Uequhaet. — On Neio Species of Araneee. 173 



on the concave side ; G long bristle-like spines ; pars digitalis 

 2-5mm. in length ; lamina ovate, G"8mm. long ; prolonged in a 

 clavate-cylindrical form ; latter extension rather stouter than 

 tarsus of a fore-leg; armed with 6 spines, 3 strongest occur 

 on ovate portion ; bulbus lake-brown ; inversely ovate, mode- 

 rately turgid, extremity somewhat convoluted; traversed from 

 inner fore-end to base on outer side by an undulating callus ; 

 projecting from anterior half are two horn-like apophyses, 

 curved towards each other ; slender half lake-brown ; inner 

 and anterior convolution drawn out into a rather large, sub- 

 triangular process, projecting outwards between the apophyses ; 

 genital bulb exhibits beneath, on posterior side, a series of 

 cilia-like ridges. 



Abdomen has the uniform delicate, pea-green tone ; cylin- 

 drical, base truncated ; moderately furnished with fine pale 

 and dusky hairs. 



The apparently immature females, taken at the same time, 

 do not differ essentially in form or coloration from the male 

 example. 



The described specimens of this delicate species were cap- 

 tured in the forest on Pirongia Mountain ; and I have taken 

 examples in the Waiorongomai Gorge, Te Aroha ; Mount 

 Egmont, Taranaki. 



Earn. EPEIKEDvE. 

 Gen. Epeika, Walck. 



Epeira angusticlava, sp. nov. 



Fern. — Ceph.-th., long, 3; broad, 2-5. Abd., long, 5-8; 

 broad, 5. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 13-5, 12, 11-8, 7 mm. 



Ccphalotlwrax burnt-sienna colour ; sparingly clothed with 

 adpressed, whitish hairs ; cephalic part convex, lateral index 

 equal to fully two-thirds of facial ; ocular eminence tolerably 

 prominent ; height of chjpeus equals space dividing anterior 

 centre-eyes ; thoracic part somewhat depressed above, sides 

 rounded ; fovea oval, deep ; normal grooves moderate ; con- 

 tour of profile represents a somewhat even curve. 



Posterior and anterior rows of eyes moderately recurved ; 

 four centrals do not differ essentially in size, form a trapezoid 

 rather wider in front than long; fore-pair about an eye's 

 breadth and a half apart ; hind-pair tinged with lake, divided 

 by an interval equal to their diameter, removed scarcely their 

 space and one-half from side-eyes ; laterals visibly the smallest 

 of eight, less than their radius apart, placed on low emi- 

 nences. 



Falces fulvous ; conical, vertical, project well beyond plane 

 of clypeus, about as stout as the femur of a second leg. 



Maxilla, pale greenish-brown, clouded with a deeper shade ; 



