216 Mr. C. Warburton on Spider.t from Madeira. 



Hah, Bata Sang Mount, Baram River, N. Borneo 

 (5000 feet)*, Jan. 1892. Coll. C. Hose, Esq. 



The type specimen of this striking species has unfortu- 

 nately had its skull shattered by sliot, so that an exact com- 

 parison with the skull of 8. ^erJworei is impossible. At the 

 same time enough remains to show that the muzzle is quite 

 short, and not elongated as in the Malayan species ; so that 

 it would appear not to be a Bornean representative of that 

 animal, as one would at first suppose. Of the short-snouted 

 species the only one at all resembling it is S. tristriatus, 

 whose South- Indian locality renders it very remarkable if 

 S. Hosei really belongs to the same group. However, when 

 fully adult specimens with perfect skulls are obtained, we 

 may be able to determine what are its nearest allies ; but 

 in any case there can be no question as to its own specific 

 distinction. 



XXV. — Spiders from Madeira. 

 By Cecil Warburton, M.A., Christ's College, Cambridge. 



[Plate XIV.] 



The Madeiran spiders which form the subject of the present 

 memoir have been obtained from three distinct sources : — 



1. Specimens collected by Mr. W^. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum, 

 and placed in my hands by the courtesy of his colleague 

 Mr. R. I. Pocock. This collection embraces thirty-two 

 species, of which three are new to science. 



2. Spiders collected by Mr. John Willis Clark, Registrary 

 of the University of Cambridge. Of the fifteen species con- 

 tained in this collection one is new to science. 



3. A few specimens, comprising eight species, collected by 

 Padre Schmidt, of Madeira, and kindly brought to me by 

 Mr. J. W. Clark. 



My thanks are due to the gentlemen above named and also 

 to the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge and M. Eugene Simon, 

 from whom I have received valuable advice with regard to 

 some of the more obscure species. 



« This altitude rests on the statement of a native. 



