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is covered with a largo sub-triangular shining patch, markod 

 towards the posterior extremity with two obscure red-brown 

 impressed spots placed in a transverse line, and, like the rest of 

 the abdominal surface, covered with a rather close pubescence, 

 some of which appears to have a greyish tinge. 



The legs are deep black-brown, the tarsi pale yellowish, those 

 of the two hinder pairs tingod with red-brown ; the femora of 

 the first pair have no pale marking on their outer sides. Eelative 

 length 4.1.2.3. 



The eyes of the hind-central pair are oval, slightly oblique 

 and very nearly contiguous to each other, each being also bu 

 very little further removed from the lateral eye on each side 

 next to it. 



The radial apophysis is long, rather strong, tapering, curved 

 divergent from the digital joint at its extremity, which has its 

 point of a somewhat bent or crotchet form ; the digital joint is 

 large and of a short oval shape ; the palpal organs are obtusely 

 prominent at their hinder extremity ; towards their fore 

 extremity is a prominent somewhat pointed process, ending with 

 a small spino-like point ; and in front of this, issuing from the 

 outer side of the extremity of the palpal organs, is a black 

 tapering spine, which curves over them towards the inner side, 

 in close connection with some whitish membranous substance. 

 There is no spine of this kind, nor any such prominent process 

 as the one just before mentioned, in Prosthesima petiverii. 



A single example of this spider was found by myself near 

 Lul worth Cove on the 26th of June, 1878. 



PROSTHESIMA LATREILLII. 



Melanophora atra, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn., Fam. der Dras. 

 siden, p. 182, tab. vii., figs. 123 and 121. 



Prosthesima latreillii, Sim., Arachn. de France iv., p. 62, and 

 Camor. Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1879, ser ( 

 6, vol. 4, p. 209. 

 Length of the male 2J lines, female 3J lines. 



