1877.] REV. O. p. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIDEA* 577 



this apophysis is very difficult to distinguish clearly ; the digital 

 joint is of a narrow form, and ta[)ers a little towards its fore ex- 

 tremity, its length being nearly, if not quite, equal to that of the 

 cubital and radial joints together ; all these three joints are clothed 

 with longish coarse white hairs. The palpal organs are simple but 

 well developed ; they are not conspicuous, being of a similar colour 

 to the rest of the palpus, and much obscured by the white hairs on 

 the digital and radial joints. 



The/b/ces are short, straight, vertical, and not very strong ; they 

 are of a brownish-yellow colour with a broad rather oblique dark 

 yellow-brown longitudinal stripe on the fore side. 



The maxiUce are yellow-brown, paler at their extremities. 



The labium is also yellow-brown, palest at the apex. 



The sternum is heart-shaped and of a pale yellow colour. 



The abdomen is of a palish yellow hue ; on the fore half of the 

 upperside a clearer yellow elongate-oblong central marking is indi- 

 cated by a dark-brown dentated marginal line, and terminates pos- 

 teriorly with a short transverse curved dark-brown stripe, behind 

 which, again, are two longitudinal curved dark-brown markings in- 

 closing a circular area covered densely with white squamose hairs 

 which extend forwards also to the transverse stripe above described. 

 The sides are marked with a few dark-brown spots and markings ; and 

 on each side of the fore extremity of the oblong central marking is a 

 large patch of white squamose hairs. In front, below the fore 

 margin, are some coarse, bristly, black, upturned hairs. 



The spinners are of a blackish hue, tipped with pale yellowish ; 

 those of the inferior pair are much the strongest, thougii of the same 

 length as the superior pair ; and those of the central pair are nearly 

 as long as the rest. There is evidently some variety in the abdo- 

 minal markings of this species, since in tlie other example before 

 noted the upperside of the abdomen is generally suffused with 

 dark blackish brown, showing faintly the longitudinal oblong central 

 yellowish marking on the fore part ; the posterior and two an- 

 terior large patches of white squamose hairs, however, are even 

 more conspicuous in this than in the other example. 



Two adult male examples were received from the Rev. S. J. 

 Whitmee, by whom they were found in the island of Samoa, and 

 kindly sent to me, together with a few other Spiders. 



LIST OF SPIDEES. 



Fam. Gasteuacaxtiudes. 



Cyrtarachne longipcs, sp. u., river Ooanza, p. 559, PI. LVI. fig. 1. 



funafa, sp. n., RockLamptou, p. 5(50, PI. LVI. fig. 2. 



hobsoni, sp. n., Bombay and Ceylou, p. 502, PL LVI. fig. 3, 



Fam. Ckyptotiielide.s. 

 Cryptothele ccylmiica, sp. n., Ceylon, p. 503, PL LVI. fig. 4. 



Fam. Eru'ides. 

 Eripiis quhtquegibbosus, sp. n., Miuas Geraes, p. 5(54, PL LVI. fig. 5. 



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