Urquhakt. — On New Species of Araneidse. 243 



margins ; this group of flecks on the posterior side forms a 

 somewhat even line, converging forwards from base of humeral 

 processes ; a series of large disconnected flecks curve round 

 fore-side of tubercles and form two procurved loops, leaving an 

 open space between them and the similarl}'-curved margin in 

 front ; four dark impressed spots form a trapezoid, narrowest 

 in front ; shield-like figure on ventral surface somewhat linear- 

 ovate ; brown, purple spots ; four impressed dots represent a 

 nearly quadrilateral figure. Vulva displays a clouded brow^nish- 

 yellow, transversely rugose corpus, flattened above, widening 

 out at base of the scapus vulvic, \vhose curvature is somewhat 

 abrupt ; scapus large, contracts a little forwards, margins 

 represent two large ear-like lobes, intersected by a w'rinkled, 

 subcylindrical truncated ridge ; the broad, conical, cap-shaped 

 apex of the scapus vulvae is attached to a rather short trans- 

 versely-WTinkled petiole projecting from within the central 

 ridge. 



This specimen was taken on Leptospervium, Bluff, Otago, 

 A. T. U. 



Epeira ostrl-bntniiea, sp. nov. Plate XYII., fig. o. 



Female. — Ceph.-th., long, i-o; broad, 4 ; facial index, 2-4. 

 Abd., long, 9; broad, 8-5. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 16, 15, 14, 

 9 mm. 



Cephalotliorax lake-brown ; hairs on thoracic part whitish, 

 rather sparse ; length equal to patella and tibia of a leg of 

 4th pair; sides moderately rounded; lateral constrictions 

 at caput sliglit ; pars cephalica only moderately depressed 

 above, mammiform eminences and eye-prominence somewhat 

 pronounced ; lateral index scarcely exceeds one-half facial ; 

 pars thoracica convex, indentation transverse ; normal grooves 

 slight ; profile-line rises from thoracic junction at an angle of 

 20'^, represents a slight curve across caput, rising at ocular 

 prominence ; chjpeus inclined somewhat inwards, depth ex- 

 ceeds diameter of a fore-central eye. 



Fore and hind row of eyes about equally recurved ; centrals 

 form a nearly quadrilateral figure, slightly widest in front ; 

 posterior centrals nearly one-thnxl smaller than anterior pair, 

 separated from one another by an intea val scarcely exceeding 

 twice their diameter, divided from fore-pair by an eye's 

 breadth and a quarter ; twice their space from laterals of same 

 row ; interval between anterior centrals perceptibly exceeds 

 their breadth ; divided by their space and a half from side- 

 eyes ; laterals about one-fourth the size of fore-centrals, posited 

 obliquely, their diameter from each other, on separate tubercles 

 fore- tubercle stoutest. 



Le.fjii, femoral joints dark-lake, clouded, especially hind 

 pairs ; other joints yellowish ; patellar somewhat suffused 



