1869.] SPIDERS FROM ST. HELENA. 535 
intersecting lines; the portion near and behind the small lateral 
prominences above mentioned is the darkest in colour, and the 
upperside has a broad longitudinal median band of silvery hue ex- 
tending nearly to its extreme hinder point ; the hinder extremity of 
this band is trifid, and along its longitudinal centre is a dark line 
enlarged triangularly at several points and sending off short lateral 
lines on either side; on each side near its middle also is a dark dot. 
The sides have two conspicuous dark spots, one near its fore ex- 
tremity, the other about the middle; beneath (i.e. between the 
cephalothorax and spinners on the underside) the abdomen is of a 
pale yellow-brown hue, and its central portion is charged with three 
broad longitudinal bands, the external ones being of silvery metallic 
lustre, the central one deep black. The spinners are situated less 
than halfway between the cephalothorax and the extreme hinder 
point of the abdomen; on either side of their base are two conspi- 
cuous metallic silvery blotches, and behind them is a prominent 
kind of anal protuberance or coccyx. 
A single adult female of this pretty and very distinct Spider was 
found in the St.-Helena collection sent me by Mr. Melliss, with 
whose name I feel great pleasure in connecting it. 
Gen. THERIDION. 
Tueripion punicum, Lucas, Explorations en Algérie, Zool. 
tome i. p. 256, pl. 16. f. 3. 
A single female of this species was contained in the collection 
from St. Helena. 
THERIDION FULVO-LUNULATUM, Lucas, Explorations en Algérie, 
Zool. tome i. p. 267, pl. 17. f. 9. 
A female of this species, which much resembles some species of 
Latrodectus in colour and markings, in the St.-Helena collection. 
Fam. Epriripes. 
Gen. TETRAGNATHA. 
TETRAGNATHA DIGNA, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 3.) 
Female adult, length 4 lines. 
Cephalothorax oval, not very convex above; caput somewhat 
produced ; normal furrows and indentations strongly marked ; colour 
yellow, with deep-red-brown lateral margins, and a longitudinal cen- 
tral band or stripe of the same colour ; clypeus retreating, and about 
equal in height to the length of the space occupied by the fore and 
hind central pairs of eyes. 
Eyes eight, seated on black spots, but little difference in their 
relative size; they form two rows, the hinder row straight, the fore 
one curved, the curve directed forwards; the four central eyes form 
a short oblong figure, whose longest width is in the longitudinal line 
of caput; on either side of this oblong figure, and separated from it 
by a space equal to its length, are the lateral pairs; the eyes of each 
