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dage, the mandibles otherwise uustriped ; sternum green ; legs 

 yellow ; all the segments, including coxae and trochanters but not 

 the tarsus, spotted with black at the base of the spines and also at 

 the base of the large hairs on the femora, coxae, and trochanters. 

 Abdomen greenish ; a pair of yellow stripes on the ventral surface 

 running from the epigastric fold to the spinners, and a pair of 

 broader stripes of the same colour on the dorsal side, separated by 

 an elongate greenish area, which is marked in front by yellow 

 stripes running obliquely forwards and inwards and meeting in 

 the middle line, and behind by yellow spots or stripes continued 

 like the anterior stripes from the lateral yellow bands. 



Clypeus scarcely vertical, the angle it forms with the upper 

 surface of the head slightly obtuse ; carapace as long as tarsus of 

 1st leg, longer than patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp, a little shorter 

 than tibia of 3rd leg, a little more than half the length of the 

 protarsus of the 1st. 



Abdomen long, broad in front, narrow behind, more than twice 

 as long as broad. 



Legs very long ; the 1st more than six times as long as the 

 carapace ; 4th a little less than five times as long, armed with long 

 black spines. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 19'5 ; length of 

 carapace 6-5, of 1st leg 42, of 2nd 37, of 3rd 27, of 4th 30. 



Log. Loango {in the Keyserling Collection). Several female speci- 

 mens. 



Differs from all the African species known to me in the form of 

 the vulva ; further differs from P. pulchra Blckw. and P. foliifera 

 Butl. (?= P. striata Karsch) in haviug no black bands on the front of 

 the clypeus and mandibles, and from /-'. luieicejos Simon (Donaldson 

 Smith, ' Unknown African Countries,' p. 391) in having the ocular 

 area less prominent, a single black stripe at the sides of the head 

 and upper end of the mandible. 



Family LvcosiDyD. 

 Genus Ocyale Aud. 



OCTALE ATALAUTA SaV. 



Loc. Accra (G. A. Higlett) ; Benito Eiver {G. L. Bates). 

 Distributed throughout Tropical Africa. 



Family PisattbiDjE. 

 Genus Tetbagonophthalma Karsch. 



Tetbagonophthalma phtlla Karsch. 



'i Dolomedcs exilipes, Lucas, Thomson's Arch. Ent. ii. p. 385 

 (18.58). 



Tetraiionophthalma phylla, Karsch, Zeits. gesammt. Naturwiss. 

 li. p. 329, pi. ix. fig. 4 (1878). 



