5G8 REV. O. r. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIDEA. [June 19, 



The legs are long aud moderately strong, furnished with hairs, 

 bristles, and strongish spines; their relative length is 1, 4, 2, 3, or 

 4, 1, 2, 3, the difference between 1 and 2 being slight (in the only 

 male examined the fourth pair were wanting) ; the shorter hairs are 

 white, and give a grey hue to the legs, whose real colour is yellow- 

 brown with here and there a paler annulus. Each tarsus ends with 

 three claws, of which the superior pair are distinctly pectinated. 



The palpi are moderate in length and strength, and their colour 

 and clothing of grey hairs are like those of the legs ; the radial 

 joint is a little longer and stronger than the cubital, being enlarged 

 gradually towards its fore extremity, where, on the outer side, is a 

 short, deep red-brown, curved, blunt-pointed, corneous apophysis ; 

 there is also a long, tapering, spine-like, prominent bristle at the 

 inner side of its posterior extremity ; the digital joint is large and 

 hairy, and its length exceeds that of the radial and cubital joints 

 together, being almost, if not quite, equal to that of the humeral 

 joint ; in its general form and appearance the digital joint is like 

 that of Tegenaria and Ocyale, the fore extremity being much pro- 

 duced into a long, narrow, tapering point. The palpal organs are 

 placed beneath the posterior half of the digital joint, and comprise 

 several strong, bulbous-looking, corneous processes, each terminating 

 in a sharp point. 



The falces are strong, tolerably long, and straight, but directed 

 rather backwards towards the sternum ; they are similar to the 

 cephalothorax in colour, and are also clothed with grey hairs and a 

 few prominent dark bristles. 



The iuaxillee are strong, tolerably long, broader at their upper ex- 

 tremity than at the middle, and straight, almost exactly resembling 

 those of Ocyale, Dolomedes, and many Lgcosce, their colour and 

 clothing being similar to those of the falces. 



The labium is of a short oblong form, half the length only of the 

 maxillpp, and truncated at the apex ; this is paler than the rest, the 

 general colour being like that ot the maxillae. 



The sternum is of a short heart-shape, and its colour and clothing 

 are like those of the falces. 



The abdomen is long, and tapers gradually to its hinder extremity ; 

 its general colour is yellowish brown, clothed with hairs, most of 

 which have a greyish hue ; the upperside is occupied by a broad, 

 tapering, longitudinal dark-brown band, whose margins at the 

 hinder part are bluntly denticulate ; this band is bordered on each 

 side by a pale j'ellow-brown stripe, clothed densely with white hairs ; 

 and another similar longitudinal stripe occupies the middle of its 

 anterior portion ; and on each side of this latter stripe is a largish, 

 round, dark-brown, impressed spot. 



Tlie female resembles the male, but is larger. In the female the 

 legs of the fourth pair appear to be the longest ; aud probably those 

 of the male are also simdarly proportioned. The spinners are short, 

 two-jointed, of equal, or nearly equal, length ; and those of the in- 

 ferior pair are the strongest. The form of the genital aperture is 

 peculiar and characteristic. 



