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A single adult male was received from Bombay, from Major Julian 

 Ilubson, among many other rare and new Spiders. 



Genus Clubiona, Latr. 



Clubiona filicata, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 35.) 



Adult male, length 3| lines. 



This Spider is very like Clubiona robusta (L. Koch) (Swan 

 River, Australia) in general form, colours, and markings, but may 

 easily be distinguished in both sexes by well-marked differences in 

 the form of the sexual organs ; its colours and markings also strongly 

 remind one of C. comta (C. Koch) of Europe. 



The cephalothorax is of ordinary form ; it is of a brownish orange- 

 yellow colour, deepening towards the eyes, and clothed thinly with 

 pale hairs, among which are a few erect slender dark ones ; the lateral 

 constrictions at the caput (which is short and broad) are slight ; the 

 normal grooves and indentations are marked by dusky converging 

 lines. 



The eyes are of moderate size, in the usual two transverse curved 

 rows, the front row nearly straight and considerably the shortest ; the 

 eyes of this row are about equidistant from each other ; they are 

 placed very near, about half of one of the central eye's diameters, 

 from the lower margin of the clypeus ; the interval, however, between 

 those of the central pair of this row, which are the largest of the 

 eight, is perhaps rather greater than that which separates each from 

 the fore lateral on its side ; the eyes of the hinder row are more un- 

 equally separated, those of the central pair being perceptibly further 

 from each other than each is from the hind lateral on its side ; each 

 fore central eye is separated from the hind central nearest to it 

 by nearly the diameter of the latter ; those of each lateral pair, 

 which are the smallest of the eight, are placed very obliquely, and 

 are divided by an interval about equal to that between the fore and 

 hind central eyes. 



The legs are yellow, moderately long, and tolerably strong ; their 

 relative length is 4, 1, 2, 3, though the difference between those of 

 the first and second pairs is very slight ; they are furnished with 

 hairs and spines ; and beneath the two terminal tarsal claws is a 

 compact claw-tuft. 



The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, rather short, and not 

 very strong. The radial is of the same length as the cubital joint, but 

 rather less strong ; it has near the outer side of its fore extremity a 

 small, dark, flattish, somewhat wedge-shaped apophysis, being, how- 

 ever, but little more than a prominent sharp point ; the digital joint 

 is of moderate size, oval, and equal in length to the radial and cubital 

 together. The palpal organs are well developed, but simple, consisting 

 of a large, pale yellowish oval lobe encircled by a broadish, somewhat 

 omega- shaped, yellow- brown band, and with one or two small cor- 

 neous prominences, as well as a small, fine, and not very long, coiled, 

 filiform, black spine at their extremity; 



The falces are moderately long, strong, slightly projecting, promi- 



