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Show 1873.] SPIDERS FROM ST. HELENA. 211 *Clubiona dubia, sp. n. Cheiracanthium mellissii, sp.n. planum, sp. n. Amaurobius crucifer, sp. n. Tegenaria civilis. proxima, sp. n. (T. atrica of former paper). Scytodes thoracica. *Pholcus phalangioides. distinctus. Artema convexa. *Ariadne mellissii, sp. n. * Theridion punicum. * fulvolunulatum. tepidariorum. Latrodectus erebus. Linyphia leprosa. albimaculata, sp. n. trifididens, sp. n. Argyrodes epeirce. Tetragnatha pelusia. *Meta digna, sp. n. (includes also Meta indigna of former paper). *Epe'ira solers ? *Argiope aurelia. Uloborus williamsii. Xysticus grammicus. ^Philodromus signatus, sp. n. *Heteropoda (Olios) tridentiger a, sp. n. *Pasithea pulchra. *Lycosa ligata, sp. n. * inexorabilis, sp. n. dolosa, sp. n. *Salticus nigrolimbatus, sp. n. * adansonii. inexcultus, sp. n. subinstructus, sp. n. (includes also Salticus illigeri of former paper). Fam. FILISTATIDES. Genus FILISTATA. FILISTATA C O N D I T A , sp. n. (Plate XXIV. fig. 1.) Immature female, length 2\ lines. The whole of the fore part of this Spider is of a yellow colour. The cephalothorax, which is of the ordinary form of the genus, has the upper part clothed pretty thickly with coarse and rather adpressed dark brown hairs, giving a darkish hue to that portion. The eyes are rather large, but in the usual position, seated upon a strongish tuberculiform transverse oval eminence, a little way behind the fore margin of the clypeus. The legs are moderately long and strong ; they do not differ greatly in length ; those of the fourth pair seemed to be slightly longer than those of the first, and the third pair rather the shortest; they are furnished with blackish-brown bristly hairs only, and each tarsus ends with three inconspicuous claws. The palpi are strong, moderately long, similar to the legs in their armature, except that the single terminal claw is stronger than those on the tarsi of the legs. The falces are short and weak, but rather projecting forwards. The maxillae, labium, and sternum present no observable variation from the usual generic type. The abdomen is oval, rounded and bluff behind, where it projects considerably over the site of the spinners; it is of a dull whitish drab-yellow colour, clothed sparingly with coarsish brown hairs, and marked on the hinder half of the upperside with a series of four or five strong and well-defined transverse angulated bars or chevrons of 14* |