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Fakes light chestnut-browu ; conical, nearly vertical. 



MaxiUcB yellowish; linear-oval, inclined towards lahinin ; 

 this organ is brownish-yellow ; oval, broader than long, equal 

 to two-thirds the length of niaxillas. 



Sternum olive-green, brownish median streak tapers from 

 lip ; triangular. 



Abdomen oviform ; mottled stone-grey ; the grey and black, 

 elongate, somewhat serrated folium encloses a yellowisli 

 rather broad median band, posterior half undulating ; fore- 

 half constricted, represents two somewhat diamond-shaped 

 figures ; lateral margins display a series of four dark-grey rib- 

 like streaks, confluent with folium and black ventral surface ; 

 shield stone-grey, somewhat quadrate, lateral margins acutely 

 emarginate; yellowish spot on either side of spinners. Corpus 

 viilvce light-brown ; simple semi-cylindrical, longitudinal ele- 

 vation, orifice wide. 



Single specimen, il/r. T. Kirk's Wellington collection. 



Theridium pusilluluni, sp. nov. 



Female. — Long, l-7mm. Legs, 4, 1, 2, 8. 



Cc/phalothorax glossy, cephalic parts dark-brown, suffused 

 with black ; thorax light-brown, semi-pellucid ; marginal 

 band slate-colour ; median streak paler shade ; few black hairs 

 on caput ; clathrate ; oval, fairly constricted forwards ; pars 

 cephalica convex ; eye-eminence broad, projects moderately 

 forwards ; pars thoracica convex, fovea large, shallow ; normal 

 grooves moderately defined ; contour of profile represents an 

 obtuse angle ; diipeus directed forwards, depth more than 

 equal to one-half facial space. 



Posterior row of eyes procurved; centrals separated by 

 an interval equal to an eye's breadth and a quarter, perceptibly 

 more than that space from fore-centrals ; about twice their 

 diameter from side-eyes ; anterior row recurved ; median 

 pair rather larger and further apart than are the hind pair ; 

 laterals equal posterior centrals in size, have their pearl- 

 grey lustre, posited obliquely on low tubercular eminences, 

 contiguous. 



Legs rather strong, moderately long ; pale-yellowish stone- 

 colour ; fore-half of femora, tibiae of first and second pairs, 

 and tibicB of metatarsi, and tarsi of third and fourth, have an 

 orange-brown tinge ; armature, coarse black hairs, few erect 

 ])ristles. 



Palpi colour and armature of legs. 



Falces yellowish, slight olive-green tinge ; somewhat coni- 

 cal, short, equal to about two-thirds depth of clypeus, dh-ected 

 slightly forwards and outwards. 



Maxillce elongate-oval, curve over labium ; yellowish- 

 brown. Lip chocolate-brown; semi-circular. 

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