238 On two new Species of Araneidea. 



the caput ; its colour is yellow-brown with a broad lateral 

 margin and the upper part of the caput of a deep brown. 

 The latter forms a longitudinal wedge-shaped band including 

 the eyes and continued backwards to the thoracic junction. 



The eyes are pearly white^ the four centrals form nearly a 

 square ; those of each lateral pair are contiguous to each 

 other, and seated slightly obliquely on a small tubercle. The 

 height of the clypeus exceeds slightly half that of the facial 

 space. 



The legs are slender, not very long, and furnished with 

 hairs and slender bristles. They are of a dark yellow-brown 

 hue 5 the femora have a single pale yellow-brown annulus 

 near their anterior extremity, and the tibiee two pale annuli; 

 the metatarsi and tarsi are paler than the other joints. The 

 relative length of the legs is 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Paljpi short, slender, and of a dark yellow-brown colour, 

 furnished with hairs and a few bristles. 



Falces not very long, rather weak, similar in colour to the 

 cephalothorax. 



MaxiUce, labium, and sternum normal, and of a deep brown 

 colour. 



The abdomen is very large and globular, and projects consider- 

 ably over the base of the cephalothorax. Its surface is glossy, 

 of a black colour, sparingly furnished with hairs, and with a 

 rather sharply dentated, longitudinal, median band on the upper 

 side, continued in the form of a narrow simple band backwards 

 to the spinners. This band is of a dull pale hue, tolerably 

 distinctly edged with white ; some two or three more or less 

 distinct oblique stripes of a similar nature occupy the sides ; 

 and on the underside, between the spinners and the genital 

 aperture, is a white sj)ot or marking. 



An example of this spider, alive, was kindly given to me 

 by the Eev. G. Aldridge, vicar of Morden, Dorset. It had 

 come to him by post in a small match-box from a friend in 

 Swaziland, Africa, where it is (probably not without reason) 

 considered venomous. I endeavoured to keep it alive, but it 

 refused to eat, and soon died. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX. A. figs. 1, 2. 



Fig. 1. Dictyna cognata, sp. n. a, abdomen, upperside, S ] ij genital 

 aperture, $ ; c, palpus, (S ; d, portion of palpus, J ; in another 

 position. 



Fig, 2. Lithyphantes morsitans, sp. n. a, full figure, $ ; h, outline ditto, 

 in profile ; e, natural length of spider. 



