j6 NOTES ON BRITISH SPIDERS. 



MELOS BICOLOR, Cambr. 



Melos bicolor, sp. n., fig 3. 



Immature male length, f ths of a line. 



Hephalothorax, deep brown. 



Legs, yellow. The coxae of the fourth pair very wide apart 

 owing to the breadth, at that point, of the sternum. 



Palpi yellow, the yet tumid digital joint, and the radial tinged 

 with black ; the digital ends with a small bent claw. 



Maxilla and labium dark yellowish brown, with pale extremities. 



Sternum very convex, glossy, dark yellowish brown, covered 

 thinly with coarse hairs. 



Abdomen black, glossy, thinly clothed with coarse hairs. 



An immature male found among herbage "Sunny Bank, 

 Queen's Cottage Grounds," the Royal Gardens at Kew, and 

 kindly sent to me by Mr. Nicholson, the Curator, in April, 1898. 

 Although not adult, I have but little hesitation in founding a new 

 genus on this little spider. It is allied to Euiyopis in some 

 respects, but the large and very convex sternum, the form of the 

 clypeus and armature of the legs, sufficiently distinguish it. It 

 may possibly be an imported species. 



CNEPHALOCOTES, FUSCUS, Cambr. 



Cnephalocotes fuscus, sp. n., fig. 5. 



Adult male, length i line. 



Cephalothorax oblong, much broader than long, narrowest and 

 rounded in front, truncate and slightly impressed in the marginal 

 line behind, lateral marginal impressions gradual but not 

 strong, colour, yellow-brown with darker scratchy markings, at 

 the normal groves and indentations. Caput a little and roundly 

 elevated behind the eyes ; the height of the clypeus rather exceeds 

 half that of the facial space ; a strong somewhat oval longitudinal 

 excavation behind each lateral pair of eyes. 



Eyes in two transverse rows, anterior row nearly straight, 

 posterior strongly curved, the convexity of the curve directed 

 backwards ; anterior shortest, its eyes are not greatly unequal in 

 size, the fore-centrals smallest, and not quite contiguous to each 



