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Show 704 ON SPIDERS FROM ST. VINCENT, WEST INDIES. [Nov. 21 The cephalothorax is black in the cephalic and brown in the thoracic part, sometimes thinly covered with white hairs, and having some white and rosy hairs around the eyes of the first row; around the lower border is a black line and above this is a white line. The cephalothorax seems to have been entirely covered with very brilliant iridescent scales of a rosy-golden colour, and has two white spots on each side and one just in front of the spinnerets. The legs are medium brown, the first one, in the male, being blackish on the under surface. This is a very small spider. It does not altogether agree with the genus Neon, the dorsal eyes being not very large, and the slope from the dorsal eyes being less abrupt. LYSSOMANES, sp. inc. This is an immature specimen of the subgenus Jelskia. The species cannot be determined. The relative length of the legs is 1, 2, 3, 4 ; the first leg is long and spined. The colour was probably grass-green in life, but has faded to pale yellow. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE LXI. Fig. 1. Synemosyna smithi (p. 692), dorsal view of male; 1 a, dorsal view of female; 1 b, epigynum. 2. Bynamius metallicus (p. 694), dorsal view of male; 2 a, face and falces; 2 b, side view of cephalothorax ; 2 c, palpus. 3. Cybele obscura (p. 695), dorsal view of male; 3 a, face and falces ; 3 b, side view of cephalothorax; 3 c, palpus. 4. Cybele vincenti (p. 696), dorsal view of male ; 4 a, abdomen of a variety of tbe male; 4 b, dorsal view of young female; 4 c, epigynum; 4 d, palpus. 5. Bendryphantes octo-punctatus (p. 697), dorsal view of female ; 5 a, dorsal view of variety of female; 5 b, dorsal view of male; 5 c, dorsal view of variety of male ; 5 d, face and falces ; 5 e, side view of cephalothorax; of, epigynum; 5g, variety of epigynum; 5h, palpus; 5 i, variety of palpus. PLATE LXII. Fig. 6. Cyrene decorata (p. 698), dorsal view of female ; 6 a, face and falces ; 6 b, side view of cephalothorax. 7. Euophrys (?) pulchella (p. 699), dorsal view of male ; 7 a, palpus. 8. Cydonia luteola (p. 700), dorsal view of female ; 8 a, dorsal view of male ; 8 b, face; 8 c, side view of cephalothorax; 8 d, epigynum ; 8 e, palpus. 9. Anoka vernalis(^. 701), dorsal view of female; 9«, abdomen of variety of female; 9 b, dorsal view of male; 9 c, epigynum ; 9 d, palpus. 10. Prostheclina pygmcea (p. 702), dorsal view of female; 10 a, dorsal view of young male; 10 b, face and falces; 10 c, side view of cephalothorax ; 10 d, epigynum ; 10 e, palpus. 11. Neon pompatus (p. 703), dorsal view of female ; 11 a, dorsal view of male; 11 b, epigynum; lie, palpus. |