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Show 880 MR. R. i. POCOCK O N SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [NOV. 14, are almost in contact in the middle line, the former just in front of the middle of the upper surface, the latter a little distance in front of the spinners ; lower side of abdomen, covered with a broad undivided field of deep rich, nearly blood-red hairs, a narrow arched transverse black stripe behind the epigastric fold; the epigastric region blackish, relieved, especially posteriorly, with golden-yellow hairs; sides of abdomen above the red field greyish, mottled with red anteriorly. Carapace equal to length of 4th tibia and 3rd femur, width equal to about half the length of protarsus and tarsus of 2nd leg. Legs-spines of 1st and 2nd femora, 3, 2, 3 ; of 3rd, 2, 2, 3; of 4th, 3, 2, 2; 1st and 2nd patella?, 1,1; of 3rd and 4th, 1 anterior ; tibia?, 2, 2, 2 below, 2 in front, 1 above, and 2 behind; protarsi, 2, 2 below, 2 behind, 3 in front; tibia? of 1st and 2nd sinuous; femora of 1st and 4th equal; 1st leg nearly five times as long as carapace, 3rd leg about three and half times as long, 4th about four times as long. Abdomen more than one third longer than broad, voluminous, broadest just behind the middle, then narrowed abruptly to its termination. Vulva consisting of a transversely oval pit, followed by a pair of skeletal pieces separated by a narrow median sclerite. Measurements in millimetres.-Total length 25; length of carapace 11, width 8; length of 1st leg 56, of 2nd 52, of 3rd 39, of 4th 48 (all measured from base of femur) ; patella aud tibia of 1st 21, of 4th 16 ; protarsus of 1st 14, of 4th 12. Loc. Benito Biver (G. L. Bates). Family THOMISIDCE. Genus PHRYNARACHNE Thorell. PHRYNARACHNE RUGOSA (Latreille). Tliomisus rugosus, Latreille, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. nat. xxxiv. p. 62. Tliomisus foka, Vinson, Araneides Madagascar, & c p. 69, pl. xiv. fig. 4 (1863). Loc. Benito Eiver (67. L. Bates). The specimen of Phrynarachne obtained by Mr. Bates seems identical with an example in the British Museum from Madagascar. PHRYNARACHNE MARMORATA, sp. u. (Plate LVI. fig. 14.) 2 . Colour. Carapace with a large jet-black patch on each side of the thoracic portion ; the margins yellowish brown and the middle line clearer yellow ; head infuscate, the ocular tubercles amber-yellow, a yellowish-white band passing from the median eyes to the lateral angles of the clypeus ; upper portion of mandible yellowish white, lower portion infuscate; basal half of palpi yellowish white, tibia and tarsus infuscate; legs of 1st aud 2nd |