femur of palp bubo, Brit. Cap. 



b^. Carapace as long as femur, patella, and 



tibia (jf palp cylindricus, Poc. 



Menneus camelus, sp. n. 



$ . — Cohiir. Integument yellow, clothed with white hairs ; 

 carapace speckled with brown laterally ; abdomen variegated 

 with olive-brown stripes and patches, somewhat as in Cceros- 

 tris ; its lower surface marked with two fuscous mesiaily 

 interrupted bands ; sternum infuscate laterally and behind, 

 pale in the middle ; labium infuscate distally ; maxilla? with 

 a distal fuscous patch ; mandible with a fuscous patch in 

 front and some fuscous spots ; legs mostly yellow, with black 

 spines; the tarsi and distal end of the protarsi infuscate;' 

 upperside of patella and distal end of femur of fourth leg with 

 median black stripe. 



* This new species may be diagnosed as follows : — 

 Dinojn's or^iatus, sp. n. 



2- — Of the same form of carapace and abdomen as D. Stauntoni, but 

 ■wjithout frontal horns, the superciliary ridge of the eyes being evenly 

 rounded. 



Carcqwce rather scantily covered mesiaily with short dark yellowish- 

 brown hairs, brown forming a large triangular patch ; many white hairs on 

 the head and on the sides and posterior portion of the thoracic area ; 

 upperside of abdomen yellowish, covered with silvery white hair, with a 

 large anterior black patch on each side and a dark patch beliiud the pro- 

 minence, a white stripe descending on each side from the dorsal to the 

 ventral surface in front of the prominence ; lower surface with a pair of 

 subcentral yellow patches. 



Vulva convex, not strongly chitinized, furnished posteriorly with a 

 linguiform sclerile, which is narrowed in front, but is for the most part 

 concealed in the epigastric fold, where on each side of it the apertures 

 of the receptacula semiuis open. 



Measurements in millhnetres. — Total length 29 ; carapace 9'o ; femur 

 of first leg 19, length of fourth leg 41. 



Loc. Abvssinia. 



