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Show 684 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW [Nov. 18, are long, strong, and hooked, with two or three denticulations ; the inferior claw has no denticulation, nor is there any scopula beneath the tarsi. The falces are powerful, nearly vertical, but rather prominent in front; the fore extremities have no spines; the fang is short, but very powerful. The maxillee are very divergent but straight, with parallel sides, and a short subconical point at the extremity on the inner side. The labium is short-oblong, rounded at its apex, and (with the maxillae) studded with very short, strong, tooth-like spines ; these parts (with the basal joints of the legs) are of a pale dull yellowish hue. The abdomen is oval, hairy, and projects well over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dark, somewhat warm maroon-brown colour, minutely speckled with pale spots, and with several pairs of distinct elongate-oval, oblique spots along the upperside, forming two longitudinal rows, which converge as they run backwards; between these rows the surface is darker than the rest. The spinners (four in number) are dull yellowish, those of the superior pair pointed ; the last two joints very short ; inferior spinners much the smallest. The sides and underpart of the abdomen are paler than the upperside. A single example of this Spider was received from Dunedin, New Zealand, where it was found by Captain F. W . Hutton. It may be distinguished readily from 31igas paradoxus, L. Koch, by its much smaller and more widely separated eyes, and by the very different colour and pattern of the abdomen. Fam. ENYOIDES. HUTTONIA, gen. nov. Cephalothorax much longer than broad, roundly truncated at the fore extremity; profile strongly arched, the highest part being at the occiput; normal grooves and indentations, as well as the constrictions on the lateral margins of the caput, very slight. Eyes subequal, rather closely grouped, in two very nearly concentric curved rows, whose convexity is directed backwards, and of which the anterior row is a little the shortest and least curved; the fore-centrals are the largest of the eight, and are seated on a slight tubercular prominence. Legs not very long, moderately strong, 4, 1, 2, 3. The femora of the first and second pairs stronger than the rest, and particularly so at the posterior extremity on the upperside. Femoral joints rather unusually long, and of a clavate form. Clothed with hairs and bristles only. Tarsal claws three ; those of the third and fourth pairs placed on a small supernumerary articulation or claw-joint. Scopula slight, and only beneath the tarsi and metatarsi of the first and second pairs. Palpi (of the female) without any terminal claw. Maxillee tolerably long, somewhat tapering, and blunt, pointed at their extremities, gibbous at the base, slightly impressed beyond the middle, and greatly inclined to each other, their points meeting over |