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



highly developed, of great size and complicated structure. 

 Any minute description was rendered impracticable, owing to 

 the specimen being gummed upon a piece of card — a circum- 

 stance which also prevented any observation of the maxilla?, 

 labium, and sternum ; the falces also were almost entirely 

 hidden : they appeared, however, to incline strongly backwards 

 toAvards the maxillae. 



Abdomen so much shrunk as to make it difficult to describe 

 it with any accuracy ; apparently it was long, narrow, oval in 

 form, of a blackish colour, clothed with white hairs on the 

 sides, and some greenish-yellow, metallic-lustred, scale-like 

 hairs on the upperside ; two of the spinners were apparently 

 much longer than the rest, and curved strongly upwards. 



A single adult $ in the Hope Collection, Oxford, received 

 from Ceylon, where it was captured by Mr. G. ILK. Thwaites. 

 It is probable that, upon a revision of the Salticides, the genus 

 Lyssomanes, established by Mr. Hentz, in his ' History of 

 American Spiders' (loc. cit. sup.) : will sink into a subgenus 

 of the genus Salticus. 



Family Salticides. 



Genus Salticus. 



Salticus coccinelloidesj n. sp. 



? ? Adult ? Length 1 line. 



Excepting the legs, the whole of this curious little spider is 

 of a jet-black colour, with a semicorneous integument, which is 

 shining and marked thickly with minute punctures. Cephalo- 

 thorax, looked at from above, nearly square, and arched on all 

 sides ; normal furrows, defining caput and thoracic segments, 

 quite obsolete ; the profile of the abdomen and cephalothorax 

 describes almost a semicircle ; the fore margin of the abdomen 

 slightly covers or overlaps the hinder part of the cephalothorax ; 

 and from the structure of these parts it seems probable that, when 

 alive, the spider has the power of raising its cephalothorax so 

 as to throw it almost completely back beneath the semicorneous 

 integument of the abdomen. 



Legs short, pale yellowish in colour, apparently not greatly 

 differing in length, those of third pair shortest. The speci- 

 men, however, being dry, it was impossible to be certain upon 

 this point. 



Palpi so concealed as to be incapable of description, and, in 

 fact, to leave the sex of the spider doubtful. 



Eyes in three rows, occupying the greater area of the cephalo- 

 thorax ; their position is similar to that of the Saltici in general, 



