404. REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW BRITISH SPIDERS. 
band of yellow-brown, which contains the normal spade-shaped marking; this marking 
is red-brown and defined (narrowly forwards, and broadly at the hinder extremity) with 
whitish-yellow, the red-brown portion is gradually prolonged quite through the yellow 
part into a sharp point; this red-brown portion is sometimes divided longitudinally by a 
darker brown line, and marked occasionally with yellow ; there is a transverse patch of 
yellow between the fore and hind central eyes; and the longitudinal band (between the 
marginal band and the red-brown one above it) has generally a broken, ill-defined series 
of slight yellow markings. 
Eyes eight, in two parallel curved rows on the fore part of the caput, the front row is 
the shortest. In size and relative position the eyes are similar to those of Thomisus 
audax (Koch) and T. lanio (Koch), and similarly situated on yellowish tubercles, of which 
those supporting the lateral eyes are the strongest; those of the hinder row are equi- 
distant from each other; the two central eyes of the front row are rather further from 
each other than each is from the lateral one on its side; and the space between them is 
equal to that between each and the hind central one on its side. 
Legs, relative length 1, 2, 4, 3, the first and second long, fourth and third short, the 
third slightly the shortest. Femora and genua of the first and second pairs of a deep 
rich red-brown colour, the rest of their joints yellowish. The two hinder pairs are 
yellowish, with a very few spots of red-brown and a slight marking here and there of 
whitish. They are furnished with hairs and spines, the latter similarly disposed to those 
of Thomisus lanio (Koch); the tarsi end with two strong curved pectinated claws. 
Palpi short, strong,; humeral joint reddish-brown; cubital and radial yellowish- 
brown; digital rather paler than these two; a single strong prominent black bristle 
at the upper extremity of the humeral joint, two or three on the upperside of the 
cubital, several on the upperside of the radial joints, and two or three shorter ones on 
the digital. 
The radial joint has two en from its extremity; one on the outer side is short, 
blunt-pointed, and applied closely to the base of the digital joint; the other beneath is 
very large, prominent, and rather rounded at its extremity. The digital joint has a slight 
curved prominence on its outer margin, near the base of which the extremity of the 
lateral projection of the radial joint applies. 
Palpal organs well developed, but less complicated than in Thomisus lanio. Near their 
centre are two short prominent curved corneous projections, one of which is obtuse and 
slightly enlarged at its extremity, the other sharp-pointed ; palpal organs. surrounded, 
just within the margin of the digital joint, by a strong corneous spine, which commences 
near the base, on the inner side, terminating in a sharp filiform point in contact with the 
prominence above named on the outer margin of the digital joint. 
Falces strong, moderately long, subconical, of a red-brown colour, with a broad trans- 
verse band of whitish-yellow about their middle, which is edged behind with darker red- 
brown. 
. Maxillæ, labium, and sternum. These do not differ in structure from those of Thomisus 
lanio; their colour is reddish yellow-brown ; the labium is the darkest, and the sternum 
is freckled with dark red-brown. 
