264 Transactions. — Zoologij. 



Single specimen, taken on Leptospermum , Bluff, Otago, 

 A. T. U. 



Attas scindns, sp. nov. 



Fevialc. —Ceph.-th., long, 2-5; broad, 2. Abd., long, 3-2 ; 

 broad, 2. Legs, 4, 1, i2, 3 = 5, 4-5, 4, 3 mm. 



Cephalothorax red-mahogany, clouded chiefly about margins 

 with dark-brown ; hairs somewhat sparse, whitish and orange ; 

 clypeus furnished with adpressed, papilliform, yellowish hairs, 

 and whitish vertical fringe on margin ; pars thoracica mode- 

 rately dilated, rather more than one-third longer than pars 

 cephalica ; latter aplanate, limited by a somewhat circular 

 depression ; proiile-line slopes slightly forwards across ocular 

 area, dips rather abruptly to thoracic junction. Clypcns 

 directed visibly inwards, depth scarcely equals radius of a 

 fore-central eye. 



Anterior row of eyes slightly recurved ; centrals perceptibly 

 closer to one another than they are to laterals, a space visibly 

 less than the radius of a side-eye ; dorsal and fore-lateral eyes 

 of about equal size ; former rather further from each other 

 than are the latter pair ; ocular area one-third broader than 

 long. 



Legs, femoral joints of two first pairs blackish-brown ; 

 patellar, tibiie, and metatarsi red mahogany-colour ; tarsi 

 yellowish, dark ring ; third and fourth pairs yellow-brown, 

 dark annulations ; hairs sparse, yellowish ; femoral, tibial, 

 and metatarsal joints armed with, spines ; first and second 

 pairs stout ; patella and tibia of a leg of first pair of about 

 equal lengtli and strength, together one-fifth shorter than 

 cephalothorax. 



Palpi red mahogany-colour ; yellowish-white hairs. 



Fakes bright red-mahogany ; vertical, transversely rugose ; 

 length equals the tibial joint of a leg of second pair. 



MaxilUe chocolate-brown, reddish at apex ; fore-end some- 

 what dilated, rounded. 



Lahiuvi colour of maxilhe ; oval ; one-third length of 

 latter organ. 



Sternum dark chocolate-brown ; oval ; about breadth of 

 coxal joint of a leg of second pair. 



Abdpnien oviform, projects over base of cephalothorax ; 

 moderately convex above ; somewhat sparsely clothed with 

 short orange-red and whitish hairs ; integument yellowish 

 stone-colour; dorsal band broad, tapers slightly forwards, 

 dark-brown, fading somewhat behind, extends from summit of 

 base nearly t\\ o-thirds along back ; the greater area displays 

 five spots arranged quincuncially ; four transverse wrinkles 

 above spinners, two brown spots on first wrinkle, one spot 

 decreasing in size on each succeeding wrinkle ; lateral margins 



