256 Tra7is actions. — Zoology. 



behind, nearly half as long again as broad, prominent and con- 

 vex between the back of the eyes and the fovea, which is 

 transverse and deep, and low on the posterior side of the 

 fovea ; lateral indentations very distinct. 



Ocular area prominent, eyes compactly grouped, the front 

 row curved backwards, and the hind row very slightly 

 forwards. 



Falces prominent, knee - shaped, stout, furnished with 

 parallel longitudinal bands of stout hairs, and on the upper 

 side of the fore extremity armed with numerous tooth-like 

 spines ; groove on the inner side furnished with strong teeth, 

 and on the outer side with a dense fringe of reddish hair ; fang 

 long and strong. Maxillae nearly parallel at the sides, some- 

 what pointed at the outer side of the basal extremity, and 

 furnished with short spines on the inner side of the basal 

 half. 



Labium wider than long, triangular in outline, convex, 

 truncated in front, where it is furnished with a band of bristly 

 hairs. 



Sternum cordate, slightly emarginate in front, and bluntly 

 pointed behind. 



Legs hairy, armed on the under-side with a large number of 

 spines, and terminated with three hooked claws, each superior 

 claw having at its base a tooth nearly as long as the inferior 

 claw ; the tarsi and metatarsi of the first and second pair 

 furnished with a scopula. The armature of the palpi is 

 similar to that of the legs, and each is terminated with a 

 strong claw, which, like the superior claws of the tarsi, is 

 furnished at its base with a long tooth. 



Abdomen ovate ; superior pair of spinners many times as 

 large as the inferior pair ; genital aperture a simple transverse 

 slit. 



Hah. Dunedin. P. G. 



This spider strongly resembles Neviesia gilliesii, Cambr., 

 differing from the latter chiefly in its habits and more slender 

 build. The male was figured and described by the Eev. 0. 

 Pickard-Cambridge in 1879 from a specimen sent from Dun- 

 edin by Captain Hutton (see Proc. Zooi. Soc, 1879, p. 682, 

 and pi. lii., fig. 1), but no information as to its habits was 

 sent to Mr. Cambridge. It is chiefly owing to this defect that 

 1 have described the female. 



Its nest (PI. XIX., fig. 3) is of the branched type, but 

 without a door or any sort of cover to the entrance of the main 

 tube. The branch is smaller than the main tube, makes with 

 the latter a more or less acute angle, and extends to the sur- 

 face of the ground, where it is completely covered with 

 particles of soil and other material, bound loosely together with 

 web, and attached to the lining of the tube in such a way as 



