338 Mr. J. Blackwall on new Species 0/ Araneidea 



papillse on their inferior surface, and the latter are terminated 

 by two curved claws, pectinated at their base. The palpi are 

 long, and resemble the legs in colour; and the digital joint, 

 which is strongly tinged with brown, has a short, curved, pecti- 

 nated claw at its extremity. The cephalothorax is truncated 

 in front, compressed before, and rounded on the sides, which 

 are depressed and marked with furrows converging towards a 

 narrow indentation in the medial line of the posterior region ; it 

 is clothed with hairs, and of a brown colour, with a broad yel- 

 lowish-brown band (whose superior margin is somewhat dentated) 

 extending along each side, and a narrow longitudinal one in the 

 middle, which comprises a fine brown line in its anterior part. 

 The fakes are powerful, conical, vertical, and densely clothed 

 with yellow hairs at the base in front ; the maxillse are straight, 

 enlarged at the extremity, which is rounded on the outer side, 

 and obliquely truncated on the inner side, where it is supplied 

 with long hairs; and the lip is short, broad, and somewhat 

 quadrate, but rounded on the sides. These parts have a red- 

 brown hue, the falces being much the darkest. The sternum 

 has a broad oval form, with small eminences on the sides, oppo- 

 site to the legs ; it is thinly clothed with long hairs, and of a 

 dark-brown hue, with a faint tinge of yellow in the medial line. 

 The abdomen is oviform, hairy, convex above, and projects a 

 little over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull pale- 

 yellow colour, streaked and spotted with brown, the under part, 

 which is the yellowest, being marked with the fewest and smallest 

 spots ; a broad, dentated, dull-yellow band, bordered with brown, 

 .and comprising a longitudinal row of irregular brown spots, ex- 

 tends along the middle of the upper part, and on each side of it 

 there is a series of brownish-black spots ; the sexual organs are 

 moderately developed, with a large process directed backwards 

 from their anterior margin, whose extremity is dilated ; these 

 organs, with the branchial opercula, are of a brownish-yellow 

 colour, the latter being the paler. 



The collection contained six females of this species, five of 

 which were immature. 



Genus Pasithea, Blackw. 

 Pasithea pulchra. 

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

 thorax -V, breadth ^V ; breadth of the abdomen -^; length of 

 an anterior leg 1^; length of a leg of the third pair 1-^. 



The eyes are unequal in size, and disposed in three transverse 

 rows on the anterior part of the cephalothorax, high above its 

 frontal margin; the four posterior ones form a curved row 



