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Show 1893.] SPIDERS FROM ST. YINCENT, WEST INDIES. 703 The sternum is large and almost round. The maxillae are short and broad. The labium is very small and about as wide as long. The clypeus is about one-fourth as high as the middle eyes of the first row. The falces are moderately long and stout; they are parallel and are inclined backward. This spider is black, ornamented with a handsome pattern in white. The cephalothorax of the male has white bands encircling the sides, a white band across the cephalothorax above the first-row of eyes, another passing down the middle of the thorax, and a shorter curved band on each side, which passes up from the lateral band between the eyes of the second and third rows, and then divides, joining the band across tbe cephalic part in front and the thoracic band behind. The abdomen has also a number of white bands. There is a central one down the middle ; a curved band on each side which joins the central one before and behind; and a transverse bar a little behind the middle, joining the central to the lateral bands, and thus dividing the dorsal surface of the abdomen into two posterior and two larger anterior black spots, surrounded by white. The legs are of rather a bright rufous. In the male the anterior faces of the tibial joints of the third pair are covered with black hairs. In the female all the femoral joints are blackish. The tibia of the palpus is covered with snow-white hairs, and there is a fringe of white hairs on the edge of the clypeus. The white band above the first row of eyes is also visible from the front, so that the face view is very striking. In the female the general colouring is like that of the male, excepting that the white band above the anterior row of eyes is lacking. NEON POMPATUS, sp. nov. (Plate LXII. figs. 11-11 c.) 3 . Length 2#5. Length of cephalothorax 1*2; width of cephalothorax 1. 2 . Length 3*2. Length of cephalothorax 1-2; width of cephalothorax *8. Legs, 3 1,4, 3, 2, $ 4,1,3, 2; first pair a little the stoutest. The cephalothorax is high, with the cephalic part inclined forward, and the thorax falling but slightly for a very short distance behind the dorsal eyes, and then more steeply, in a long slant, to the posterior border. The quadrangle of the eyes is about equally wide in front and behind, is one-fifth wider than long, and occupies a little more than one-half of the cephalothorax. The first row of eyes is straight; the eyes are all close together and are all small, the middle being less than twice as large as the lateral. The dorsal eyes are larger than the lateral, and form a row which is as wide as the cephalothorax at that place. The eyes of the second row are nearer the dorsal than the lateral eyes. The clypeus is very narrow. The falces are short, weak, parallel and vertical. The labium is as wide as long. The sternum is nearly round. In the female the abdomen looks wide and heavy when compared with the cephalothorax. |
