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Show 1877.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIDEA. 569 Several adult females and one adult male of this species were most kindly given to me, among other Spiders, by Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I., by whom they were found some years ago in East Central India. Having been preserved in spirit for some years, it is probable that their present colours are not quite the same as those of the living Spider. PODOPHTHALMA AFFINITATA, sp. u. A portion only of this Spider has come before me; this portion consists of the cephalothorax and falces, together with the maxillae, labium, sternum, and legs, as far as, and including, the femora, lt is evidently nearly allied to P. bayoniana, Capello ; but as it differs ip the colour, as well as in the size of the eyes, I am inclined to describe it as distinct, although, of course, no details of the abdomen and other absent parts can be given. The colour of the cephalothorax, as well as of all the other parts above mentioned, is yellow. The form also of the cephalothorax appears to be more flattened than in Capello's type species ; and when looked at sideways there is no difference in the convexity of the caput and thorax. The eyes are on black tuberculate spots ; the length of the posterior and anterior rows is equal; the interval between those of the third row (or that next to the posterior one) is less than an eye's diameter : these two eyes are rather the largest of the eight; those of the first and fourth rows are next in size, and are apparently about equal. The interval also between those of the second row is less than an eye's diameter; and the intervals between the second and third, and the third and fourth rows are equal, being less than that between the second and first. The distance between each eye of the second row and that of the first row, on its side, is considerably less than the distance between it and the eye of the fourth row on its side. The length of the rectangle formed by the eyes of the first and fourth rows is greater than its breadth, but evidently not as much greater as it is represented to be in the figure of P. bayoniana, where also the posterior row of eyes is given as longer than the anterior one. From the relative lengths of the femora I should judge the relative lengths of the legs to be 4, 1, 2, 3. The length of the cephalothorax is very nearly 3 lines. The falces are slightly divergent. The fragment from which the above notes have been made was received in a small collection of Spiders sent to me by Mr. Henry Rogers from the west coast of Africa, on the banks of the river Coanza. PODOPHTHALMA HILARTS, sp. n. (Plate LVII. fig. 7.) Immature female, length 7\ lines. In general form and appearance thi3 Spider is much like P. elliottii: its colours, however, are much richer; and its markings, as well as the relative size of the eyes differ. The cephalothorax is of a dark rich yellowish brown colour with a very narrow marginal yellow line, and a longitudinal yellow stripe |