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Show 1877.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIDEA. 557 21. STREPSILAS INTERPRES. Two specimens (nos. 500, 501, males) were obtained on the main island. " Stomachs had pieces of shell," &C.-J. M. 22. NUMENIUS UROPYGIALIS, Gould. One skin (483), " female." 23. TOTANUS INCANUS, Gm. Actitis incana, Finsch et Hartl. Orn. Central-Polyn. p. 182. One example (502), "female: eyes brown, legs green, bill dark." 24. TRINGOIDES HYPOLEUCOS (Linn.). One specimen, a female, no. 503 of MS. Cat. 25. ANOUS STOLIDUS (Linn.). A female (no. 485) : " eyes black. ' This Tern was most abundant here, and could always be seen in immense numbers, feeding on the shoals of fishes."-/. M. 26. ANOUS MELANOGENYS, Gray; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 670. One " female " (no. 485): " eyes black." Mr. Howard Saunders has kindly determined the Laridse for me. 27. STERNA BEBGII, Licht. One skin (no. 486): "eyes black." 4. On some new Species of Araneidea, with Characters of two new Genera, and some Remarks on the Families Podopthalmides and Dinopides. By the REV. O. P. C A M B R I D G E , M.A., C.M.Z.S., &c. [Eeceived May 30, 1877.] (Plates LVI. & LVII.) The twelve Spiders included in the following descriptions belong to six widely separated families, and are inhabitants of localities very distant from each other, comprising Australia, India, Ceylon, the west coast of Africa, the island of Samoa, and Brazil. Of the first family (Gasteracanthides) there" are three species, which I have, for the present at least, included in the genus Cyrta-ruchne, Thor., though two of them, one from tbe river Coauza, and the other from Rockhampton, are very abnormal species, and m ay perhaps eventually form the types of one, if not of two new genera. In the next family (Cryptothelides) the Spider described is from Ceylon,-Cryptothele ceylonica ; it is remarkable, not only from its own special and very peculiar characters, but because it is as yet |