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thorax and falces being rather darker than the legs and palpi, and 
the abdomen having a duller whitey-brown hue; the hinder part of 
the caput is elevated or protuberant, the thoracic portion and sides 
being depressed ; the eyes are similarly placed to those of the fore- 
going species ; those of the two foremost rows form an oblong figure, 
whose width is considerably less than its length, and its fore extre- 
mity a little wider than its hinder one; the two central eyes of the 
hinder row are much further apart from each other than each is from 
the lateral on its side; the eyes of this row are of a bright pearly- 
white lustre, and larger than the rest (which are dark-coloured), the 
external ones being apparently the largest of the eight. From the 
centre of the long-oval figure formed by the six hinder eyes springs 
a long, tolerably strong, erect, black bristle, and from the highest 
part of the caput (behind the eyes) spring two other similar bristles 
directed forwards; the legs are short, strong, and taper rapidly to 
their extremities; those of the third pair are rather the strongest ; 
they are armed with hairs, bristles, and strong spines, the latter 
being especially beneath those of the first and second pairs; their 
relative length is 4, 3, 1, 2, thus differing in this respect from all the 
foregoing species; but there seemed very little, if any, difference in 
length between those of the first and second pairs. Each tarsus 
ends with three claws, the inferior one being very small, the superior 
pair having apparently but one strong tooth beneath, like those of 
Idiops petitii; the falces are strong, prominent, and armed with a 
group of powerful spines at their extremities on the uppersides. 
The mazille are furnished with bristles and short spine-like promi- 
nences, of which last there are also several at the apex of the labium. 
The abdomen is rather large, oval, and convex above, furnished spa- 
ringly with hairs, and of a whitish yellow-brown colour. Spinners 
four in number; the superior ones stout, biarticulate, but not very 
long; the inferior ones very small. 
This Spider was dug out of a bank close to Beirit, by myself, in 
May 1864; it was ina tubular web spun in a cylindrical hole formed 
in the earth, and closed at the entrance, on the surface of the bank, 
by a hinged lid, similar to that of some other species of the Myga- 
lides. 
5. Descriptions of Three new Species of Marine Shells from 
the Australian Coast. By Joun Braziur, C.M.Z.S. 
VouuTa (AULICA) WISEMANI, 0. sp. 
The shell differs in a great many respects from V. pulchra, Sow. 
The first three whorls, forming the apex, are minutely granular ; 
fourth, tubercle slightly raised, straight and very sharp-pointed, 
orange-coloured blotches at the suture; fifth with the tubercles raised, 
sharp-pointed, tipped with orange, fine orange-coloured blotches at 
the suture, tubercles white between; basal whorl with five promi- 
nent tubercles at the angle, sharp-pointed, tipped with orange, be- 
