372 Mr. J. Blackwall on newly discovered Spiders 
enlarged at the extremity, and slightly inclined towards the lip, 
which has a short-oval form; the sternum is heart-shaped; the 
legs are moderately long, provided with hairs and fine spines, 
and each posterior one has a calamistrum on the superior surface 
of its metatarsus; the first pair is the longest, the second and 
fourth pairs are about equal in length, and the third pair is the 
shortest. These parts, with the palpi, are of a brownish-yellow 
colour, the annuli with which the legs are marked and the base 
of the lip having a brown-black hue. The abdomen is oviform, 
sparingly clothed with hairs, convex above, and projects over the 
base of the cephalothorax ; the upper part is of a dull yellowish- 
brown hue, spotted with white; at the anterior part there is a 
brownish-black oblong mark, tinged with dull yellow in the 
medial line, which is followed by four black spots, disposed in 
pairs, and inclined towards each other ; to these succeed several 
angular lines of the same hue, whose vertices are directed for- 
wards ; the sides have a dull-brown hue, the superior margin 
being the darkest, and the colour of the under part is pale yel- 
lowish brown ; the sexual organs are moderately developed, and 
of a red-brown colour; the spinners are eight in number, and 
those of the inferior pair, which are the shortest, consist of a 
single joint each, and are united throughout their entire length. 
This minute species is very closely allied to Ciniflo humilis. 
Genus VeLepa, Blackw. 
Veleda pallens. 
Length of the male 3th of an inch; length of the cephalo- 
thorax +;; breadth 54; breadth of the abdomen ,; length of 
an anterior leg $; length of a leg of the third pair +. 
The legs are very unequal in length ; the first pair is much 
the longest, then the fourth, and the third pair is the shortest ; 
each metatarsus of the posterior pair is provided with a eala- 
mistrum situated on its superior surface, and on the inferior 
surface of its extremity and that of the tarsus there are some 
short spines; the colour of these limbs, which are hairy, is 
brownish yellow, a dark-brown line extending along the upper 
part of the femora, genua, and tibie of the second, third, and 
fourth pairs ; the femora, genua, tibiz, and base of the metatarsus 
of the first pair have a dark-brown hue, that of their sides being 
yellow-brown. The palpi resemble the third pair of legs in co- 
lour, but the specimen from which the description was made had 
to undergo its final ecdysis; for though the digital joints were 
very tumid, yet the palpal organs were not developed. The 
cephalothorax is long, somewhat compressed before, depressed 
and rounded on the sides, clothed with white hairs, and has an 
