190 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Ceplialotliorax dark mahogany-colour, deepening in tone 

 about lateral borders; sides rather sparingly clothed with 

 whitish and orange-red hairs, latter have a brighter hue on 

 frontal margin ; cephalic part aplanate, limited by a some- 

 what T-shaped groove, contained within a subcircular indenta- 

 tion ; clypeus in height less than the radius of a side-eye ; 

 thoracic part slightly surpasses cephalic in length ; profile- 

 line ascends from stalk at an angle of 45°, inclined visibly for- 

 wards across caput. 



Eyes rather large ; anterior row perceptibly recurved, cen- 

 trals contiguous ; laterals about one-half size of median pair, 

 removed from them by one-fourth their own breadth ; dorsal 

 eyes sensibly smaller than laterals ; eyes of second row equi- 

 distant between fore- and hind-laterals. 



Falces lake-brown ; rugose ; conoid, vertical, flatfish, 

 somewhat gibbous at base in front, short. 



Maxilla roundly-spathulate, slightly inclined from labium, 

 which is roundly-conical, nearly half length of- maxillse ; 

 organs reddish-mahogany. 



Sternum yellow-brown ; oval. 



Legs : First-pair light mahogany-colour ; hind-pairs yel- 

 lowish-brown, greenish and reddish reflections ; indications 

 of annuli on metatarsi of fourth pair ; tarsi of third and 

 fourth ringed. Light hairs sparse ; black, fine, erect ; spines 

 normal. 



Palpi yellow-brown ; penultimate and digital joints reddish ; 

 well furnished with dusky, fine hairs. 



Abdomen elongate-ovate, projects moderately over base of 

 cephalothorax ; tolerably well clothed with short, adpressed, 

 pale-yellow and orange-red hairs ; yellowish-brown, approxi- 

 mating to olive-brown, flecked with somewhat obscure dots of 

 a lighter tone ; indications of fuscous chevron on medial line ; 

 lateral margins exhibit a series of dark, longitudinal streaks, 

 the lighter interspaces haired. Ventral surface pale brown- 

 pink, pale flecks ; shield similar shade, border and median 

 stripe brown. Vulva brownish, two converging, elongated 

 patches occur on the clouded base ; moderately elevated ; 

 close to the somewhat projecting superior margin are two 

 deep, circular foveas, separated by a broad septum, surpass- 

 ing their diameter in breadth. 



Two examples of this species were captured amongst the 

 dry foliage of Gordyline austral/Is in the bush near Ohaupo; 

 and a larger example, less haired, was taken at the base of 

 Pirongia Mountain. A. T. U. 



