1899.] AND SPIDERS FEOM TROPICAL WEST AFRICA. 871 



This species is apparently nearly allied to Phoneutria capulina 

 Karsch, the colour of the mandibles being apparently the same in 

 the two species and both of them possessing the beard-like fringe 

 of hair on the lower side of the legs, upon which Karsch lays so 

 much stress. Fortunately the question can be without difficulty 

 settled by a comparison between the palpus of C. capulinus and 

 the figures of that of C. burtoni which Mr. Cambridge has published. 



Ctbnus occidbntalis E. Cambr. 



Ctenus occidental^, F. Cambr. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1898, p. 22. 



Loc. W. Africa (without further history). 



Ctenus kingsleyi F. Cambr. 



Oteniis Jcingsleyi, F. Cambr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 21, pi. iii. 

 fig. 6. 



Loc. Cameroons {Miss Kingsley), 



Ctenus scopulatus, sp. n. (Plate LVII. fig. 25.) 



Colour. Carapace deep mahogany, clothed with short reddish- 

 brown hairs, hairs on the face and upper half of mandible 

 deep carmine ; mandibles shining black : legs same colour as 

 carapace above ; femora redder below, especially the base of the 1st 

 and 2nd in front ; scopulse greyish black. Abdomen indistinctly 

 variegated black and red above, the sides especially in front clothed 

 with bright reddish hairs interspersed with longer hairs of a paler 

 tint ; the lower surface behind the epigastric fold entirely covered 

 with a broad velvety-black field, narrowed and oval behind and 

 sharply marked off at the sides by the red hairs of the lateral 

 surface and in front by the reddish-yellow epigastric region ; 

 sternum and coxae blackish brown. 



Carapace longitudinally horizontal above, a little shorter than 

 palp measured from base of femur, longer than patella and tibia 

 or than tarsus and protarsus of 3rd leg, a little shorter than 4th 

 protarsus, just about equal to protarsus and tarsus of 2nd ; its 

 width just about equal to tibia of 2nd and of 4th ; ocular quad- 

 rangle longer than wide, narrowed in front, exceeding height of 

 clypeus, which nearly equals three diameters of anterior median 

 eyes. 



Legs 4, 1, 2, 3 ; tibiae of 1st and 2nd with 5 pairs of inferior 

 spines, not spined above, of 3rd and 4th with 3 pairs and 2 anterior 

 and 2 posterior spines and 3 superior spines ; patellas of 1st and 

 2nd unspined, of 3rd and 4th with 1 anterior and 1 posterior 

 spine ; tibise of 1st and 2ud scopulate below, of 3rd scopulate 

 below at its distal end ; protarsus of 4th scopulate except in the 

 basal fourth of its length; protarsi of 1st and 2nd without inferior 

 apical spine. 



Vulva consisting of a reddish, heart-shaped, convex, median 

 sclerite, with a small shining black dentiform process on each side 

 of its posterior extremity. 



