210 rev. o. p. Cambridge on [Mar. 4, 



March 4, 1873. 



John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. Edwin Ward sent for exhibition the original leg-bones of 

 Dinornis maximus, described and figured by Professor Owen in the 

 Society's ' Transactions ' (vol. vi. p. 497, pis. lxxxix., xc), belonging 

 to Col. Michael. 



The following papers were read : — 



1 . On the Spiders of St. Helena. 

 By the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S. 



[Keceived February 1, 1873.] 

 (Plate XXIV.) 



In a former paper (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 531-544, pi. 

 xlii.) twenty species of Spiders were recorded and described from 

 a collection received from Mr. Melliss, by whom they were captured 

 in the Island of St. Helena. Since then I have received from the 

 same gentleman two other collections, in which, in addition to most 

 of the species before recorded, I have found twenty-three others : 

 among these, eleven appear to be undescribed, while, of the re- 

 mainder, five are indigenous to Great Britain, Segestria senoculata, 

 Tegenaria civitis, Scytodes thoracica, Theridion tepidariorum, and 

 Linyphia leprosa ; two have been also received from Ceylon and 

 India, Pholcus distinctus and Artema convexa ; two are European, 

 Argyrodes epe'irce and Xysticus grammicus ; and two are Egyptian, 

 Latrodectus erebus and Tetragnatha pelusia. The European stamp 

 observed upon in regard to the Spiders of the former collection is 

 thus equally marked in those now recorded and described, three 

 only of those already described belonging to species not hitherto 

 recorded as European. 



According to the present and former papers, the known Spiders 

 of St. Helena thus number forty species, a number which will, I 

 doubt not, be greatly added to when a closer and more extended 

 search shall have been made. I understand that Mr. Melliss has 

 ceased to reside in St. Helena, so there is no more chance of further 

 discoveries in Arachnida from his exertions ; but for what he has 

 done, and so kindly placed within my reach as materials for the 

 present and former papers, I desire now to return him my very 

 heartiest thanks. 



List of species, including those recorded in the former paper 

 marked by an *. 

 Filistata condita, sp. n. * Segestria perfida. 



*Dysdera crocota, Koch = D. senoculata. 



rubicunda of former paper. Gnaphosa lugubris, sp. n. 



