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rate ; almost glabrous ; ovate, lateral compression at caput 

 moderate ; cephalic part convex, ocular prominence well 

 developed ; clijpeus nearly vertical, depth equals diameter of a 

 fore-centre eye ; thoracic part moderately dilated, fovea sub- 

 oval, deep ; radial striae somewhat shallow ; caput grooves 

 more strongly marked; profile-line ascends from thoracic 

 junction at angle of 50'^, slopes forwards with a perceptible 

 cu]'ve. 



Eyes do not differ nuich in size, fore- centrals smallest, 

 hind-centrals largest of eight ; posterior row sensibly pro- 

 curved, median pair on black oval spots, rather more distant 

 — barely an eye's breadth — from one another than they are 

 from laterals ; anterior row recurved, centre pair encircled by 

 dark rings, separated from each other by a space visibly 

 exceeding the diameter of an eye, and from side-eyes by a 

 somewhat shorter interval ; laterals posited on a tolerably 

 strong, dark, tubercular prominence, subtouching. 



Falccs yellow-ochreous; conical, strongly convex, base pro- 

 jects beyond plane of clypeus, vertical, about twice as long as 

 broad. 



Maxilla, fuscous base divided from bluish extremity by 

 a yellow stripe ; perceptibly longer than broad, dilated, ob- 

 tusely pointed, inclined towards each other. 



Labium dark chocolate-brown ; subquadrate, more than 

 twice as wide as long, margin tumid, everted. 



Sternuvi, centre brown, fuscous margin ; broad-ovate. 



Legs light-brown ; anterior pairs tolerably stout ; armature 

 fine hairs, few slender bristles. 



Palpi yellowish, radial joint greenish, digital reddish- 

 brown. 



Abdomen inversely-oviform, laterally rugose ; dorsum and 

 sides studded with silver and golden contiguous flecks, former 

 occur chiefly on median aspect ; dorsal streak brown ; two 

 fore-thirds traversed by three somewhat arcuate bands of 

 similar hue ; posterior third dilates very abruptly into a wide 

 quadrate band figured with a few golden dots, sub-border 

 dark-brown ; inferior half — rather more — of sides have a deep 

 yellowish-brown tone, streaked with fine dark-brown lines. 

 Ventral shield oval, normal brown, margin yellowish, sub- 

 margin fuscous. Vulva blackish - lake, moderately convex 

 elevation, transversely rugose, inferior margin beaded, some- 

 what pointed, dilated beneath into a moderately wide ) (-shaped 

 septum, separating two large, transverse, oval foveas. 



Hingle example, captured near Hawera. A. T. U. 



Theridium albo-cinctum sp. nov. 



i^'cw.— Ceph.-th., long,' 1-8; wide, 1-4. Abd., long, 2-3 

 wide, 1-7. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 8-7, 5-5, 5-1, 4 mm. 



