Urquhart. — On Neiv Species of Araneae. 181 



are confluent about lateral margins ; fore-end of folium 

 evanescent ; tapers to spinners from base of tubercles ; suf- 

 fused with greenish- yellow ; margins acute-crenate, stained 

 more or less with dark olive-green; a similar border occurs 

 on posterior half of abdomen dividing the upper spotted area 

 from the streaked ventral part. 



Single specimen, taken in the bush at Ohaupo. A. T. U. 



Fam. EPISINIDvE. 

 Gen. Episinus, "Walck. 

 Episinus similitudus, sp. no v. 



Ma,s. — Ceph.-th., long, 1-9; broad, 1-3. Abd., long, 2-6; 

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



Cephalothorax yellowish-ochreous, lightly mottled with 

 olive-green, more especially along lateral borders ; caput 

 speckled with lake ; almost glabrous ; much depressed, bounded 

 by a rather wide border-hem; broad-ovate; laterally com- 

 pressed from hind-row of eyes ; ocular eminence projects well 

 over clypeus, which is inclined slightly forwards; height 

 exceeds one-third of facial space ; thoracic indentation dark, 

 forms a deep groove from limit of caput to stalk ; striae well 

 defined ; profile-line ascends abruptly and shortly from stalk, 

 dips slightly, rising again to nearly its former plane across 

 cephalic area. 



Eyes of fair and nearly equal size, on dark spots, some- 

 what closely grouped ; posterior row sensibly recurved ; eyes 

 situated at nearly equal distances, equalling somewhat less 

 than the diameter of a median eye ; anterior row strongly re- 

 curved, centrals dark, closer to side-eyes than they are to each 

 other, an interval perceptibly shorter than their own breadth ; 

 laterals subtouching ; latter pairs largest, posterior centrals 

 smallest of eight. 



Falces pale-drab, pinkish reflections ; slender, conical, 

 vertical, length rather surpasses depth of clypeus. 



Maxillce : Basal half brownish-yellow, fore-end pale-drab ; 

 well developed, acutely spathulate, directed towards each 

 other. 



Labium brownish ; rather wider than long, round-pointed. 



Sternum reddish-brown, passing into olive-brown about 

 border. 



Legs yellow-ochreous, indications of pre-apical and apical 

 rings on femoral and tibial joints ; hairs sparse ; few bristle- 

 like spines on patellae and tibiae. 



Palpi colour of legs; pars humeralis rather stout, some- 

 what compressed ; fore-part of cubital joint turgid ; superior 

 contour prominently curved ; radial joint tinged with olive- 



