340 Mr. G. E. IT. Barrett-Hamilton on 



directed process on the palpal organ fusiform and apically 

 pointed, not clavate, and with its posterior edge not incurved. 



Total length 9 millim.; carapace 4; second leg 23, fourth 19. 



Loc. Enkeldoorn [J. ff. Darling). 



Sparassus spinipalpis, sp. n. 



f^ . — Differing from the preceding two species in having 

 the tibia of the first and second legs armed inferiorly with 

 three pairs of spines and especially in the structure of the 

 palpus. Palpus with patella armed externally with a pair of 

 very long sinuous spines, which run forward in contact with 

 each other, reaching almost to the tip of the tibia ; tibia 

 longer than wide, subcylindricaljAvithout external prominence 

 or inferior excavation ; the apophysis short, subsuperior, 

 oblong, with its external distal angle produced into a short 

 process ; tarsus of palp and palpal organ much resembling 

 that of Sa7-otesiiis melanognathus , Poc, from Nyasaland (Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) ii'. p. 443, 1898, pi. xiii. fig. 6). 



Length of carapace 5 millim., of second leg 22, of fourth 

 leg 20. 



Loc. Salisbury {G. A. K. Marshall). 



Thomisus spiculosus, sp. n. 



Allied to T. anthobius, Poc, but with the carapace and 

 legs much more coarsely tubercular and more bristly, and 

 with the bridge separating the two pits of the vulva long 

 and narrow, though expanding at each end. 



Total length 10 5 millim.; carapace 4*2; length of first 

 leg 12*5, of fourth 9. 



Loc. Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall). 



XLIV. — Note on the Eliomys of Sardinia. 

 By G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. 



I HAVE just had an opportunity of examining a few specimens 

 of Eliomys taken in Sardinia. They are distinct enough 

 from any other known form to deserve a separate name. 

 Accordingly I propose that the Sardinian dormouse be known 

 as Eliomys sardus, the consideration of its exact status as a 

 species or subspecies being reserved until we know more 

 about the genus. 



Eliomys sardus is like E. quercinus in colour and other 

 characters, but may be distinguished by its tail, which is 



