174 Mr. J. Blackwall on new Species of Spiders 



This beautiful little species was received by me from M. 

 Chevrolat's collection. The locality is unrecorded. 



29. P. flavo-sparsa, n. sp. 



P. elongato-ovalis, punctato-striato, seneo-nigra, maculis flavis notata, 

 nitida ; capite transverse arcuate, etiamque longitudinaliter foveo- 

 lato, punctate, senee-nigro; thoracc lateribus angulisque anticia 

 retundatis, ad discum subtilissime et sparse, ad latera fortiter 

 punctate, seneo-nigro ; scutello laevi, nigro ; elytris subcen- 

 vexis, pimctato-striatis (punctis distinctis sequaliter erdinatis et 

 distantibus), senee-nigris, maculis 8 undique instructis, — 1"* ad 

 scutellum inter strias 1-4., circularis ; 2"*" ad humerum inter striam 

 7. et marginem, oblique evalis ; 3*" antemedia, inter strias A-7., cir- 

 cularis ; 4**, 5** et 6'* mediae vel paulum postmediae, inter strias 2-5. 

 (transversa, irregularis), 5-7- (subcircularis) ; 8'"' ad marginem 

 (subquadrata), 7""* et 8'"' apicaies, inter strias 3-6. et 7-10. (ilia 

 ad apicem affluens) ; marge quoque flavus : cerpere subtus pedi- 

 busque nigris ; antennis rufe-fuscis, ad basin rufis. 



Long. cerp. lin. 3 ; lat. lin. if. 



The above diagnosis is taken from a single specimen. It is 

 possible that the three medial markings may in some cases be 

 merged into one irregular transverse band. In pattern the 

 species reminds us somewhat of an aberrant P. multijida ; it is 

 much smaller, however, and the punctures on the elytra are 

 coarser and deeper. 



From M. Chevrolat's collection,- from the Cape. 



30. P. mlpina, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 321; Syst. El. i. 437 : 

 Oliv. Entom. v. 534. 



The smallest species of the genus, and variable in pattern. 

 It would seem to be not uncommon at the Cape. I have re- 

 ceived it from M. Deyrolle, from Karoo, Kaffraria. 



It will be seen that I have omitted for the present notices or 

 descriptions of five of the species recorded at page 116 of this 

 volume : these I hope to refer to on some future occasion. — H. C. 



XVIII. — Notice of Spiders, indigenous to the Salvages, received 

 from the Barao do Castello de Paiva. By John Blackwall, 

 F.L.S. 



The following spiders collected on the Great Salvage, the chief 

 of a group of small rocky islands, difficult of access, situated 

 between Madeira and the Canary Islands, were transmitted to 

 me by T. Vernon WoUaston, Esq., at the request of the Baron 

 de Paiva ; and, independently of the probability that they are 



