Uequhart. — On New Si^ecies of Arauese. 247 



more than half size of former pair, separated by double the 

 interval that divides them from second row. 



Falrxs dusky purple-lake, passing into a more pronounced 

 purple at fore-end ; hairs light, long, moderately thick ; trans- 

 versely rugose; subconical, divergent, project forwards, length 

 equals breadth of caput. 



Maxlllce light yellow-mahogany ; moderately haired ; 

 elliptic-spathulate, subtouching. 



Labium chocolate-brown, apex light ; oval, sensibly trun- 

 cated, nearly one-half length of maxillge. 



Sternum brown-pink, clouded with a deeper tone ; short, 

 light, and erect black hairs ; oval. 



Legs mahogany-colour, fuscous clouds, purple-lake reflec- 

 tions ; well armed with dull straw-coloured and fine erect 

 black hairs ; femora have 5 spines, 3 of which form a trans- 

 verse lin'e at fore-end ; patellary joints 1, 1 side-spines ; tibiae 

 of first and second legs, 8 ; metatarsi, 7 ; the respective joints 

 of hind-pairs have about 9-15. 



Palpi colour and armature of legs; pars humeralis com- 

 pressed, second half incrassated ; cubital joint short, subcam- 

 panulate ; radial similar in form, perceptibly longer ; digital 

 joint surpasses penultimate in length by about one-third ; 

 lamina ovate, well-haired, projects nearly one-half its length 

 beyond bulbus ; genital bulb lake-brown, transversely rugose; 

 semi-globose ; inner aspect turgid, fore-half furcate, outer horn 

 broad, subtriangular, inner surface aplanate, exhibits on margin 

 a lunulate ochreous mark ; superior surface convex, incurved, 

 gradually dilated forwards, outer border prolonged into a short 

 yellowish process, directed inwards; inner horn shortly trun- 

 cated, projects a greenish-black, membranous, rather wide, 

 tapering apophysis, inclined inwards, curved sharply back- 

 wards, subtouching apex of outer horn at point of curvature. 



Abdomen oviform, base truncated ; olive stone-colour ; 

 thickly clothed with dull straw^- coloured and erect long black 

 hairs. 



jPfi??z.—Ceph.-th., long, 6; broad, 4-3. Abd., long, 6. Legs, 

 4, 2, 1-3 = 23-5, 18-2, 17-5 mm. 



Cej^halotJiorax and legs yellowish-brown, clouded and 

 splashed with black-brown. 



Abdomen olive-green, suffused with fuscous-green. Legs 

 and abdomen less haired than male's. 



This fine male example, which was contained in Mr. II. 

 Suter's collection, was captured near Mount Cook by Mr. 

 G. H. Mannering. It was accompanied by another specimen, 

 apparently the female : owing to the shrivelled state of the 

 abdomen it was not possible to determine whether the example 

 was mature. 



