1898.] CTEXITOEM SPIDEES OF AFRICA, ARABIA, ATTD STRIA. 15 



1896. Cteniis aculeatus E. Sim. Sub Leptoctenus. Ann. Soc. Ent. 



Tr. Ixv. p. 494. West Africa, Eio Pango. 

 1873. Phoneutria decora Gers. Von der Decken's ' Eeisen in Ost- 



Africa,' iii. 2, p. 483, pi. viii. iig. 7. Mbaramu. 

 1876. Phoneutria enjihrochelis B. Sim. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. i. p. 222. 



Landana, Congo. 

 1879. PJioneiitria auricularis Karsch. Zeitschr. ges. Nat. p. 347. 



"West Africa. 

 1879. Phoneutria capvlina Karsch. Zeitschr. ges. Nat. p. 348. 



West Africa. 

 1886. Phoneutria fasciata Lenz. Zool. Jahrbuch, i. pp. 379-408. 



Isl. Nossi-Be, Madagascar. 

 1895. Phoiuutria melanogastra Boseub. Jahrbuch Hamburg. 



Wissen. Anstalt, xii. p. 12 (sep. copy), t. i. f. 14-14 d. E. 



Africa. 



1895. Phoneutria dehilis Pay. Ann. Mus. Geneva, xxxv. p. 523. 

 Galla Country, East Africa. 



1896. Caloctenus cjuineensis E. Sim. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. Ixv. 

 p. 496. Sierra Leone. 



1896. Anahita lineata E. Sim. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. Ixv. p. 497. 



Landana, Congo. 

 1896. Anahita lurida E. Sim. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. Ixv. p. 497. 



Sierra Leone, E-io Pungo. 



Ctenus fimbriatus Walk. 



$. Hal. Cape of Good Hope. — This is a three-clawed form 

 which has been selected by M. Simon as the type of Thalassius 

 (Titurius), Sim. 



Cteniis telox B1. (Plate III. figs. 1, 2.) 



2 . 20 mm. Adt. Type in coll. O. P. C. Hah. Zanzibar, S.E. 

 Africa. 



$. Total length 20 mm. Cap. 10x8. Legs absent. Pat.+ 

 tib. i. 13— iv. 13-5. Prot. iv. ]2-5. 



Colour. Abdomen bro^^-n freckled with yellowish grey, with a 

 broad dentated yello^^• band, bordered ^^■ith black, along the dorsal 

 area, comprising a longitudinal anterior yellow band. Ventral 

 area black anteriorly, with two unequal white oval spots. 



Structure. Eyes of second row straight ; line passing through 

 centres of centrals cuts posterior margin of laterals. Ocular 

 quadrangle broader than long, broader behind. Eyes closer 

 together, otherwise similar to those of allied forms. 



The vulva consists of a long, dark, chitinous, raised, central 

 tongue, dilate before the middle, slightly emarginate and again 

 broadly dilate, depressed in front, convex in middle, again de- 

 pressed behind; slightly but broadly grooved in centre longi- 

 tudinally. Sides rugulose or impunctate, fringed with fine pale 

 hairs. Posterior angles of tongue guarded on each side by a stout, 

 slightly curved, blunt spur, black on margins, convex at apex, its 



