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Show 1010 BEV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW [Dec. 15, The superior claws are strongly pectinate, the inferior sharply bent downwards. The palpi are short, strong, similar in colour to the legs, furnished with spiny bristles, mostly at the fore part of the digital joint: the cubital and radial joints are very short; the latter rather the shortest, very prominent beneath, being produced there into a kind of apophysis from the whole underside of the joint, whose extremity is .subdivided, its outer limb being the iongest. The digital joint is of moderate size, rounded at its hinder extremity, and rather drawn out in a somewhat finger-like form before, and has a somewhat flat but round edged lobe at the base on the inner side. The palpal organs beneath the hinder part of the digital joint are prominent, complex, but tolerably compact. Fcdces long, strong, straight, porrected, with several strongish teeth on each side of the groove of the fang. Maxillae long, strong, straight, rather broadest near the extremity, which is rounded on the outer and obliquely truncated on the inner side, with some strong, curved, prominent bristles along the outer sides. Labium much longer than broad, at least two-thirds the length of the maxillae. Apex slightly hollow-truncate. Sternum somewhat elongate-oval; the anterior extremity is truncated but not broadly, and the posterior half has its sides straight, but converging to an angular point between the inner corners of the coxae of the fourth pair of legs, which very nearly meet there. Abdomen long, narrow, nearly cylindric, slightly tapering to the spinners, which are small and porrected. Colour dull luteous, with a small elongate fusiform marking at the middle of the fore part on the upperside, indicated by a dark marginal line and a prominent point on each side, whence it tapers to a point at the extremity; between the extremity of this marking and the spinners is a blackish somewhat angular spot, and along each are a few smaller dark spots. Hab. Amazons, where it was taken by Prof. Traill, of Aberdeen, and included among many other Spiders kindly sent to m e from that region. STEPBANOPOIDES, Keyserling. STEPHANOPOIDES BRASILIANA, Keys. (Plate LII. fig. 4.) Count Keyserling, in ' Die Spinnen Amerikas,' Laterigradae, 1880, p. 167, pl. iii. fig. 92, describes and figures the female only, from Brazil. Adult male, length 3 | lines. Cephalothorax as broad as long ; lateral marginal indentations at the caput strong, sides of caput at the margin parallel, fore margin truncated, profile-line strongly curved, most convex at the occiput; surface smooth and polished, normal indentations slight; colour deep rich brown. |