880 MR. R. I. POCOOK ON SCORPIOXS, PEDIPALPS, [NoV. 14, 



are almost in contact in the middle line, the former just in front 

 of the middle of the upper surface, the latter a little distance in 

 front of the spinners ; lower side of abdomen covered with a 

 broad undivided field of deep rich, nearly blood-red hairs, a 

 narrow arched transverse black stripe behind the epigastric fold ; 

 the epigastric region blackish, relieved, especially posteriorly, with 

 golden-yellow hairs ; sides of abdomen above the red field greyish, 

 mottled with red anteriorly. 



Carapace equal to length of 4th tibia and 3rd femur, width 

 equal to about half the length of pro tarsus and tarsus of 2nd leg. 



Legs — spines of 1st and 2nd femora, 3, 2, 3 ; of 3rd, 2, 2, 3 ; of 

 4th, 3, 2, 2 ; 1st and 2nd patellae, 1,1; of 3rd and 4th, 1 anterior ; 

 tibiae, 2, 2, 2 below, 2 in front, 1 above, and 2 behind ; protarsi, 2, 

 2 below, 2 behind, 3 in front ; tibiae of 1st and 2nd sinuous ; 

 femora of 1st and 4th equal ; 1st leg nearly five times as long as 

 carapace, 3rd leg about three and half times as long, 4th about 

 four times as long. 



Abdomen more than one third longer than broad, voluminous, 

 broadest just behind the middle, then narrowed abruptly to its 

 termination. 



Vulva consisting of a transversely oval pit, followed by a pair 

 of skeletal pieces separated by a narrow median sclerite. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 25 ; length of carapace 

 11, width 8 ; length of 1st leg 56, of 2nd 52, of 3rd 39, of 4th 48 

 (all measured from base of femur) ; patella and tibia of 1st 21, of 

 4th 16 ; protarsus of 1st 14, of 4th 12. 



Loc. Benito River {G. L. Bates). 



Family Thomisid/e. 



Grenus Phrynarachnb Thorell. 



Phrynarachnb eugosa (Latreille). 



Thomisus rugosus, Latreille, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist, nat. xsxiv. p. 62. 



Thomisus foka, Vinson, Araneides Madagascar, &c. p. 69, pi. xiv. 

 fig. 4 (1863). 



Loc. Benito River (G. L. Bates). 



The specimen of Phrynarachne obtained by Mr. Bates seems 

 identical with an example in the British Museum from Mada- 

 gascar. 



Phrtnarachne marmoeata, sp. n. (Plate LVI. fig. 14.) 



$ . Coloar. Carapace with a large jet-black patch on each side 

 of the thoracic portion ; the margins yellowish brown and the 

 middle line clearer yellow ; head inf uscate, the ocular tubercles 

 amber-yellow, a yellowish- white band passing from the median 

 eyes to the lateral angles of the clypeus ; upper portion of mandible 

 yellowish white, lower portion infuscate ; basal half of palpi 

 yellowish white, tibia and tarsus infuscate ; legs of 1st and 2nd 



