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outside it, and the minute black specklings form oblique lines on 

 each side, where also are traces of oblique pale lines. Spinners, 

 short, compact, inferior pair strongest. Crihellum transverse, 

 subdivided, linear, but very indistinct. 



It was not quite apparent whether this female was adult, but 

 if so the genital apei-ture is very simple; if not that would 

 account for the rather larger size of the immature male which 

 accompanied it. 



The two examples above referred to were imjjorted from the 

 Canary Islands in packages of bananas, and kindly sent to me by 

 Mr. H. Speyer. I am unable to detect the calamistrum in either 

 of the two specimens above mentioned, and the cribellum is very 

 slightly indicated. Both the calamistrum and cribellum are far 

 less developed in some other species of this genus than in other 

 families, and very j^ossibly one or both may, in some instances, 

 be almost if not quite obsolete in some species of the genus. 



Fam. Theridiid^. 

 Genus Teutana Sim. 

 Teutana nobilis Thor. (Plate L. figs. 25-28.) 



Lethijphantes nobilis Thor. Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akad. 

 Handl. 1875, Bandet 13, no. 5, p. 338. 



Adult female, length 5|- lines. 



Cejihalothorax dark reddish brown. Caput in some examples 

 much darker, with a narrow dull pale marginal line or border. 

 The height of the clypeus considerably exceeds half that of the 

 facial space. 



Eyes subequal, in two transverse lines, forming three well- 

 separated groups. Those of each lateral group, or pair, contiguous 

 and seated on a strongish tubercle. The four central eyes form 

 a square whose posterior side is shortest. 



Legs moderate in length and strength, 1, 4, 2, 3, of an orange- 

 yellow colour. The fore extremities of the tibife are a little 

 sufiused with reddish brown, and furnished pretty thickly and 

 uniformly with short fine hairs. 



Faljyi similar to the legs in colour. 



Falces strong, straight, vertical, conical, and of a deep rich 

 red-brown colour, like that of the cephalothorax. 



Maxillce, labiumi, and sternum rather lighter coloured than the 

 cephalothorax ; the sternuvi longer than broad, rather triangular 

 heart-shaped ; covered with numerous minute granulations and 

 short fine dark hairs. 



Abdomen large, oval, very convex above, of a dull pale yellowish 

 white, the white being occasioned by a more or less dense sprinkling 

 of white cretaceous mottling ; on each side of the upper side is a 

 broad longitudinal deep brown or blackish band, the two con- 

 verging at both the fore and hinder extremities, and each divided 

 transA'ersely into somewhat quadrate but ii'regular patches ; in 



