286 ON SPIDERS FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND ETC. [ Mar. 20, 
collection. The examples from which Mr. Butler’s description was 
made were dried, and consequently had lost the characteristic 
olours and markings of the abdomen. ‘The upperside of this part 
is orange-yellow, with a very broad nearly black transverse band on 
the fore extremity, having, however, a narrow orange margin in 
front of it, but comprising the ordinary boss-like markiags on the 
anterior margin: these, as well as the rest of the markings, are of 
a deep red-brown colour, as are also the six abdominal spines, of 
which the two posterior pairs are of a brilliant deep purple and 
magenta metallic hue. The underside is black, studded thickly 
with minute shining tubercles, and blotched sparingly with reddish 
orange-yellow spots and patches. 
The sternum is black with a large, round, very conspicuous, red- 
dish orange-yellow spot in the centre. 
The cephalothorax and falces are of a rich black, and the legs 
of a black-brown colour. 
Family THOMISIDES. 
Genus Sarores, Sund.,=Outos, Walck., ad partem. 
SAROTES VULPINUS, sp. 1. 
Adult female, length very nearly 10 lines. 
The cephkalothorax is longer than broad, round-oval behind, and 
constricted laterally at the caput; its colour is a foxy yellowish red, 
paler at the occiput, and with an indistinct longitudinal central line 
on the middle part of the caput; and the surface is clothed with 
greyish sandy hairs. 
The eyes are in two transverse lines, the foremost straight, the 
hinder one slightly curved, the convexity of the curve directed 
backwards. They are of the same colour as the cephalothorax ; the 
four lateral eyes are seated in front of a tubercle and are considerably 
the largest of the eight; the rest scarcely appear to differ in size. 
Those of the posterior row are separated by equal intervals of 
nearly about two diameters’ extent; the interval between the fore 
centrals is equal to a diameter, and each is very near but con- 
tiguous to the fore lateral eye on its side. The height of the middle 
of the clypeus is equal to the diameter of one of the fore central 
eyes: the interval between the eyes of each lateral pair is equal to 
the diameter of the fore lateral eye; and the fore central eyes form 
a square whose anterior side is the shortest, and its longitudinal 
rather greater than its transverse diameter. 
The legs are long, strong, furnished with hairs, bristles, and strong 
spines, and of a yellow-brown colour. All have the tarsi and meta- 
tarsi covered with a scopula or pad of close-set hairs on the under- 
side. Their relative length is 2, 1, 4, 3. Those of the first and 
second pairs are much the longest; but there is not much difference 
between them; and this is also the case with those of the third and 
fourth pairs. 
The palpi are mederate in length and strength, similar to the 
