220 Transactions. — Zoology. 



TINEID/E. 

 Erechthias erebistis, n. sp. 



3 . 12inin. Head, palpi, antennifi, thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs dark fuscous. Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; dark 

 fuscous ; scales in disc and posteriorly more blackish-fuscous, 

 with fine fuscous-whitish tips ; two or three scattered whitish 

 scales towards costa before middle ; a whitish dot on costa 

 before apex, and another on hindmargin below apex : cilia 

 dark grey, with two blackish lines (imperfect). Hindwings 

 fuscous, becoming dark fuscous towards apex, thinly scaled 

 and semitransparent on basal third ; cilia dark grey, with in- 

 dications of two black lines round apex. 



One specimen. Although obscure, it cannot be confused 

 with any other ; it may be placed near E. charadrota. 



Art. ^^ .— Catalogue of the Described Species of New Zealand 



Araneidae. 



By A. T. Ukquhart, Corr. Mem. Koyal Society of 



Tasmania. 



[Bead before the Auckland Institute, 2nd November, 1891.] 



The subjoined list of the described species of New Zealand 

 spiders — which has been compiled at the suggestion of Mr. 

 T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., Curator of the Auckland Museum — 

 may be taken as exhaustive, as the probabilities are that all 

 the species described in foreign memoirs have been recorded by 

 Dr. I/. Koch in his great work " Die Arachniden Australiens " 

 (referred to in the list as " D.A.A."). 



With one exception, all the late Dr. L. Powell's examples 

 of AttidcB — described in the Transactions of the New Zealand 

 Institute (referred to as "vol."), have been retained for the 

 present — where he, perhaps, only provisionally placed them — 

 in the Latreillean genus Salticus. 



More field and descriptive work needs to be done before any 

 comparison can be drawn between the spider-fauna of New 

 Zealand and that of better-worked countries — Great Britain 

 for example; but, as many of the larger forms yet remain 

 undescribed, and the Micro-aranece are apparently well repre- 

 sented, the probabilities are that the Araneida will prove as 

 comparatively rich as most of the other orders represented in 

 New Zealand. 



It may be worth recording that within the last few years — 

 as far as my district is concerned — there has been a marked 



