1901.] HBV. O. PICKABD-CA_MBEIDGE ON EXOTIC SPIDEBS. 13 



Titus LUGENS, sp. n. (Plate V. figs. 3-3 e.) 



Adult female, length 2i lines. 



Gephalotliorax bright red-brown, suffused with a darker hue on 

 the sides and on the caput, the fore part of which is nearly black ; 

 the surface is thickly covered with small round shining tubercles 

 or granulosities, and it is thinly clothed with hairs, of which some 

 on the sides and hinder part are white and of a plumose nature. 



Legs yellow tinged with brown ; the femora much strongest, 

 granulose,^ as also are the uppersides of coxa?. Colour of the femora 

 of^ 1st pair black-brown, of the second pair not so dark, of the 

 third and fourth pairs paler and indistinctly banded with darker. 

 The tarsi are enlarged slightly and gradually to the ends, which are 

 furnished with two claws and a compact claw-tuft. 



Falces deep reddish black-brown, paler at the fore extremity, 

 furnished in front with bristly hairs. 



Maxillce and labium yellow-brown. 



Sternum yellow-red, covered thickly with small granulosities like 

 the cephalothorax. 



Abdomen coriaceous, covering of the upperside black with a 

 central triangular patch of white plumose hairs, two patches of the 

 same on the lateral margins, and one at the hinder extremity, sides 

 and underside of a paler browner hue. The fore extremity on the 

 underside is covered with a coriaceous granulose integument (the 

 granulosities much strongest and becoming tubercular at the fore 

 end), which forms a short sheath, covering most of the connecting 

 pedicle as well as the spiracular openings and the genital aperture! 

 For the peculiar form of the abdomen, see generic characters 

 above ; but whether this is only specific or whether generic, it is 

 hard to say in the absence of allied species. 



Hah. Sahsbury, Mashonaland, S. Africa, 5000 feet, Nov 189ft 

 to Jan. 1899 {G. A. K. Marshall). 



Fam. Epeirid^. 



Grenus Nephilengys L. Koch. 



Nephilengts malabaeensis Walck. 



An adult female of this common and widely dispersed Epeirid 

 from Karkloof, Natal {G. A. K. MarshaU). 



Earn. GASTERAOANTHIDiE. 



kSubfam. EuEYCOMiiir^. 

 Gen, Ctetarachke Thor. 

 Oyetarachne oonica, sp. n. (Plate V. figs. 1-1 e.) 



Adult female, length rather over 3^ lines, or 8 mm.; length of 

 abdomen 2| hues, width 3^ lines. ^ 



Cephahtliora.v short, slightly longer than broad, broadest and 



