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which are nearly equal in size, are disposed on the anterior part 

 of the cephalothorax in two ti'ansverse, curved rows, forminji; a 

 crescent whose convexity is directed forwards ; and the lateral 

 ones are seated on minute tubercles. The falces are subconical 

 and vertical : the maxillse are convex near the base, obliquely 

 truncated at the extremity on the outer side ; and inclined to- 

 wards the lip, which is triangular and pointed at the apex; and 

 the sternum is heart-shaped. These parts are of a yellowish- 

 brown colour, with the exception of the base of the lip, which 

 has a dark brown hue. The abdomen is oviform, clothed with 

 short hairs, convex above, notched in the middle of the antei'ior 

 extremit)^, and projects over the base of the cephalothorax ; a 

 broad yellowish-brown band extends along the middle of the 

 upper part, the anterior region of which comprises a dark brown 

 fusiform band, having an angular point on each side, and occu- 

 pying rather more than a third of its length ; this band is bor- 

 dered laterally with yellowish white, and between it and the 

 spinners there is a series of alternate, short, yellowish-white and 

 dark brown curved bars, whose convexity is directed forwards, 

 a triangular spot of the latter hue, having its vertex in contact 

 with the coccyx, terminating the series ; the sides are of a dark 

 brown hue, and have conspicuous yellowish-white streaks and 

 spots disposed obliquely upon them; the under part is of a 

 yellowish-white colour, with minute dark brown spots, and three 

 longitudinal bands of the same hue, which meet at the spinners, 

 the intermediate one being the narrowest of the three. 



Specimens of this handsome Philodroinus, which, by its co- 

 lours and the design resulting from their distribution, bears a 

 striking resemblance to certain species of the genus Sphasus, 

 were taken in September 1858 at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, 

 by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, who also captured inmiature indi- 

 viduals of Sphasus lineatus in the same locality ; by w^hich dis- 

 covery he has added another genus to our indigenous spiders. 

 Specimens of both species were transmitted to me by Mr. R. H. 

 Meade. 



Family Ciniflonid^. 



Genus Ciniflo, Blackw. 

 Ciniflo murdax. 

 Length of the female f ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax \ ; breadth i ; breadth of the abdomen j ; length of an 

 anterior leg ^| ; length of a leg of the third pair if. 



The eyes are disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo- 

 thorax in two transverse rows ; the anterior row, which is straight, 

 is situated near the frontal margin, and the posterior row is 

 slightly curved, with its convexity directed backwards ; the in- 



