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The tarsi without spines (1 or 2 on one of the 4th legs in 

 some examples) ; the tibiye and metatarsi of the 3rd and 4th 

 pairs so heavily armed with spines as to resemble veritable 

 chcvaiix-de-frise ; on the inferior sm-face of the corresponding 

 joints of the 1st and 2nd pairs 6 to 8 spines, the distribution 

 of which is somewhat irregular — on the tibia) 2,2,2; 3, 1, 1, 2, or 

 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, and on the metatarsi 2, 2, 2, or 2, 1, 2, 2 ; tarsal claws 

 3, su]:)erior with several teeth, inferior bent vertically down 

 and simple. 



Palpi slender, joints all armed with 1 or more sj)ines — 

 humeral joint with 1, 1, 2, or 1, 1, 1 above, this joint slightly 

 bent and increasing a little in thickness towards the fore 

 extremity, and \\\ length not differing much from the digital 

 joint ; the cubital joint by much the shortest, and thickened in 

 front ; digital joint furnished with a finely-toothed claw. 



Of the corpus vuIvca the sides are brown, and the posterior, 

 anterior, and central parts pale - yellow ; the brown parts 

 corneous, pitted with circular cavities, posteriorly near to and 

 anteriorly distant from each other, having thus the shape of a 

 horse-shoe with the heels directed forward, and the toe broken 

 through by the yellowish neck of the somewhat spathulate 

 vulvular concavity. Slightly outside the front of each heel 

 there is an oblique elongated bald depression having the same 

 hue as the branchial opercula, and in front of each of these 

 depressions another smaller depression of the same hue. 



Though much smallei-, the male closely resembles the fe- 

 male in form. Length, 5mm. ; relative length of cephalothorax 

 and abdomen nearly the same as in the female. Cephalo- 

 thorax and its appendages reddish-yellow ; coloration and 

 markings of abdomen similar to those of the female's. On 

 the outside, at the fore extremity of the radial joint of the 

 palpi, two short stout apophyses close together, the one flesh- 

 coloured, the other brown ; digital joint turbinate, having 

 on the under-surface at the base a hollow in which are 

 situated the palpal organs, in the centre of the hollow a loop- 

 shaped yellow corneous process partly concealed by a mem- 

 braneous scale, and springing from the base a dark-coloured 

 filiform spine, which, after passing along the inside and round 

 the front, terminates on the outside at no great distance from 

 the base. 



I have several females, but only one male. 



Hah. Dunedin Harbour. P. G. 



This interesting spider is found on the under-surface of 

 stones between high- and low-water mark, being at full-tide 

 immersed in from a few inches to a foot or more of water. 

 When detached from the stones it rises to the surface like a 

 cork, and at once simulates death. In this condition it will 

 bear a good deal of pushing about without showing the 



