362 REV. O. p. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW SPIDERS. [JunC .5, 



Two adult males of this Spider (remarkable for its flattened form) 

 were contained in the collection made in Caffraria by Mr. Mansel 

 Weale. 



Pal.ephatus, g. n. (nom. propr.). 



Cephalothorax. Length and breadth equal, broader in front than 

 behind ; upper convexity even and considerable ; in profile, highest 

 at the beginning of the posterior slope ; there is no lateral marginal 

 constriction at the caput, and all the normal indentations are obsolete. 

 The height of the clypeus is equal to the length of the line formed 

 by the fore-central pair of eyes. 



Exjes considerably unequal in size, placed in three widely sepa- 

 rated groups (although preservhig the same general form of area as 

 Xysticus, &c.), and occupying the whole width of the fore part of 

 the caput. The eyes of the two lateral pairs (or groups) are seated 

 on strong and distinct pale tubercles, and are the largest, the fore- 

 laterals being larger than the hind-laterals ; those of the central 

 group form nearly a square, whose longitudinal is less than its 

 transverse diameter, and the anterior side is shortest ; the posterior 

 eyes of this group are smallest, very minute, and difficult to be seen. 



Legs short and almost equal in length ; their relative length 

 appeared to be 4, 2, 3, 1. They are furnished with coarse hairs 

 only, and each tarsus ends with two curved, closely pectinated claws. 



Palpi short, similar in armature to the legs, and ending with a 

 curved pectinated claw. 



Falces short, conical, vertical ; fang small and weak. 



MaxillcB moderately long, rounded on the outer and pointed on the 

 inner extremity, constricted about the middle, and a little inclined 

 over the labium, which is about half the length oi the maxillae, aiud 

 of an oblong-oval form. 



Sternum short, heart-shaped. 



Abdomen oval, flattened on its upper surface, and projects well 

 over the base of the cephalothorax. 



Pal^phatus salticiformis, sp. n. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Immature female, length Ig line. 



The ceiplialothorax is of a mahogany red-brown colour, with a 

 reddish yellow-brown, slightly tapering, longitudinal central stripe, 

 reaching from the hind-central eyes to the posterior extremity. Its 

 surface is thinly covered with impressed points or punctures, and 

 there are a few strong hairs with some stiffer prominent bristles on 

 the sides of the caput, near the lower margin. 



Falces similar in colour to the cephalothorax, punctuose, and also 

 furnished in front with bristly hairs. 



Legs yellow-brown, darkest on the tibiae and fore half of the 

 femora. 



Palpi similar to the legs in colour. 



Maxillce, labium, and sternum dark yellowish brown. 



Abdomen deep rich maroon-brown, thinly furnished with hairs ; 

 the upperside has some irregular longitudinal (central and marginal) 



