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Show 414 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON N E W DRASSIDES. [June 2, nent at their base in front, of a deep yellow-brown colour, and furnished with prominent bristles before. The maxilla are of the same colour as the falces, straight, but much broader at their extremity than at the insertion of the palpi. The labium is of an oblong-oval form, truncate at the apex, slightly more than half the length of the maxillae, which it resembles in colour. Sternum oval, truncate before, pointed behind, and similar to the legs in colour. Abdomen elongate-oval, slightly hollow-truncate before, pointed behind, projecting over the base of the cephalothorax, of a pale yellow colour, clothed thinly with pale golden hairs, among which are a few erect dark ones ; the central longitudinal normal elongate-oblong tapering marking on the fore half of the upperside is of a deep blackish red-brown colour; on each side of this are two blotches of the same colour, prolonged into oblique lateral lines ; and it is followed towards the spinners by several angular bars or chevrons, whose terminations are dilated into blotches, the first being also produced into lateral lines. The spinners are moderately long, not very strong ; those of the superior pair are less strong than those of the inferior, but longer by a short second joint. The female differs from the male only in being slightly larger; the form of the genital aperture is characteristic. An adult example of each sex was found in Major Julian Hobson's Bombay collection. It is a very interesting species, being so nearly connected with, but yet quite different from, both the European and Australian forms. CLUBIONA DRASSODES, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 36.) Adult female, length 5 lines. Except in being larger, and differing in the form of the genital aperture, this Spider might well have been taken for the female of the foregoing species, C. filicata; the red-brown pattern on the abdomen is more regular, and forms a well-defined recurved peculiar pattern along the middle of the hinder half of the upper surface ; the spinners are shorter and the sternnm narrower, the maxillae and labium darker, and the falces rather more projecting forwards ; the eyes of the hinder row are more nearly equally divided, the difference between the interval which separates those of the central pair and each of them and the lateral eye nearest to it being very slight; the form of the genital aperture is very simple, but quite different from that of C. filicata; this difference may be seen at once by the accompanying figures, engraved from drawings made by Dr. Ludwig Koch. A single adult female example was received in Major Julian Hob-son's Bombay collection. Genus AGRCTXA, Westr. A G R O S C A P U L C H E R R I M A , sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 37.) Adult male, length slightly over 3 lines. This is a very pretty but simply coloured Spider. The cephalo- |
