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Show 1901.] REV. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE ON EXOTIC SPIDERS. 13 TITUS LUGENS, sp. n. (Plate V. figs. 3-3 e.) Adult female, length 21 lines. Cephalothorax bright red-brown, suffused with a darker hue on the sides and on the caput, the fore part of which is nearly black ; the surface is thickly covered with small round shining tubercles or granulosities, and it is thinly clothed with hairs, of which some on the sides and hinder part are white and of a plumose nature. Legs yellow tinged with brown ; the femora much strongest. granulose, as also are the uppersides of coxae. Colour of the femora of 1st pair black-brown, of the second pair not so dark, of the third and fourth pairs paler and indistinctly banded with darker. The tarsi are enlarged slightly and gradually to the ends, which are furnished with two claws and a compact claw-tuft. Falces deep reddish black-brown, paler at the fore extremity. furnished in front with bristly hairs. Maxillce and labium yellow-brown. Sternum yellow-red, covered thickly with small granulosities like the cephalothorax. Abdomen coriaceous, covering of the upperside black with a central triangular patch of white plumose hairs, two patches of the same on the lateral margins, and one at the hinder extremity, sides and underside of a paler browner hue. The fore extremity on the underside is covered with a coriaceous granulose integument (the granulosities much strongest and becoming tubercular at the fore end), which forms a short sheath, covering most of the connecting pedicle as well as the spiracular openings and the genital aperture. For the peculiar form of the abdomen, see generic characters above ; but whether this is only specific or whether generic, it is hard to say in the absence of allied species. Hab. Salisbury, Mashonaland, S. Africa. 5000 feet, Nov. 1898 to Jan. 1899 (G. A. K. Marshall). Fam. EPEiRiDiE. Genus NEPHILENGYS L. Koch. NEPHILENGYS MALABARENSIS Walck. An adult female of this common and widelv dispersed Epeirid from Karkloof, Natal (G. A. K. Marshall). Fam. G A s T E RA C A N T H I D JE. Subfam. EURYCOMINJE. Gen. CYRTARACHNE Thor. CYRTARACHNE CONICA, sp. n. (Plate V. figs. 1-1 c.) Adult female, length rather over 3| lines, or 8 mm.; length of abdomen 2^ lines, width 3g lines. Cephedothorax short, slightly longer than broad, broadest and |