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CINIFLONIDiE. 
The statement of M. Walckenaer, that this spider has the fourth pair of legs longer 
than the second (‘Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt.,’ tom. iv, p. 501), requires correction, as the 
relative length of its organs of locomotion does not differ from that of its congeners, Ergatis 
benigna and Ergatis pallens. 
Genus VELEDA ( ElacJcwall ). 
Eyes small, nearly equal in size, disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax 
in two transverse, curved rows, whose convexity is directed forwards; the anterior row, 
which is the less curved, is situated near the frontal margin, and the intermediate eyes, which 
are seated on a tubercle, are the largest, and the lateral ones rather the smallest of the eight ; 
the lateral eyes of both rows are widely apart, and are placed on minute tubercles, and the 
intermediate ones form a trapezoid, whose anterior side is the shortest. 
Maxillce moderately long, straight, powerful, greatly enlarged, and rounded at the 
extremity, which is prominent on the inner surface. 
Lip short, triangular, and rounded at the apex. 
Legs very unequal in length; the first pair is much the longest, then the fourth, and 
the third pair is the shortest ; each metatarsus of the posterior pair is provided with a cala- 
mistrum situated on its superior surface. 
Spinners eight; those constituting the inferior pair are united throughout their entire 
length. 
Veleda lineata. PL X, fig. 96. 
Veleda lineata, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. iii, p. 96. 
Length of the female, ith of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, s ,th; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of an anterior leg, *th; length of a leg of the third 
pair, ^th. 
The abdomen is of an oblong-oviform figure, convex above, and projects over the base 
of the cephalo-thorax ; the anterior extremity and the posterior part of each side are densely- 
covered with white hairs ; the upper part is of a brownish-yellow colour, with three longi¬ 
tudinal, dark-brown lines, whose posterior half is somewhat ramified, extending its entire 
length; one of these lines, which is broadest towards its anterior extremity, occurs in the 
middle, and another is situated on each side of it; the anterior and part of the superior 
