520 EEV. O. PICKARD-CAMBMDGB ON [Apr. 18, 



Fam. EpeibidjE. 



MiLONiA ALBUiiA, sp. 11. (Plate XXIX. fig. 2.) 



Female, immature, length 2^- lines. 



Gephalothom.v nearly twice as long as broad. Caput much 

 developed, strongly convex and rounded at the fore part ; oblique 

 indentations between caput and thorax strong. Colour yellow- 

 brown, caput darkest and tinged with reddish ; some erect long 

 bristly hairs in a longitudinal line at the hinder part of the 

 caput. 



Eyes subeqiial, in three groups, or two transverse curved rows, 

 the convexity of the curves being directed forwards ; the anterior 

 row is much the more strongly curved ; the four central eyes (or 

 middle group) form a trapezoid, of which the posterior side is much 

 shorter than the anterior, and its eyes near together, separated 

 by less than half a diameter. The eyes of each lateral group are 

 seated on a tubercle and near together, but not coutiguou?. The 

 fore-central eyes are largest, and separated by rather over a 

 diameter's interval. Clypeus almost obsolete. 



Ler/s short, moderately strong, 1-2-4-3, the first three pairs 

 nearly equal in length ; spines very few and not strong ; the third 

 and fourth pairs apparently without any, the first two pairs have 

 two on the inner side of the femora near the fore-extremity, and 

 one or two on the inner side of the genual joints, and two or 

 three on the tibiae. Colour dull orange-yellow. 



Palpi furnished with a few longish bristly hairs but no spines ; 

 the radial and digital joints dark brown, the rest paler. 



Falces strong, straight, vertical, of a shining dark reddish-brown 

 colour. 



Maxillce and lahium of the normal Epeirid form ; of a yellow- 

 brown colour, paler at the extremities. 



Sierimm dark yellow-brown, truncated anteriorly, slightly drawn 

 out into a fine point between the coxae of the fourth pair of legs. 



Ahdomen cylindrical, rounded at each end, the spinners placed 

 near the middle of the underside nearer to the fore than to the 

 hinder end ; it is of a dull whitish-brown colour, deepening into 

 sooty anteriorly ; the upperside is closely set with small cretaceous 

 white spots forming a ciirved marginal band round the fore half, 

 and a diffused longitudinal central band on which are six dusky 

 brownish spots in two longitudinal parallel lines about the middle 

 of the upperside. 



Hah. Singapore. Received from Mr. H. N. Eidley, Superin- 

 tendent of the Botanic Gardens at Singapore. 



Gea lugens, sp. n. (Plate XXIX. fig. 3.) 



Adult female, length 3 lines. 



General form and structure normal. 



Cephalotlioi-ax black or black-brown, clothed with adpressed grey 

 hairs, those on the caput and margins of the thorax longest 

 and densest. 



