44 Mr. J. Blackwall on new Species of East-Indian Spiders. 



nates in a point; it has a pale-yellow hue, with dark brown 

 lateral margins. The legs, which are long, slender, and pro- 

 vided with hairs and a few spines, were so greatly mutilated, 

 with the exception of those of the first and third pairs, that their 

 relative length could not be satisfactorily determined ; the tarsi 

 are terminated by claws of the usual number and structure. 

 The palpi are short, of a yellow hue tinged with brown, and 

 have a curved pectinated claw at their extremity. The abdomen 

 is of an oblong-oval form, moderately convex above, projecting 

 a little over the base of the cephalothorax, and is somewhat pro- 

 minent at its posterior extremity, above the spinners ; the upper 

 part, for more than a third of its length from the anterior ex- 

 tremity, is of a yellowish-white colour finely reticulated with 

 brown, and is crossed by three transverse, slightly sinuous, dark 

 brown bands, the intermediate one being rather the shortest and 

 narrowest ; these bands are succeeded by a broad, sinuous, dark 

 brown band, of an orange-brown hue at its posterior margin, 

 and comprising white spots of a silvery lustre, disposed trans- 

 versely ; a whitish band follows, having near its anterior margin 

 a shorter, transverse, soot-coloured line ; the posterior part, 

 which has a dark brown hue, comprises white spots of a silvery 

 lustre, and is crossed by two rather obscure, narrow, orange- 

 brown bands, and a greatly curved, irregular, whitish one above 

 the spinners ; all the bands, with the exception of the second 

 from the anterior extremity, are in contact with a fine, irregular, 

 dark brown line extending along the upper part of each side ; 

 the sides have a yellow-brown hue, freckled with dull yellowish 

 white, and spotted with dark brown in the posterior region; 

 the under part is of a dark brown colour, with an irregular, 

 longitudinal, whitish band, finely reticulg^ted with brown, on 

 each side; the space included between these bands, which is 

 broadest and darkest at its posterior extremity, comprises in its 

 anterior part six whitish spots disposed in pairs ; the spinners 

 have a reddish-yellow hue. 



Though the specimen from which the foregoing description 

 was made had not arrived at maturity, yet there can be little 

 doubt of its specific distinctness. 



Genus Tetragnatha, Latr. 

 Tetragnatha decorata. 



Length of the female /^ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax -J^; breadth -j\; breadth of the abdomen ^. 



The abdomen is robust, subcylindrical, with an obtuse pro- 

 tuberance on each side of its anterior extremity, which projects 

 greatly over the base of the cephalothorax, and terminates in a 



