Rev. 0. P. Cambridge on new Species of Araneidea. 53 



modification it seemed almost to come within the genus Enyo. 

 Dr. Ludwig Koch appears to have included several species 

 (also from New South Wales), generically identical with the 

 above three species, in the genus Enyo*: my impression, how- 

 ever, is that they will eventually be found to be quite distinct 

 from Enyo. Dr. Koch includes " Storena " in the family 

 Drassides, of which he fixes tioo terminal tarsal claws as the 

 leading character, whereas u Enyo" has three, and has thence 

 been included in the family Theridides. Now in those two of 

 the species here described (Storena variegata and S. scintUlans) 

 which seem to be undoubtedly of Walckenaer's typical Storena 

 the terminal tarsal claws are certainly three in number, though 

 the third is very minute and difficult to be seen. S. Bradleyi, 

 S. australiensis, and S. maculata have also three terminal 

 tarsal claws. 



In his description of a new species of Storena (S. Grajfei), 

 also an Australian species, Dr. L. Koch does not specially re- 

 mark upon its tarsal claws, though, from including it in his 

 work ' Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden,' p. 192, he 

 leaves it to be inferred that he could only discover two. 



The at present little known but closely allied genus Lachesis 

 (Savigny) seems scarcely to be generically distinct from Sto- 

 rena, and is also apparently closely allied to Enyo. Of both 

 Lachesis and Enyo some species in my collection, from Syria, 

 Palestine, and India, have yet to be worked out ; the com- 

 parison of these with allied species already received, and with 

 others expected, from Australia, will perhaps facilitate a more 

 certain and permanent arrangement of the species now included 

 in these several genera. At present the Australian species 

 known to me must remain provisionally as here described. 



Storena variegata, n. sp. 



? . Adult. Length 3| lines. 



Cephalothorax oval, broader behind than in front, smooth, 

 shining, rounded before ; caput slopes forward, so that the 

 profile line of the whole cephalothorax is a continuous curve ; 

 fore part of caput has some bristly hairs upon it; normal 

 grooves and indentations but slightly defined ; colour a uni- 

 form dark chocolate-brown. 



Eyes eight, not very unequal in size, in three transverse 

 rows on fore part of cephalothorax ; the lower row consists of 

 two eyes wide apart ; close above this is the central row of 

 four ; this row is rather curved, the curve directed backwards ; 



* Enyo braccata, E. picta, in " Beschreib. neuer Arachniden u. Myriap." 

 aus den Verhandlungen d. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesell. in Wien, Jahrgang 1865, 

 pp. 859-861. 



Enyo am talipes, ibid., Jalirpang 1867, p. 194. 



