GoYEN. — 0)1 New Species of Neir ZeaUnul Aranoif. 2G9 



Vulva somewhat semi-elliptical in outline, the fovea limited 

 posteriorly by a transverse corneous costa and laterally by two 

 strong bent converging tooth-like processes, one on each side, 

 that spring from the posterior costa. 



Hab. Dunedin and the Clutha Valley ; P. G. 



One of our most handsome spiders, very timid, and so nindjle 

 and prodigal of limb that to capture it intact is no easy auatter. 

 It is surprising witli what swiftness it can run, even after 

 losing half its legs. With one leg on each side it is a fair 

 match for many spiders with the full complement of legs. It 

 is found under stones of considerable size, and often with 

 Cavibridgea fasciata. with which it seems to live on terms 

 of amity. It affects bush country, but is sometimes found in 

 the open. Its cocoon, which contains about sixty roundish, 

 yellow, jelly-like eggs, is of a plano-convex shape, and firmly 

 attached by its plane surface to the under-side of stones. 

 To render it as inconspicuous as possible its fabricator 

 generally sprinkles its exposed surface with earth of the 

 colour of the surface to which it is attached. The texture of 

 this cocoon resembles that of parchment. In general ap- 

 pearance the male exactly resembles the female. 



Fam. ENYOID^. 



Gen. Habkonestes, Koch. 



Habronestes viarinus, sp. nov. 



Feviina.—Leugth, 8mm. ; length of cephalotliorax, 3knm. 

 Legs, 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Cephalotliorax of a chocolate-brown ground-colour, glossy 

 and tinged with olive-green, the lower portion of the thoracic 

 slope being yellow, and the lateral indentations of a darker 

 hue than the ridges between them ; falces, maxillai, and lal)ium 

 reddish-brown, the two latter of a somewhat lighter hue than 

 the former, and the labium darker at the base than elsewhere ; 

 sternum pale-yellow in the middle almost from end to end, 

 and, between this central yellow area and the red-brown 

 margin, dark-brown ; legs \'ellow or reddish-yellow towards 

 the base, from there passing graduall\- into brown towards the 

 extremities, marked with brown stripes or annulations and 

 slightly tinged with olive-green. Dorsal and lateral surface 

 of the abdomen of a darker hue than the cephalothorax, with 

 a median broken line of dull-yellow, having on each side of it 

 two rows of dull-yellow markings, the outer row on each side 

 somewhat irregular, the inner row on each side and the median 

 broken line coalescing thus A about two-thirds of the length 

 of the abdomen from the base, and thence so continuing to 

 the anus ; the ventral surface yellow on the basal side of the 

 transverse groove, between this groove and the spinners very 



