GoYEN. — On New Zealand Araneoe. 253 



first pair well curved, outer 1 tooth ; inner claw 18 close teeth, 

 terminal tooth strongest. 



Pall) I yellow-brown, clouded ; pars humeralis iucrassated 

 forwards, about one-third longer than two follo\Ying articles 

 together ; cubital joint gradually dilated, nearly twice as long 

 as penultimate article; radial joint, viewed laterally, of even 

 breadth, nearly as broad as long above ; projects from a some- 

 what circular enlargement — outer side — a strong, lake-brown, 

 down-curved tooth-like process ; digital joint rather shorter 

 than two former articles together ; lamina olive-brown, 

 elongate-ovate ; hairs somewhat sparse, except on inner 

 margin, which is furnished with a thick fringe; genital bulb 

 yellowish-brown; globosely-conical, fore-end depressed ; lying 

 close to lamina is a reddish-brown elongated lobe of some- 

 what even width, sharply recurved at anterior end. 



Abdomen elongate-ovate ; tolerably well clothed with straw- 

 coloured and orange-red hairs, former predominate ; ground- 

 colour light burnt-umber, mottled with a dark shade ; deeper 

 tone prevails on lateral margins ; ventral region marked with 

 three dark stripes, converging to spinners ; latter organs long, 

 superior pair stone-colour, inferior approximating to olive- 

 green. 



Taken in the forest near Stratford. A. T. U. 



Art. XVII. — 0)i New Zealand Aranese. 



By P. GoYEN, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, lOth November, 1891.] 



Plate XIX. 



Fam. ATTOID^. 

 Gen. Makptusa, Thor. 

 Marptusa marina, sp. nov. Plate XIX., fig. 1. 



Femina. — Length of cephalothorax about 3mm., of abdo- 

 men about 5mm. 



Cephalothorax dark-brown at and near the margin and the 

 posterior slope, with a triangular central area of a red-brown 

 colour, and covered, except the posterior slope, with silky greyish 

 and reddish-brown hair ; legs brown, with pale- and reddish- 

 brown annulations, and hairy ; falces, lip, and maxillae brown ; 

 sternum pale-brown ; abdomen above brownish-yellow^ inter- 

 spersed with flecks of brown, but without a well-defined pat- 



