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and medial region with lake-brown ; dorsal figure and lateral 

 band olive-brown ; former fan-shaped, latter broad ; clathrate ; 

 hairs yellowish, sparse; ovate; clypens vertical, height nearly 

 equals one-half facial space ; thoracic indentation long, wide, 

 deep ; strias moderately defined ; thoracic part of contour 

 represents a rather prominent curve, rising above plane of 

 caput ; falling abruptly to the petiole ; cephalic line nearly 

 horizontal. 



Eyes of tolerable and nearly equal size, on dark patches ; 

 posterior row perceptibly procurved, distributed at nearly 

 equal distances, median pair furthest apart ; anterior row 

 prominently recurved, centrals smallest of eight, separated by 

 rather more than an eye's interval ; fully their radius from 

 side-eyes ; laterals divided by a space equalling one-fourth 

 their diameter. 



Falces yellow-brown, clouded with olive-brown ; linear- 

 conical, inclined sensibly forwards, in length barely equalling 

 the pars digitalis of palpus. 



Maxilla acute-spathulate, inclined over labium, which is 

 oval, large ; organs slaty-olive, passing into a pale tone. 



Sternum fuscous-olive ; clathrate : broad-cordate. 



Legs pale yellow-brown ; patellae and annuli chestnut- 

 brown ; latter wide, central and distal ; basal rings more or 

 less indicated on femoral and metatarsal joints ;' armature, 

 fine, sparse hairs ; bristle - like spines on patellae and 

 tibiae. 



Palpi moderately slender ; resemble legs in colour and 

 armature. 



Abdomen inversely-ovate in outline, depressedly convex ; 

 base emarginate, somewhat pointed at spinners ; the obtusely- 

 conical tubercles project backwards and outwards horn verge 

 of posterior incline. Folium occupies dorsal region, some- 

 what arrow-shaped, extends to apices of tubercles, margins 

 undulating ; olive-green, bordered and stained with fuscous- 

 green ; outer margin whitish ; sides approximate to chocolate- 

 brown, marked with fuscous-black blotches ; suffused with 

 creamy-brown spots, combined more or less into horizontal 

 lines. Ventral surface light olive-brown ; shield linear-lan- 

 ceolate, speckled with light spots ; border dusky ; very 

 sparingly clothed with hairs of a yellowish colour. Corpus 

 vulva represents a large, broad, subovate, shallow area, 

 somewhat depressed over the rima genitalis; of a pinkish 

 colour, reflecting a deeper tone ; bordered by a brown, bead- 

 like costa, which is somewhat dilated on the lateral margins, 

 tapering off at inferior ends. 



Ohaupo, Waikato. A. T. U. 



