Uequhabt. — On New Species of Araneaa. 185 



Tarsal claws of first and second legs strong, well curved, 7 

 open teeth increasing in length and strength. 



Palpi fulvous, few fuscous spots ; armature of legs ; 

 palpal claw short, about 6 teeth. 



Abdomen inversely - ovate, base truncated; somewhat 

 pointed at spinners ; subcomplanate ; moderately furnished 

 with long papillseform hairs, and short spine-like bristles ; 

 dorsal region suffused with a yellowish-cream colour, with the 

 exception of a central oval patch which has the normal fulvous 

 ground-tint ; two dilated T-shaped, fuscous-black figures 

 form a transverse line with the posterior third of the above- 

 mentioned oval mark ; two moderately divergent, blackish, 

 irregular streaks occur on basal end and above spinners ; 

 ventral surface spotted ; shield defined by a U-shaped dotted 

 band. Vulva fulvous ; viewed from above, represents a some- 

 what triangular hood, whose lateral extremities are incurved ; 

 project over a sub-diamond-shaped, transversely-rugose area. 



Single specimen. Bush near Ohaupo. A. T. U. 



Fam. ATTID^. 

 Gen. Attus, Walck. 

 Attus ravus, sp. nov. 



Mas. — Ceph.-th., long, 2-9; broad, 2. Abd., long, 3-1; 

 wide, 2-1. Legs, 1, 4, 2, 3 = 6, 5-5, 4-9, 4-8 mm. 



Ccphalotliorax chestnut-colour, densely suffused with fus- 

 cous-black ; glossy ; very sparingly furnished with dark hairs, 

 grouped mostly about frontal region ; pars cephalica aplanate, 

 limited by a transverse indentation ; clypeus retreating, depth 

 barely equal to radius of a centre-eye ; pars thoracica sur- 

 passes cephalic part in length by one-third, moderately dilated; 

 contour of profile ascends from the petiole at an angle of 55°, 

 represents a horizontal line to hind-row of eyes, dips across 

 ocular space. 



Anterior row of eyes recurved, median pair visibly nearer 

 to each other than they are to side-eyes ; laterals one-third 

 size of centrals, removed from them by an interval equal to 

 about their own radius; eyes of posterior row sensibly smaller 

 than anterior laterals, fully one-third further from one another 

 than they are from the latter pair ; eyes of second row inter- 

 mediate ; breadth of frontal line exceeds space occupied by 

 hind-row by about the diameter of a lateral eye. 



Falces deep lake-brown ; transversely rugose ; vertical ; 

 subconical, of somewhat even breadth ; about as long as the 

 radial and digital joints of palpus together. 



Maxilla straight, dilated, round-pointed ; labium sub- 

 conical, nearly two-thirds length of maxillae ; organs chestnut- 

 brown. 



