264 Oji neio Spiders from the Camaroons. 



Ctenufi, of wliich the types are in the British Museum, may 

 be distinguished as follows : — 



a. Median vputral area of abilonieii black. 



a^. Median black area narrow, expandina" in front, 

 sharply defined from the more lateral portions of the 



lower surface ; femoia crimson beneath coccineqws, 



i\ Ventral area of abdomen either entirely black or 



mostly covered with a broadly parabolic black shield. 



Or. Abdomen almost entirely black, the median 



ventral area only a little more intense than the 



rest ; mandibles and face without red hairs .... Batesii. 



P. Black shield on ventral area of abdomen broad 



and sharply contrasted from the rusty red hairs of 



it-< lateral and dorsal surface ; mandibles and face 



with red hairs scop>ilafus. 



b. Median ventral area of abdomen brown and ornamented, 



like the rest of the lower surface, with pale spots running 

 into longitudinal stripes. 

 c^. Carapace longer than patella+tibia iii., and equal to 



protarsus iv occulentah's. 



P. Carapace slightly shorter than patella -|- tibia iii., and 



considerably shorter than protarsus iv Khujsleyi. 



Genus Torania, Sim. 



Torania scufuta, sp. n. 



? .—Colour. Integument of carapace pale, with faint dark 

 ptripes, clothed with yellowish hairs ; ocular area blackish ; 

 mandibles pale, with two faint stripes, infuscate distally ; 

 palp pale, with black tarsus ; legs pale, minutely speckled, 

 Avith black spines and dark greyish scopulai ; labium, maxillte, 

 sternum, and underside of cox^e jet-black; lower side of 

 abdomen covered "with a jet-black shield, slightly narrowing 



posteriorly and reaching to the spinners, which are pal 

 npperside of abdomen covered with hairs of a greyish-yellow 

 hue. 



Structurally resembling T. variata, Poc, but -without 

 anterior spine on patelke. 



^. — Resembling female in colour, differing from the male 

 of T. variata, Poc, in the much wider interval that separates 

 the apices of the two branches of the tibial spur of the palp. 



Measurements in millimetres. — - $ . Total length 15 ; length 

 of carapace 6, first leg 27, second 29, third 2'2^ fourth 23. 



(J. Total length 13; length of carapace 7, first leg 37, 

 second 40, third 30, fourth 31. 



Loc. Efulen, in the Camaroons {G. L. Bates). 



Easily to be distinguished from T. occideatalis and variata 

 by colouring. 



