828 ox XEW AND LITTLK-KXOWX SPIDERS. [Nov. 26. 



All are small, those forming the hinder side of the fr'ont quad- 

 rangle smallest. 



The legs were too much damaged (in fact, only one of the first 

 pair was intact) to admit of any proper description ; their relative 

 length apparently 1, 2, 4, 3. They are long and slender, of a 

 dark yellow-bi'own colour, and showed signs of having been 

 furnished with long fine spines. 



Pcd'pi moderately long, dark yellow-brown, furnished on some 

 or all of the joints with short white hairs or pubescence ; but this 

 had been much rubbed off. Cubital and radial joints short, the 

 latter a little the longer, and with a short, tapering, slightly curved 

 apophysis at its extremity on the outer side ; the digital joint 

 large, oval, with its fore extremity produced in a long, pointed, 

 finger-like form, its whole length equal to that of the humeral 

 joint ; palpal organs simjale, consisting of several corneous lobes, 

 with a small, rather curved, pointed, black spine at their extremity 

 in front. 



Fcdces strong, straight, vertical, yellow-brown, with a broad, 

 dark, longitudinal stripe on each side in front. 



Afaxillce and labiwin black-brown, with pale, dull, yellowish 

 extremities. 



Sternum somewhat ovato-quadrate, its hindei- extremity ending 

 in a small abrupt point. Colour yellow-brown, with an obscure, 

 central, longitudinal, blackish diffused stripe. 



Abdomen long, narrow, rather tapering to spinners; yellow- 

 brown, with a pointed spear-shaped, longitudinal, blackish central 

 marking at its fore extremity on the upper side, edged with a pale 

 yellowish line ; sides dark black-brown, and on the under side is a 

 longitudinal tapering band from the fore end to the spinners, 

 edged with a fine pale line. Spinners short, convergent, the 

 inferior pair much the strongest. 



It is very probable that other parts of this Spider, as well as 

 those noted above, were furnished with white hairs or hairy 

 pubescence ; but the bad condition of the specimen described did 

 not permit of any exact description. 



A single examj)le w^as kindly sent to me by Mr. "W. Falconer, of 

 Slaithwaite near Huddersfield, having been received by him from 

 Mashonaland, South Africa. It is nearly allied to — but quite, I 

 think, distinct from — E. elliottii Cambr. (from East Central India). 

 It is also distinct from the type species described by De Brito 

 Capello {E. hayoneanus) as well as from E. austrcdis Sim. (Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belg. xlii. p. 12 (1898), S.E. Africa). 



List of Species above noted and desarihed. 



Pachylomerus cedijicatorhis Westwood, p. 818, PI. L. figs. 1-6. 



Lagos, Portugal. 

 Platyoides separata, sp. n., p. 819, PI. L. figs. 7-12. Cape 



Colony. 

 Platyoides simonii, sp, n., p. 820, PI. L. figs. 13-17. Cape Colony. 



