1874.] NEW SPECIES OF ERIGONE. 439 



and projects a good deal, but not very closely, over the base of the 

 cephalothorax ; it is of a very pale straw-colour, the upper surface 

 covered with a coriaceous finely punctuose epidermis of an orange 

 colour, with four not very distinct brownish yellow impressed spots 

 in the middle, forming a rectangular figure whose fore side is much 

 the shortest ; the spiracular plates and a small portion on the sides 

 and in front of the spinners are similar in colour to the epidermis on 

 the upperside ; the abdomen is thinly clothed with short hairs ; the 

 sides and underside are also covered with minute punctures, givin^ it 

 a speckled appearance. 



The female resembles the male in colours and general characters ; 

 but the fore part of the caput is uncleft, and the coriaceous epidermis 

 on the upperside of the abdomen is much smaller, only reaching 

 halfway to the spinners, while in the male it leaves only one third 

 bare ; the genital aperture is small and simple in form, being appa- 

 rently a small transverse oval. 



Adults of both sexes of this Spider were contained in Mr. J. 

 H. Emerton's collection ; it is allied both to E. capito (Westr.) and 

 E. perforata (Thor.), but quite distinct and easily recognizable 

 from both; more nearly also it is allied to E. atriceps (Cambr.) 

 (supra, p. 436). 



Erigone directa, sp. n. (Plate LV. fig. 9.) 



Adult male, length 1 line. 



The cephalothorax, falces, maxillae, labium, and sternum of this 

 Spider are of a uniform yellow-brown colour,- the legs and palpi 

 (except the digital and radial joints of the latter, which are darker) 

 yellow, tinged with orange, and the abdomen dull black ; the form 

 of the cephalothorax is elongate-oval, the caput being rather promi- 

 nent or drawn out in the ocular region, from the midst of which there 

 projects forwards a nearly straight cylindrical prominence having the 

 same direction (or as nearly so as possible) as the profile-line of the 

 cephalothorax ; in fact this prominence is a continuation from be- 

 tween the eyes of the caput, and it has close to the extremity several 

 short reversed bristles, the extremity being somewhat obliquely trun- 

 cated ; the height of the clypeus exceeds, but not greatly, half that 

 of the facial space, and it is a little impressed above its lower margin 

 near the middle ; the normal grooves and indentations are but slio-htlv 

 indicated. ° 



The eyes are in four pairs, forming a round-oval close round the 

 base of the prominence at the apex of the caput ; they are of tolerable 

 size, those of the fore central pair being the smallest and contiguous 

 to each other ; those of each lateral pair are also contiguous to each 

 other ; each fore lateral eye is very near to but separated from the 

 fore central on its side ; and each hind lateral is no more than its own 

 diameter distant from the hind central on its side, the hind centrals 

 being no more than half an eye's diameter from each other ; all 

 except the fore centrals, which are dark, are pearly white, narrowly 

 margined with black, and very distinct. 



The legs are long and slender, their relative length being 4, 1,2, 3, 



