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Show 1873.] SPIDERS FROM ST. HELENA. 219 Females of this species were received from Mr. Melliss from St. Helena. Genus A R T E M A. ARTEMA CONVEXA. Artema convexa, Bl. Ann. Nat. Hist., Nov. 1858. . Females of this Spider (which is nearly allied to if not identical with Pholcus borbonicus, Vins.) were found in the St.-Helena collection. Fam. THERIDIIDES. Genus THERIDION. THERIDION TEPIDARIORUM. Theridion tepidariorum, Koch, Die Arachn. Bd. viii. p. 75, tab. 273. fig. 646, and tab. 274. figs. 647, 648. Examples of this widely dispersed species were contained in the St.-Helena collections. I have received it also from Brazil, as well as from Ceylon. Genus LATRODECTUS. LATRODECTUS EREBUS. Latrodectus erebus, Sav. Arachn. de l'Egypte, pl. 3. fig. 9. The St.-Helena collections contained an example of this Spider. Genus LINYPHIA. L I N Y P H I A LEPROSA. Linyphia leprosa, Ohl. Die Araneiden der Provinz Preussen, p. 47. L. confusa, Cambr. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 429, pl. 55. no. 21, a, b, c, d,f, g. Examples of both sexes were found in the St.-Helena collections. LINYPHIA ALBIMACULATA, sp. n. Immature female, length nearly 2 lines. Although not quite adult, yet the very distinct markings and colours of this Spider leave me no doubt whatever about its being (as far as I am aware) undescribed. In form and structure there is no marked departure from the ordinary generic type ; the sides of the thoracic portion of the cephalothorax are deep black-brown, the margins being yellowish ; the caput is yellow ; a continuation of this colour, in a tapering or wedge-shaped form, runs backwards from the occiput to the hinder slope of the thorax ; and a deep blackish-brown band runs back from the hind central eyes, tapering to a point at the central indentation where the thoracic segments converge. The clypeus has two brownish maculae near its lower margin, one on either side of the central point: the height of the clypeus equals half that of the facial space ; it is a little impressed transversely immediately below the eyes, from the slight prominence of the ocular area. The eyes are in the ordinary position, on greyish-black tubercular spots, and not very unequal in size; those of the hinder row are not quite equally separated, the centrals being further from |