1865.] | MISS STAVELEY ON THE MAXILL# OF SPIDERS. 673 
marginal edge brownish ochreous ; three large black spots within the 
cell. Hind wings pale green varied with brown ; an irregular white 
band just beyond the middle, sinuated on its inner edge and gradu- 
ally shaded off on its outer edge, extending from the front margin, 
towards the anal angle, to the second median nervule ; a submarginal 
row of seven large,ill-defined brown spots a little way from and fol- 
lowing the direction of the outer margin; three large black spots 
within the cell, one near the base, the other two placed obliquely 
just beyond the middle of the cell; cilia, anterior and interior mar- 
ginal edges brownish ochreous. Body orange ochreous ; legs pale 
ochreous ; palpi and club of antenne orange. 
fab. Congo. 
Fig. 6. Romaleosoma medon, Linn. 
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11. Nore oN THE PRESENCE OF TEETH ON THE MAXILL& OF 
Spipers. By Miss Stavetey. ComMuNICATED By Dr. 
J. E. Gray*. 
I do not find in Dr. Blackwall’s ‘ Monograph of the British Spi- 
ders,’ nor in M. Simon’s ‘Histoire Naturelle des Aranéides,’ nor 
in any other work which I have had an opportunity of consulting, 
that the occurrence of teeth on the maxille of Spiders has been 
noticed. 
On the maxillee of six out of seven Spiders which I have examined, 
belonging to various genera, there is a row of very regular and per- 
fectly-formed teeth on the outer edge of the extremity of the maxilla. 
These teeth vary slightly in form in the different species, and the 
* Since this paper was read, Miss Staveley has examined several other species 
of Spiders, and found these teeth developed in all of them.—J. E. G. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1865, No. XLIV. 
