1893.] SPIDERS FROM ST. VINCEKT, WEST INDIES. 703 



The sternum is large and almost ronnd. The maxillae are short and 

 broad. The labium is very small and about as wide as long. The 

 clypeus is about one-fourth as high as the middle eyes of the first 

 row. The falces are moderately long and stout ; they are parallel 

 and are inclined backward. 



This spider is black, ornamented with a handsome pattern in 

 white. The cephalothorax of the male has white bands encircling 

 the sides, a white band across the cephalothorax above the first 

 row of eyes, another passing down the middle of the thorax, and 

 a shorter curved band on each side, which passes up from the 

 lateral band between the eyes of the second and third rows, and 

 then divides, joining the baud across the cephalic part in front 

 and the thoracic band behind. The abdomen has also a number of 

 white bands. There is a central one down the middle ; a curved 

 band on each side which joins the central one before and behind ; 

 and a transverse bar a little behind the middle, joining the central 

 to the lateral bands, and thus dividing the dorsal surface of 

 the abdomen into two posterior and two larger anterior black 

 spots, surrounded by white. The legs are of rather a bright 

 rufous. In the male the anterior faces of the tibial joints of 

 the third pair are covered with black hairs. In the female 

 all the femoral joints are blackish. The tibia of the palpus is 

 covered with snow-white hairs, and there is a fringe of Avhite 

 hairs on the edge of the clypeus. The white band above the first 

 row of eyes is also visible from the front, so that the face view is 

 very striking. In the female the general colouring is like that of 

 the male, excepting that the white band above the anterior row of 

 eyes is lacking. 



Neon pompatus, sp. nov. (Plate LXII. figs. 11-11 c.) 



c? . Length 2*5. Length of cephalothorax 1*2; A^idth of cephalo- 

 thorax 1. 



5 . Length 3"2. Length of cephalothorax 1-2; width of cephalo- 

 thorax 'S. 



Legs, c? 1} 4, 3, 2, 5 4, 1, 3, 2 ; first pair a little the stoutest. 



The cephalothorax is high, with the cephalic part inclined 

 forA^'ard, and the thorax falhng but slightly for a very short 

 distance behind the dorsal eyes, and then more steeply, in a long 

 slant, to the posterior border. The quadrangle of the eyes is 

 about equally wide in front and behind, is one-fifth ^ider tlian 

 long, and occupies a little more than one-half of the cephalothoi'ax. 

 The first row of (-yes is straight ; the eyes are all close together 

 and are all small, the middle being less than twice as large as the 

 lateral. The dorsal eyes are larger than the lateral, and form a 

 row which is as wide as the cephalothorax at that place. The eyes 

 of the second I'ow are nearer the dorsal than the lateral eyes. 

 The clypeus is very narrow. The falces are short, weak, parallel 

 and vertical. The labium is as wide as long. The sterjium is 

 nearly round. In the female the abdomen looks wide and heavy 

 when compared with the cephalothorax. 



