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Show 1875.] CALEDONIA, MADAGASCAR, AND REUNION. 141 a large yellowish or reddish spot; the sides have each four oblique, yellowish, sometimes geminated bands, of which one, commencing above the petiolum and curved forwards and downwards, is the longest and forms with the corresponding one of the other side, when seen from above, a very large / A, open at the apex ; under this band is another smaller, almost longitudinal, and behind it two bands, tapering at the ends; but these markings are often more or less obliterated *. LATHRODECTUS CURACAVIENSIS, Miill. <J ad. Cephalothorace fusco-testaceo, vitta media et marginibus infuscatis, pedibus fusco-testaceis, apice internodiorum plus minus late nigricantibus, cephalothorace quam tibia primi paris circiter dimidio breviore; abdomine fusco, pictura flava nigromarginata : secundum dorsum vitta media longa, supra anum in maculam rufescenti-flavam dilatata, in lateribus fasciis trinis obliquis ; prima earum longa est, floras et retro curvata, et sub ea vitta parva conspicitur ; reliqua dua magis recta sunt ; par primum harum fasciarum desuperne inspectum / \ magnum format; venter plaga magna flavescente antice truncata in medio leviter constricta notatus est. Long, circa 3^ millim. 177*6. Aranea curacaviensis, Miill. Linn. Vollstiind. Natursyst. Suppl.- u. Reg.-Band, p. 342 ( = 2 )• 1 8 - . Theridion curassavicum, Hering, conf. Ozanam, Etude s. le venin des Arachn. p. 29. 1860. Latrodectus malmignattus, var. tropica, Van Hass. Stud. over d. z. g. Curagaosche Oranje-Spin, in Tijdschr. voor Entom. iii. p. 62, pl. 5. figs. 1-6 ( = ? ) . 1873. Lathrodectus curacaviensis, Thor. Rem. on Syn. p. 511 Mas. Cephalothorax 1| millim. longus, brevior quam tibia primi et quarti paris, tibiam cum dimidia patella secundi paris longitudine circiter aquans, paullo longior quam latior, forma in hoc genere solita, fovea ordinaria centrali pone medium locata, magna et profunda, impressionibus cephalicis tribusque sulcis radiantibus utrinque in parte thoracica profundis quoque ; tes-taceo- fuscus, vitta media longitudinali fuliginea, marginibusque late subinfuscatis. Clypei altitudo evidenter, pane dimidio, major quam longitudo area oculorum mediorum. Sternum ovato-triangulum, antice late truncation, obscurius fuscum, vitta media longitudinali subtestacea. Oculorum series antica pro-curva, amba series desuperne visa recurva, extremitatibus non divaricantibus, sed paullo appropinquantibus : spatium inter oculos laterales paullo minus est quam spatium inter oculos medios anticos et posticos, et oculi lateralis diametrum aquat. * The female of L. curacaviensis has been carefully described and figured by Van Hasselt (loc. infra cit.); the male, on the contrary, is still unknown, and a short description of a male example which Dr. Van Hasselt has kindly sent m e will therefore probably not be considered out of place here. |
