422 MU. J. BLACKAVALL ON SOME TUSCAN SPIDERS. 



colour, the cubital, radial, and digital joints having a brownish-yellow 

 hue, and that of the other parts being brownish-black ; the digital 

 joint is long and somewhat enlarged at its extremity. The abdomen 

 • is of an oblong-oviform figure, convex above, and projects a little over 

 the base of the cephalothoi'ax ; it is clothed with short adpressed 

 hairs, and is of a deep-black hue, but iridescent, reflecting bright tints 

 of green, purple, and copper-red ; there is a transverse white line near 

 tlie middle of the upper ])art, a small spot of the same hue imme- 

 diately above the spinners, one on the anterior part of each side, and 

 another, tinged with yellow, behind the sexual organs, which are well 

 developed, with a minute process directed backwards from their ante- 

 rior margin, and are of a very dark brown colour. 



Genus Clubiona, Latr. 



Clubiona nutrix, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. torn. i. p. 601 ; 



Latr. Gen. Crust, et Insect, tom. i. p. 92; Blackw. Spiders of Great 



Britain and Ireland, p. 134, pi. 8. f. 85. 

 Drassus maxillosus. Wider, AJuseum Senckenb. Band i. p. 209, t. 14. 



f.8. 

 Chciracanthium nutrix, Koch, Arachn. Band vi. p. 9, t. 182. f. 434, 



435. 



Genus Clotuo, Walck. 



Clotho longipes, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. tom. i. p. G40. 



Family CINIFLONIDiE. 



Genus Eegatis, Blachw. 



Ergatis benigna, Blackw. Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 



146, pi. 9. f. 93. 

 Theridion benignum, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. tom. ii. p. 337 ; 



Sund. Vet. Akad. llandl. 1831, p. 122. 

 Dictyna benigna, Sund. Consp. Arachn. p. 16; Koch, Arachn. Band iii. 



p. 27, t. 83. f. 184, 185. 

 Titulus 15, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl, De Aran. p. 55. 



Ergatis latens, Blackw. Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 149, 



pi. 9. f. 95. 

 Dictyna latens, Koch, Arachn. Band iii. p. 29, t. 83. f. 186. 

 Theridion latens, Walck. Hist, Nat. des Insect. Apt. tom. ii. p. 340. 

 Titulus 16, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran. p. 66, t. 1, f. 16. 



Genus Veleda, Blackw. 



Veleda gilva, n. sp. 



Length of the female ,-5 in. ; length of the cephalothorax -,V, breadth 



