1 72 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Description. 



Adult female, length 11^- lines, exclusive of falces. 



Cephalothorax broad oval, truncate at both ends, posterior extremity 

 much broader ; 5^ lines long, and 4 lines wide at the widest part ; thoracic 

 portion raised, convex, bare of hairs on top ; head slightly rounded above ; 

 clypeus very truncate ; largely hairy around eyes and face ; three slight 

 thoracic segmental markings running down each side ; indentation sunk, 

 smooth ; colour rich dark red-brown, with light-brown and greyish coarse 

 hairs, and a narrow light-coloured continuous stripe along the lateral and 

 posterior borders of shield, with the hairs immediately above it of a shade 

 of darker brown. 



Eyes, 8, unequal in size, in two rows, (their position, etc., resembling 

 those of the genus Tegennaria,) 4 anterior, smaller and equal in size, 4 pos- 

 terior, the two central ones large, but the two comer ones largest, and more 

 prominent and laterally inclined. 



Palpi moderately stout, 4 lines long, hairy, with a single large black 

 spine at end of the radial joint ; falces prominent, black, shining, and (with 

 maxilla) bearing long shaggy hairs. 



Legs medium stout, colour rich dark red-brown, hairy with black hairs, 

 increasing in hairiness towards the tips, and having a few scattered black 

 spines, and two black hooks at the tips ; coxa, very large, smooth and 

 shining in the gibbous parts ; femora stout and but slightly hairy ; two 

 longitudinal rows of strong black spines on tibia and metatarsus below ; the 

 joints white, with small black spines ; relative length of legs, 4 12 3; the 

 fourth pair 14 lines long ; sternum red-brown, medium size, broad oval, 

 almost flat, slightly hairy, hairs adpressed. 



Abdomen, 6 lines long, 4 lines wide, broad oval, hairy, convex above and 

 higher than cephalothorax, the ground of a brownish colour, mottled or 

 irrorated throughout, and very finely dotted with light yellow-brown ; two 

 lines of light-brown circular spots equidistant, and five spots in each line, 

 running down towards posterior end ; spiracles large central, close under 

 base of sternum ; spinners produced, long. 



As I found it impossible to describe wholly and minutely the falces, 

 palpi, and buccal organs of these spiders, without breaking up my speci- 

 mens and gumming their parts severally down, I forbore to do so, prefer- 

 ring to leave those parts partly undescribed for the time, and so send my 

 perfect and best specimens to England. 



No. 3. Maceothele huttonii, Cambridge. 



This large spider is also from my garden, and is one of those I men- 

 tioned as having been described by the Eev. 0. P. Cambridge; and I merely 

 bring it before you to exhibit it, and to say a few words respecting its habits 

 and economy ; which, I believe, were unknown to its describer.* 



* For the full description, and a drawing with dissections of this spider, see Trans. 

 X.Z. Inst., vol vi., p. 200. 



