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Show 1874.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW DRASSIDES. 413 A single adult male was received from Bombay, from Major Julian Hubson, among many other rare and new Spiders. Genus CLUBIONA, Latr. C L U B I O N A FILICATA, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 35.) Adult male, length 3g lines. This Spider is very like Clubiona robusta (L. Koch) (Swan River, Australia) in general form, colours, and markings, but may easily be distinguished in both sexes by well-marked differences in the form of the sexual organs ; its colours and markings also strongly remind one of C. comta (C. Koch) of Europe. The cephalothorax is of ordinary form ; it is of a brownish orange-yellow colour, deepening towards the eyes, and clothed thinly with pale hairs, among which are a few erect slender dark ones ; the lateral constrictions at the caput (which is short and broad) are slight; the normal grooves and indentations are marked by dusky converging lines. The eyes are of moderate size, in the usual two transverse curved rows, the front row nearly straight and considerably the shortest; the eyes of this row are about equidistant from each other; they are placed very near, about half of one of the central eye's diameters, from the lower margin of the clypeus ; the interval, however, between those of the central pair of this row, which are the largest of the eight, is perhaps rather greater than that which separates each from the fore lateral on its side; the eyes of the hinder row are more unequally separated, those of the central pair being perceptibly further from each other than each is from the hind lateral on its side; each fore central eye is separated from the hind central nearest to it by nearly the diameter of the latter; those of each lateral pair, which are the smallest of the eight, are placed very obliquely, and are divided by an interval about equal to that between the fore and hind central eves. The legs are yellow, moderately long, and tolerably strong; their relative length is 4, 1, 2, 3, though the difference between those of the first and second pairs is very slight; they are furnished with hairs and spines; and beneath the two terminal tarsal claws is a compact claw-tuft. The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, rather short, and not very strong. The radial is of the same length as the cubital joint, but rather less strong; it has near the outer side of its fore extremity a small, dark, flattish, somewhat wedge-shaped apophysis, being, however, but little more than a prominent sharp point; the digital joint is of moderate size, oval, and equal in length to the radial and cubital together. The palpal organs are well developed, but simple, consisting of a large, pale yellowish oval lobe encircled by a broadish, somewhat omega-shaped, yellow-brown band, and with one or two small corneous prominences, as well as a small, fine, and not very long, coiled, filiform, black spine at their extremity. The falces are moderately long, strong, slightly projecting, promi- |