from the Island of Madeira. 371 
equal in length, and are provided with hairs and spines; the 
first and second pairs are much the longest, the first pair rather 
surpassing the second, and the third pair is the shortest ; each 
tarsus is terminated by two curved pectinated claws. The colour 
of these parts is pale dull yellow, the hp being the darkest, and 
the joints of the first and second pairs of legs having a brownish- 
red hue at the extremity. The palpi are short, and of a pale 
dull-yellow colour ; the radial is rather shorter than the cubital 
joint, and projects a pointed apophysis from its extremity on the 
outer side ; the digital joint, which is slightly tinged with brown, 
is convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the 
palpal organs, which are neither highly developed nor compli- 
cated in structure; they have a short, curved, black spine at their 
extremity, on the outer side, and are of a pale brownish-red 
colour. The abdomen is oviform, somewhat depressed, projects 
over the base of the cephalothorax, and is supplied on the upper 
part with fine black spines, more or less erect ; a yellowish- 
brown band, that is palest in the medial line, extends along the 
upper part from its anterior extremity to the spinners, and is 
bounded on each side by a yellowish-white band; and a black 
band passes along each side, whose superior margin is bordered 
with red ; the under part has a whitish-yellow hue, that of the 
branchial opercula is pale dull yellow, and the colour of the 
spinners is reddish brown. 
Family Cin1rFLONID&. 
Genus Cinir1to, Blackw. 
Ciniflo affinis. 
Length of the female ;1,th of an inch; length of the cephalo- 
thorax z',; breadth ,4,; breadth of the abdomen ,j,; length of 
an anterior leg 3; length of a leg of the third pair +. 
The eyes are unequal in size, and are disposed on the anterior 
part of the cephalothorax in two transverse rows ; the four inter- 
mediate ones form a trapezoid whose anterior side is the shortest, 
and those of each lateral pair are seated obliquely on a tubercle, 
and are near to each other, but not in contact; the lateral eyes 
of the anterior row, which is situated immediately above the 
frontal margin, are rather the largest, and the intermediate ones 
of the same row are the darkest and much the smallest of the 
eight. The cephalothorax is compressed before, rounded in 
front and on the sides, which are marked with furrows converging 
towards the middle; it is convex in the cephalic region, depressed 
at the base, glossy, and of a yellowish-brown colour, the anterior 
part and narrow lateral margins being the darkest. The falces 
are powerful, conical, and vertical; the maxille are somewhat 
