262 Dr. A. Giinther on some Rejytiles from Madagascar. 



sight to W. ludicra, Cambr., but is larger * ; the caput is 

 proportionally less high ; and the form and structure of the 

 palpi and palpal organs are quite different. 



Genus LiNYPHiA, Latr. 



Linyphia miser a ^ sp. n. 

 Linyphia turhatrix, Cambr. Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1879, p. 206. 



In naming this spider (/. c. sitpra), the fact that the name 

 " tu7-batrix " had been conferred two years before upon an 

 arctic species {I. c. October 1877, p. 281) was overlooked; it 

 becomes therefore necessary to rename the British species, 

 upon which the name " misera " is now conferred. 



List of Spiders. 



Auletta excayata, sp. n., p. 258, Walckenaera antepenultima, sp. n.^ 

 PI. XIII. fig. 1. p. 259, PI. XIII. fig-. 3. 



Walclienaera orbiculata, sp. n., Linyphia misera, sp. n., p. 262. 

 p. 260, PL XIII. fig-. 2. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIII. 



Fig. 1. Auletta (g. n.) excavata, sp. n., p. 258. a, spider, enlarged; b, 

 ditto, in profile, -without legs or palpi; c, ditto, from above; d, 

 maxillae, labium, and sternum ; e, genital aperture ; /, natural 

 length of spider. 



Fig. 2. Wfi/ckenaera orhicxlata, sp. n., p. 2G0. a, spider, enlarged ; b, 

 ditto, in profile, -u'ithout legs or palpi ; c, caput and falces, from 

 in front ; f7, right palpus, from in front on the inner side ; e, 

 natural length of spider. 



Fiff. 3. Walckenaera antepenidlima, sp. n., p. 259. a, outline of spider, 

 from above, -without legs or palpi ; b, ditto, in profile ; c, caput, 

 from above and behind ; d, left palpus, from in front ; e, ditto, 

 from above, in front and rather side-ways ; f, natural length of 

 spider. 



XXVIII. — Ninth Contribution to the Knowledge of the Fauna 

 of Madagascar f. By Dr. ALBERT GiJNTHER, F.E.S. 



The following new species of reptiles were obtained, with 

 many others previously described, by the Rev, Deans Cowan, 



* Though, from the shortness of the cephalothorax and the projecting 

 of the abdomen so much over it, the spider is in reality no longer than 

 W. ludicra, Cambr, 



t 7. " Description of a new Snake from Madagascar," Ann. & Mag, 

 Nat. Hist. 1873, xi. p. 374. 



8. " Seventh Contribution to the Knowledge of the Fauna of Mada- 

 gascar," ibid. 1881, vii. p. 357, 



