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margin of clypeus ; its colour is yellow, with a few small brown 

 markings round the lateral margin, and a faint brown, broad, longi- 

 tudinal central band divided longitudinally on the caput by a 

 narrow yellow line, and broken in upon by short radiating yellowish 

 streaks indicating the normal thoracic indentations. 



The eyes are on conspicuous black tubercular spots, and vary a 

 little from the normal position, those of the first and second rows 

 forming together a curved line of four eyes, the curve directed back- 

 wards ;, this is caused by the group which consists of the second, 

 third, and fourth rows being advanced so much closer towards the 

 fore margin of the clypeus, while still retaining their own relative 

 position. This arrangement brings the general position of the eyes 

 into very nearly that of the genus Ocyale ; the exterior eyes, how- 

 ever, of the first row still occupy the same position as those of the 

 first row in the typical Podophthalma {i. e. quite at the lower corners 

 of the clypeus), and are also seated in front of, and rather below, a 

 tubercular eminence, though of less length than in the other (already 

 described) species of Podophthalma. Another characteristic of the 

 eyes of this Spider is that they are of considerable size, and vary 

 from each other very slightly in that respect. 



The legs are long, slender, and of a pale yellow colour, faintly an- 

 nidated with yellow-brown. They were entirely destitute of hairs 

 and spines ; but there were evidences of these having been consider- 

 ably rubbed off. Their relative length appears to be 4, 1, 2, 3. 



The palpi are similar to the legs in colour, slender, and of 

 moderate length. 



The falces, maxillce, and labium present no difference from the 

 normal form. They are of a pale yellow colour, except the labium, 

 which is pale brown. 



The sternum is heart-shaped, brown, with a distinct and complete 

 dentated border, and central longitudinal oval patch of yellow. 



The abdomen is oval, not so attenuated as in the other species, 

 but more convex towards the anterior extremity ; it is of a brownish- 

 yellow colour, marked variously both above and below with brown 

 stripes and markings, the sides and a broad transverse band on the 

 underside just behind the middle being closely marked with white 

 cretaceous spots and patches. 



A single examjile only, received in company with those, already 

 described, of P. hilaris, from Madagascar. 



I have had some doubt whether it would not be proper to place 

 this Spider in a new genus, on account of the difference in the eyes 

 from the typical Podophthalma, especially as the next Spider de- 

 scribed (P. diversa, from Brazil) has a similar general position of 

 the eyes, differing, however, in the two eyes of the second row (or 

 rather the intermediate ones of the first) being much smaller than 

 the rest, and so more nearly resembling those of the typical Podoph- 

 thalma. On the whole, therefore, it is perhaps best at present to 

 await the discovery of other species before forming a new genus for 

 these two. 'Jhis and the next species show some resemblance to 

 Lycosides, Linn. {Textrix, Sund.), of the family Agelenides. 



