840 MB. R. I. P(JCOCK Olf SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [Nov. 14, 



Heteroscodra maculata, sp. n. 



2 . Colour. Carapace covered with white hairs round the margin 

 and furnished with narrow white stripes which radiate from the 

 fovea to this white border, the intermediate area clothed with hairs of 

 an olive-green tint, forming two indefinite longitudinal bands starting 

 with a deep patch of the same tint on each side of the ocular 

 tubercle ; upperside of abdomen olive-gi-een, mottled with white ; 

 mandibles black, covered with ashy-grey hairs; legs deep red, 

 covered with ashy-grey hairs ; the naked lines on femora, patellae, 

 and tibiae very distinct ; hairs on femora and tibiae whiter than on 

 the rest of the limbs, the distal extremities of which are clothed 

 with foxy-red bristles, with a greenish underclothing ; upper- 

 side of tibiae with two submedian white lines or spots, on the 

 proximal side of which there are a pair of blackish bands ; a large 

 black spot on the upperside of the tai'sus and on the basal half of 

 the protarsus, as in Scodra • the extremities of the segments with a 

 narrow rim of white hairs ; lower side of trunk and limbs uniform 

 ashy grey, the scopulae bluish green. 



Carapace longer than wide, the width almost equal to the length 

 from the anterior median eye to the posterior border. Eyes as in 

 Scodra ; the length of carapace a little less than patella, tibia, and 

 tarsus of palp, a little excelling patella and tibia of 1st leg, less 

 than those of 4th leg, equal to tibia, protarsus, and half the tarsus 

 of the 3rd, less than protarsus and tarsus of 4th, greater than 

 those of 1st ; the width a trifle less than patella and tibia of 1st, 

 and just exceeding those of 2nd leg. 



Legs 4, 1, 2, 3, without spines, scopulate as in Scodra ; protarsus 

 of 4th longer than tibia of 4th, and as long as protarsus and half 

 the tarsus of the 1st. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 30 ; length of carapace 

 16, width 14-5; length of 1st leg 42, of 4th 48, patella and tibia of 

 1st 15, of 4th 18 ; length of tibia of 4th 10-5, height 4-5. 



Log. W. Africa (F. W. Marshall). 



A single female specimen of this interesting new spider was 

 received from this Society, to which it had been presented alive by 

 Mr. F. W. Marshall. This specimen lived for some months in the 

 Insect-house at the Society's Gardens, and was referred to by 

 Mr. A. Thomson as Scodra calceata in his report upon the Insect- 

 house for 1897 (see P. Z. S. 1898, p. 81). _ Though very closely 

 resembling Scodra calceata in colour, the spider was found, upon 

 closer examination after death, to be the representative of quite a 

 distinct species. 



Genus SelejS'Ogyrus Poc. 



SeLBNOGYRUS CiERULEUS PoC. 



Selenogi/rus cceruleus, Poc. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 768. 

 Loc. SieiTa Leone {Surg.- Cajpt. Clements and B. E, Austen). 



