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Show 570 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW ARANEIDEA. [Junel9, along nearly the middle of each side, together with a narrow stripe or line of the same colour along the middle from the second row of eyes, each to the posterior margin ; all these yellow lines and stripes are thickly clothed with white hairs. The eyes are in the same position as those of P. eUiottn, but those of the third row are smaller in proportion than in that species, being scarcely larger than those of the second row; those of the fourth (or posterior) row are also smaller. The legs are long and rather slender ; their relative length is 4 1 2 3 * and they are of a brownish-yellow colour, the femora considerably clouded with brown. They are thinly clothed with white pubescence, as well as other hairs, bristles, and rather slender spines. The palpi are moderately long, of a yellowish hue, and furnished with hairs, long bristles, and slender spines. The falces are rather long and strong, prominently rounded in profile, almost perpendicular, of a yellowish colour, striped with brown on their basal half, and clothed with bristly and white hairs. The maxilla are straight, enlarged and rounded at their extremities, and, together with the labium (which is of an oblong-oval form truncated at its apex), of a yellowish hue. The sternum is heart-shaped, yellow, with two dark-brown, irregular, parallel stripes or markings along the middle, and clothed with white hairs. . Abdomen long, narrow-oval, much produced and tapering to the spinners. The upperside is pale yellowish, the middle line occupied by a broad, tapering, dark, rich-brown longitudinal band strongly and distinctly denticulated along the whole of its posterior half; the middle longitudinal line of this band is charged with a series of reddish yellow-brown markings, those on the hinder part being triangular and representing the normal angular bars or chevrons; immediately outside the margin of the central brown band, on each side, is a narrow stripe of white hairs ; a broadish dark-brown band runs along each side, and is traversed obliquely by a yellowish stripe. The lower part of the sides is pale yellow thinly spotted with brown; and the underside is more of a yellow-brownish hue. These parts, and, indeed, the whole abdomen, are more or less clothed with short grey and white hairs. The spinners are short, two-jointed, compact, and equal in length, those of the inferior pair being the strongest. Four immature examples of this fine and handsome species were received, through the kindness of Mr. R. H . Meade, of Bradford, from Madagascar. PODOPHTHALMA INCERTA, sp. n. (Plate LVII. fig. 8.) Immature female, length not quite 2 | lines. This Spider is of very great interest, because by a slight modification in the position of the eyes, the close relationship between Podophthalma and Ocyale is very distinctly shown. The cephalothorax is of the ordinary shape, oval behind, considerably compressed laterally at the caput, and truncated on lower |