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Show 1899.] AND SPIDERS FROM TROPICAL WEST AFRICA. 863 Loc. Sierra Leone (Surg.-Capt. Clements); Benito Biver (67. L. Bates). The web of this spider has been thus described by Surg.-Capt. Clements :-"Fig. 71 is from a photograph of a web which had a height of between 6 and 7 feet. There were some half-dozen of them built in a partially cleared space in the forest. The bottom part of the web is in the form of an inverted widely-spread funnel, the top being truncated, leaving a circular aperture of three quarters of an inch in diameter. The spider lived beneath the cone, and gained access to the upper portions of his snare by the hole in its top. Numerous threads arose from the funnel and were attached to an overhanging branch more than 6 feet above." (' Science Gossip,' 1893, p. 116, fig. 71.) It appears to m e to be not improbable that this species is based upon adult examples of that which Lucas described as Dolomedes exilipes. Genus PHAL.EA Simon. PHALCEA FEROX, sp. n, (Plate LV. fig. 6, 6 a.) Colour. Carapace ochre-yellow, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs, with a narrow blackish-grey margin, some white hairs at the sides of the head and reddish hairs between the eyes; legs ochre-yellow, clothed with ashy-grey hairs, which become blacker towards the extremities; mandibles black, scantly clothed with yellowish-grey hairs ; sternum blackish, clothed, like the maxilla and labium, with black hairs ; upper surface and sides of abdomen clothed with reddish-yellow hairs, its lower surface with greyish-black hairs. Carapace about one-fourth longer than broad, its length about equal to that of tibia of 2nd leg and to protarsus of 1st and 4th legs and to femur, patella, tibia, and half the tarsus of the palp ; its width equal to tibia- or protarsus of 3rd leg and almost equal to patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp. Cephalic region high, convexly rounded from before backwards and from side to side; ocular quadrangle much longer than wide, parallel-sided, the eyes sub-equal and about a diameter apart, the distance between an anterior and a posterior median of the same side equal to about two diameters, anterior aud posterior laterals of either side more than twice as far apart as anterior and posterior medians ; anterior and posterior laterals situated ou small tubercles ; anterior laterals about their o w n diameter above the edge of the clypeus ; anterior medians about their diameter above it. Mandibles long; the fang-rgroove armed with four teeth along its posterior edge. Legs long and strong, 1, 2, 3, 4; the 1st more than four times as long as the carapace, measured from base of femur; patella? unspined, except for a setiform spinule at the extremity of the upperside ; tibia? of 1st and 2nd armed with 4 pairs of spines below and 2 behind and 2 in front; tibia? of 3rd and 4th with 56* |