196 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on some 



are different, the tibire of the first pair of legs are rather 

 longer and stouter, and the interval between the eyes of the 

 hind-central pair is greater. 



Genus Neriene, Blackw. 

 Neriene reproha, sp. n. (PI. XII. fig. 2.) 



Length of the adult male very nearly 1| line. 



The cephalothorax is of a dusky yellow-broAvn colour, marked 

 with converging lateral indistinct markings of a deeper hue ; 

 its convexity is moderate ; the lateral marginal compression 

 at the caput is scarcely visible ; and the profile line forms a 

 gradual and pretty even curve from the hinder extremity to 

 the eyes. The height of the clypeus slightly exceeds half 

 that of the facial space. 



The eyes are in the usual position, placed on black tuber- 

 cular spots, and form an area whose transverse measurement 

 is about double that of the longitudinal diameter. They are 

 of moderate size, and do not differ greatly from each other in 

 that respect ; and the curves of the two rows (of which the 

 anterior is the shortest, and the convexities of which are 

 directed away from each other) are as nearly as possible 

 equal. The eyes of the hind-central pair are separated by 

 rather more than a diameter's interval ; and their distance 

 from the hind-laterals is considerably greater ; those of the 

 fore-central pair are rather the smallest of the eight, con- 

 tiguous to each other, and separated by a diameter's inter- 

 val from the fore-laterals ; those of each lateral pair are conti- 

 guous to each other, and seated obliquely on a strong tubercle. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength, 4, 1,2, 3, 

 tapering regularly to their extremities, well furnished with 

 coarse, rather prominent hairs, and a few slender erect bristles 

 and hairs ; they are of a pale dull yellow-brown colour, rather 

 deepening in hue towards their extremities. 



The palpi are rather short, similar in colour to the legs, 

 excepting the fore part of the radial joint, which is blackish red- 

 brown, and the digital joint, which is of a dark yellow-brown 

 hue. The radial is rather shorter but stronger than the cubital 

 joint ; its fore extremity on the upperside is produced, and 

 strongly emarginate or indented in a circular form, leaving 

 two cusps, of which that on the inner side is slightly curved, 

 pointed, and of a corneous appearance ; this joint is furnished 

 with coarse hairs and black bristles, of which those on the 

 outer side are most numerous and strongest. The digital 

 joint is of moderate size, oval, with a large roundish lobe 

 at the base on the outer side tinged with red-brown ; and at 



