351 

 PIRATA PISCATOBIA. 



Atuneus piscatorhjs, Clereh., Sv. Spindl., p, 203, pi. v., tab. 5. 



Lyoosa de oreyii, Cambr., Trans. Liua. Soc. xxvii., p. 396, 

 pi. liv., No. 3. 



Length of the male, 4 J lines, and of the female, 5J-. 



The cephalo-thorax is brownish-yellow, with a broad, dark, 

 yellow-brown longitudinal band on each side. The central space 

 thus left includes, at its forepart, a broad (but rather obscure), 

 somewhat spear-headed, dark yellow-brown marking, with a deep 

 black-brown point, directed backwards, and formed by the 

 thoracic indentation ; the marginal bands are thickly and con- 

 spicuously clothed with bright, silvery white hairs. 



The log3 are long, 4.1.2.3., moderately strong, brownish-yellow, 

 the tibiae and metatarsi of the first two pairs strongly suffused 

 with deep brown, tingod with reddish. 



The palpi are similar to the legs in colour The radial joint is 

 considerably longer than the cubital, and curved. The digital 

 joint is long and strong, of a pointed oval form, and equal in 

 length to the radial and cubital joints together ; its colour is 

 deep blackish-brown tinged with red. 



The abdomen is oval, somewhat truncate in front, broader and 

 obtuse behind, and its general hue is dark yellow-brown, mottled 

 obscurely with yellowish. On the fore part of the upper side 

 is the normal band, not very large, of a clear brownish-yellow, 

 very slightly enlargod laterally about the middle, and pointed at 

 its hinder oxtremity ; nearly parallel with which, on either side, 

 is a conspicuous bright bluish-silvery dot, followed by several 

 others of a similar nature at intervals towards the spinners, and 

 forming two parallel rows. Some of these spots are more con- 

 spicuous than the rest, and above the spinners are some obscure, 

 transverse, curved, yellowish lines. The sides are more or less 

 clothed with bright bluish-silvery hairs. Some of these are 

 concentrated, and form a short but conspicuous white band on 

 either side of the fore extremity. 



