BY A. T. URQUHART. 103 



Palpi paler than legs ; hairs short, fine ; slender ; length, 

 4 mm. 



Abclome7i oviform, elongate ; ground colour olive- green, 

 closely spotted with stone-coloured, lake-tinted, lobate flecks; 

 dorsum stained with lake, exhibits on posterior - third a 

 brown-pink, linear lanccoLite figure, which throws off a series 

 of fine, dark-lake coloured lines, converging above the yellowish 

 spinners ; lateral margins and ventral region free from lake 

 stains; fairly well clothed with short, whitish hairs. Corpus 

 mdv^ rej^resents a hemispherical elevation, truncated in line 

 with the rima genitalis, concave within ; of a pale ochreous- 

 brown, clouded with olive-green. 



Single example. 



Fam. THERIDIID^. 



Gen. LiNYPHiA, Latr. 



JLinyphia melanozantha, sp. no v. 



Ifas. — Ceph. th., long, 3 ; broad, 2-2. Abd., long, 3 ; broad, 

 2-2. Legs, 1—4, 2, 3=9, 8, 67 mm. 



Cephalothoraxrich. ochreous-orange, lake reflections ; marginal 

 zone, ocular area, and wdde stripe on clypeus olive-green ; 

 very sparsely furnished with black hairs ; rugulose ; broad- 

 ovate, slightly compressed forward ; pars cephalica semi-oval, 

 convex, eye eminence prominent ; three very perceptible 

 medial grooves on occiput; clypeus projecting, height less 

 than two-thirds depth of facial space ; pars thoracica sub- 

 circular, moderately convex, centrally depressed ; indentation 

 somewhat T-shape ; caput and radial striae fairly well marked; 

 profile- contour gradually inclined backward, sensibly arched 

 over occiput ; thoracic curve more prominent. 



Posterior row of eyes sensibly recurved ; median j)air about 

 one-third smaller than side-eyes, posited obliquely, separated 

 by an interval fully equal to the breadth of an eye ; removed 

 from laterals by twice that space; anterior row recurved; 

 centrals dark, less than one-half size of hind pair, occupy a 

 somewhat shorter space, rather more distant from side-eyes 

 than they are from each other ; latter pair large, have the 

 pearl-grey lustre of posterior centrals seated obliquely on a 

 common black tubercular prominence, sub-touching. 



Falces olive-brown'; transversely rngulose ; somewhat slender, 

 linear- conical, extremities bent a little outwards ; retreating 

 base level with plane of clypeus ; length equal to depth of 

 facial space. 



Maxillse ochreous-orange, fore-third suffused with olive- 

 green, rather longer than wide, obtusely pointed, inclined 

 over labium ; latter organ reddish-brown ; broad oval. 



