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rather longer than broad, obtusely pointed, inclined over labium, 

 which has a similar colour, length nearly equal to breadth, 

 round-pointed. 



Sternum orange-ochreous, red-chestnut clouds round mar- 

 gins ; cordate ; eminences opposite coxa?. 



Legs ochraceous, thighs suffused with lake, red-chestnut 

 annulations on fore-end of tibial, metatarsal, and tarsal joints ; 

 hairs fine, yellowish, somewhat sparse ; spines yellowish, 

 moderately numerous. 



Palpi brownish-yellow, indications of annuli ; armature 

 similar to legs. 



Abdomen angular-ovate, moderately convex above ; ground- 

 colour creamy- brown, basal margin fuscous - green ; folium 

 broad-lanceolate, anterior border lake-colour, sides defined by 

 four pairs of blackish, irregular oval spots, decreasing in size, 

 subtouching ; central area traversed by four lake, undulating 

 bands, whose extremities are contiguous to the above-men- 

 tioned spots ; the four impressed dots are enclosed within the 

 two anterior bands ; lateral margins exhibit a series of vertical, 

 lake-brown, acute, V-shaped marks. Ventral region suffused 

 with lake ; shield brownish, evanescent. Vulva represents a 

 broad, moderately-tapering, dark amber-coloured, transversely- 

 wrinkled scape, fore-end rapidly constricted into a short- 

 stalked stylus, apex broad-calceolate ; scapus vulvas laterally 

 bordered by well-developed, cylindrical, fuscous lobes ; en- 

 veloped on outer side by close-fitting cutaneous folds of a 

 darker shade. 



Single example. Taupiri Mountain, Waikato. A.T. U. 



Epeira sestiva, sp. nov. 



Fern. — Ceph.-th., long, 4-8; wide, 4. Abd., long, 14; 

 wide, 14. Legs, 1-2, 4, 3 = 16, 14, 9 mm. 



Cephalothorax light - ochreous ; hairs whitish, somewhat 

 sparse ; length equal to patella + tibia of a fourth leg ; pars 

 cephalica convex, lateral index fully equal to two-thirds of 

 facial ; ocular prominence rather low ; depth of clypcus equal 

 to interspace between fore-central eyes ; pars thoracica convex, 

 dilated ; fovea deep ; caput and radial striae fairly well defined ; 

 profile-contour somewhat prominently arched, incline across 

 occiput nearly as abrupt as posterior. 



Eyes of tolerable and nearly equal size, encircled by nar- 

 row dark rings, form two moderately -prominent recurved 

 rows; four centrals represent a trapezoid a trifle longer than 

 wide in front ; fore-pair sensibly the largest of eight, separated 

 from one another by scarcely an eye's breadth and a half ; 

 visibly less than that distance from hind-pair, which are 

 divided by an interval almost equalling their own diameter ; 

 about their space and one-half from side-eyes ; laterals smallest 



