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Show 1882.J SPIDERS F R O M M A D A G A S C A R . 765 scattered bristles upon the legs and a narrow band at the extremities of the joints below black ; I can trace no black spines upon the genual joints ; the palpi are pale yellow, as also are the maxillae, labium, and sternum. The abdomen above and at the sides is of a shining silver colour, the dorsal region being ornamented by a broad brown cross, the arms of which are expanded at the extremities; the sides are reticulated with dark brown, and thus divided up into sharply defined plates, somewhat as in T. margaritifera ; the ventral surface is dirty yellow. Cephalothorax oval, strongly indented behind the caput, which ascends obliquely from the thoracic region: the eyes are arranged much as in T. margaritifera ; but the anterior pair are smaller and closer together, so that the six remaining eyes, which are larger, form triangular groups of three contiguous eyes on each side : the legs are long, slender, sparsely setose, their relative length 4, 1, 2, 3; the palpi are moderately long and cylindrical, the falces also cylindrical. The abdomen is less acute at the dorsal angle than in T. margaritifera, and viewed from behind is seen to be obtusely tuberculated at the sides just below the apex; the terminal angle, however, is decidedly more acute; the posterior margin is also much less oblique; the bristles upon the abdomen are confined to the ventral surface. Length 5 millim. Central Madagascar and east coast. The articulations of tibiae of the second and third pair of legs are sometimes not banded with carmine. E PEIRIDJE. META, Koch. 4. M E T A S P L E N D I D A , sp. n. (Plate LVII. figs. 3, 3 a, bi) 8 2 • Cephalothorax, palpi, front of falces, and legs fulvous ; apex of falces, labium, and sternum piceous ; maxillae castaneous. Abdomen above bright metallic silvery, with two large elongated blackish patches in front, behind which is a broad transverse crescent-shaped, blackish-edged golden band, united in the centre by a short pedicle to a broad longitudinal dorsal band of the same colour, streaked obliquely on each side with blackish and spotted with silver1; sides and ventral surface brown, dark and olivaceous when dry, paler in spirit, with four longitudinal silver stripes, two subdorsal and two ventral, but all four lateral. Cephalothorax large, depressed, expanded behind the caput; sutural impression strongly defined, V-shaped; eyes black, rather small, arranged across the front of tbe caput; the central eyes slightly larger than the lateral, in the form of a quadrangle, the anterior eyes scarcely perceptibly nearer together than the posterior ones, from which they are separated by a distinctly greater interval than the posterior eyes from one another; lateral eyes contiguous, one behind the other, m u c h less obliquely than in M . Simon's figure (Hist. Nat. 1 In some examples these markings are pale and brassy, the extremities of the crescent are also often continued round so as to join the dorsal band. |