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side-eyes of same row ; anterior row recurved ; centrals, 

 which equal hind pair in size, form with them a trapezoid 

 widest in front ; placed rather further from each other than 

 they are from posterior pair ; lateral eyes rather smallest of 

 eight, posited obliquely, their radius from each other, on low, 

 separate, tubercular prominences. 



Legs, femoral joints of first and second pairs pale 

 yellowish-red, streaked and faintly banded with reddish- 

 purple ; other articles straw-colour, apices of metatarsi and 

 tarsi reddish-brown ; thighs of third and fourth pairs have a 

 deeper purple tinge ; tibiiB and metatarsi rather more pro- 

 nounced annuli, which are in first pairs scarcely perceptible. 

 Legs rather slight ; hairs pale, very sparse ; spines straw- 

 colour, base dark, moderately numerous ; tibial spines on 

 first pair equal diameter of article in length. 



Palpi straw-colour, moderately armed with hairs and 

 slender spines. 



Falces glossy, deep straw-colour, faintly suffused with olive- 

 green ; conical, vertical, about as long as a femoral joint 

 of second pair. 



Ma.xillcd yellowish, base dark ; spathulate, rather longer 

 than broad, inclined tovi'ards each other. 



Lahiuin dark-brown, apex pale greenish-yellow ; about as 

 long as broad, pointed, everted. 



Stermivi chocolate-brown, yellow mark in centre; cordate, 

 eminences opposite coxae. 



Ahdomen, base rounded, projects over cephalothorax ; 

 depressed above ; rather longer than broad between humeral 

 protuberances, which are oidy moderately developed ; ground- 

 colour creamy-white, suffused with curved, intricate, broken 

 lines, formed by small purple dots ; a broad, undulating, creamy- 

 white, purple-margined band connects the humeral promi- 

 nences; at either extremity of band is a large black patch, 

 chiefly on the fore-side ; a looped chain of rather large whitish 

 spots converges forwards fj'om base of tubercles, convexity of 

 loops directed backwards ; base of abdomen covered with 

 rather large whitish spots intersected by purple lines, few 

 black stains. Coloration on ventral surface runs into oblique, 

 undulating broken streaks ; shield brownish, margins not 

 well defined, two pairs of pale impressed spots. Corpus 

 vidvcB yellow amber-colour ; represents a rather convex 

 transversely - wrinkled area, about twice as broad as long 

 at curvature ; scapus very broad, contracts a little in front ; 

 margins display two large, somewhat ear-shaped lobes, 

 intersected by a parallel convexity formed by three well- 

 defined rings, to which the apex of the scapus, a broadly- 

 conical cap, is closely articulated. 



Taken on Lcptosperminii, Bluff, Otago, A. T. U. 

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