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The legs and pal^yi are of a bright shining metallic purple- 

 brown colour ; the inner sides of the genua of the first and 

 second pairs (chiefly of the Jirst pair) are thickly furnished 

 with spines, as also are the outer sides of the same joints of 

 the third and fourth pairs. 



The abdomen is small, hairy, and of a sooty brown colour, 

 projecting strongly over the base of the cephalothorax. 



This example is also from the Swan River, and in the 

 British-Museum collection, where there is likewise a third 

 specimen from the same locality ; this last is (an adult S ) of 

 the same species as that now described, but differs from it in 

 the entire falces being of a pinkish orange-red colour and the 

 caput slightly tinged with the same hue ; its size is also smaller, 

 being the same as that of E. instgms. 



Fam. Phoroncidides. 



Genus Phoeoncidia, Westw. 



Phoroncidia aurata^ sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 9). 



Adult female, length 2 5 lines, breadth of abdomen nearly 

 2 lines. 



The cephalotliorax is round-oval and tolerably convex above, 

 the caput elevated and produced in a somewhat bent form, 

 the occipital portion being rather gibbous ; consequently the 

 clypeus is high, deeply impressed in the middle, and promi- 

 nent at its lower margin. The colour of the cephalothorax, 

 as well as of the rest of the fore part, is a bright orange-red- 

 brown ; the greater part, however, of tlie legs of the fourth pair 

 is strongly suffused with black. 



The eyes are placed in a tolerably compact group of four 

 pairs at the extremity of the caput ; the fore and hind central 

 pairs form nearly a square, wliose longitudinal is rather greater 

 than its transverse diameter; those of each lateral pair are 

 placed in almost a straight line with the fore central eye on 

 its side ; the laterals and fore centrals thus form a semicircular 

 line ; the latter are the largest of the eight, and the laterals 

 the smallest. 



The legs are short but rather strong, their relative length 

 being 1, 4, 2, 3 ; and the genual joints are rather abruptly 

 bent downwards near their hinder extremity ; their armature 

 consists of a few hairs only ; and the tarsi terminate with three 

 claws. 



H\\e,2>alpi are short and slender, furnished with hairs only, 

 and destitute of a terminal claw. 



