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Show 118 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON SOME NEW [Jan. 21, Fam. PODOPTHALMIDES. Nov. gen. L A B D A C U S (nom. prop.). Eyes 8, unequal in size; the four largest form a transverse curved row on the summit of the caput, the curve directed forwards : in front of and near to each of the lateral eyes of this row is another minute eye, much paler in colour and therefore less easy to be seen ; and in front of the two central eyes is a much shorter transverse row of two eyes, near together and placed immediately on the lower margin of the clypeus. Cephalothorax rather Thomisiform, broad, oval, truncated at both ends; caput elevated above thorax, and produced a little forwards ; clypeus prominent. Abdomen elongate, tapering a little towards the spinners, and constricted laterally at two points. Legs long, tolerably strong, relative length 4, 1, 2, 3; terminal (or tarsal) claws 3. Maxillae strong, moderately long, broad, enlarged and rounded at their extremities, and straight. Labium rather more than two thirds the length of the maxillee, oblong in form, rounded at the apex, in the centre of which is a small notch, and with the upper half enlarged on all sides in a sort of mushroom shape ; this character of labium is frequently seen in Spiders of the genus Melanophora (fam. Drassides). LABDACUS MONASTOIDES, sp. n. (Plate XII. fig. 3.) Female adult, length 4\ lines. This remarkable Spider bears great resemblance to Spiders of the genus Monastes (Lucas). It is of a uniform yellow colour, the sides of the abdomen (in the constricted parts chiefly) being suffused with brownish red. The cephalothorax is broad, oval, truncate at either extremity, constricted laterally on the margins at the junction of the caput and thorax. Caput rather elevated ; clypeus broad and prominent; normal grooves and indentations moderately strong. Eyes 8 in number, and situated on black tubercles, in position as above described; the two central eyes of the hinder row, which embraces nearly the whole width of the caput, are nearer together than each is to the lateral on its side, and the space which separates them from each other is about equal to once and a half an eye's diameter; the interval between each of the fore centrals, which are much smaller, is about equal to two diameters, while the space between each of them and the hind central eye nearest to it is rather greater than that between the hind centrals ; those of the hinder row are very nearly equal in size ; the laterals of this row have a side aspect, and the tubercles on which they are placed are stronger than the rest. Legs rather long, moderately strong; those of the first and fourth pairs do not differ much in length, the fourth being a little the longest; they are furnished with hairs and spines; of the latter two parallel Ion- |
