522 EEV. O. PICKAED-CAMBEIDGE ON [-^P""- IS, 



The eyes are small ; those of the central quadrangle form nearly 

 a square, the anterior side a little longer than the posterior ; the 

 fore-lateral ej-^e on each side is equidistant from the fore and hind 

 central eyes on its side ; the hind-lateral eyes are far removed 

 backwards from the fore-laterals ; the fore-centrals appear to be a 

 little the largest. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength, 1-2-4-3, very 

 little difference between 1 and 2. Colour yellowish brown, the 

 femora of the first and second pairs bright orange-reddish ; the 

 tihise and metatarsi less bright, curved, furnished with spines ; 

 these are numerous as well as strong (though not very long), 

 especially in front and on the inner sides of the tibiiB and meta- 

 tarsi of the first and second pairs, the tarsi and the anterior portion 

 of the metatarsi of which are suffused with dark brown. The hairs 

 on the fore parts of the anterior tibiae and metatarsi are coarse 

 and grey. 



Palpi similar to the legs in colour and armature. 



Falces long, strong, pale brownish yellow. 



Maxilla, labium, and sternum pale yellow-brown, the last 

 fui'nished with strong bristly hairs. 



Abdomen large, the fore part (continuing the line of the hinder 

 part in an e\eu run) is greatly elevated, and a little taperiug to a 

 slightly enlarged part on the outer sides, I'ather in front of the 

 top of which nre six small prominences, three in a longitudinal 

 line on each side ; from this point there is a further but less 

 strong production enlarging at its extremity which is bifid, being 

 divided into two obtuse, rounded prominences. Colour yellow- 

 brown, clothed with short grey and other hairs, and marked on the 

 sides and hinder part with small black-brown spots, some forming 

 on the sides obscure oblique lines ; on the hinder part (looked at 

 from behind) are two large, somewhat oblong or irregularly oval, 

 deep rich bottle-greenish velvety markings in a longitudinal line ; 

 the hinder one of these markings is the largest, and both are 

 narrowly edged with first a blackish, and then, outside (in the 

 preserved specimen), a dull golden line. 



This very remai'kable Spider is nearly allied to a Zanzibar species, 

 P. furcifer Sim.\ but differs in the form and markings of the 

 abdominal elevation. From a note received from its captor, it seems 

 that this Spider has faded somewhat since it was placed in spirit, 

 as he speaks of the "head, thorax, and adjacent sides of the legs 

 being of an orange-red colour," and the bordering line of the green 

 patches on the abdomen as pink. 



Hub. Natal. Taken by Dr. F. N. Dimock Brown. 



Fam. ThomisiUjE. 

 Ehittmna. moedax, sp. n. (Plate XXIX. fig, 5.) 



Adult male, length slightly over 4| lines. 



Cephalothorax as broad as long, the thoracic region almost 

 1 Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, 1881, p. 4. 



