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*873.] SPIDERS FROM ST. HELENA. 



*Clubiona dubia, sp n. * M eta digna, sp. n. (includes 



Lheiracanthium mellissu, sp.n. also If^a indigna of former 



planum, sp. n. paper). 



Amaurobius crucifer, sp. n. *Epeira solers f 



Tegenaria civilis. *Argiope aurelia- 



-proximo, sp. n. (T. atrica Uloborus williamsii. 



of former paper) . Xysticus grammicus. 



Scytodes thoracica. *Philodromus signatus, sp. n. 



Fholcus phalangwides. *Heteropoda {Olios) tridenti- 



dishnctus. gera, sp. n 



Artema convexa. *Pasithea pulchra. 



Ariadne melhssii, sp. n. *Lycosa ligata, sp. n 



*Theridion punicum. * inexorabilis, sp. n. 



fulvolunulatum. dolosa, sp. n 



— - tepidariorum. *Salticus nigrolimbatus, sp. n. 



Latrodectus erebus. * adansonii. 



Linyphialeprosa. inexcultus, sp. n . 



al ^culata, sp. n. subinstructus, sp. n. (in- 



— trifididens, sp. n. c l u d es also Salticus Migeri 



Argyrodes epeirce. of former paper). 



letragnatha pelusia. 



Fam. Filistatides. 



Genus Filistata. 



Filistata condita, sp. n. (Plate XXIV. fig. 1.) 



Immature female, length 2| lines. 



The whole of the fore part of this Spider is of a yellow colour. 



Ihe cephalothorax, which is of the ordinary form of the genus 

 has the upper part clothed pretty thickly with coarse and father 

 adpressed dark brown hairs, giving a darkish hue to that portion. 



,trn ■ Tf r ' r ' er arg£> ' but in the Usual P° sition > seat «d upon a 

 strongish tubercul.form transverse oval eminence, a little wav behind 

 the lore margin of the clypeus. 



The legs are moderately long and strong; the V do not differ 



greatly in length ; those of the fourth pair seemed to be slightly 



onger than those of the first, and the third pair rather the shortest ; 



they are furnished with blackish-brown bristly hairs only, and each 



tarsus ends with three inconspicuous claws. 



The palpi are strong, moderately long, similar to the lees in their 

 armature, except that the single terminal claw is stronger than those 

 on the tarsi of the legs. 



The falces are short and weak, but rather projecting forwards. 



Lhemaxillce, labium, and sternum present no observable variation 

 trom the usual generic type. 



The abdomen is oval rounded and bluff behind, where it proiects 

 considerably over the S1 te of the spinners; it is of a dull whitish 

 drab-yellow colour clothed sparingly with coarsish brown hairs, and 

 marked on the hinder half of the upperside with a series of four or 

 five strong and well-defined trans* erse angulated bars or chevrons of 



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