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not having made a better use of the time and opportunities, denied to my 

 late friend, which hisacuteness would not have failed to improve to the 

 utmost. 



I am, Gentlemen, 



Your obedient Servant, 



R. T. Lowe. 

 Funchal, Madeira, 

 Feb. 16</i, 1831. 



Class. Arachnida. 



Ord. PULMONARIA. 



Fam. Araneid^. 



Trib. iNEQUiTELiE, Latr. 



Gen. ScYTODEs, Latr. 



Scytodes velutina, Hein. et nob. 



Scyt. velutina; tota sepiolina, immaculata: thorace magno, suborbicu- 

 lato; postice rotundato, elevato^ anticfe obsoletfe sulcato: abdomine sub- 

 globoso. Longit. 2^, lin. 



Hab. in domibus Maderae: Scytode thoracicd ipsa rara multo rarior. 



Mare nondum capto, fceminam tantilm vidi. Prsedse (Lepismatibus, 

 Tineis, ferme) more Scyt. thoracica telam jacit. Species a Seyl. thoracicd 

 omnin6 distinctissima. 



Trib. Laterigrad^e, Latr. 

 Gen. LoxoscELEs, Hein. et nob. 

 Char. gen. 

 Oculi sex, Eequales, per paria dispositi, parvi, segmentum circulare vel 

 lunatum, arcu antico, (sc. antic^ convexo), delineantes: laterahbus baud 

 tuberculo impositis. Maxillce labiumqne ut in Scytode fthoracicaj. 

 Mandibulce robustae, ungue valido (ut in plerisque Araneidis). Pedes 

 secundi, deinde primi et quarti Eequales, longiores; tertii caeteris 

 breviores. 



Obs. — Thorax depressus. Citissime currit. Quietus pedes omnes 



oblique in libella horizontali extendit. Telam prsedge nee jacit, nee 



ullam nisi fila qusedam struit. In prsedam furtim obrepit, baud insiliens. 



Afdnitas cum Philodromis, Walck., summa; sed ocuHs tantilm sex, 



