32 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on some new 



iLh&falces are short and not particularly powerful ; they are 

 armed with two small blackish teeth close together, at the 

 fore extremity on the inner side. 



The maxillce^ labium, and sternum are normal in their form, 

 the maxillffi being also furnished Avith a strong tuft of long 

 black bristles on their inner surface. 



The abdomen is large, nearly round when looked at from 

 above, and of a short pear-shape when seen laterally, the spin- 

 ners forming the stem, these organs being placed at the ex- 

 tremity of a truncated cone of a coriaceous nature. The whole 

 of the abdomen is of a corneous nature ; the upper part and 

 sides are of a bright golden hue and metallic lustre ; four toler- 

 ably long, strong, divergent, and sharp-pointed, tapering, black 

 spines occupy the upper corners, and form very nearly a 

 square ; between the two hinder ones, but a little way within 

 their straight line, is a iifth spine of the same character though 

 not quite so long nor so strong as the rest. Each of these 

 spines consists of a truncated conical basal portion, prolonged 

 by a sharp terminal spine ; and their surface is furnished with 

 a few minute tubercles or granulosities, which may originally 

 have had hairs springing from them ; but if so, these had been 

 accidentally rubbed off. The whole of the abdomen is more 

 or less covered with reddish and dark red-brown spots of 

 various sizes, some of these being ocellated and the larger 

 ones forming the pattern shown in the figures (PI. VII.). The 

 surface around the bases of the spines, as well as the whole of 

 the underside and a large patch on the hinder part of the 

 abdomen, are strongly suffused with orange-red. 



Two examples of this beautiful and brilliant species Avere 

 received from Madagascar in 1875, through the kindness of 

 Mr. R. H. Meade, of Bradford, Yorkshire. It is a very distinct 

 species from any yet described, and the most striking, perhaps, 

 among the few known spiders of this remarkable genus. 



Fam. GasteracantMdes. 

 Gen. Pakaplectana, Capello (1866). 



Eurysoma, Koch & Blackw. ad part. 

 Peniza, Thorell (1868). 



Paraplectana maritata, sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 7.) 



Adult female, length 2 lines, breadth of abdomen nearly 

 2 lines. 



This very pretty and distinct spider has the broad, massive 

 cephalothorax of a uniform pale luteous yellow colour, shining, 



