1877.] REV. O. p. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIDEA. ^^7 



21. Strepsilas INTERPRES. 



Two specimens (nos. 500, 501, males) were obtained on the main 

 island. "Stomachs had pieces of shell," &c. — /. M. 



22. Numenius uropygialis, Gould. 

 One skiu (483), " female." 



23. TOTANUS INCANUS, Gm. 



Actitis incana, Finsch et Hartl. Orn. Central- Polyn. p. 182. 

 One example (502), "female: eyes brown, legs green, bill dark." 

 —J. M. 



24. Tringoides hypoleucos (Linn.). 

 One specimen, a female, no. 503 of MS. Cat. 



25. Anous stolidus (Linn.). 



A female (no. 485) : " eyes black. 



*' This Tern was most abundant here, and could always be seen in 

 immense numbers, feeding on the shoals of fishes." — J. M. 



26. Anous melanogenys. Gray; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 670. 



One "female" (no. 485): "eyes black." Mr. Howard Saunders 

 has kindly determined the Laridae for me. 



27. Sterna bebgii, Licht. 



One skiu (no. 486) : " eyes black." 



4. On some new Species of Araneidea, with Characters of 

 two new Genera, and some Remarks on the Families 

 Podopthalmides and Dinopides. By the Rev. O. P. 

 . Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S., &c. 



[Eeceived May 30, 1877.] 



(Plates LVI. & LVII.) 



The twelve Spiders included in the following descriptions belong 

 to six widely separated families, and are inhabitants of localities 

 i-ery distant from each other, comprising Australia, India, Ceylon, 

 the''west coast of Africa, the island of Samoa, and Brazil. 



Of the first family (Gasteracanthides) there are three species, 

 which rhave, for the present at least, included in the genus Gyrta- 

 rachne, Thor., though two of them, one from the river Coanza, and 

 the other from Rockhampton, are very abnormal species, and may 

 perhaps eventually form the types of one, if not of two new genera. 



In the next family (Cryptothelides) the Spider described is from 

 Ceylon, — Cryptothele ceylonica ; it is remarkable, not only from 

 its own special and very peculiar characters, but because it is as yet 



