246 Transactions. — Zooloyy. 



across curvature as long, eoiupressed a little forwards, ter- 

 minates with a rather shortlv-articulated calceolate apex. 

 Te Karaka, A. T. U. 



Epeira duhitahilis, sp. nov. Plate XVII., fig. 3. 



Male. — Ceph.-th., long, 3; broad, 2-7. Abd., long, 3-3; 

 broad, 3. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 15, 13, 9-7, 7-6 mm. 



Ccphalotlwra.r light olive-tinted brown; moderately 

 clothed with light-yellowish hairs ; depressed, sides rounded'; 

 facial index 1mm., lateral index scarcely equals one-half 

 former; ocular prominence moderate; thoracic indentation 

 longitudinal ; caput and radial striae slight ; contour of profile 

 represents a low arch ; depth of chjpcus about equal to radius 

 of a fore-central eye. 



Fore and hind rows of cycH recurved ; posterior centrals 

 about an eye's bi'eadth from each other, divided by rather 

 more than that interval from fore-median pair ; perceptibly 

 more than their space from lateral eyes of same row ; anterior 

 centrals rather further from one another than they are from 

 posterior pair, which they equal in size ; lateral eyes smaller 

 than centrals by one-half, posited obliquely, less than their 

 radius from one another, on tubercular eminences ; fore- 

 tubercle strong. 



Leqs brownish-yellow, femora of first and second pairs 

 mostly suffused with a deeper shade ; two broad, somewhat 

 faint, annuli ; patellas reddish-brown; two faint anuulations on 

 tibiaB ; shading on the femora of tliird, more especially fourth 

 pair, reddish-mahogany colour, rings olive -brown ; patella? 

 suffused ; more or less defined annulations on tibial and meta- 

 tarsal joints ; legs moderately stout ; pars tibialis cylindrical ; 

 hairs whitish, sparse ; femora of first and second pairs have, 

 besides a few spines on superior surface, a cluster of about 13 

 long s^Dines beneath ; few spines on the patellar joints ; tibia^ 

 have respectively 15 -|- 12, exceeding diameter of articles in 

 length ; 6 on metatarsi ; thighs of posterior pairs sparsely 

 armed on superior surface ; 4 on patellae ; about 7 + 10 on 

 tibial, 7 + 11 spines on metatarsal joints. 



Palpi yellowish ; humeral joint exceeds cubital and radial 

 in length ; pars cubitalis broad-oval, flattened above, projects 

 in front two long bristles ; pars riidialis produced on outer 

 side into a large, depressed, somewhat conical, downward- 

 directed process, projecting a short conical spur near its base 

 on inner side ; pars digitalis large, lamina bulbi yellowish, 

 tinge of olive-green ; oval, base produced into a stout some- 

 wdiat conical process, 2-5mm. long, nearly as broad at base as 

 long, curved slightly backwards ; prolonged on outer side into 

 a strong, curved, lake-brown apophysis ; border beneath the 

 yellowish semi-globose cap of bulbus genitalis chocolate- 



