96 Mr. R. I. Pocock oji 



The British Museum has specimens that I refer to this 

 species from Montserrat {Sir A. Alderlei/) and Antigua {G. A. 

 Barber, W. U. Forrest, J. W. Gregory), and also an imma- 

 ture female ticketed with the MS. name Grypsidromus alii' 

 ceps, Keys., from the last-named island. The type of gypsator 

 was also from Antigua. The specimens described by Latreille 

 and Thorell were from St. Bartiiolomew, the species named 

 incana by C. Koch, and the one mentioned but not described 

 by Simon, from St. Thomas. In Browne's ' History of 

 Jamaica,' p. 420, pi. xliv. fig. 2, this species is figured and 

 briefly described as a native of Antigua. This figure formed 

 part of the basis of the species named Araiiea venatoria by 

 Linnaeus. 



Cyrtopholis femoralis^ sp. n. 



$. — Much smaller than C. Bonhotei and G. venatorius. 

 Integument deep castaneous, covered with yellowish-brown 

 hairs, with long pale bristles on the abdomen. 



Carapace as in G. venatorius -, eyes also almost as in that 

 species, those of the anterior line slightly procurved, laterals 

 a little larger than medians, medians barely a radius apart. 



In spine-armature of legs and proportion of leg-segments 

 closely resembling G. venatorius, except that the femur of 

 the third is considerably more thickened relatively, the width 

 being considerably more than one third the length of its 



and the locality (China) all fit the male of rer/ia, though the phrase 

 " black ring on the abdomen " is puzzling. 



The earlier synonymy of the species involved is, I believe, as follows : — 



1. Cyrto2}holis venatorius (Linn.). 



Aranea venatoria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1035. no. 34 (176G) (in 

 part., i. e., refs. to Browne's 'Jamaica,' p. 420, pi. xliv. fig. 2). 



2. Heteropoda ocellata (Liun.). 



Aratiea venatoria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1035. uo. 33 (in part., 



i. e., refs. to Gronovius, Sloan, and Merian). 

 Aranea ocellata, Linn. ibid. no. 34 (J). 

 Aranea recjia, Fabr. Bht. Syst. ii. p. 408 (1793) ($). 

 Heteropoda venatoria, Latreille, Thorell, et alii (olim). 

 Heteropoda regia, Fabr., L. Koch, Simon, &c. 



3. Pachylomerus nidulans (Fabr.). 



Aranea venatoria, Fabr. Syst. Eut. p. 439 (177o) (nee venatoria, Liun.). 

 Aranea nidulans, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i. p. 343 (1787). 

 Aranea venatoria, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 408 (1793). 



