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Show 840 MR. R. i. P O C O C K O N SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [NOV. 14, HETEROSCODRA MACULATA, sp. n. 2 . Colour. Carapace covered with white hairs round the margin and furnished with narrow white stripes which radiate from the fovea to this white border, the intermediate area clothed with hairs of an olive-green tint, forming two indefinite longitudinal bands starting with a deep patch of the same tint on each side of the ocular tubercle ; upperside of abdomen olive-green, mottled with white ; mandibles black, covered with ashy-grey hairs; legs deep red, covered with ashy-grey hairs ; the naked lines on femora, patella?, and tibiae very distinct; hairs on femora and tibiae whiter than on tbe rest of the limbs, the distal extremities of which are clothed with foxy-red bristles, with a greenish underclothing; upper-side of tibiae with two submedian white lines or spots, on the proximal side of which there are a pair of blackish bands ; a large black spot on the upperside of the tarsus and on the basal half of the protarsus, as in Scodra ; the extremities of the segments with a narrow rim of white hairs ; lower side of trunk and limbs uniform ashy grey, the scopulae bluish green. Carapace longer than wide, the width almost equal to the length from the anterior median eye to the posterior border. Eyes as in Scodra ; the length of carapace a little less than patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp, a little excelling patella and tibia of 1st leg, less than those of 4th leg, equal to tibia, protarsus, and half the tarsus of the 3rd, less than protarsus and tarsus of 4th, greater than those of 1st; the width a trifle less than patella and tibia of 1st, and just exceeding those of 2nd leg. Legs 4, 1, 2, 3, without spines, scopulate as in Scodra ; protarsus of 4th longer than tibia of 4th, and as long as protarsus and half the tarsus of the 1st. Measurements in millimetres.-Total length 30 ; length of carapace 16, width 14*5; length of 1st leg 42, of 4th 48, patella and tibia of 1st 15, of 4th 18; length of tibia of 4th 10*5, height 4*5. Loc. W . Africa (F. W. Marshall). A single female specimen of this interesting new spider was received from this Society, to wbich it had been presented alive by Mr. F. W . Marshall. This specimen lived for some months in the Insect-house at the Society's Gardens, aud was referred to by Mr. A. Thomson as Scodra calceata in his report upon the Insect-house for 1897 (see P. Z. S. 1898, p. 81). Though very closely resembling Scodra calceata in colour, the spider was found, upon closer examination after death, to be the representative of quite a distinct species. Genus SELENOGYRUS Poc. SELENOGYRUS CCERULEUS POC. Selenogyrus cceruleus, Poc Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 768. Loc. Sierra Leone (Surg.-Capt. Clements and E. E. Austen). |