96 Mr. J. Black wall on new species 0/ Araneidea. 



convexity is directed forwards; the anterior row, which is 

 the less curved, is situated near the frontal margin, and the 

 intermediate eyes, which are seated on a tubercle, are the 

 largest, and the lateral ones rather the smallest of the eight ; 

 the lateral eyes of both rows are widely apart, and are placed 

 on minute tubercles, and the intermediate ones form a tra- 

 pezoid whose anterior side is the shortest, thus : — .• •. 



Maxilla moderately long, straight, powerful, greatly enlarged 

 and roimded at the extremity, which is prominent on the 

 inner surface. 



Lip short, triangular, and rounded at the apex. 



Leffs very unequal in length ; the first pair much the longest, 

 then the fourth, and the third pair the shortest; each 

 metatarsus of the posterior pair is provided with a calamis- 

 trum situated on its superior surface. 



Spinner's eight ; those constituting the inferior pair are united 

 throughout their entire length. 



Veleda lineata. 



Length of the female gth of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax ^'^ ; breadth ^^ ; breadth of the abdomen y^ ; length of 

 an anterior leg \ ; length of a leg of the third pair j\. 



The abdomen is of an oblong oviform figure, convex above, 

 and projects over the base of the cephalothorax ; the anterior 

 extremity and the posterior part of each side are densely covered 

 with white hairs; the upper part is of a dull or brownish- yellow 

 colour, with three longitudinal dark brown lines, whose posterior 

 half is somewhat ramified, extending its entire length ; one of 

 these lines, which is broadest towards its anterior extremity, 

 occurs in the middle, and another is situated on each side of it ; 

 the anterior and part of the superior region of the sides, extend- 

 ing towards the spinners, and the under part are of a brownish- 

 black colour. The cephalothorax is long, moderately convex, 

 compressed before, depressed and rounded on the sides, and 

 clothed with white hairs ; it is of a brown-black colour, with 

 three longitudinal brownish-yellow lines, one in the middle, 

 and another on each side, and narrow lateral margins of the 

 same hue. The falces are short, conical, vertical, and of a yel- 

 lowish-brown colour. The maxillse and lip have a dark brown 

 hue, the apex of the latter being much the palest. The sternum 

 is of an oblong oval form ; it is thinly clothed with white hairs, 

 and has a brownish-black hue. The legs are hairy, and the in- 

 ferior surface of the tarsus and of the extremity of the meta- 

 tarsus of the posterior pair is provided with short spines ; they 



