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only the second species known, either of the genus or family, which 

 were lately founded by Dr. Ludwig Koch upon an Australian 

 Spider. The present species is thus another instance of a Spider 

 peculiar (so far as our present knowledge goes) to Ceylon and 

 Australia. Previous instances have been furnished in the genera 

 Amyde and Miagrammopes. 



Of the third family (Eripides) little is known. Two species only 

 besides the present, have been described ; and all of them are from 

 Brazil, the present being the first recorded example of the male sex. 

 The close affinity between the Eripides and Stephanopides has not 

 yet received sufficient attention. The latter family is (as at present 

 known) exclusively from Australia and New Zealand, while the former 

 is South- American. 



The family Podophthalmides, which is the next contained in this 

 paper, is one of which one (West- African) species only has before 

 been named. Dr. Ludwig Koch, indeed, describes a second species 

 from the river Anseba, E. Africa ; but, being doubtful as to its dis- 

 tinctness, he has given it no name. The genus Podophthalma (Ca- 

 pello) is an instance of the difficulty, in some cases, of assigning a 

 systematic place to a Spider. Dr. L. Koch, 'jEgyptische und 

 Abyssinische Arachnideu,' p. 36, would place this genus in the 

 family Agelenides ; M. Simon thinks that it belongs, "without any 

 doubt whatever," to the family Oxyopides, while to myself it appears 

 necessary to constitute the type species (with those here described) 

 and the genus Ocyale (Sav.) a distinct family next to the Lyco- 

 sides. That there is some affinity with the Agelenides, I have 

 myself observed (see infra, p. 566, the remarks there made having 

 been written before those of Dr. L. Koch had come under my 

 notice). 



Of the five species of Podojiliihahna described below, one is from 

 East-Central India, another from the river Coauza, two from Mada- 

 gascar, and one from Brazil. Two of these, P. incerta and P. diversa, 

 undoubtedly show characters which give some support to Dr. L. 

 Koch's view of their systematic position ; and these may perhaps 

 have to be se])arated under another generic appellation, and be re- 

 moved to the Agelenides ; but how far the typical species of Podoph- 

 thalma would necessarily follow them, should they be so removed, 

 is not so clear to me at present. 



The fifth family, Dinopides, including the genus Avella described 

 below, contains now three genera and is an exceedingly remarkable 

 group ; and 1 confess that its systematic position is, as yet, a puzzle 

 to me. Walckenaer, as well as Macleay, who founded it, placed 

 Dinopis in the family Lycosides, between which and the Salticides 

 I have at present left it, though that place will probably not long 

 retain it. I cannot, however, agree with Dr. L. Koch, who places 

 Dinopis in tlie family Eresides {vide infra, p. 5/3) ; I would rather 

 suggest that its place is nearer to the Agelenides, though in the 

 absence of any knowledge of its habits it is impossible to speak 

 with certainty upon this point. 



The new Salticid genus AthamaSy the last Spider here described, 



