luith descriptions of three cifparently ncio species. 351 



Aryiope protensa. 



Koch, 1. c. p. 211, t. xviii, fig. 8, 8a, 8b (1872). 



Anepsia rhomhoides. 



Koch, 1. c. p. 46, t. iii, fig. 8 (1871). 



E2')eira felina, n. sp. PL x. figs. 1, 2. 



? Colours — Cephalothorax dull olive-brown, clothed 

 all over with short greyish hairs; mandibles yellowish- 

 olive becoming reddish towards the extremities, tip and 

 moveable claw piceous ; maxillte and mouth shining clay- 

 colour ; sternum greyish-brown, with central longitudinal 

 clay-coloured spot : abdomen above bright mahogany-red, 

 ochraceous dotted with black in front, also a whitish 

 ochraceous almost reniform spot behind the dorsal black 

 tubercles; from the tubercles backward an indistinct 

 diamond pattern of grey lines ; several longitudinal central 

 dots and a triangular zigzag series on each side, silvery- 

 white ; sides dark-brown, becoming greyish towards the 

 base, with an oblique series of three bisinuate markings, a 

 number of short oblique parallel litura;, and several dots, 

 silvery- whitish ; venter blackish with a central oblong 

 darker area, bordered on each side by an irregular white 

 line, and crossed down the middle by eight white dots in 

 a double series ; legs pitchy, femora clothed with short 

 testaceous hairs, tibise and tarsi with short blackish bristles, 

 tibife with a whitish band near the base, tarsi greyish at 

 the base. 



Cephalothorax circular, truncated in front, and slightly 

 excavated behind, central depression large, an impressed 

 oblique line from each side of it to the posterior margin of 

 the caput, the latter flat with a central longitudinal ridge 

 running backwards from the central oculiferous tubercle, 

 which is slightly more prominent than the lateral 

 tubercles ; anterior central pair of eyes rather smaller than 

 the posterior pair, nearer to one another than to the latter, 

 and slightly nearer than the latter are to one another 

 lateral eyes placed near together, somewhat obliquely, equal 

 in size to the anterior central pair ; mandibles cylindrical, 

 terminal moveable claw small ; sternum irregularly arched 

 in front, pyramidal behind : abdomen oval, abruptly and 



