1877.] REV. O. p. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIOEA. 567 



Podophthahna and those others which I had imagined formerly to be 

 allied genera, viz. Labdacus, Cambr., and Tridaria, C. Koch. I 

 would now suggest that Ocyale should be joined with Podophthalma 

 to form a family, Podophthalmides, which might be placed between 

 the Lycosides and Sphasides, and followed by the family Salticides ; 

 or perhaps a yet more natural arrangement would be, stUl to place 

 the Podophthalmides, as I have hitherto done, between the Thomi- 

 sides and Lycosides. In this case Tridaria and Labdacus would 

 form a transition from the Thomisides to the Podophthalmides, and 

 the latter, although followed immediately by the Oxyopides, would 

 lead unmistakably to the Lycosides tlirough Ocyale. The Oxyopides 

 would, indeed, thus intervene between Ocyale and Dolomedes ; but 

 of course this kind of discrepancy cannot be always avoided in a 

 linear arrangement. 



In any case Tridaria and Labdacus, both of which have three 

 terminal tarsal claws, must be separated from the Thomisides, and 

 should form a family (Triclarides) between them and the Podoph- 

 thalmides. The arrangement would thus be Thomisides, Tricla- 

 rides, Podophthalmides, Oxyopides, Lycosides, Salticides. 



Podophthalma ellioti, sp. n. (Plate LVII. fig. 6.) 



Adult male, length very nearly 9 lines, 



The cephalothorax of this fine species is oval, much flattened 

 above, and the fore part of the caput, especially the clypeal portion, 

 considerably produced ; at each corner of this part there is a strong, 

 somewhat cylindrical, rather elongated, tubercular prominence, be- 

 neath the fore extremity of which is one of the fore lateral eyes. 

 The colour of the cephalothorax is yellow-brown, with a broadish 

 paler margin and central band ; and it is pretty densely clothed with 

 coarse greyish-white pubescence, almost entirely concealing the real 

 colour of the sui .'Uce. The longitudinal thoracic indentation is strong, 

 and the ordinary converging furrows well marked. 



The eyes are in four transverse rows, 2, 2, 2, 2 ; or they may be 

 perhaps more correctly described as forming a large quadrangular 

 figure of four eyes, and about the middle of it is another small 

 quadrangle of the remaining four. The anterior side of the larger 

 quadrangle is longer than tiie posterior one, while the posterior side 

 of the inner quadrangle is longer than the anterior ; in both figures 

 the length is greater than the breadth. The eyes of the foremost 

 row are the largest of the eight ; and this row is the same distance 

 from the next one as the latter is from the posterior (or fourth) row, 

 the third row being equidistant between the second and fourth. The 

 eyes of the third row (which are rather smaller than those of the 

 fourth) are separated by an eye's diameter ; and 

 those of the second row, which is the shortest of o o 



the four, are also much the smallest, and are 

 divided from each other by an eye's diameter. 

 The eyes may also be described as forming a St. 

 Andrew's Cross, whose base is rather longer than □ o 



the width of the upper part. 



