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Show 1893.] SPIDERS FROM ST. VINCENT, WEST INDIES. 699 parallel. The sternum is narrowed and truncated in front and rounded behind. The maxilla? are twice as long as the labium, which is short, wide, and squarely truncated. The abdomen is widest in the middle. The cephalic part is bright red. There is a wide white band on each side and a central white band on the thorax ; the rest of the thoracic part is darker than the cephalic, but is decidedly reddish. The abdomen has a black curved band around the anterior end, and above this a snow-white band. The upper surface is bright red, with two longitudinal black bands from the middle of the dorsum to the spinnerets, between which the surface is bronzed, and a number of snow-white spots which form a handsome and effective pattern (see drawing). Two of these are in the middle of the abdomen just in front of the bronze region; two more appear at the edge of the bronze region on each side; and two larger spots, also snow-white, are found on each side of the abdomen in the red region. The middle spinnerets are pale, the external ones black. The legs are light coloured, irregularly dotted with black. The clypeus is covered with long white hairs. The falces and mouth-parts are dark reddish brown. The sternum is light brown. The venter is covered with white hairs and is dotted with black. A single specimen. W e have examples of this species in the Smith collection from Santarem, the Brazilian variety being larger. It has a general resemblance to Euophrys coronigera of C. Koch. EUOPHRYS (?) PULCHELLA, sp. nov. (Plate LXII. figs. 7, 7 a.) 3. Length 3. Length of cephalothorax 1*5 ; width of cephalothorax 1. Legs 4, 3,1, 2. The cephalothorax is high and looks rather long and heavy compared to the abdomen. The sides are nearly parallel and vertical, but widen out a little at the posterior end. The highest point is at the dorsal eyes. The cephalic part is gently inclined, and the anterior two-thirds of the thoracic part falls a little more abruptly. The final slope of the thoracic part to the margin is steep. The four anterior eyes are close together in a curved row ; the lateral are two-thirds as large as the middle eyes. The second row is a little nearer the third than the first row. The third row is as wide as the cephalothorax at that place, the eyes being nearly as large as the lateral eyes of the first row. The clypeus is narrow. The falces are short, vertical, and parallel. The sternum is wide, slightly rounded in front and pointed behind. The maxillae are widely separated and are truncated at the extremities. The labium is very small and is as wide as long. Our single specimen of this species is so badly rubbed that the colour can only be guessed at. The cephalothorax is dark brown with a black line around the lower margin, and seems to have been pretty well covered with white hairs. The abdomen is lighter |