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the Rev. C. W. Penny, of Wellington College. It is adult in 

 the months of June and July. 



SING A ALBOVITTATA. 



Singa albovittata, Westr., Aran. Suec, p. 59. 

 Epeiha calva, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 365, pi. 

 xxvii., fig. 263. 



The length of the male is l-8th of an inch, and the female is 

 rather larger. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a more or less dark, yellow-brown 

 colour, the caput being the palest, and from a little distanco 

 behind tho eyes an elongate white patch, or short band, runs back- 

 wards. The legs are of moderate length, and of a pale brownish- 

 yellow hue ; the fore part of the femora of the first and second 

 pairs of the male are blackish. The palpi of tho male are short, 

 the cubital joint has two very long, strong, curved bristles 

 directed forwards, and rather outwards, from its extremity in 

 front ; the digital joint has a glossy, curved process at its base 

 directed outwards ; and tho palpal organs are large, veiy promin- 

 ent, and complex. The abdomen is of a short-oval form and 

 projects greatly over tho base of the cephalo-thorax, giving the 

 spider a very short and dumpy appearance ; the upper side is of 

 a slightly reddish yellow-brown colour, often mottled with 

 whitish, and margined with a somewhat dentated, yellowish or 

 cream white band, slightly interrupted on each side towards the 

 hinder part, where it cuts off the upper side transversely in a 

 truncate fashion ; there is also a broader, central, longitudinal, 

 dentated, cream-white band, truncatod at its hinder extremity, 

 between which and the marginal border there is sometimes a 

 white spot. The sides are yellow-brown, and the under side is 

 dark, blackish-brown, with a lateral, marginal, yellowish-white 

 border, which is continued round above tho spinners and close to 

 t heir base. The abdomen of the male is darker than that of the 

 female, but the pattern is very similar. A rather characteristic 

 portion of the pattern on the abdomen of the foniale consists of 



