400 . REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW BRITISH SPIDERS. 
colour, furnished with pale yellowish and some blackish bristly hairs; the hinder part of the 
cephalothorax is slightly elevated, and then slopes rather abruptly to the abdomen; its 
colour is reddish yellow-brown, margins black, and it is divided longitudinally by a dark 
blackish brown band, broadest near the abdomen and bifid at the caput; an irregular 
zigzag blackish longitudinal band of dusky black occupies the sides, commencing at the 
hinder part, but not reaching as far as the caput; the clypeus slopes considerably back- 
wards. 
Eyes in the form of a square occupying nearly the whole area of the caput; the middle 
ones of the anterior row are far the largest of the eight, those of the second row smallest, 
and situated midway on either side in a line between the laterals of the anterior row and 
the eyes of the third row. 
Legs. Relative length 4, 3, 1, 2, but little difference between them; they are mode- 
rately long, stout, and hairy, especially the tibiæ of the first pair ; and a few (4?) fine semi- 
sessile spines are on the undersides of the tibise and metatarsi. Colour pale yellow ; femora 
rather darker; they are distinctly banded with brown-black, except those of the first 
pair, the femora of which are deeply clouded with black, and are, as also the next three 
joints, jet-black throughout on the inner sides. The spines on the undersides of the tibiæ 
and metatarsi are, I think, confined to the first, third, and fourth pairs of legs ; but this is 
not certain, as the spider from which the description was made had been gummed on card, 
and thus the armature of the legs was not as visible as it would otherwise have been. 
Palpi short, strong, pale yellow ; digital joint large, oval; palpal organs dark yellowish- 
brown, highly developed and prominent, but simple; they have a small black corneous 
point halfway up on the inner side, and a shortish, stout, curved corneous process on their 
outer side, curving over them towards their extremity, and an excessively minute spiral 
spine quite at their extremity; there is a small pointed projection at the extremities of 
the radial joints, which are also fringed on their uppersides with some longish hairs. 
Falces moderate in length and strength; greatly inclined towards the maxille, and 
consequently quite hidden when the spider is looked at from above; they are of the same 
colour as the cephalothorax. 
Sternum yellowish, broadly edged with dusky, especially towards the hinder part. 
Maxille moderately long, very broad and massive, squarish at their extremities, and 
nearly meeting over the labium, which is short, semicircular, and, with the maxille, of a 
pale yellowish colour. | 
Abdomen moderate in size; underside yellowish, with a broad, somewhat curved trans- 
verse band tinged with reddish near the spinners. Spiracular plates well defined, and of 
a clearer colour than the rest; the upperside is blackish brown tinged with yellow, from 
numerous yellowish hairs; on each side of the median line of the fore half are two elon- 
gate yellow spots, of which the hinder ones are the longest, and obliquely directed out- 
wards; these are succeeded by a more slender angulated bar or chevron, with its angle 
directed forwards, of the same colour, and dilated at the extremity into a sort of spot or 
patch; this is followed by one or two other, shorter, angular lines similar in colour, but 
with the angles rounded off, forming in fact curved lines; at the fore extremity are some - 
‘stiff black hairs springing from below, and curving upwards and backwards. An adult | 
