1870.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIDFA. 743 
Mazville moderately long, strong, rounded at their extremities, a 
little curved, and greatly inclined over the /abium, which is small, 
short, and subtriangular or somewhat semicircular, with the apex 
slightly pointed. 
Puycus BREVIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. fig. 9.) 
Female, immature, length | line. 
The general aspect of this Spider is remarkable, owing to its short 
hunched appearance, the caput being large and elevated, while the 
cephalothorax, as a whole, is small, sloping rapidly and continuously 
in a slightly hollow line from the summit of the caput to its hinder 
margin; its colour is deep brown, and the caput is furnished with 
long curved spiny bristles. 
The eyes are rather large, nearly equal in size, and form a large 
crescent ; the clypeus is high, slightly prominent below, and exceeds 
in height the greatest breadth of the crescent formed by the eyes; 
they are seated on black tubercles, those of the lateral pairs are 
contiguous to each other; those of the two intermediate pairs form 
very nearly a square, the fore side being slightly the shortest. The 
eyes of the hind central pair are rather further from each other than 
each is from the lateral on its side; those of the front row are equi- 
distant from each other, and apparently larger than those of the 
hinder row. 
The legs are short, strong, tapering, and laterigrade; the differ- 
ence in their relative length is very little ; those of the fourth pair ap- 
peared to be slightly the longest, and those of the third pair slightly 
the shortest, while those of the first and second pairs were almost, if 
not quite, equal. The colour of the legs is pale yellow, conspicuously 
blotched and banded with black; they are furnished with hairs, 
bristles, and long slender spines ; and each tarsus ends with three 
curved black claws. 
Palpi short, similar in colour and armature to the legs, and ter- 
minating with a curved black claw. 
Falces rather small, but strongish, vertical and conical ; their colour 
is yellow-brown, banded with a darker hue towards their extremities. 
The maville and labium are similar in colour to the cephalothorax, 
as also the sternum, which is heart-shaped, rather convex and glossy. 
Abdomen large, convex above, broad and rounded in front, pointed 
behind, and projects greatly over the base of the cephalothorax ; 
the texture of the cuticle is strong ; it is of a metallic silvery nature 
on the upperside; the sides, as also the fore and undersides, are 
deep brown; the underside has a central somewhat cruciform sil- 
very patch ; the upperside is charged with a large elongate-triangular 
deep brown marking, which does not quite touch the brown fore side, 
its margins are irregularly notched or dentate, and its acute point 
terminates just above the spinners; this marking is mottled with 
minute silvery dots behind, and has an inverted T-shaped metallic 
silvery marking on its fore part; on either side of the brown trian- 
gular marking are a few small dark brownish elongate spots. The 
whole of the upperside of the abdomen is thinly covered with small 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1870, No. L. 
