54 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on new Species of Araneidea. 



the two middle eyes are slightly the largest of the eight, and 

 nearer to each other than each is to the lateral one on its side : 

 above the central row, and further removed from it than from 

 the lower one, is the third row of two eyes, near together and 

 smallest of the eight ; height of clypeus rather greater than 

 the space between the lower and third rows of eyes. 



Legs not very long, strong, tapering, furnished with hairs, 

 and a few spines on those of the two hinder pairs. Relative 

 length 1, 4, 2, 3, but very little difference between 1 and 4; 

 femora of first pair stronger than those of the rest. Colour 

 brightish orange-brown ; femora, outer sides of genua, and 

 undersides of tibia? striped and suffused with deep chestnut- 

 brown ; tarsi end with three claws, the two upper ones curved 

 and pectinate, the under one simple, small, and inconspicuous. 



Palpi short, strong, furnished with hairs ; colour yellowish, 

 humeral joints chestnut-coloured. 



Falces strong, conical, inclined backwards towards sternum, 

 about equal in length to height of facial space, rather paler in 

 colour than cephalothorax ; fang small. 



Maxillce rather strong, straight, oblong, rounded at extremi- 

 ties on outer sides, inclined to labium. 



Labium about one-third shorter than the maxillge, much 

 broader at base than at apex, which is round-pointed : these 

 parts are paler in colour than the falces. 



Sternum somewhat heart-shaped, but little longer than 

 broad, smooth, shining, furnished with hairs, and of a dark 

 chestnut-brown colour. 



Abdomen oval, very convex above, but very sparingly fur- 

 nished with hairs, nearly black, marked and variegated both 

 above and below with pale-yellow and whitish markings ; 

 these form a concurrent double longitudinal series of broken 

 chevrons in the medial line of the upper side ; the markings 

 on the sides are irregular, but they concentrate into a largish 

 bright-yellowish-white patch on either side near the fore ex- 

 tremity ; on the underside the yellow markings form two 

 broadish longitudinal converging lines, which reach halfway 

 towards the spinners ; between these and the extremities of the 

 lines are three roundish pale-yellow spots in a triangle whose 

 apex is directed backwards. Spinners yellowish brown, short, 

 and not very strong ; those of inferior pair strongest. 



A single specimen in a small collection of spiders received 

 from the Swan River, New South Wales. 



Storena scintittans, n. sp. 



? . Adult. Length 3 lines. 

 This species is very similar in form and general appearance 



