1873.] SPIDERS FROM ST. HELENA. 21/ 



the height of the clypeus being very nearly half that of the facial 

 space ; the hinder row, which is the longest (looked at from in 

 front), is strongly curved, the front one nearly straight. The eyes 

 are not very unequal in size, the fore laterals being slightly the 

 largest ; the intervals between the eyes of each row respectively are 

 as nearly as possible equal ; the four central eyes form a trapezoid 

 whose fore side is shorter than its hinder one, and the length of its 

 sides intermediate between them. 



The legs are not very long nor very unequal in length, but 

 moderately strong; their relative length is 1, 4, 2, 3, those of the 

 fourth and second pairs being very nearly equal ; they are of a pale 

 brownish-yellow colour, broadly annulated with darker brown; they 

 are furnished with hairs, and each tarsus ends with three claws ; there 

 is also a calamistrum on the metatarsi of the fourth pair, situated 

 rather on the inner side behind. 



The falces are long and strong ; each has a small flattish enlarge- 

 ment on the inner side near the extremity, armed with three small 

 sharp teeth ; this enlargement is apparently formed by the excava- 

 tion of the upperside of the falces at that part. 



The maxilla: are long, strong, obliquely and roundly truncated at 

 their extremities on the outer side, and slightly inclined towards 

 the labium, which is about half the length of the maxillae, of an 

 oblong form, and rather broader at its base than at its apex, where 

 it is somewhat rounded. The falces are similar in colour to the 

 cephalothorax ; the maxillae are similar to the legs and palpi ; the 

 labium is suffused with blackish brown, and the sternum, which is of 

 a heart-shaped oval form, is slightly suffused with brown. 



The abdomen is oval, rounded, and rather bluff behind ; the 

 ground-colour is a pale luteous yellow, and it is more or less ir- 

 regularly marked all over with hlack streaks and markings ; among 

 those on the upperside, near the middle, is a fairly denned cruciform 

 marking, followed towards the spinners, in a longitudinal series, by 

 several rather short, blunt-angular, transverse, black stripes. In front 

 of the ordinary spinners is a broad transverse supernumerary one. 



Two adult females were contained in Mr. Melliss's St.-Helena 

 collection. 



Genus Tegenaria. 



Tegenaria civilis. 



Tegenaria civilis, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. & Ir. p. 166, pi. 12. 

 fig. 107. 



Adults of both sexes were contained in the collection last received 

 from Mr. Melliss ; St. Helena is thus another locality ascertained 

 for this cosmopolitan species. 



Tegenaria proxima, sp. n. 



Tegenaria atrica, Cambr. Spiders of St. Helena, P. Z. S. 1869, 

 p. 533. 



Adult male, length 3 lines. 



In size, colours, and markings this species nearly resembles 



