Ukquhakt. — On New S2)ccies of Araneae. 237 



Cephalothorax orange-ochreous ; sparsely haired o)i caput ; 

 oval, moderately constricted forwards, convex ; cephalic part 

 prominently romided ; chipcuH vertical, height rather less than 

 one-half facial space ; thoracic fovea oval, longitudinal, deep ; 

 normal grooves well defined ; profile-contour ascends from 

 thoracic junction at an angle of 45'^, slopes forwards with a 

 sensible curve. 



Eyes rather small, do not differ much in size, on dark 

 rings'; posterior row visibly procurved, median pair perceptibly 

 further from laterals than they are from each other — an inter- 

 val exceeding their own diameter ; anterior row recurved, cen- 

 trals dark, largest of eight, form with hind-pair a nearly 

 quadrilateral figure, narrowest behind ; lateral eyes smallest, 

 posited obliquely on moderate-sized lake-coloured tubercular 

 eminences, contiguous. 



Falces shade lighter than cephalothorax ; sublinear, directed 

 visibly forwards, barely project beyond plane of clypeus ; 

 stouter than the pars femorahs of a fore-leg, one-fourth longer 

 than the cubital -h radial joints of palpus. 



illaa'iV/fS pale stone-brown ; acute- spathulate, inclined over 

 labimn,\i\\\(i\\ has a broad-oval form, visibly everted ; yellowish- 

 orange. 



Sternum light yellow-brown ; broad-cordate. 

 Legs yellow-ochreous, orange reflections ; tolerably stout ; 

 anterior pairs of nearly equal strength ; fine, erect, dusky hairs ; 

 bristles long, sparse. 



PaJpi colour and armature of legs; pars cubitalis projects a 

 long bristle. 



Abdomen oviform, elongated ; tolerably well clothed w^ith 

 hair ; ground-colour light-brown, shade of olive-green, closely 

 speckled with creamy-brown flecks ; dorsal band of somewhat 

 uniform breadth, tapers at either end, somewhat evanescent, 

 irregularly notched ; central part creamy-white, stained with 

 chrome-yellow ; encloses on fore-half three small greenish 

 elongated marks. Corpus vulvcB moderately elevated, trans- 

 versely rugose, projects forwards ; displays a broad, ochraceous, 

 dusky-bordered medial band, which terminates at a fair-sized 

 amber-coloured depressed area, semicircular on inferior (an- 

 terior) side ; superior subquadrate, projecting, gradually com- 

 pressed in centre, margin beaded, brown ; comprised within 

 the area are two longitudinal oval fovea3, separated by a 

 septum whose breadth is visibly narro^^■er than their trans- 

 verse diameter. 



Single specimen, taken in the forest near Stratford. A. T. U. 



Theridium ampliatum, sp. nov. 



Mas. — Ceph.-th., long, 2; wide, 1-5. Abd., long, 1-8; 

 wide, 1-8. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 13, 10-3, 9, 6-8 mm. 



