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extends over dorsal aspect, broad-lanceolate or spade-shape ; 

 petiole reaches from hind-pair (third pair) of impressed spots 

 to spinners ; light yellowish -olive, dappled with a deeper 

 shade, suffused with cream-coloured intricate spots and lines, 

 centred or bordered with dull lake-brown ; apex and margin 

 creamy-white, few reddish spots ; ventral region light olive- 

 brown ; shield olive - brown, displays two yellowish spots. 

 Vulva pale amber-colour ; lateral extensions of corpus repre- 

 sent two large, semi-oval, rapidly bent, wing-like expansions, 

 bordered by a deep costa; scapus spoon-shape, moderately 

 long, stout, springs from between the involute basal extremity 

 of wings, which exhibit a conspicuous dark spot. 

 Single specimen, Taupiri Mountain. A. T. U. 



Var. inversa, var. nov. 



Coloration of cephalothorax and legs does not differ very 

 essentially from that of the type form. 



Abdomen light yellowish-olive, flecked with greenish cream- 

 coloured spots of irregular shape and size ; traversed by about 

 five dusky-olive bands, which gradually fade into the ground- 

 colour ; the folium differs both in form and position from the 

 dorsal figure of the typical example ; it is of an acute-lanceo- 

 late shape, the point, which is considerably drawn out, reaches 

 to anus ; petiole short, curves round base of abdomen ; folium 

 has the normal ground-shade, spots coalesce more or less into 

 irregular- shaped patches ; base and petiole bordered with 

 cream-colour, stained with lake ; outline defined by five pairs 

 of soft-brown oval spots. 



Single example, from the same locality. A. T. U. 



Epeira albo-lineata, sp. nov. 



Fem.— Ceph.-th., long, 3; broad, 2. Abd., long, 4; broad, 

 4. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 10, 9, 6-5, 4-6 mm. 



Cephalothorax brownish-yellow ; cephalic region lightly suf- 

 fused with brown-lake ; a dilated, chrome-yellow, V-shaped 

 mark extends forwards from limit of caput ; fairly well clothed 

 with silky, whitish, adpressed hairs ; somewhat depressed ; 

 outline oval ; lateral constriction at caput moderate ; ocular 

 eminence not very prominent; facial index scarcely surpasses 

 lateral by one-fourth ; height of clypeus exceeds diameter of a 

 fore-centre eye ; thoracic groove longitudinal ; strke rather 

 slightly defined ; profile-contour represents a -moderately pro- 

 minent arch. 



Fore- and hind-row of eyes somewhat evenly recurved ; 

 four centrals form a subquadrate figure ; posterior pair about 

 one-third larger than anterior, separated from them by a space 

 visibly shorter than their own diameter, plainly more than 

 that interval from each other ; laterals rather the smallest of 



