fi'om the South-east Region of Equatorial Africa. 461 



legs^ and the digital joint^ which is tinged with brown^ has a 

 slender, slightly curved claw at its extremity. The abdomen is 

 somewhat oviform, the posterior part, which is rather the broadest, 

 sloping abruptly downwards at its extremity ; it is moderately 

 convex above, projects over the base of the cephalothorax, and is 

 of a yellowish-white colour, faintly reticulated with brown ; a 

 dark-brown spot, which comprises a small yellowish-white one, 

 occurs near the middle of the upper part, and is succeeded by 

 two curved lines, which meet in an angle whose vertex is directed 

 backwards; the abruptly sloped posterior extremity is of a 

 brownish-black colour, with a series of minute yellowish-white 

 spots on each side of the medial line ; a brownish-black spot 

 occurs on the anterior part of each side, and is followed by 

 oblique curved lines, of a browner hue, whose lower extremities 

 are enlarged and more or less confluent ; a broad, deeply 

 indented, brownish-black band, bordered with white, extends 

 along the middle of the under part, and the branchial opercula 

 and spinners have a dark-brown hue. 



An immature female of this Linyphia was the only specimen 

 of the species contained in the collection. 



Family Epeirid^. 

 Genus Epeira, "Walck. 



Epe'ira solers. 



Bpeira solers, "Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. torn. ii. p. 41 ; Blackw. 



Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, part ii. p. 336, pi. 24. fig. 243. 



agalena, Hahn, Die Arachn. Band ii. p. 29, tab. 47. fig. 115. 



Atea sclopetaria, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst. erstes Heft, p. 4 ; Koch, 



Die Arachn. Band xi. p. 134, tab. 390. figs. 934, 935. 



All the specimens of Epe'ira solers contained in the collection 

 were females, and were larger and darker- coloured than those 

 which are indigenous to Britain. 



Epe'ira decern, n. sp. 



Length of an immature male -^ of an inch ; length of the 

 cephalothorax -J^^ breadth -^', breadth of the abdomen tV; 

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



The abdomen is oviform, moderately convex above, and pro- 

 jects over the base of the cephalothorax j a yellowish-white band, 

 that tapers to its extremity, and is bisected longitudinally by an 

 obscure yellowish-brown band, extends along the middle of the 

 upper part, and comprises a fine, black, angular line, whose 

 vertex is directed forwards, situated about a third of its length 

 from the coccyx ; on each side of this band there is a broad, 

 parallel, brownish-olive band, whose exterior margin is sinuous, 



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