250 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Epeira mulleola, sp. nov."'' 



Male. — Ceph.-th., long, 4-5; broad, 4. Abel., long, 4-7; 

 broad, 4. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 16, 14, 13, 9 mm. 



Cephalotliorax light chestnut-brown ; margins suffused 

 with olive-brown ; hairs whitish, somewhat sparse ; pars 

 cephalica depressed ; central indentation somewhat quadri- 

 lateral ; pars thoracica moderately convex, indentation cruci- 

 form, red chestnut-colour; profile-contour arched across 

 thorax, slopes forward. 



£',yc-eminence prominent ; anterior centrals rather exceed 

 posterior pair in size, form with them a quadrilateral figure 

 broadest in front ; lateral eyes separated by an interval equal- 

 ling their radius, posited obliquely on tubercular prominences ; 

 fore-tubercle prominent. 



Legs yellowish, femoral joints shaded with chocolate-brown 

 on superior surface ; brownish annuli on tibial, metatarsal, 

 and tarsal joints ; tibia} of second pair stouter than same 

 article of first pair, armed with stronger spines ; pars tibialis 

 of first pair rather slender, somewhat incrassated at fore-end, 

 spines exceed diameter of article in length ; coxal joint pro- 

 jects a short, curved, reddish process. 



Palpi yellowish-brown ; humeral joint about twice length 

 of cubital; latter article broad -spathulate, projects a long 

 strong bristle at apex ; radial joint prolonged downwards, 

 on outer side, into a somewhat spathulate, light-yellow pro- 

 cess ; pars digitalis large, broad-oval; lamina ovate, apex 

 curved downwards ; base produced into a curved, lake- 

 coloured process , lamina3 dn-ected towards each other ; 

 moderately hairy ; yellow-brown, clouded with olive-green ; 

 genital bulb complex — most conspicuous organs in front ; 

 and directed backwards is a bright orange-red oval process ; 

 between latter process and a large, bifurcate, blackish ap- 

 pendage, is a somewhat cordate yellow-brown process sur- 

 passing former in size. 



Falces long, somewhat slender, concave on outer side ; 

 Yellowish, clouded with olive-green. 



Maxillce nearly as broad as long, somewhat pointed, in- 

 clined towards labium, this organ is nearly as large as maxilla?, 

 similar coloration, chestnut-brown, pale apices. 



Sternum cordate ; chocolate-brown ; few white hairs. 



.•l?)f7o/»^;i moderately angular in front; slaty stone-colour ; 

 folium stone-colour, resembles female somewhat in form and 

 markings ; on lateral margins are rather obscure interrupted 

 streaks of a dark-brown colour : ventral shield greenish-black, 

 margins vellow. 



Te Karaka, A. T. U. 



* Female describecl and figured in " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. sx., p. 118. 



